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Gangbusters: How the Upsurge in Anti-Gang Tactics Will Hurt
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t r u t h o u t | 01.19
Gangbusters: How the Upsurge in Anti-Gang Tactics Will Hurt Communities of =
Color
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34475-the-upsurge-in-gang-conspiracy-cha=
rges-is-not-protecting-communities-of-color
Josmar Trujillo, Truthout: Building criminal cases and indicting young men =
with gang conspiracy charges are quickly becoming favored law enforcement a=
pproaches in New York City, and elsewhere in the United States. But are gan=
g raids and so-called "community" policing efforts really decreasing violen=
ce in US cities?
=C2=A0
Rights Lab: Can the Government Spy on My Phone?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34462-rights-lab-can-the-government-spy-=
on-my-phone
Scrappers Film Group, Truthout: Episode 1 of Rights Lab takes you on a cras=
h course of surveillance law and through the streets of Chicago with two ac=
tivists to find out everything you need to know about the secretive Stingra=
y devices that may be capturing your cell phone signal.
How "The Big Short" Shorts Audiences Hoping to Understand the 2008 Financia=
l Crisis
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34451-how-the-big-short-shorts-audien=
ces-hoping-to-understand-the-2008-financial-crisis
Stephen Maher, Truthout: While "The Big Short" sets out to explain how the =
2008 financial crisis unfolded, it fails to illustrate the roots of the cri=
sis: the fundamental irrationalities of capitalism. Instead, the film attem=
pts to make viewers sympathize with a group of hedge fund managers who cash=
ed in on the crisis.
The Citadel Is Breached: Congress Taps the Fed for Infrastructure Funding
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34461-the-citadel-is-breached-congress-t=
aps-the-fed-for-infrastructure-funding
Ellen Brown, The Web of Debt Blog: In a landmark infrastructure bill passed=
in December, Washington finally penetrated the Fed's "independence" by tap=
ping its reserves and bank dividends for infrastructure funding. However, s=
ome experts say Congress should go further and authorize funds to be issued=
for infrastructure directly.
The President Who Will Not Close Guant=C3=A1namo
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34463-the-president-who-will-not-close-g=
uantanamo
Aisha Maniar, One Small Window: By the time Barack Obama became president o=
f the United States in 2009, two-thirds of the prisoners at Guant=C3=A1namo=
Bay had already been released by George W. Bush. With 242 remaining, Obama=
promised to close the prison camp by January 2010. In his final year =E2=
=80=8Bin office=E2=80=8B, there are still around 100 prisoners.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The US Holds More Than 300 Natural Gas Stor=
age Facilities Like the One Leaking in California, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34474-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-the=
re-are-more-than-300-natural-gas-storage-facilities-in-the-us-like-the-one-=
in-porter-ranch-and-more
In today's On the News segment: There are more than 300 natural gas storage=
facilities around the US like the one leaking in Aliso Canyon, and any one=
of them could be the site of the next disaster; millennials want climate a=
ction, and they say that they're willing to vote for it; new research finds=
a majority of adults willing to give up other substances in favor of thera=
peutic cannabis; and more.
=C2=A0
How to Stop the Fossil Fuel Industry From Wrecking Our World
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34465-how-to-stop-the-fossil-fuel-ind=
ustry-from-wrecking-our-world
Bill McKibben, TomDispatch: Even as the climate crisis makes it clear that =
fossil fuels are yesterday's energy, the momentum of two centuries of devel=
opment means new projects keep emerging in a zombie-like fashion. Activism =
is exhausting, but it's the only way we can kill this climate-change-contri=
buting specter and prevent an apocalypse.
Fast-Food Workers Plan Wave of Strikes for 2016 Primaries
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34470-fast-food-workers-plan-wave-of-str=
ikes-for-2016-primaries
Giovanna Vitale and Jack Temple, Popular Resistance: Last Friday, fast-food=
workers announced an unprecedented wave of strikes and actions calling for=
higher wages and union rights. The demonstrations will hit the primary sea=
son to hammer home to candidates that the nearly 64 million Americans paid =
less than $15 an hour are a voting bloc that cannot be ignored.
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(Watch the Video and Read the Transcript)
Clinton vs. Sanders: Who Do Progressives Choose?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34472-clinton-vs-sanders-who-do-progress=
ives-choose
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: As the Democratic presidential primary race in=
tensifies, we host our own debate between two self-described socialist femi=
nists: Liza Featherstone, a contributing editor to The Nation who supports =
Bernie Sanders; and Suzanna Walters, a professor of sociology and director =
of the gender studies program at Northeastern University, who supports Hill=
ary Clinton.
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Can the Davos Rich Do More Than Talk?
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34468-can-the-davos-rich-do-more-than=
-talk
Sam Pizzigati, Inequality.org: Just a busload of billionaires now hold as m=
uch wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity. The elites now at Davos c=
ould, if they so choose, start steering that bus in a different direction, =
but don't hold your breath.
