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Jewish Voice for Peace Speaks on White Racial Justice Organizing in Black Lives Matter Times
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30821-cultivating-fearless-and-hopeful-racial-justice-organizing-in-white-communities-in-black-lives-matter-movement-times
Chris Crass, Truthout: The national organization has transformed years of training into its most powerful actions ever to support racial justice organizing in White communities, in addition to its protests of Israeli actions in Gaza.
Black Lives Matter's Patrisse Cullors on Creating a New Economy of Nonviolence
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30842-black-lives-matters-patrisse-cullors-on-creating-a-new-economy-of-non-violence
Laura Flanders, Truthout: How is the Black Lives Matter movement reshaping models of social movement leadership? Laura Flanders speaks with cofounder Patrisse Cullors, an artist, organizer and freedom fighter, who grew up in violence and was thrown out of her home at a young age for coming out.
Torturing Democracy: The Freedom of Information Act and First Amendment Under Assault
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30846-torturing-democracy-the-freedom-of-information-act-and-first-amendment-under-assault
Michael Meurer, Truthout: In the face of an ACLU lawsuit that started as a routine Freedom of Information Act request in 2003, the US government has spent the past 12 years trying to prevent the release of evidence of systemic US torture at multiple facilities across Afghanistan and Iraq.
Trans-Pacific Partnership-Related Bill Contains a Medicare Poison Pill
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30862-trans-pacific-partnership-related-bill-contains-a-medicare-poison-pill
Diane Archer, Campaign for America's Future: We need to fight the Medicare cuts in the trade adjustment assistance bill, just as we need to ensure that the TPP does not further drive up the price of prescription drugs in the United States.
Forty Acres and a Mule Would Be at Least $6.4 Trillion Today: What the US Really Owes Black America
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30853-forty-acres-and-a-mule-would-be-at-least-6-4-trillion-today-what-the-us-really-owes-black-america
Jeff Neumann and Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn, YES! Magazine: Slavery made the US wealthy, and racist policies since have blocked African-American wealth building. Can we calculate the economic damage? This infographic makes the case for reparations.
Kansas Could Lose Millions for Limiting Welfare Recipients to $25 at ATMs
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30856-kansas-could-lose-millions-for-limiting-welfare-recipients-to-25-at-atms
Lindsay Wise and Dion Lefler, McClatchy Newspapers: A first-of-its-kind provision that prevents welfare recipients in Kansas from withdrawing more than $25 a day from an ATM might violate federal law, and could jeopardize the state's federal funding if not amended.
Challenging Corporations' "Right" to Grow GMOs in Rural Oregon
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30858-interview-challenging-corporations-right-to-grow-gmos-in-rural-oregon
Simon Davis-Cohen, Read the Dirt: Activists in Benton County, Oregon, have campaigned for a local ordinance that would elevate that right to local self-government above corporations' claimed constitutional privileges. The measure is being voted on today.
Boatloads of Migrants Could Soon Be "Floating Graveyard" on Southeast Asian Waters
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30863-boatloads-of-migrants-could-soon-be-floating-graveyard-on-southeast-asian-waters
Kanya D'Almeida, Inter Press Service: Powerful emerging countries within range of the migrant crisis should use their naval capacity to bring desperate refugees ashore, but no government has so far demonstrated a willingness to do so.
Guatemalan Domestic Workers Reveal a Dirty Business
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30861-guatemalan-domestic-workers-reveal-a-dirty-business
Louisa Reynolds, Women's eNews: Domestic worker Fidelia Castellanos is fighting for better working conditions in Guatemala, where labor unionism is weak after the repression of workers' movements under the country's recent history of military dictatorships.
The Poverty Machine: Student Debt, Class Society and Securing Bonded Labor
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30857-the-poverty-machine-student-debt-class-society-and-securing-bonded-labor
Jeremy Brunger, The Hampton Institute: The only way out of the poverty trap for many students is to become the very thing they were taught not to become by their parents and their professors: bonded servants, or "willing slaves of capital," as the economist Frederic Lordon calls them in his book of the same name.
Writing History Before It Happens: Nine Surefire Future Headlines From a Bizarre World
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30875-writing-history-before-it-happens-nine-surefire-future-headlines-from-a-bizarre-world
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: There's a certain repetition factor in our increasingly bizarre world that lends predictability to the future. The key to such future stories is the lack of a learning curve in Washington, with the same policies applied again and again, usually with remarkably similar results.
