Wednesday, September 4, 2019 Let's Fight for Freedom From Electronic Monitors and E-Carceration James Kilgore, Truthout Sen. Bernie Sanders recently released the plan for criminal legal reform that he would pursue if elected president. While it's a good start, like most attempts to reform the system, it completely overlooks the menace of electronic monitoring and other forms of e-carceration that deprive formerly incarcerated people of agency over their lives. To bring about real reform, we must begin by dispelling the notion that electronic monitoring is better than jail.
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As Dorian Loomed, Homeland Security Shifted $155 Million From FEMA to ICE Sasha Abramsky, Truthout Last week, Trump's Department of Homeland Security announced that it was diverting $155 million from money previously allocated for disaster relief to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) just as Hurricane Dorian was looming over the East Coast. While the timing may have been a coincidence, the message was very clear -- this administration will stop at nothing to impose its anti-immigrant agenda.
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Donald Trump Is a Category 5 Liar William Rivers Pitt, Truthout As Hurricane Dorian raked the Bahamas and threatened parts of the Eastern Seaboard, Trump golfed, tweeted and lied that he had never heard of a Category 5 hurricane before. In his desperation to seem powerful and all-knowing, Trump has instead exposed himself as a truthless, thoroughly inadequate fabulist fool blown about by the hurricane winds of his own Category 5 ego.
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A Mumps Outbreak Is Spreading in Trump's Migrant Jails Sophia Tesfaye, Salon The Trump administration has recently moved to hold migrant families and children indefinitely in cages. But the federal government is also willfully refusing to inoculate migrants against deadly diseases while keeping them in cramped conditions. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been 921 new cases of mumps in or around migrant jails in less than a year. Trump's camps are already vectors of dangerous disease, and are on the way to becoming death camps by inaction.
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Following Months of Protests, Hong Kong Leader Withdraws Extradition Bill Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Following months of widespread protests, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced Wednesday that she has fully withdrawn legislation that would have allowed extradition of Hong Kong residents to the Chinese mainland. Lam's decision addresses a central demand of demonstrators, but it is unclear whether the move will diminish the protests.
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Watch Bernie Sanders and Dying Activist Ady Barkan Discuss Medicare for All Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Progressive activist Ady Barkan didn't let losing his voice to ALS stop him from launching a new series of interviews with presidential candidates to discuss Medicare for All. Barkan connected the fight for health care justice to his own personal story and the struggles of millions of Americans to afford life-saving medicine and treatment.
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Police Protect "Straight Pride Parade" and Attack Counterprotesters Tatiana Cozzarelli, Left Voice In Boston, Massachusetts, the 100 demonstrators who rallied for a "Straight Pride Parade" over the weekend were vastly outnumbered by more than 1,000 counterprotesters. Boston police, along with police who were called in from other cities, protected the "straight pride" attendees, while macing, beating and arresting as many as 36 counterprotesters.
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Islands Devastated by Dorian Are on the Front Line of a Dying Planet Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! Hurricane Dorian has ravaged the Bahamas. Seven deaths have been reported, with the death count expected to rise. Rescue efforts have been hampered by widespread flooding, and some reports say 70 to 80 percent of the affected areas remain underwater. Residents of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas are now bracing for the storm.
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Anti-Racists Turn Out En Masse as Far Right Gains New Ground in Germany Hilary Moore, Waging Nonviolence The far-right party Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) became the second-largest party in the East German states of Brandenburg and Saxony following parliamentary elections on Sunday. Prior to the elections, more than 40,000 people took to the streets in Dresden to send a preemptive message to AfD and its neo-Nazis allies: that racism and fascism will not go unchallenged.
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Millionaire CEO Is Bankrolling Think Tank Pushing Climate Denial Sue Sturgis, Facing South Despite record global temperatures, the John Locke Foundation, founded and primarily funded by leading Republican donor and millionaire Art Pope, continues to peddle disinformation and climate denialism. Efforts to address the problem through public policy are being stymied while mainstream media outlets keep boosting the foundation's message and lending it credibility.
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Alaska's Sea Ice Completely Melted for First Time in Recorded History Dahr Jamail, Truthout During one of the hottest Julys on record, all of the sea ice within 150 miles of Alaska's shore melted for the first time in recorded history. In Iceland, the Okjškull glacier, which once covered 16 square kilometers, is no more, and in Greenland, the ice sheet lost an unprecedented 12.5 billion tons of water in a single day in August. As the planet melts before our eyes, we are witnessing the death of a world we have known and the beginning of another that portends drought, wildfires, famine, disease and war.
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Trump Silences Tlaib and Omar for Revealing Human Toll of Occupation Khury Petersen-Smith, Truthout During a 2009 visit to Gaza, following Israel's most recent attack, what stood out the most for me was how Palestinians still strove to have a normal life amid the devastation. This is exactly what Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar embraced and highlighted about the Israel-Palestine conflict: the humanity of Palestinians living under occupation. It's also what makes them most dangerous to the Trump-Netanyahu agenda.
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