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Your Week in Review
'Give Me Freedom or Give Me Death': 13 Years Without Trial at Guantanamo, My Hunger Strike Is All I Have Left
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by Asadullah Haroon
I am prepared to die, if it comes to it. I look ahead, and all I see is
suffering. But what is the point of good health in life, if I cannot be
home?
Let's Keep Organizing: An Inside Look at the Biden-Sanders Task Force on Climate
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by Varshini Prakash
We've moved the needle a lot, especially on environmental justice and
upping Biden's overall ambition. But there's still more work to do to
push Democrats to understand and embrace the scale of the climate
crisis, and towards the promise of a truly just society we envision
through a Green New Deal...
Trump Health Secretary Says US Healthcare Workers 'Don't Get Infected' With Covid-19 (94,000 Have Contracted the Virus)
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
While the true toll Covid-19 has taken on healthcare workers is not yet
known, one investigation found that more than 760 have died from the
virus.
Teachers Say Rush to Reopen Schools Without Covid-19 Safety Plan Shows Trump and DeVos 'Do Not Care About Students'
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"America must listen to the health experts on when to reopen schools and
to educators on how to return to in-person instruction."
'24 Hours. 3 Dirty Pipelines Delayed': Supreme Court Rejects Trump Effort to Greenlight Keystone XL Construction
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The movement to put people before profits, and Indigenous rights before
oil companies, is winning."
'Monumental Victory': Tribes and Climate Activists Celebrate Court-Ordered Shutdown of Dakota Access Pipeline
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A U.S. district court on Monday delivered a major win to local
Indigenous organizers and climate activists—and a significant blow to
the fossil fuel industry and the Trump administration—by ordering the
Dakota Access Pipeline to be shut down and emptied of oil by Aug. 5
while federal regulators conduct an environmental review.
Supreme Court Ruling Denounced as 'Dangerous and Serious' Attack on Women's Right to Contraceptive Care
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Reproductive rights advocates vowed to continue their fight to protect
women's access to contraceptives in the U.S. on Wednesday after the
Supreme Court ruled that employers can refuse to provide birth control
coverage for workers on religious or moral grounds.
'Hunger Clock' Billboards Blast McConnell and GOP Senators for Blocking $16 Billion in Food Aid
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Let's be clear: this delay in food aid may lead to even more Americans
unnecessarily dying."
Sanders Calls on 'Do-Nothing' Senate to Approve $2,000 Monthly Checks, Cancel Rent, and Expand Medicare
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This I know: nothing will happen unless the American people stand up,
fight back, and demand, in overwhelming numbers, that the Senate act."
Fears of Going 'Through Hell Again' as US Covid Infection Rate Hits Record High for 27th Straight Day
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"With American lives on the line, the question now is whether members of
the Republican Party will continue to stand by in silence as the
President peddles fiction about a deadly virus."
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