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t r u t h o u t | 08.19
Visions From the Inside: Detained Immigrant Women Speak Out in Letters and =
Pictures
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32413-visions-from-the-inside-detained-i=
mmigrant-women-speak-out-in-letters-and-pictures=20
Tina Vasquez, Truthout: News stories are one thing, but nothing paints a mo=
re accurate picture of the abuses taking place inside Karnes immigrant dete=
ntion center than the words of the women imprisoned inside. In a new projec=
t, activists and artists are centering these women's words to humanize the =
people being detained.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "The Plunder of Black Life Was Drilled Into This Country =
in Its Infancy"
http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/32420-ta-nehisi-coates-the-p=
lunder-of-black-life-was-drilled-into-this-country-in-its-infancy=20
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau: The plunder of Black life was drilled int=
o this country in its infancy and reinforced across its history, so that pl=
under has become an heirloom, an intelligence, a sentience, a default setti=
ng to which, likely to the end of our days, we must invariably return.
Ecological Burial Practices: Overcoming the Myth of the Infectious Corpse
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32417-ecological-burial-practices-overco=
ming-the-myth-of-the-infectious-corpse=20
Lorna Garano, Truthout: In her new book, "Greening Death," author Suzanne K=
elly explores the myths that drive many of our standard, environmentally da=
maging burial practices, explaining how embalming and encasing the dead in =
caskets have little to do with limiting health risks or ensuring adequate s=
anitation.
These Former Debt Collectors Decided to Ditch the Industry, Buy Up Medical =
Debt and Forgive It
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32423-these-former-debt-collectors-decid=
ed-to-ditch-the-industry-buy-up-medical-debt-and-forgive-it=20
Araz Hachadourian, YES! Magazine: Jerry Ashton and Craig Antico spent decad=
es hounding debtors to pay their bills - until an offshoot of Occupy Wall S=
treet inspired them to find a way to pay struggling people's debts themselv=
es. In the year since RIP Medical Debt started, the group has abolished jus=
t under $400,000.
Red Cross CEO Tried to Kill Government Investigation
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32408-red-cross-ceo-tried-to-kill-govern=
ment-investigation=20
Justin Elliott, ProPublica: Despite public vows of transparency, CEO Gail M=
cGovern lobbied a congressman to spike an inquiry about the Red Cross' disa=
ster work by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO inquiry co=
ntinued despite McGovern's appeal, and the agency's final report is expecte=
d to be released next month.
US Surveillance Targets Black Lives Matter Activists
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32424-us-surveillance-targets-black-live=
s-matter-activists=20
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Black Agenda Report: The Black Lives Matter movemen=
t is being taken seriously by those invested in political suppression throu=
gh fear. Through its surveillance program, the government seeks to instill =
fear into the Black resistance movement as it courageously raises the mantl=
e of liberation.
Rikers Killed Kalief Browder
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32411-rikers-killed-kalief-browder=20
Lee Wengraf and Lichi D'Amelio, Socialist Worker: Kalief Browder was held w=
ithout trial for three years in New York's notorious Rikers Island jail aft=
er he was wrongfully arrested at 16 years old. Enduring solitary confinemen=
t, torture and abuse, Browder took his own life after being released. His b=
rother, Akeem Browder, speaks about what his brother endured and the family=
's fight for justice.
Scientists Find Solutions for Antidepressants, Antibiotics and Other Drugs =
in Our Water
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32415-scientists-find-solutions-to-antid=
epressants-antibiotics-and-other-drugs-in-our-water=20
Elizabeth Grossman, Ensia: All indications are that we're just at the begin=
ning when it comes to understanding the presence and importance of pharmace=
uticals in the environment, let alone what to do about them. Even as societ=
ies make headway toward possible solutions, studies finding pharmaceuticals=
in the environment keep coming.
When Black Lives Matter Met Clinton: Activists Speak Out on Challenging Can=
didate Over Crime Record
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32431-when-black-lives-matter-met-clinto=
n-activists-speak-out-on-challenging-candidate-over-crime-record=20
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonz=C3=A1lez, Democracy Now!: Following a campaign ev=
ent in New Hampshire, a group of Black Lives Matter activists pressed Hilla=
ry Clinton to address her support of the crime bill that her husband, forme=
r President Bill Clinton, signed into law in 1994. That legislation led to =
the largest increases of federal and state prisoners of any president in US=
history.
Scott Walker Falsely Promises Racial Unity
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32410-scott-walker-falsely-promises-raci=
al-unity=20
Brendan Fischer, PR Watch: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is far from the only=
politician to avoid addressing race. Yet his tenure as an elected official=
has proven uniquely bad for people of color and, despite his talk of "unit=
y," Walker has long used race as a means of dividing the public.
