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Despite Reforms, the Domestic Drug War Still Tears Immigrant
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t r u t h o u t | 07.02
Despite Reforms, the Domestic Drug War Still Tears Immigrant Families Apart
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31610-despite-reforms-the-domestic-drug-=
war-still-tears-immigrant-families-apart
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Deportations rates for even minor drug convictions l=
ike possession have spiked in recent years despite President Obama's promis=
e to focus enforcement on threats to public safety.
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ban Five
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-us-cuban-relations-thoughts-from-the-cuban-five
Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: As the United States and Cuba announce they will o=
pen embassies in each other's countries, the author interviews Ren=C3=A9 Go=
nz=C3=A1lez and Antonio Guerrero, members of the "Cuban Five," whose releas=
e from US prison was critical to the historic d=C3=A9tente.
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hite Communities
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e discusses how the group is building a multi-racial, cross-class movement =
that makes racial justice a sustained priority for the Jewish community.
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f the Syriza-led government in Greece, analyzes Syriza's failure to stand u=
p adequately to the troika's demands and proposes a referendum that would p=
lace the issue of Greece's eurozone membership on the table.
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m
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the men who would rescue her. Qayyum's case reveals the heady mixture of e=
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y the all-female cadres of extremist groups. The ironies of the case are wo=
rth examining.
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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>Dean Baker, The Center for Economic and Policy Research:</strong> The Labor Department reported that the economy added 223,000 jobs in June. While this was in line with most economists' predictions, there were downward revisions of 60,000 to the data for the prior two months.</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>Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!:</strong> The FBI is launching an investigation into fires set at seven different African-American churches in seven days. So far none of the blazes have been labeled as hate crimes, but investigators say at least three fires were caused by arson.</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=01KHN%2FCgqXmnoKXo5mlPywvgxtMqTsq8"><strong>How the Pope Is Revving Up Climate Action in LA's Most Polluted Neighborhood</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>Jasmine Aguilera, YES! Magazine:</strong> After the June 18 release of "Laudato Si," Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment and humanity's responsibility to protect it, young Catholics decided to host a rally to spread awareness of climate change's effect on the poor, particularly Latinos in Southern California.</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=kp%2F3YRGR%2B9GIlxbhNMg13KO59ii%2FyxVc"><strong>Superpower Conundrum: The Rise and Fall of Just About Everything</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> Take a slow train - that is, any train anywhere in the US and then take a high-speed train anywhere else on Earth, and it's not hard to understand that the US is in decline.</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=lsAP9v2zzEO9DVAz9YsiwgvgxtMqTsq8"><strong>Supreme Court Ruling on Housing May Strengthen Broader Anti-Discrimination Efforts</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>Laura Finley, PeaceVoice:</strong> One decision that did not receive as much attention but that is tremendously important, is the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision that housing segregation, even if done unintentionally, violates the Fair Housing Act. The court affirmed that "disparate impact claims" about housing are legitimate.</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>Simon Davis-Cohen, Read the Dirt:</strong> Make the Road New York is a membership-based grassroots immigrant organization that leads and supports local lawmaking efforts. The group's co-executive director, Deborah Axt, discusses the rising tide of local law making in the United States.</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=V8Jss8MM5LcHcrNApGUe%2BAvgxtMqTsq8"><strong>Read the Interview</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>Cezary Podkul, ProPublica:</strong> Now that Chris Christie is officially running for president, his record as governor of New Jersey will be getting a lot more scrutiny. Christie pledges to "tell it like it is," but his fiscal record and rhetoric don't line up.</p>
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