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News & Views | 6/23/21

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We're saying across this country, it's time for people... to march on these Senate offices," declared Rev. William Barber.

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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"If the United States takes these steps it will be welcomed around the world."



by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The U.S. agency's systemic response of "coercion and violence," said an ACLU attorney, "speaks to the inherently abusive and inhumane nature of immigration detention."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"If ministers are serious about facing up to the climate crisis they must end their support for climate wrecking fossil fuels at home and abroad."


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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This is a warning of existential risk. Of survival. Of collapse," said Extinction Rebellion.



by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
In addition to concerns about harm to sea life, progressives said the money would be better spent on healthcare and other human needs.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"America training death squads will come as a huge shock to anyone who's never heard of the past 245 years of U.S. history."



by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
The Navy's new counterterrorism training guide says that socialists are "political terrorists," just like neo-nazis.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"We do the work," the Democrat said after her primary win. "And we deserve a government that works with and for us."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Not a single Republican in the United States Senate has the courage to even debate whether we should protect American democracy or not."


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by Peter Certo
The warning from democracy advocates is clear: Kill the filibuster and pass the For the People Act, or our democracy won’t survive.



by Pramila Jayapal, Bernie Sanders
We cannot come out of this national public health crisis only to retain the status quo—one that leaves at least 87 million uninsured or underinsured.



by Maria De Jesus
Global herd immunity remains out of reach because of inequitable vaccine distribution.



by Derrick Z. Jackson
You cannot approve massive oil drilling projects if you want to swiftly reach net-zero emissions.



by Udi Ofer
If President Biden allows thousands of people to be sent back to federal prison, he would be presiding over the fastest expansion of the federal prison population in history.



by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
A restored JCPOA and the end of U.S. sanctions would have left the moderates in a stronger position, and set Iran's relations with the United States and its allies on a path of normalization.


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