Participatory Budgeting: An Economy for the 99%
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32428-laura-flanders-participatory-budge=
ting-an-economy-for-the-99=20
Laura Flanders, GRITtv: Can budgets and even the Federal Reserve be brought=
under public control? One radical tool for grassroots democracy that is ta=
king hold is participatory budgeting. GRITtv speaks to Josh Lerner of the P=
articipatory Budgeting Project and Connie Razza from the Center for Popular=
Democracy.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Structural Violence in the US Is Not Caused by a Few Bad Apples
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/it-s-not-a-few-apples-that-ar=
e-rotten-in-the-us-it-s-the-whole-orchard
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: The reality is that the bad apples in t=
he United States are born of the seed of toxic trees that are planted in th=
e culture of the nation.
State Inquiries Into Planned Parenthood Turn Up No Evidence of Wrongdoing
Read the Article at the Guardian US
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/19/planned-parenthood-video-inv=
estigations-wrongdoing?CMP=3Dema_565
Bernie Sanders Proposes to Boost Worker Ownership of Companies
Read the Article at Campaign for America's Future
http://ourfuture.org/20150817/bernie-sanders-proposes-to-boost-worker-owner=
ship-of-companies
Seventy-Plus Nuclear Non-Proliferation Experts Endorse Iran Agreement =20
Read the Article at LobeLog
http://www.lobelog.com/seventy-plus-nuclear-non-proliferation-experts-endor=
se-deal/
All Progressives Need to Embrace and Respect the Black Lives Matters Moveme=
nt
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/17/opinion/activists-feel-the-bern.html?_r=
=3D0
US Gets Trumped as Candidate Rises in General Election Polls
Read the Article at CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/19/politics/2016-poll-hillary-clinton-joe-biden-=
bernie-sanders/index.html
New Mexico Police Officers Ordered to Stand Trial for Murder
Read the Article at The Associated Press
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/314292e44c2943679ee9fea937eea539/defense-pol=
ice-made-split-second-decision-fatal-shooting
Chelsea Manning Unjustly Found "Guilty" for Prison "Contraband"
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/19/chelsea-mannin=
g-found-guilty-for-prison-contraband-vanity-fairs-caitlin-jenner-cover/
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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>Structural Violence in the US Is Not Caused by a Few Bad Apples </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>The reality is that the bad apples in the United States are born of the seed of toxic trees that are planted in the culture of the nation.</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=ef2C4DIkB2WnTG2eWuSTvYf1pnliqPYM"><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>State Inquiries Into Planned Parenthood Turn Up No Evidence of Wrongdoing</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>Bernie Sanders Proposes to Boost Worker Ownership of Companies</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=V%2FQwO01jgbrgP2wmT8oyy4f1pnliqPYM"><strong>Read the Article at Campaign for America's Future</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Seventy-Plus Nuclear Non-Proliferation Experts Endorse Iran Agreement</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=BXQa8sO%2BCMgk%2BrZSjDqSBIf1pnliqPYM"><strong>Read the Article at LobeLog</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>All Progressives Need to Embrace and Respect the Black Lives Matters Movement</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=k6PGnsYu7x5G5CNEA9uqk4f1pnliqPYM"><strong>Read the Article at The New York Times</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>US Gets Trumped as Candidate Rises in General Election Polls</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=e%2BDOmGVcb578d8sTV7p5pYf1pnliqPYM"><strong>Read the Article at CNN</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>New Mexico Police Officers Ordered to Stand Trial for Murder</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=gMl3CKrTP9r9MFWuUfSY1of1pnliqPYM"><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>Chelsea Manning Unjustly Found "Guilty" for Prison "Contraband"</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=yJnUr9trKSDb4veXhhl2CIf1pnliqPYM"><strong>Read the Article at The Washington Post</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>Tina Vasquez, Truthout:</strong> News stories are one thing, but nothing paints a more accurate picture of the abuses taking place inside Karnes immigrant detention center than the words of the women imprisoned inside. In a new project, activists and artists are centering these women's words to humanize the people being detained.</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=IT%2Fq%2FE0IlgCUZCBYZWiP9ZNiWFIQt0YD"><strong>Read the Article and View the Images</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=AHgH5c9jCfgBltupOXmZeIf1pnliqPYM"><strong>Ta-Nehisi Coates: "The Plunder of Black Life Was Drilled Into This Country in Its Infancy"</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>Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau:</strong> The plunder of Black life was drilled into this country in its infancy and reinforced across its history, so that plunder has become an heirloom, an intelligence, a sentience, a default setting to which, likely to the end of our days, we must invariably return.