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News & Views | 6/12/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Preparing for the possibility of Trump refusing to concede isn't just reasonable, it's the responsible thing to do."

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Sunrise NYC, a climate activist group, rallies in front of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's office in Midtown Manhattan demanding that he support the Green New Deal.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Amid persistent calls for a green and just recovery from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and nationwide protests against systemic racism and injustice, researchers on Friday detailed recent studies showing "policy packages that address the climate crisis alongside income inequality, racial injustice, and the economic crisis are more popular among voters."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Instead of spending $740 billion on the Department of Defense, said the Vermont senator, the United States should reinvest in "cities and towns that we've neglected and abandoned for far too long."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
The number of people living in poverty around the globe could eventually top one billion as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according researchers at Kings College London and Australian National University.



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"You don't have to go full abolition to see that maybe sinking 1/3 of a city's general budget into police is a problematic investment."


Education Secretary Betsy DeVos

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos sparked outrage Thursday by doubling down on an April guidance that bars U.S. higher education institutions from giving any federal coronavirus relief funds to foreign, undocumented, and certain other students.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Racial justice advocates intensified their calls on Friday for Louisville, Kentucky authorities to arrest the three police officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor in March, after the city council unanimously voted to ban the type of warrant police used to enter Taylor's home.


A man walks by U.S. drone graffiti painted on a wall during a campaign against drones in Yemen on May 31, 2018 in Sana'a, Yemen.

by Common Dreams staff
The expansion would come after a reinterpretation of an arms agreement between 35 nations.


A sign outside the International Criminal Court in The Hague seen in 2017. (Photo: jbdodane/flickr/cc)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"An attack on the ICC also represents an attack against the interests of victims of atrocity crimes, for many of whom the court represents the last hope for justice."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"EPA needs a lesson in separation of powers and we're asking the court to give it to them."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Immunity from lawsuits encourages irresponsible and reckless behavior, and undermines public health, as the Trump campaign is now shamefully making clear."

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A Miami Police officer watches protestors from an armored vehicle during a rally in Miami, Florida on May 31, 2020 in response to the killing of George Floyd. (Photo: Ricardo Arduengo/AFP via Getty Images)

by Maritza Perez
It continues to fund police departments rather than redirect resources to communities, particularly Black and Brown communities that have been most harmed by over-policing and the war on drugs.


Ireland and Norway endorsed the Basel Ban Amendment on eliminating the export of waste from rich to poor countries. Canada has refused to support the initiative, which became binding last year after 97 countries ratified it. (Image: Canadian Foreign Policy Institute)

by Bianca Mugyenyi
For progressive Canadians the message is simple: Better than the USA is not good enough.


"The money that comes out of this bank literally kills poor people in the same community they’re operating in," said Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. during the sit-in at a Chase Bank branch in Washington, DC. "There’s too many reasons to stop this madness." (Image: TheYearsProject.com/Hip Hop Caucus)

by Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.
If you continue to fund projects that are literally putting our planet, our existence on the line, and defining the existence of our children, then you have left us no choice: that we must put our bodies against the gears of the machine and bring it to a grinding halt.


Estimates of the number of civilians killed in the current war against terrorism, now in its 19th year, range from hundreds of thousands to over 2 million. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Brett Wilkins
Since waging the world’s only nuclear war at the end of World War II, the United States military has killed more foreign civilians than any other armed force on the planet, by far.


In the little more than two weeks since George Floyd’s brutal death at the hands of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, the idea of defunding the police was mentioned on the nation’s TV networks and in its national newspapers at least 300 times. (Photo: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)

by Julie Hollar
Media wave away this possibility as absurd, but how to move beyond the US’s racist, shockingly violent criminal justice system is a discussion our country not only can but desperately needs to have.


To effectively combat the pandemic, we need a just response guided by science and accurate data. (Photo: CC)

by Derrick Z. Jackson
The far greater concern is the rampage on science and public health now underway by governors and the White House.

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