“Gun Control” at the Pentagon? Don’t Even Think About It.
by Norman Solomon
on May 31, 2022
New outcries for gun control have followed the horrible tragedies of mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo.
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500+ Organizations' Letter to President Joe Biden
by Student Borrower Protection Center
on May 27, 2022
The Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr. President of the United States
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California Might Pass Its Own Personal Build Back Better
by Lee Harris, The American Prospect
on May 25, 2022
The Golden State is set to spend its capital gains haul on massive public investments in climate.
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Transpartisan Letter Opposing New U.S. Military Bases in Europe
by Overseas Base Realignment and Closure Coalition
on May 24, 2022
Transpartisan Letter Opposing New U.S. Military Bases in Europe and Proposing Alternatives to Support Ukrainian, U.S., and European Security
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‘Disinformation’ Label Serves to Marginalize Crucial Ukraine Facts
by Luca GoldMansour, FAIR
on May 19, 2022
Disinformation has become a central tool in the United States and Russia’s expanding information war.
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45 human rights, progressive, faith, and government transparency organizations urge Justice Department to reconsider case against U.S. Park Police officers who killed Bijan Ghaisar
by RootsAction.org
on May 19, 2022
WASHINGTON - Today, 45 organizations representing millions of their members across the country, including Amnesty International USA, MoveOn, National Iranian American Council, NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, Project on Government Oversight, and Working Families Party sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling on the Department of Justice to give the case against the two U.S. Park Police officers who killed 25-year-old Iranian-American Bijan Ghaisar of Fairfax County, Virginia, during a traffic stop in 2017, the full and fair consideration that it did not receive under the Trump Administration.
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Looks Like Another “Bad Blue” Just Bit the Dust
by Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon
on May 19, 2022
Three years ago, we helped write a report for RootsAction.org targeting 15 corporate Democrats in Congress who deserved to be “primaried.”
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An immigration detention center in Farmville built for over 700 people now has 11 — and activists say it’s time to shut it down
by Angilee Shah, Cville Tomorrow
on May 15, 2022
In the middle of Virginia, at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a privately-run immigration detention center that is designed to confine over 700 people per day, now has at most 11 detainees at a cost of about $2 million per month to the federal government.
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30 Organizations Thank House for Allowing Unionizing
by Demand Progress
on May 12, 2022
Dear Members of the House of Representatives:
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American progressives join the War Party
by James Carden, Asia Times
on May 09, 2022
U.S. representative Alexandra Ocasia-Cortez is among the Democratic Party members to vote in favor of a Republican sponsored Ukraine war bill.
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