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Schools Should Do Away With English-Only Policies and Racist Dress Codes Kim Wilson, Truthout We owe it to Black and Brown students to have the moral courage to speak out against oppressive dress codes and English-only policies. Furthermore, it is not possible to disconnect current issues, such as the anti-immigrant movement, ICE raids and the deportation of thousands of people, from educational language policies that target students from these groups. Underserved, underrepresented and first-generation students are not liabilities to be managed or policed.
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The U.S. Has "Disappeared" More Than 42,000 Migrants. Where's the Outrage? David L. Wilson, Truthout Trump's Migrant Protection Protocols program has forced more than 42,000 asylum seekers into Mexican cities where they have no resources or support networks. Given the multipronged assault from this administration, activists understandably are fatigued, but this is no time to let up the pressure as migrants languish without access to legal representation or access to family and friends in the U.S.
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This Is Not the Sixth Extinction. It’s the First Extermination Event. Justin McBrien, Truthout From the insect apocalypse to the burning of the Amazon, what we are experiencing is not some passive geological event like a volcanic eruption but an active extermination event that's a natural consequence of nearly 500 years of capitalism. But focusing on a dystopic future allows the privileged to ignore the dystopic horror that already exists today for a great many people on this planet.
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Amazon Workers Are Bringing the Climate Strike to Jeff Bezos Rebecca Burns, In These Times Amazon Employees for Climate Justice announced this week that it would join the September 20th Global Climate Strike led by 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg. The employees are calling on Amazon to commit to zero emissions by 2030, cancel the company's custom contracts that accelerate gas and oil extraction, and cease funding climate-denying lobbyists and politicians.
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The South Could Flip the Senate Rebekah Barber, Facing South As the Democrats organize to defeat Trump next year, they are also undertaking a major effort to win the Senate. Races in a number of Southern states may prove crucial to making it happen. There are 35 seats up in 2020, including special elections in Arizona and Georgia, and 23 of those seats are currently held by Republicans. Flipping many of these seats will not come easy for Democrats, as many races in Southern states will be shaped by discriminatory voter ID laws.
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Stress, Overwork and Insecurity Are Driving Up Workplace Accidents María José Carmona, Inequality.org In today's frenetic and competitive market, stress is the second most common workplace health problem and is responsible for half of all absences. Job insecurity, precarious contracts, low wages and working hours incompatible with life are linked to worse mental health, and those who are employed on a temporary or casual basis suffer from a higher rate of workplace accidents.
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Neonicotinoid Pesticides Have Made U.S. Agriculture Much More Toxic Tara Lohan and Dipika Kadaba, The Relevator A new study has found that U.S. agriculture is 48 times more toxic to insects than it was 20 years ago. The research, published in the journal PLOS One, found that 92 percent of that toxic load can be attributed to neonicotinoids -- the most widely used class of insecticides. These chemicals can last up to 1,000 days in the environment, allowing their toxicity to build up in the environment and cascade from soil to plants, insects to birds.
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Yemen Was Called the Forgotten War, but Activists Are Refusing to Forget Janine Jackson, FAIR More and more people are starting to recognize the major role the U.S. plays in the war on Yemen, says Hassan El-Tayyab, legislative representative for Middle East policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation. In this interview, El-Tayyab discusses the legislative work to end U.S. logistical support, bomb sales and other transfers to the Saudi-led coalition.
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Biden's "Best Night" Was Pretty Damn Bad William Rivers Pitt, Truthout None of the candidates in Houston needed a big night more than Joe Biden. Fortunately for him, his previous performances had set the bar lower than whale feces at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, so he had almost nowhere to go but up. Still, Biden managed to reveal his blatant, deeply entrenched racism even further Thursday night by suggesting that Black parents are incapable of parenting their children.
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Post-9/11 Terrorism Watchlist of More Than 1 Million Judged Unconstitutional Marjorie Cohn, Truthout Information from the U.S. government's terrorism watchlist is shared with more than 18,000 state, local, city, county, college and university, tribal and federal law enforcement agencies, 533 private entities, and more than 60 foreign governments. However, a federal judge held that the watchlist violates due process because it fails to provide notice of inclusion or the evidence on which inclusion was based, and there is no opportunity to rebut the evidence.
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