Saturday, August 24, 2019  Insulin Prices Killed Josh Wilkerson. Now His Mother Is Taking On Big Pharma. William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Josh was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was 8 years old. As an adult, the high cost of insulin inflicted on him by price-gouging pharmaceutical corporations like Eli Lilly forced him to ration that vital medication. On June 15, that rationing killed him. In September, Josh's mother, Erin, is going to Eli Lilly’s headquarters with other insulin activists to ask the company why it is killing people.
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David Koch Is Dead. We Must Now Take On His Harmful Legacy in Higher Education. Jasmine Banks & Samantha Parsons, Truthout As David Koch's family mourns his loss, we are taking a moment to pause and grieve, too. We grieve for the families who lost loved ones due to limited health care access. We grieve for the Black communities living alongside waterways polluted by Koch's chemical plants. We grieve for the Indigenous nations whose lands were used to build Koch's industrial wealth. We grieve the destruction of democratic values through Koch's investments in higher education.
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Israel's Ban on Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar Backfires Marjorie Cohn, Truthout Israel's refusal to allow Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar into Israel-Palestine backfired. It has garnered widespread criticism and focused the national discourse on the Israeli occupation and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, which Tlaib and Omar support.
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Can We Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy in Time to Avert Climate Catastrophe? Daniel Ross, Truthout To prevent the worst climate scenarios, carbon emissions must be slashed to net zero by 2050, say experts. Reaching 100 percent renewable energy in just 30 years sounds like an unattainable goal for a culture headed in the opposite direction, but a road map already exists for becoming 100 percent reliant on energy generated by water, wind and sun -- if only we have the will.
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Trump Considering Slashing Medicare and Social Security as "Second-Term Project" Jake Johnson, Common Dreams After exploding the federal budget deficit with over a trillion dollars in tax cuts for the rich and massive corporations, President Donald Trump is reportedly considering using his possible second term in the White House to slash Medicare and Social Security -- the final part of a two-step plan progressives have been warning about since before the GOP tax bill passed Congress in 2017.
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Trump Administration Revives Clause That Kept Nazi-Era Refugees From the US Laurel Leff, The Conversation During the Nazi era, roughly 300,000 additional Jewish refugees could have gained entry to the U.S. without exceeding the nation's existing quotas. The primary mechanism that kept them out: the immigration law's "likely to become a public charge" clause. As someone who has studied European Jews' attempts to escape Nazi persecution and immigrate to the U.S., the Trump administration's evocation of the public charge clause is chilling.
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Meet the Parkland Father Keeping His Son's Message Alive Through Art Loretta Graceffo, Waging Nonviolence Joaquin Oliver was 17 when he was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas massacre. Before the shooting, his father, Manuel Oliver, was an artist who had immigrated from Venezuela to pursue a safer life for his family. Since Joaquin's death, Manuel has traveled across America with his organization, Change the Ref, to continue the conversation on gun violence through urban art.
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The Murder of George Jackson and the Modern Anti-Prison Movement Anita Johnson and Jonathan Jackson Jr., Making Contact This year marks the 40th anniversary of Black August, which first originated in the California prisons to honor and commemorate the lives of Black resistance fighters and their struggle against state repression and mass incarceration. Through his writings and leadership, George Jackson embodied the legacy of the anti-prison movement.
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Trump Tried -- and Failed -- to Slash and Burn Foreign Aid Programs Sasha Abramsky, Truthout For the last few weeks, the Trump administration has publicly mulled canceling roughly $4 billion in foreign aid already voted into law by Congress. On Thursday, facing a barrage of criticism, the administration abandoned those efforts. Even in failing, Trump has scored points with the "America First" nativist base that now defines the Republican Party.
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ICE Raids Benefit Bosses by Creating Fear in Workers DAVID WILSON, Truthout Devastating workplace raids, like the one conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Mississippi this month, create a situation where workers -- undocumented or documented -- are too fearful to stand up for their rights. While many are calling for the employers to be punished, that won't help workers either. What will benefit all workers is a repeal of the laws and policies that make the raids possible.
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