Relatives of Chicago Police Victims Release Statement and Video Opposing Ex-Mayor Rahm Emanuel for U.S. Ambassador to Japan
by RootsAction.org
on June 10, 2021
Victims and relatives of victims of police brutality in Chicago while Rahm Emanuel was mayor released a joint statement Thursday decrying President Biden’s reported plan to nominate Emanuel to be the U.S. ambassador to Japan.
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Alexandra Klein on Ending the Death Penalty
by Talk World Radio
on June 09, 2021
This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing that barbaric vestige of uncontrollable ignorance and sadism, capital punishment.
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Ro Khanna Introduces Bill Allowing States to Carve Path Toward Medicare for All
by Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams
on June 09, 2021
Single-payer systems at the state-level, said one advocate of the new bill, would "demonstrate just how much better they are than our fragmented for-profit healthcare system."
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200 Continue to Occupy Enbridge Matting Near the Mississippi Headwaters Over Night Exercising Treaty Rights
by Indigenous Environmental Network
on June 09, 2021
WASHINGTON - Yesterday, over a thousand people marched to the planned Enbridge Line 3 pipeline crossing of the Mississippi River in solidarity with Anishinaabe exercising their treaty rights.
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Peace-washing: Is a network of major donors neutralizing activism in the peace movement?
by Dave Lindorff, Salon
on June 02, 2021
With Democrats in power (for now), powerful funders may be trying to tame or silence progressive peace activists.
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Skin Privilege
by Delmarie Cobb, Chicago Color
on May 31, 2021
Black people witness “skin privilege” everyday.
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Biden’s Eloquence About George Floyd Will Ring Hollow if Rahm Emanuel Gets Ambassador Nomination
by Norman Solomon
on May 27, 2021
If Joe Biden fully meant what he said after meeting with GeorgeFloyd’s family in the Oval Office on Tuesday, he won’t nominate RahmEmanuel to be the U.S. ambassador to Japan. But recent news reports tell us that’s exactly what the president intends to do.
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'This Took Courage': 500+ Former Biden Campaign Staffers Urge President to Denounce Israeli Violence
by Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams
on May 27, 2021
Open letter calls on the president to "work to end the underlying conditions of occupation, blockade, and settlement expansion that led to this exceptionally destructive period."
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65+ Orgs: Cold War with China is a Dangerous and Self-Defeating Strategy
by RootsAction.org
on May 22, 2021
WASHINGTON — In response to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s recent vote to advance the Strategic Competition Act of 2021 (SCA), and reports that it will receive a Senate floor vote this week, 66 organizations said:We, the undersigned organizations that represent millions of people across the United States, are deeply concerned about the growing Cold War mentality driving the U.S. approach to China. Although our organizations may have different mandates or ideological persuasions, we know that the new Cold War with China currently being pushed in Washington does not serve the millions of people demanding change across this country nor the billions of people affected by U.S. foreign policy abroad, and will instead lead to further insecurity and division.
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What critics of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan get wrong
by Matthew Hoh, CNN
on May 21, 2021
Within hours of President Joe Biden's announcement that US forces will leave Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, objections and remonstrations appeared across US media. These protests are nearly all disingenuous, false and specious, and meant to utilize fear to continue a tragic and purposeless war.
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