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Friday, September 20, 2019
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Increasing Surveillance of Mentally Ill People Won’t Stop Mass Shootings
by Azza Altiraifi
The national fixation on mental illness is a pretext for entrenching and expanding oppression.
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Debt Collecting Promises High Pay. All It Costs Is Your Soul.
by Elena Botella
75 to 100 percent of debt collectors leave within one year.
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Trump’s Labor Secretary Nominee Delights in Destroying Rights for Disabled Workers
by Rebecca Cokley
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: The nomination of Eugene Scalia could roll back decades of progress for workers with disabilities.
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Off-Kilter: The Harvest of American Racism
Inside Tennessee’s plan to block-grant Medicaid; why market solutions fail to uplift distressed communities; and a look at the Son of Scalia, Trump’s latest nominee for Labor Secretary.
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What We’re Reading
It's not too late. As people take to the streets for the Climate Strike, a reminder that climate change will change the landscape of global conflict <[link removed]>. In Arizona, farmers are struggling to adapt <[link removed]> to a different changing landscape. Meanwhile, some unlikely suspects <[link removed]> are cashing in on the climate crisis.
Losing Ground. In Los Angeles, the squeezing out of the Black middle class <[link removed]> has created a huge disparity: Black residents are nine percent of LA's residents and 40 percent of people experiencing homelessness. Hundreds of miles up the coast, Pomo people forage for food <[link removed]> even when it breaks state law.
Fighting Fires. When a dozer operator died fighting a fire, it took a crew of 93, including incarcerated people <[link removed]>, to retrieve his body. But while some Californians are fighting fires, others are setting them <[link removed]> in the same of conservation.
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Welcome to the Block
Summer is leaving us but before it does, a team of New York Times photographers fanned out across the city to photograph 65 block parties <[link removed]> that capture the spirit of the diverse city and its friendly neighborhoods.
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