</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=BZhOj7Vn3NyFecPK26vFr4f1pnliqPYM"><strong>Read the Excerpt</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=VH8LOx7IYZqvsEJS45fRqof1pnliqPYM"><strong>Ecological Burial Practices: Overcoming the Myth of the Infectious Corpse</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>Lorna Garano, Truthout:</strong> In her new book, <i>Greening Death,</i> author Suzanne Kelly explores the myths that drive many of our standard, environmentally damaging burial practices, explaining how embalming and encasing the dead in caskets have little to do with limiting health risks or ensuring adequate sanitation.</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=ybrnAtjJtaAJ3F9OAmRD5of1pnliqPYM"><strong>Read the Interview</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=snbpQj2U882SCkPUxiHGZ4f1pnliqPYM"><strong>These Former Debt Collectors Decided to Ditch the Industry, Buy Up Medical Debt and Forgive It</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>Araz Hachadourian, YES! Magazine:</strong> Jerry Ashton and Craig Antico spent decades hounding debtors to pay their bills - until an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street inspired them to find a way to pay struggling people's debts themselves. In the year since RIP Medical Debt started, the group has abolished just under $400,000.</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=Lnv5YAYelc785EqJ%2F%2B4i5Yf1pnliqPYM"><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=IFYvgcL40lgGvzvxHITzc4f1pnliqPYM"><strong>Red Cross CEO Tried to Kill Government Investigation</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>Justin Elliott, ProPublica:</strong> Despite public vows of transparency, CEO Gail McGovern lobbied a congressman to spike an inquiry about the Red Cross' disaster work by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO inquiry continued despite McGovern's appeal, and the agency's final report is expected to be released next month.</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=NdzOhPHgUaESpF7qbiw%2B7If1pnliqPYM"><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=nnEiBtlHST8K08v%2F6hgKQYf1pnliqPYM"><strong>US Surveillance Targets Black Lives Matter Activists</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>Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Black Agenda Report:</strong> The Black Lives Matter movement is being taken seriously by those invested in political suppression through fear. Through its surveillance program, the government seeks to instill fear into the Black resistance movement as it courageously raises the mantle of liberation.</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=%2FW83lD59kMa66INJwyWvS5NiWFIQt0YD"><strong>Rikers Killed Kalief Browder</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>Lee Wengraf and Lichi D'Amelio, Socialist Worker:</strong> Kalief Browder was held without trial for three years in New York's notorious Rikers Island jail after he was wrongfully arrested at 16 years old. Enduring solitary confinement, torture and abuse, Browder took his own life after being released. His brother, Akeem Browder, speaks about what his brother endured and the family's fight for justice.</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=8BJOncNff6m7c3V4IbPxHof1pnliqPYM"><strong>Read the Interview</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=omeEdd8YsNqvB%2BgSE%2BFpVIf1pnliqPYM"><strong>Scientists Find Solutions for Antidepressants, Antibiotics and Other Drugs in Our Water</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>Elizabeth Grossman, Ensia:</strong> All indications are that we're just at the beginning when it comes to understanding the presence and importance of pharmaceuticals in the environment, let alone what to do about them. Even as societies make headway toward possible solutions, studies finding pharmaceuticals in the environment keep coming.</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=4rJYDdZibqhrt2W4tPEMLIf1pnliqPYM"><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=1pIsgp6MeypJob7TpaXzHof1pnliqPYM"><strong>When Black Lives Matter Met Clinton: Activists Speak Out on Challenging Candidate Over Crime Record</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 and Juan González, Democracy Now!:</strong> Following a campaign event in New Hampshire, a group of Black Lives Matter activists pressed Hillary Clinton to address her support of the crime bill that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, signed into law in 1994. That legislation led to the largest increases of federal and state prisoners of any president in US history.</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=A4RjkMrEgTpWZJX3JkHJxYf1pnliqPYM"><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=cGzWxqE0UClr4biRKnY4s4f1pnliqPYM"><strong>Scott Walker Falsely Promises Racial Unity</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, PR Watch:</strong> Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is far from the only politician to avoid addressing race. Yet his tenure as an elected official has proven uniquely bad for people of color and, despite his talk of "unity," Walker has long used race as a means of dividing the public.</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=zhVgybYz9ic08SWQ%2BFgNBof1pnliqPYM"><strong>Read the Article</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>Laura Flanders, GRITtv:</strong> Can budgets and even the Federal Reserve be brought under public control? One radical tool for grassroots democracy that is taking hold is participatory budgeting. GRITtv speaks to Josh Lerner of the Participatory Budgeting Project and Connie Razza from the Center for Popular Democracy.</p>
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