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News & Views | 6/19/20

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People pray together during a Juneteenth event Organized by the One Race Movement at Centennial Olympic Park on June 19, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when a Union general read orders in Galveston, Texas stating all enslaved people in Texas were free according to federal law. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

by Bill Moyers, Rev. James Forbes
"We will not return to business as usual after the events we have experienced this year," says Rev. James Forbes.

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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Today we honor Black excellence. Black innovation. Black history. Black futures. Black joy. Black brilliance."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The United Nations needs to do its job—not get bullied out of doing it," said the ACLU in response.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Global public health experts are looking on in "alarm and disbelief" as the U.S. economy reopens even as Covid-19 case numbers continue to rise in a number of states, with President Donald Trump signaling he has no intention of calling for more economic shutdowns regardless of the outcome.


World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"More than 150,000 new cases of Covid-19 were reported to WHO yesterday—the most in a single day so far."


The Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is planning a historic digital assembly and march for June 20 and 21, 2020.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Low-income people and economic justice advocates from across the United States will unite on Saturday and Sunday "to challenge poverty and revive democracy amidst recession, pandemic, and protests" with a historic digital assembly and march sponsored by the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Progressives and racial justice advocates are pushing back against speculation that Rep. Val Demings is a likely contender for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's running mate, saying it is not "the right moment" to choose a former police chief as a vice presidential candidate. 


A demonstrator holds a sign with the image of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was fatally shot by Louisville Metro Police Department officers, during a protest against racial injustice and the death George Floyd in Minneapolis, in Denver, Colorado on June 3, 2020.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a development seen as a step in the right direction but still far short of justice, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced Friday that the city's interim police chief is moving to fire one of the three officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor on March 13.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The president expresses his intention to violate the Constitution by denying Americans' First Amendment right to peacefully assemble."


The Arara people in the Cachoeira Seca Indigenous territory of Brazil now have the highest known Covid-19 infection rate in the Brazilian Amazon, according to Survival International.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As criticism of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's response to the coronavirus pandemic continues to stack up, global Indigenous rights advocates and the Arara people are raising new concerns that the crisis could devastate the recently-contacted tribe in the Xingu basin of the Amazon rainforest.


Fisherman push their boat during low tide on oily mud in the river at Ogoniland's village of K-Dere, near Bodo, which is part of the Niger Delta region, on February 20, 2019. -Decades of oil spills has left the Ogoniland region in southern Nigeria an environmental disaster zone. (Photo: should read YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jenna McGuire, staff writer
"After nine years of promises without proper action and decades of pollution, the people of Ogoniland are not only sick of dirty drinking water, oil-contaminated fish and toxic fumes. They are sick of waiting for justice, they are dying by the day."

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The history of policing in the United States is also deeply tied to the exploitation of Black workers. (Photo: Dave Bledsoe/flickr/cc)

by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Saru Jayaraman
In a nation that says it "cannot breathe," we much reach deep down for fundamental change.


The Frisco 5 and their supporters marching in San Francisco on their way toward the mayor's office during the 2016 hunger strike. (Photo: Mona Caron)

by Rupa Marya, Edwin Lindo
We are at a reckoning point in history, where we must decide how we will continue as a nation and how we will continue as inhabitants on this planet that supports all of our lives.


A worker delivers groceries to a customer's vehicle outside a Walmart store in Amsterdam, N.Y., on May 15. (Photo: Angus Mordant / Bloomberg via Getty Images file)

by Cat Davis, Dorian Warren
Instead of spending $100 million on a 'center on racial equity,' the mega-corporation should give the money to its underpaid African American workforce.


We must remember that a large part of early police work, especially in the South, was to implement white supremacy through the enforcement of segregation laws. (Photo: Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

by Yohuru Williams
We can’t reform police until we reckon with their history of enforcing white supremacy.



by Ben Cohen
We need business to leverage their power to change a bad law and help end the cycle of state-sponsored killing of unarmed black people.


The Constitution’s guarantee of free speech isn’t limited to speech we agree with. (Photo: Getty Images)

by Suzanne Nossel
As path-breaking activists in the antiwar, labor, women’s rights and civil rights movements witnessed, proponents of social change have the strongest stake protecting speech that is unpopular, or even deemed dangerous.

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