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News & Views | 9/7/20

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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy (R) arrives for a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on August 5, 2020. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
Former head of human resources at DeJoy's logistics firm, along with other employees, says the major GOP donor now running the Postal Service reimbursed workers for donations—"an arrangement that would be unlawful."

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Farm laborers arrive for their shift on April 28, 2020 in Greenfield, California. (Photo: Brent Stirton/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"For the workers, their hands were forced by a combination of circumstances as toxic as the ash that falls over the region's famous vineyards."


Louis DeJoy, the Republican Party megadonor tapped to be Postmaster General of the U.S. Postal Service earlier this year, is accused of illegally reimbursing employees at his logistics company for donations to GOP causes or candidates which he urged them to make. (Photo: Elon University)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"It is extraordinarily disturbing that megadonor Louis DeJoy is abusing his power as Postmaster General to help President Trump win reelection, meanwhile apparently demonstrating disregard for key campaign finance laws designed to promote the integrity of our democratic elections," said Common...


Protesters in Manila burn a homemade U.S. flag following the killing of transgender woman Jennifer Laude by U.S. Marine Scott Pemberton on October 11, 2014. (Photo: J. Gerard Seguia/Pacific Press/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton was found guilty of homicide and sentenced in December 2015 to 10 years in prison for strangling and drowning 26-year-old Jennifer Laude to death in an Olangapo hotel.



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
The WikiLeaks founder, who exposed U.S. war crimes, faces up to 175 years in prison if the U.K. agrees to extradite Assange.


Protesters held a banner during a community celebration and call for justice for Jacob Blake that took place while Donald Trump visited Kenosha, Wisconsin on September 1, 2020. (Photo: Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for MoveOn)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Every 24 hours it's pain, nothing but pain."


Plumes of smoke rise into the sky as a wildfire burns on the hills near Shaver Lake, Calif., Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. Fires in the Sierra National Forest have prompted evacuation orders as authorities urged people seeking relief from the Labor Day weekend heatwave to stay away from the popular lake. (Photo: Eric Paul Zamora/The Fresno Bee via AP)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
Timelapse footage from space showing Saturday's explosion of California wildfires led one meteorologist to declare: "It cannot be overstated how terrifying this satellite image is."


U.S. President Donald Trump boards Marine One for departure from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC., on Friday, July 19, 2019. (Photo: Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Trump is now using his lies and misinformation to sow confusion and chaos in the election process and undermine American democracy," says the Vermont senator.


Amid banners that read, "5 Crooks Control Our News" and "Free the Truth," campaigners with Extinction Rebellion UK blocked delivery trucks belonging to Rupert Murdoch's News UK in the early morning of Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. (Photo: @XRebellionUK)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
The real story, according to Extinction Rebellion UK, is that humanity is facing "an emergency of unprecedented scale and the papers we have targeted are not reflecting the scale and urgency of what is happening to our planet."


President Donald Trump's senior adviser Stephen Miller rubs his eyes during a meeting at the White House on Feb. 26, 2018. (Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/European Pressphoto Agency)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"187,000 Americans are dead from Covid-19, and the White House is spending its time making sure no one in the government gets sensitivity training."



by Common Dreams staff
Former presidential candidate and progressive champion will address "the current desperation of the American working class, the need to grow the labor movement, and for working families to stand together to create an economy that works for all and not just the few."

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"Nurses understand the urgency of ending the disastrous policies and behavior of President Trump this November," writes Bonnie Castillo, executive director of National Nurses United. "But our work doesn't stop there; past the election, we will continue to mobilize and organize for the transformative social changes all workers, and patients, sorely need." (Photo: NNU/flickr/cc)

by Bonnie Castillo
Trump sold himself as a champion of workers, but nurses know it was just a façade.


Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, speaking at a press event to support the H.R. 2474, the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. (Photo: Michael Brochstein / Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

by Alan Minsky
Step one, commit to defeating the GOP this fall. Step two, commit to demanding that the Democrats follow through and support the PRO Act—or you'll make sure those Democrats who betray labor will be challenged by a true pro-worker candidate in their next primary election.


"Just as justice delayed is justice denied, delaying Social Security's dedicated revenue is the foolproof way to deny Social Security benefits," writes Altman. "Denying those benefits would provide Trump and his allies in Congress enough leverage to force whatever concessions they choose to extract." (Image: iStock/via Getty Images)

by Nancy J. Altman
Trump is devastating the nation, and not only by his incompetent handling of the pandemic. He threatens the economic security of America's families by defunding, and apparently planning to destroy, Social Security.


In 2012, members of the Chicago Teachers Union rocked the city with their historic strike. (Credit: flickr/cc/Sarah-Ji)

by Tanya Wallace-Gobern
The economy was failing Black workers before the pandemic—and now, even as many are deemed essential, they’re being treated as disposable.


A firefighter douses flames as they push towards homes during the Creek fire in the Cascadel Woods area of unincorporated Madera County, California on September 7, 2020. - A firework at a gender reveal party triggered a wildfire in southern California that has destroyed 7,000 acres (2,800 hectares) and forced many residents to flee their homes, the fire department said Sunday. More than 500 firefighters and four helicopters were battling the El Dorado blaze east of San Bernardino, which started Saturday mor

by Vanessa Warheit, Laura Neish
It turns out that climate destruction isn't just a terrible long-term investment, in many cases—as our state burns north, south, east, and west—it's a terrible short-term investment too.


U.S. President Donald Trump greets military leaders before his speech on Afghanistan at the Fort Myer military base on August 21, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

by Michael Winship
Donald Trump, the Godfather wannabe, treats our troops like toy soldiers to be thrown away.

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