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Henry A. Giroux | Domestic Terrorism, Youth and the Politics of Disposabili=
ty
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30321-domestic-terrorism-youth-and-the-p=
olitics-of-disposability
Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: The war on youth has resulted in young people be=
ing criminalized in school, killed by state violence and transformed from d=
emocratic citizens into neoliberal consumers. In response, young people in =
North America have made important attempts to break the hold of power, and =
now need to enlist all generations to develop a truly global political move=
ment that embraces education as the center of politics.
On Rekia Boyd, Freddie Gray and the Cost of Police Impunity
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30332-on-rekia-boyd-freddie-gray-and-the=
-cost-of-police-impunity
Sarah Macaraeg, Truthout: While the 24-hour news cycle stands ready to cove=
r ongoing killings of Black civilians by police, little coverage exists of =
the actual mechanics underpinning the cycle of violence itself, or of the t=
rue cost of police impunity, borne by the civilians killed, their families =
and communities.
William Rivers Pit | We Call It "Mud Season"
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30325-we-call-it-mud-season
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Here in New Hampshire, we call this 'Mud Se=
ason,' which brings me to the Republican Leadership Summit that took place =
in Nashua over the weekend. Any fair-minded culture would gift some form of=
award to a state required to tolerate so many human catastrophes in one sw=
allow."
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void of Life
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er-a-barrier-island-for-nesting-birds-devoid-of-life
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bitat was destroyed when Cat Island became "ground zero" for the Gulf oil s=
pill. Five years later, BP doesn't feel obligated to repair the damage done=
.
Commodified and Caged, Still
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Nancy A. Heitzeg, Critical Mass Progress: Speciesism has been the platform =
upon which wars, slavery, sweatshops, lynch mobs and death camps have been =
built; it is the bedrock of all inequality. Our domination of nature and it=
s many species offers the paradigm and the practice for the oppression of "=
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Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout: In his new book, sociologist Salvatore Babones =
offers 16 progressive policy recommendations for 2016's presidential conten=
ders. If implemented, they will not only make the US more humane, but will =
go a long way in making the country a fairer and more equitable place to li=
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g-credit-checks-on-job-applicants
Michelle Chen, The Nation: New York's City Council just voted overwhelmingl=
y to outlaw the common practice of letting employers prejudge people based =
on their credit history - passing an unprecedented ban against employers' u=
se of workers' credit background data.
Koch Brothers Declare: "Scott Walker Is Our Man"
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Brendan Fischer and Mary Bottari, PR Watch: The Center for Media and Democr=
acy (CMD) has been covering Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker - and his Koch back=
ing - since 2011. CMD has identified at least $11.6 million in support for =
Walker from the Koch brothers and their affiliated groups, plus millions mo=
re in indirect funding.
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Why Does the New York City Council Want More Cops?
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cil-want-more-cops
Julian Guerrero, Socialist Worker: While activists continue to build campai=
gns such as the Black Lives Matter movement, they should also put the spotl=
ight on Bill de Blasio and demand that the mayor live up to his promises th=
at working-class people of color would no longer be over-policed.
