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News & Views | 8/11/20

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
"All of us will need to do everything we can do defeat Donald Trump this November, and Joe Biden will need strong progressive energy to win," said the PCCC in response.

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
A coalition of labor and environmental justice groups joined forces Tuesday on behalf of millions of essential workers who face shortages of personal protective equipment five months into the coronavirus pandemic, demanding the Trump administration provide the life-saving supplies.


South Korean protesters took part in an anti-Trump rally in front of the U.S. embassy on November 7, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. Trump visited in South Korea for two days during his Asian tour. (Photo: Woohae Cho/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"The United States urgently needs a leader who will have the courage to look at, think hard about, and speak openly about the dire perils posed by our country's vast nuclear arsenal."


Seven-year-old Hamza Haqqani, a 2nd grade student at Al-Huda Academy, uses a computer to participate in an E-learning class with his teacher and classmates while at his home on May 01, 2020 in Bartlett, Illinois.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Now is the time for parents and teachers to come together and demand what children really need."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
In the Environmental Protection Agency's latest move indicating that under President Donald Trump, its work is "manifestly inconsistent with the agency’s legal obligations" and with science, according to one green group, the administration is set to announce this week a rollback of methane rules.


A driver and passenger wear face masks as Uber and Lyft drivers with Rideshare Drivers United and the
 Transport Workers Union of America conduct a 'caravan protest' outside the California Labor Commissioner's office amidst the coronavirus pandemic on April 16, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. The drivers called for California to enforce the AB 5 law so that they may qualify for unemployment insurance an for receiving back wages they say they are owed. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"This is a resounding victory for thousands of Uber and Lyft drivers who are working hard—and, in this pandemic, incurring risk every day—to provide for their families."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is not the time for people who are already vulnerable to lose their benefits."


Larissa Vuitika, biologist, works during the virus inactivation process on March 24, 2020 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The collateral damage from release of any vaccine that was less than safe and effective would exacerbate our current problems insurmountably."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The Vermont senator accused Postmaster General Louis DeJoy of "a blatant attempt" to sabotage the U.S. Postal Service ahead of the November elections.



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
Previous speculation indicated the popular New York Democrat would be left off the program.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It is likely illegal, unworkable, won't get money to anyone quickly or for long, and is deeply inequitable."

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Citizens wearing protective masks form lines to receive free food from a food pantry run by the Council of Peoples Organization on May 8, 2020 in Brooklyn. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Jesse Jackson
This isn't a reality TV show. We can't afford a vaudeville president. We need leadership in the face of a real and present danger.


Hundreds of activists attend a rally in New York City on October 13, 2019 demanding that Congress fulfill its constitutional duty and impeach President Donald Trump. (Photo: Gabriele Holtermann-Gorden/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Thom Hartmann
The question we will see answered over the next six months is whether Trump has taken America so far down the road to oligarchy and fascism that we can't recover.


Dr. Anthony Fauci (center) in the White House briefing room while President Donald Trump talks to reporters about the Covid-19 pandemic earlier this year. (Photo: Alliance for Health Policy/Flickr/cc)

by Juan Cole
Despite refusing one shred of responsibility, the U.S. president by his peculiar combination of narcissism, contrarianism, irrationality, and political guile, has polished off more Americans than died in the entire Vietnam War.


It is known that interpersonal violence, particularly cases of domestic violence, increase in times of crisis with growing unemployment, rising numbers of sick people and scarcity of community resources. (Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images)

by César Chelala
The conditions of isolation foster not only physical but also psychological violence, which can be even more devastating for the victims.

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