"We Are Seneca Lake": Josh Fox and Fracking Opponents Fight Natural Gas Storage Site in Upstate New York
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30870-we-are-seneca-lake-josh-fox-and-fracking-opponents-fight-natural-gas-storage-site-in-upstate-new-york
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Last Wednesday, Josh Fox, director of "Gasland," was arrested along with 20 other people after forming a human barricade at a natural gas storage facility in upstate New York. Fox discusses the action and provides clips of his new documentary short, "We Are Seneca Lake."
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European Union Claims That It Must Attack Migrants From North Africa to "Save" Them
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Iraq War Supporters Run for the Hills
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Mike Huckabee in Iowa to "Sound the Alarm" on Gay Marriage
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Why Are GOP Presidential Hopefuls Still Buying Dick Cheney's Biggest Lie?
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Native Americans Protest High School's Refusal to Let Student Wear Eagle Plumes, Beads on Graduation
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United States' Views Align Surprisingly Well With Those of "Socialist" Bernie Sanders
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Matt Taibbi: We Knew the Iraq War Was a Joke
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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>Jeff Neumann and Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn, YES! Magazine</strong> Slavery made the US wealthy, and racist policies since have blocked African-American wealth building. Can we calculate the economic damage? This infographic makes the case for reparations.</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=iD60EV24CHa6wklLf1lYt7%2FH67eY1cPd"><strong>Kansas Could Lose Millions for Limiting Welfare Recipients to $25 at ATMs</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>Lindsay Wise and Dion Lefler, McClatchy Newspapers:</strong> A first-of-its-kind provision that prevents welfare recipients in Kansas from withdrawing more than $25 a day from an ATM might violate federal law, and could jeopardize the state's federal funding if not amended.</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=9slTC51d5pcpJy2QDQagyL%2FH67eY1cPd"><strong>Challenging Corporations' "Right" to Grow GMOs in Rural Oregon</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>Simon Davis-Cohen, Read the Dirt:</strong> Activists in Benton County, Oregon, have campaigned for a local ordinance that would elevate that right to local self-government above corporations' claimed constitutional privileges. The measure is being voted on today.</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=lTSbaaURIrQtXba10JuFH7%2FH67eY1cPd"><strong>Boatloads of Migrants Could Soon Be "Floating Graveyard" on Southeast Asian Waters</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>Kanya D'Almeida, Inter Press Service:</strong> Powerful emerging countries within range of the migrant crisis should use their naval capacity to bring desperate refugees ashore, but no government has so far demonstrated a willingness to do so.</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=ormudhxxDEAShVZLiMMc17%2FH67eY1cPd"><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=q3RF5KrDRVHYRmsjQFqXTr%2FH67eY1cPd"><strong>Guatemalan Domestic Workers Reveal a Dirty Business</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>Louisa Reynolds, Women's eNews:</strong> Domestic worker Fidelia Castellanos is fighting for better working conditions in Guatemala, where labor unionism is weak after the repression of workers' movements under the country's recent history of military dictatorships.</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=B9%2Fk99MHGRDlrOUwcQ5ID7%2FH67eY1cPd"><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=gkA67a8aC4uFc6VhY7gNo7%2FH67eY1cPd"><strong>The Poverty Machine: Student Debt, Class Society and Securing Bonded Labor</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>Jeremy Brunger, The Hampton Institute:</strong> The only way out of the poverty trap for many students is to become the very thing they were taught not to become by their parents and their professors: bonded servants, or "willing slaves of capital," as the economist Frederic Lordon calls them in his book of the same name.</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=hZF6hbEUl0ri1816ITHK%2Br%2FH67eY1cPd"><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=Z7SUKQ1pMzhX%2Bvm8RpHYkL%2FH67eY1cPd"><strong>Writing History Before It Happens: Nine Surefire Future Headlines From a Bizarre 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>Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch:</strong> There's a certain repetition factor in our increasingly bizarre world that lends predictability to the future. The key to such future stories is the lack of a learning curve in Washington, with the same policies applied again and again, usually with remarkably similar results.</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=4oheWHDosspXXvFrnAxBA7%2FH67eY1cPd"><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=6OnKsjFRjDyZrBe%2BK6%2FebL%2FH67eY1cPd"><strong><em>We Are Seneca Lake</em>: Josh Fox and Fracking Opponents Fight Natural Gas Storage Site in Upstate New York</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> Last Wednesday, Josh Fox, director of <em>Gasland,</em> was arrested along with 20 other people after forming a human barricade at a natural gas storage facility in upstate New York. Fox discusses the action and provides clips of his new documentary short, <em>We Are Seneca Lake.</em></p>
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