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News & Views | 7/22/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Thirty million workers won't be able to pay rent on August 1st and McConnell is laughing."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
The U.S. government could easily ensure that all Americans and the global community benefit from the profits that many wealthy U.S. companies have raked in during the coronavirus pandemic, Oxfam America said in a report released Wednesday.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Sen. Kamala Harris' no vote "makes her a dubious choice" to be Joe Biden's running mate, said one progressive organizer.



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"In case you were wondering, this is precisely what fascism looks like."


no Muslim ban signs at protest

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Victory!"


The Trump administration attempted to employ a never-before-used provision of the USA PATRIOT Act to indefinitely detain Adham Hassoun, who has been released to an undisclosed country.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"The government's claim that it could imprison Mr. Hassoun indefinitely without any court looking into the facts is both deeply authoritarian and fundamentally unconstitutional."


Women hold a flag saying "Refugees Welcome" as thousands of Canadians take part in a massive protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban on Muslims during the National Day of Action against Islamophobia and White Supremacy in downtown Toronto on February 04, 2017.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The Federal Court confirmed what we have been saying for years: sending refugees back to the United States is not safe."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
For the first time, scientists have identified an active leak of methane gas from the sea floor in Antarctica, leading to serious concerns that the planet is close to one of the "tipping points" that would the impacts of global heating out of humans' control.



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Unemployment Insurance is keeping the economy afloat."


Activist group Earth Strike NYC announced a frontline coalition gathering in Brooklyn's Sunset Park to support UPROSE in its campaign for local community-led climate justice at the Communities Strike for Climate Over Colonialism rally and march on September 27, 2019. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"We demand the next president commits to end fossil fuels, hold polluters accountable, and stand up for climate justice and human rights."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We're watching the deliberate destruction of the Post Office unfolding in front of us," said one journalist.

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Democratic senator and Presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks with U.S. Marine generals before a development meeting between Iraqi and American government officials and Sunni sheikhs September 6, 2007 in Ramadi, Anbar Province, Iraq. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Unfortunately, Biden's past loyalty to military-industrial interests does not bode well for the kind of leadership we need, and which we have not seen from any U.S. president of this generation. We must demand better.


Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (left) and Governor Brian Kemp (right) (Photo: Screenshot)

by Derrick Z. Jackson
We are in this moment precisely because this administration—and too many of its predecessors—have stood in the way of science.


A migrant carrying a toddler stands in front of the border wall that divides Sunland Park, New Mexico, United States, with Ciudad Juarez, state of Chihuahua, Mexico on March 14, 2020. - April 22, 2020 commemorates the 50th anniversary of the World Earth Day. (Photo: Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images)

by Roy Eidelson
What we are now witnessing is an assault designed to suffocate the hopes and life prospects of human beings desperately seeking safety and a better life.


This moment calls on us to relinquish social control and ramp up our commitment to social investment. (Photo: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)

by Robert Reich
It’s time to defund the police, and invest in communities. We have no time to waste.


With business closures and layoffs sharply reducing state income and sales taxes, we estimate that state shortfalls will total about $555 billion through 2022. (Photo: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Wesley Tharpe
As the President and Congress hammer out details of another relief package in the coming weeks, the House-approved Heroes Act—with about $540 billion for states, localities, territories, and tribal governments—offers a sound starting point.


The pandemic is incredibly stressful, the economy is in free fall, and the election of our lifetime looms. (Photo: Morsa Images/Getty Images)

by Erica Etelson
Make it seem like changing one’s mind is an honorable thing to do, rather than shameful.

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