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News & Views | 6/21/21
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Sunrise Ends 400-Mile Climate March With Arrests at Ted Cruz's House
by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The Gulf South marchers demand that Congress and the Biden White House
pass bold climate jobs legislation, including a bill to create a
Civilian Climate Corps.
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Doctors Without Borders Calls on BioNTech to Share Vaccine Tech With World
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The faster companies share the know-how, the faster we can put an end
to this pandemic."
Over 30,000 US Veterans of Post-9/11 Wars Have Killed Themselves Since 2001
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
"As we come closer to the twentieth anniversary of the September 11th
attacks, we must reflect on the mental health cost of the Global War on
Terror."
Global Hopes in Doubt After G7 Fails to Meet Climate Finance Pledges for Poor Nations
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"I'd have really hoped for a clearer signal on how and when we will be
able to see the commitment to mobilize the $100 billion fulfilled."
Criminal Probe Into DeJoy Demanded Over 'Suspicious' GOP Donations
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"These allegations should be thoroughly investigated and, if true, Mr.
DeJoy must be held accountable."
Schumer Backs Sanders' Proposal to Include Dental, Hearing, and Vision Care in Medicare
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
"With the current Medicare platform, those three things are just left
out, like it's no big deal," said the Democratic leader. "But it is a
big deal and we should fix it."
On Prime Day, Groups Demand Federal Ban on Amazon's 'Punitive' Worker Surveillance
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Amazon's workplace surveillance system is brutal every day, and even
worse on Prime Day."
Sanders Says Congress Must Combat GOP Attacks on Voting Rights in 'Any and Every Way'
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"What Republican legislatures and governors are doing in the most
disgraceful way imaginable is to try to deny people of color, young
people, poor people the right to vote."
Advocates Cheer VA Move to Offer Trans Vets Gender Confirmation Surgery
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by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Every veteran deserves to have access to the health care that they
need, and the VA is working to make sure that includes transgender
veterans as well."
'Bolsonaro Out!': Massive Protests as Brazil's Covid-19 Death Toll Tops 500,000
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by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"We are on the street to defend our country, our people, our lives, our
culture, our education, our economy. We can no longer die of Covid."
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We Need to Help Asylum-Seekers, Not Traumatize Them
by Marisol B. Girela, Miriam Camero
When asylum-seekers—who, like refugees, are fleeing serious threats to
their life or freedom—enter the U.S., we do all we can to ensure they
fail.
Presidents Biden and Putin's Nuclear Words
by Robert Dodge
The complete abolition of nuclear weapons is the only way to be safe
from their threat.
Putting an End to Extreme Sentencing
by Michael Reed Dorrough
My prison sentence is the equivalent of a slow death.
The Response to the Pandemic Has Been Driven by Vaccine Nationalism
by Rajan Menon
Power, wealth, and justice in the time of Covid-19.
From MSNBC to NPR, Corporate "Liberal" Media Propaganda Tells the World: America Is First
by Jeff Cohen
Let's do today what Martin Luther King Jr. wisely urged us to do in the
past: look at ourselves in the mirror.
Burma's Refugees Deserve Global Solidarity and Support
by Myra Dahgaypaw
Ending the illegal junta is the first step to securing human
rights-based livelihoods for refugees and the millions of civilians who
have long deserved peace and democratic rule.
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Newswire...
USDA to Reinstate Vital Organic Animal Welfare Protections Gutted by Trump Administration
Center for Food Safety
Common Cause Urges Senators to Vote "Yes" to Advance the for the People Act
Common Cause
Public Citizen Calls for Urgent Support of WHO Vaccine Tech Transfer Hub
Public Citizen
New Report Details Unusually High Rate of Suicides Among Post-9/11 War Service Members
Costs of War
MSF Calls on Biontech to Immediately Share COVID-19 Vaccine Technology and Recipe
Doctors Without Borders
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