3 Things Protesters Are Pushing That Could Actually Move the U.S. Away From Racist Policing

As protests against police brutality and racism drive policy shifts around the nation, which changes can actually bring sustained long-term improvements? Protesters against police brutality and racism have gathered to demand systemic change since the end of May, holding events in all 50 U.S. states and around the world. Impelled by the police murder of George Floyd on [...]

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Activists and Unhoused Battle Sweeps of Homeless Camps

With a global pandemic and an economic recession, homeless sweeps meet resistance While millions of Americans were told to stay at home at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, unhoused people were the most acutely impacted by the effects of the global pandemic. As a swathe of antiracist protests and uprisings across the country continues, [...]

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In Minnesota, Ellison Announces Climate Lawsuit Against Exxon, Koch, and API

“There are no more worthy targets of a climate fraud lawsuit than Exxon, Koch Industries, and API: the unholy trinity of climate denial.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a lawsuit Wednesday against ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, and the American Petroleum Institute for mounting a 30-year “campaign of deception” related to [...]

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‘Worse Than Watergate’: DOJ Employees Deliver Testimony Against Barr

“Mr. Barr’s work at the Department of Justice has nothing to do with correcting injustice. He is the President’s fixer.” The House Judiciary Committee opened its investigation into Attorney General William Barr Wednesday with testimony from two current Department of Justice employees, The New York Times reported. Aaron Zelinsky and John Elias delivered prepared remarks [...]

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Democrats in Congress Are Taking on a Police Culture Run Amok

With mass protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin morphing into demands to grapple with racism and to confront a police culture where brutality is all too common, and with the anguished words of Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, echoing through the Capitol, congressional Democrats on June 8 rolled out [...]

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How Racism Is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order

“Since capitalism never could end cyclical downturns and their awful effects, its survival required making those effects somehow socially tolerable. Systemic racism survived in the post-Civil War United States partly because it helped to achieve that tolerability.” U.S. capitalism survived because it found a solution to the basic problem of its instability, its business cycles. [...]

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Voters Rebuke Democratic Establishment in New York Primaries

Tonight we are proving that the people’s movement in NY isn’t an accident. It‘s a mandate. While nationwide protests against police brutality continue, some voters had the chance to vote in Democratic primary elections in New York, Kentucky, and Virginia on Tuesday. Some results out of New York show a committed block of the electorate [...]

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Four Years of Failure on Toxic Chemicals

It’s become clear we can’t rely on EPA to do its job. Which is why the task once again falls to Congress. (Common Dreams) Four years ago this week, Congress and President Obama took a critical step towards protecting the health and safety of every American when they overhauled and strengthened the Toxic Substances Control [...]

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Trump Negates White House Defense of His ‘Slow Down the Testing’ Comment

“I don’t kid. Let me just tell you. Let me make it clear,” said President Donald Trump. The statement came as a response to White House officials who insisted the president was simply joking when he told a rally audience that he wants COVID-19 testing slowed down on Saturday, POLITICO reported. “When you do testing [...]

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Will Biden Remain Tone Deaf to Palestinian Rights?

Biden’s unconditional support for Israel’s rightwing government is not only less and less popular among Americans, but it guarantees continued repression against Palestinians and continued unrest in the region. (Common Dreams) Joe Biden wants you to believe that he is opposed to Israel’s likely annexation of parts of the West Bank that Netanyahu plans to [...]

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