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Sex, Drugs and Dead Soldiers: What US Africa Command Doesn't Want You to Kn=
ow
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s-africa-command-doesn-t-want-you-to-know
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sons dying after alcohol and drug binges and its daughters assaulted and se=
xually abused while deployed, the American people deserve answers when it c=
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alifornia Without a Permit for 25 Years, and More
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alifornia without a permit for the last 25 years; an increase in illness is=
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African-American Man Dies of Spinal Cord Injury at Hands of Baltimore Polic=
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Pope Accepts Resignation of US Bishop Who Failed to Report Abuse
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New York to Investigate Whether Boy Scouts Discriminate Against Gays in Hir=
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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>Henry A. Giroux, Truthout:</strong> The war on youth has resulted in young people being criminalized in school, killed by state violence and transformed from democratic citizens into neoliberal consumers. In response, young people in North America have made important attempts to break the hold of power, and now need to enlist all generations to develop a truly global political movement that embraces education as the center of politics.</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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=A6yHzDTq%2BAAy1c%2BA%2F33o8aUltChO81Sv" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Five Years After the BP Oil Disaster: A Barrier Island for Nesting Birds Devoid of Life</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>Julie Dermansky, DeSmogBlog:</strong> Five and a half acres of ideal bird nesting habitat was destroyed when Cat Island became "ground zero" for the Gulf oil spill. Five years later, BP doesn't feel obligated to repair the damage done.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fHab8fOG%2BqK0VY1gGAwrBKUltChO81Sv" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article and View the Photos</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=V39exrCK4%2BhrA5Rq1l%2BIcKUltChO81Sv" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Commodified and Caged, Still</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>Nancy A. Heitzeg, Critical Mass Progress:</strong> Speciesism has been the platform upon which wars, slavery, sweatshops, lynch mobs and death camps have been built; it is the bedrock of all inequality. Our domination of nature and its many species offers the paradigm and the practice for the oppression of "others."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=iiW80olrEm5mhCNIHip71aUltChO81Sv" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ft1FRW9zVxUwrkRXFPvbRaUltChO81Sv" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Pushing Left: A 16-Priority Agenda for the 2016 US Presidential Election</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>Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout:</strong> In his new book, sociologist Salvatore Babones offers 16 progressive policy recommendations for 2016's presidential contenders. If implemented, they will not only make the US more humane, but will go a long way in making the country a fairer and more equitable place to live, work and study.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9ZKG9KGwGJ8J35YL8Pa%2FM6UltChO81Sv" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Review</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Bzpy9xg6avODMJzWJ85N9aUltChO81Sv" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>New York City Just Outlawed Running Credit Checks on Job Applicants</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>Michelle Chen, The Nation:</strong> New York's City Council just voted overwhelmingly to outlaw the common practice of letting employers prejudge people based on their credit history - passing an unprecedented ban against employers' use of workers' credit background data.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=D0G1olDu7eCs9MAsxAjx4aUltChO81Sv" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FyYEPPLEymCxYo44plx%2FUqUltChO81Sv" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Koch Brothers Declare: "Scott Walker Is Our Man"</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>Brendan Fischer and Mary Bottari, PR Watch:</strong> The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has been covering Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker - and his Koch backing - since 2011. CMD has identified at least $11.6 million in support for Walker from the Koch brothers and their affiliated groups, plus millions more in indirect funding.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RZ16E2eET%2BbGHWfGQahR3kkikMi%2BdXm5" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=41uwr646Co6Rh3tOL2BzPKUltChO81Sv" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Why Does the New York City Council Want More Cops?</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>Julian Guerrero, Socialist Worker:</strong> While activists continue to build campaigns such as the Black Lives Matter movement, they should also put the spotlight on Bill de Blasio and demand that the mayor live up to his promises that working-class people of color would no longer be over-policed.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sY%2BhpWgZH7kAHU1gXFt2zKUltChO81Sv" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UOhPhYEkcp6XOjDISlkpI6UltChO81Sv" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Sex, Drugs and Dead Soldiers: What US Africa Command Doesn't Want You to Know</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>Nick Turse, TomDispatch:</strong> With taxpayer money covering the salaries of lawbreakers and the men and women who investigate them, with the United States' sons dying after alcohol and drug binges and its daughters assaulted and sexually abused while deployed, the American people deserve answers when it comes to the conduct of US forces in Africa.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2Bb8KoU9CKw459Y2OIOj746UltChO81Sv" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Nn5kzS3QzFvuVo%2Fst8rTN6UltChO81Sv" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Nestlé Has Been Pumping Water Out of California Without a Permit for 25 Years, 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> Nestlé has been pumping water out of California without a permit for the last 25 years; an increase in illness is another effect of our environmental destruction; 25,000 Canadians marched through Quebec City earlier this month to demand an end to tar sands development and more action on climate change; and more.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=t2uqU10istA9bOXcJFSq2KUltChO81Sv" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=R%2B3Oz%2BXwz2209FItvQf%2BM6UltChO81Sv" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Massive Oil Spills, Exploding Bomb Trains, Hazardous Chemicals, Poisoned Water - What's the Plan?</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>Dr. Riki Ott, Chicago Independent Television:</strong> It's been 21 years since the Environmental Protection Agency considered the rules that govern oil spill response. In that time, our technologies have advanced significantly, while the rules surrounding them remained unchanged. Now is our opportunity to create meaningful change.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fwxMwOuBkcyNw0TDoCns%2FqUltChO81Sv" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Watch the Video</strong></a> </p>
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