=C2=A0
New York's "Carwasheros" Push for Safer, Fairer Workplaces
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34467-new-york-s-carwasheros-push-for-sa=
fer-fairer-workplaces
Jean Stevens, In These Times: Car washes are among the most dangerous and e=
xploitative places to work, but organizers have come a long way in their fi=
ght to clean them up. In June 2015, car wash workers won a landmark battle =
to pass a local law regulating New York City's car washes, one of the most =
comprehensive of its kind nationwide.
=C2=A0
The Brilliance of Using Pillowcases to #GiveRefugeesRest
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34466-the-brilliance-of-using-pillowcase=
s-to-giverefugeesrest
Yessenia Funes, YES! Magazine: A human rights campaign to protest Islamopho=
bic rhetoric sent message-scrawled pillowcases to 31 governors who expresse=
d support for refugee bans, and more are on the way. House Speaker Paul Rya=
n will also be receiving pillowcases. The symbolism of the pillowcases is s=
imple: Give refugees fleeing violence the peace they need.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Key Attraction to Trump Is His Authoritarianism, Study Finds
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/study-finds-supporters-key-at=
traction-to-trump-is-his-authoritarian-image
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Those who dismiss Donald Trump as a vul=
gar, cartoonish candidate do so at the nation's peril. His appeal is based =
on selling his singular, patriarchal, self-proclaimed omnipotence.
Michael Moore: President Obama, Please Come to Flint
Read the Article at MichaelMoore.com
http://www.michaelmoore.com/ObamaComeToFlint
Real-Time Carbon Clock Shows Climate Change "Danger Zone" Is Imminent=20
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/real-time-carbon-clock-shows-=
climate-change-danger-zone-is-imminent
The Oregon Militia Is Turning Out to Be Its Very Own Worst Enemy
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/bundy-standoff-enters-third-week-of-=
ridiculousness
Almost 19,000 Civilians Killed in Iraq in Under Two Years, UN Says
Read the Article at The Associated Press
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2016/01/19/almost-civilians-killed-ir=
aq-under-years-says/uEfDAOS7t5qaTmYZoCElbJ/story.html
Charles P. Pierce: The Moment at the Democratic Debate That Proved What Thi=
s Campaign Is Really About
Read the Article at Esquire
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a41280/democratic-debate=
-charleston-recap/
From Oregon to Australia: The Unifying Force of Far-Right Resentment=20
Read the Article at the Guardian US
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/19/from-oregon-to-austral=
ia-the-unifying-force-of-far-right-resentment
Calls for Boycott of Oscars Grow Over Lack of Diversity of Nominees
Read the Article at The Associated Press
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/0655f362f0ff41f3b43de81494e2096f/calls-boyco=
tt-oscars-grow-over-diversity-nominees
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Key Attraction to Trump Is His Authoritarianism, Study Finds </strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: normal;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.2"><strong>Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: </strong>Those who dismiss Donald Trump as a vulgar, cartoonish candidate do so at the nation's peril. His appeal is based on selling his singular, patriarchal, self-proclaimed omnipotence.</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0JPUdVZ%2B9fSBsf0BrSV9KhOO4MKyATXx"><strong>Read the BuzzFlash Commentary</strong></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Michael Moore: President Obama, Please Come to Flint</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Real-Time Carbon Clock Shows Climate Change "Danger Zone" Is Imminent</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Oregon Militia Is Turning Out to Be Its Very Own Worst Enemy</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XBDn%2B3F233XcJL3BGAf7LROO4MKyATXx"><strong>Read the Article at Talking Points Memo</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Almost 19,000 Civilians Killed in Iraq in Under Two Years, UN Says</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rraJ3LXz1CCUWNeIOlpQxxOO4MKyATXx"><strong>Read the Article at The Associated Press</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Charles P. Pierce: The Moment at the Democratic Debate That Proved What This Campaign Is Really About</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PxVQ6lhH%2FS8KJf41pwIWIiAXYHKXrtVo"><strong>Read the Article at Esquire</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>From Oregon to Australia: The Unifying Force of Far-Right Resentment</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4OKVAolyn9ZavMmLGQN6%2BROO4MKyATXx"><strong>Read the Article at the Guardian US</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Calls for Boycott of Oscars Grow Over Lack of Diversity of Nominees</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IlgF1F3MNsINV%2BDAOEsL5ROO4MKyATXx"><strong>Read the Article at The Associated Press</strong></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Josmar Trujillo, Truthout:</strong> Building criminal cases and indicting young men with gang conspiracy charges are quickly becoming favored law enforcement approaches in New York City, and elsewhere in the United States. But are gang raids and so-called "community" policing efforts really decreasing violence in US cities?</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tTwEK2fNB66LriulrpfEDCAXYHKXrtVo"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ArWyms%2FJ6PBtfeImdCyc1BOO4MKyATXx"><strong>Rights Lab: Can the Government Spy on My Phone?</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Scrappers Film Group, Truthout:</strong> Episode 1 of Rights Lab takes you on a crash course of surveillance law and through the streets of Chicago with two activists to find out everything you need to know about the secretive Stingray devices that may be capturing your cell phone signal.