After Years of Underfunding, Now Public School Teachers Are Supposed to Save the Nation’s Economy?

It’s taken a pandemic to make people realize public schools are a key to prosperity, but so far they’re bringing too little, too late. “After 9/11, New York City police and firefighters were hailed as heroes,” said Mary Parr-Sanchez, president of the New Mexico affiliate of the National Education Association, when I spoke with her [...]

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Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro Tests Positive for Covid-19

The announcement comes three days after the right-wing leader was photographed without a mask with the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro—who has repeatedly dismissed the threat of the coronavirus and has faced mounting criticism for his government’s response to the pandemic—tested positive for Covid-19, he announced Tuesday. “On [...]

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’24 Hours. 3 Dirty Pipelines Delayed’: Supreme Court Rejects Trump Effort to Greenlight Keystone XL Construction

“The movement to put people before profits, and Indigenous rights before oil companies, is winning.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) The Supreme Court late Monday upheld a federal judge’s rejection of a crucial permit for Keystone XL and blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to greenlight construction of the 1,200-mile crude oil project, the third such [...]

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Car Attacks on the Rise as Car Rams Protesters in Bloomington, Indiana

The incident adds to the growing number of car attacks against anti-racist protesters. On Monday evening, protesters in Bloomington, Indiana were marching in support of Vauhxx Booker after he was attacked by a white mob that tried to lynch him. Hundreds of protesters were at the event when a car struck two protesters in the [...]

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Shrink Wall Street to Guarantee Good Jobs

A new House proposal would ensure that all Americans in hard-hit areas could have a job. A tax on Wall Street windfalls would pay for it. (Common Dreams) The pandemic has claimed nearly 15 million U.S. jobs. Meanwhile, high flying financial traders are making a killing off the market volatility caused by the crisis. A [...]

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‘Monumental Victory’: Tribes and Climate Activists Celebrate Court-Ordered Shutdown of Dakota Access Pipeline

“If the events of 2020 have taught us anything, it’s that health and justice must be prioritized early on in any decision-making process if we want to avoid a crisis later on.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) A U.S. district court on Monday delivered a major win to local Indigenous organizers and climate activists—and a [...]

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The Merits of Medicare for All Have Been Proven by This Pandemic

The horror of the coronavirus pandemic proves that progressives have been justified in demanding a single-payer health care system. A pandemic is not the time to be having discussions about how to design a national health care system. The fact that the United States, which has 4 percent of the world’s population, leads the world with 25 [...]

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The ‘Good Trouble’ of Civil Rights Icon John Lewis

A new documentary from CNN Films focuses on politician and civil rights leader, John Lewis, who participated in several key moments in the fight for racial equality. “When you see something that is not right … say something! Do something!” Lewis is shown saying repeatedly in speeches and appearances — advising his audiences on the [...]

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What The World Is…

It is possible, I suppose that sometime we will learn everything there is to learn: what the world is, for example, and what it means. Mary Oliver from “Daises”

Oliver wrote “It is possible, I suppose that sometime we will learn everything there is to learn: what the world is, for example, and what it means.” I am failing to connect my own life experience to that of Oliver’s. I don’t like what I am learning about the world. What I keep learning about the world is disconnected from Oliver’s intimate and sacred connection to nature. What it means to me right now is that I am living in a zone of awareness in which I am witnessing the decline of American society.

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The World Can Show How Pharma Monopolies Aren’t the Only Way to Fight COVID-19

After his disastrous handling of the COVID-19 epidemic, Trump is trying to improve his waning electoral chances by reserving all of Gilead’s stock of remdesivir. The U.S. has bought up almost all of the stock of remdesivir from Gilead, making it nearly impossible for this COVID-19 drug to be available anywhere else in the world. [...]

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Key US Ally Indicted for Organ Trade Murder Scheme

When President Clinton dropped 23,000 bombs on what was left of Yugoslavia in 1999 and NATO invaded and occupied the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, U.S. officials presented the war to the American public as a “humanitarian intervention” to protect Kosovo’s majority ethnic Albanian population from genocide at the hands of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic. That [...]

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National Spotlight Left, But Minneapolis Continues Police Violence Protests on Fourth of July

“This city will never sleep until we get justice.” Minneapolis has been protesting since May 26th, and although the national spotlight has gone elsewhere, Minneapolis continues to protest against police violence and held a large protest on the Fourth of July. Thousands took to the street on the national holiday demanding justice and change in [...]

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As ‘Annexation’ Looms, Let’s Expand Our Compassion to Include Palestinians

Since we are able to accept the suffering of others when we dehumanize them, we must start with the simple recognition that Palestinians are fully human. (Common Dreams) For decades, Israel has used talk of peace as a cover for expansion of an unjust system. We are now poised on a dangerous cliff that should [...]

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Kanye West Tweets that He’s Running for President in 2020

On Independence Day, music superstar Kanye West tweeted that he will run for president in the 2020 election. The 43-year old rapper has previously been vocal in his support of President Trump, but would now be running against him and Democratic nominee Joe Biden. “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, [...]

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