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Your Week in Review
'Lethal Inequality': New Study Shows Millions at High Risk of Covid-19 in US Lack Adequate Health Insurance
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's not just Covid care that's unaffordable. Patients with heart
disease, asthma, and diabetes need protection too. Medicare for All is
the long-term answer."
Solidarity Will Turn the Impossible Into the Inevitable
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by Kymone Freeman, Nancy J. Altman
People are rising up nationwide in massive protests seeking to finally
eradicate the systemic forces that led to George Floyd's torture and
death.
Police Reform Was Never Going to Be Easy—But Now's the Time
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by Jesse Jackson
What has been missing is will, not ideas. And now, as the demonstrations
reveal, Americans—black and white, young and old—are demanding change.
As Uprising Spreads Across US, Scholars Argue Economic Transformation and Solidarity Key to Achieving Racial Justice
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by Jon Queally & Jessica Corbett
"Our only hope for our collective liberation," writes Michelle
Alexander, "is a politics of deep solidarity rooted in love."
'Chilling Harbinger' for November as Georgia Primary Plagued by Long Lines and Voting Machines Problems
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Reports of hourslong lines, issues with voting machines, and not enough
poll workers in Georgia Tuesday led advocates to warn that problems with
the state's primary election foreshadow what could happen nationwide in
November's general election.
Big Bank CEOs Want to ‘Listen’ to Black Communities. They Should Return Their Stolen Wealth Instead.
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by Richard Eskow
There's a whole lot of Wall Street listening going on, but not much
doing.
Defund the Police, Defund the Military
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by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
For too long, we have let cynical politicians and business leaders
divide and rule us, funding police and the Pentagon over real human
needs, pitting us against each other at home and leading us off to wars
against our neighbors abroad.
Why Covid-19 Racial Disparities Make the Case for Medicare for All
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by Dean E. Robinson
Though it won't solve all our problems, expanding Medicare to all people
is an essential demand if we want to advance health equity in the United
States.
To Defeat Coronavirus, We Need to Expand Medicare
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by Diane Archer, Wendell Potter
Congress must act decisively to guarantee health care to everyone in the
country. It should do so on moral grounds, it should do so on public
health grounds, and it should do so to help ensure our economy gets back
on track and stays back on track.
80 Lawmakers Demand Trump Ditch Any Thought of Resuming 'Dangerously Provocative' Nuclear Tests
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"When Americans say that they want and need tests, they weren't talking
about the nuclear kind."
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