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=USYhCkSuoFignYbzBBUHEBOO4MKyATXx"><strong>Read the Article and Watch the Video</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OV5HYdlclYOc372hVYxHqhOO4MKyATXx"><strong>How <em>The Big Short</em> Shorts Audiences Hoping to Understand the 2008 Financial Crisis</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Stephen Maher, Truthout:</strong> While <em>The Big Short</em> sets out to explain how the 2008 financial crisis unfolded, it fails to illustrate the roots of the crisis: the fundamental irrationalities of capitalism. Instead, the film attempts to make viewers sympathize with a group of hedge fund managers who cashed in on the crisis.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qNwsCrt72VGGiuPURrSzshOO4MKyATXx"><strong>Read the Film Review</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7JLUcpjZiKDkfTJgYJDAOROO4MKyATXx"><strong>The Citadel Is Breached: Congress Taps the Fed for Infrastructure Funding</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Ellen Brown, The Web of Debt Blog:</strong> In a landmark infrastructure bill passed in December, Washington finally penetrated the Fed's "independence" by tapping its reserves and bank dividends for infrastructure funding. However, some experts say Congress should go further and authorize funds to be issued for infrastructure directly.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kVX1hzbvU0LeE3Wo9D5D8BOO4MKyATXx"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HwqLz%2Fg3%2Fwv%2BFIrobZ9XPBOO4MKyATXx"><strong>The President Who Will Not Close Guantánamo</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Aisha Maniar, One Small Window:</strong> By the time Barack Obama became president of the United States in 2009, two-thirds of the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay had already been released by George W. Bush. With 242 remaining, Obama promised to close the prison camp by January 2010. In his final year ​in office​, there are still around 100 prisoners.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2Fa5J95F%2BJWE8Tt0fwJyYWBOO4MKyATXx"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: The US Holds More Than 300 Natural Gas Storage Facilities Like the One Leaking in California, and More</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>In today's On the News segment:</strong> There are more than 300 natural gas storage facilities around the US like the one leaking in Aliso Canyon, and any one of them could be the site of the next disaster; millennials want climate action, and they say that they're willing to vote for it; new research finds a majority of adults willing to give up other substances in favor of therapeutic cannabis; and more.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FfG9MYjWIbpr7ObC9VEr4hOO4MKyATXx"><strong>How to Stop the Fossil Fuel Industry From Wrecking Our World</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Bill McKibben, TomDispatch:</strong> Even as the climate crisis makes it clear that fossil fuels are yesterday's energy, the momentum of two centuries of development means new projects keep emerging in a zombie-like fashion. Activism is exhausting, but it's the only way we can kill this climate-change-contributing specter and prevent an apocalypse.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZzHUrn9SrqCCv1DtAd0cFxOO4MKyATXx"><strong>Fast-Food Workers Plan Wave of Strikes for 2016 Primaries</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Giovanna Vitale and Jack Temple, Popular Resistance:</strong> Last Friday, fast-food workers announced an unprecedented wave of strikes and actions calling for higher wages and union rights. The demonstrations will hit the primary season to hammer home to candidates that the nearly 64 million Americans paid less than $15 an hour are a voting bloc that cannot be ignored.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FpZTJVPoThc3CLc6VJ1YiBOO4MKyATXx"><strong>Clinton vs. Sanders: Who Do Progressives Choose?</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!:</strong> As the Democratic presidential primary race intensifies, we host our own debate between two self-described socialist feminists: Liza Featherstone, a contributing editor to The Nation who supports Bernie Sanders; and Suzanna Walters, a professor of sociology and director of the gender studies program at Northeastern University, who supports Hillary Clinton.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vByHPq%2BXdOF2uP7SPqQvMxOO4MKyATXx"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XXF2RatXpaMxuGLeZNW1KxOO4MKyATXx"><strong>Can the Davos Rich Do More Than Talk?</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Sam Pizzigati, Inequality.org:</strong> Just a busload of billionaires now hold as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity. The elites now at Davos could, if they so choose, start steering that bus in a different direction, but don't hold your breath.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1TPIXDOPjK3uCtIZyOrYYROO4MKyATXx"><strong>New York's "Carwasheros" Push for Safer, Fairer Workplaces</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Jean Stevens, In These Times:</strong> Car washes are among the most dangerous and exploitative places to work, but organizers have come a long way in their fight to clean them up. In June 2015, car wash workers won a landmark battle to pass a local law regulating New York City's car washes, one of the most comprehensive of its kind nationwide.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=V9JBq7mgN%2FvLSkTH4lfNgxOO4MKyATXx"><strong>The Brilliance of Using Pillowcases to #GiveRefugeesRest</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Yessenia Funes, YES! Magazine:</strong> A human rights campaign to protest Islamophobic rhetoric sent message-scrawled pillowcases to 31 governors who expressed support for refugee bans, and more are on the way. House Speaker Paul Ryan will also be receiving pillowcases. The symbolism of the pillowcases is simple: Give refugees fleeing violence the peace they need.</p>
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