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  1. for 4 timer siden

    The idea that a person has to speak Spanish to be Latinx has not only some US-born Latinxs, but has also perpetuated the erasure of Native and Afro-Latinx populations.

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    Angre
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    By the time videos of cops kneeling with protesters were being shared as evidence of their magnanimity, they had been contextualized by far more videos of cops beating, macing, and ramming their cars into demonstrators.

    1 svar 21 retweets 40 liker
    Angre
  3. for 7 timer siden

    To get a sense of who Cohn was as a person, Meeropol interviewed dozens of his former friends and associates as well as journalists and activists, many of whom refer to him as “evil.”

    8 svar 20 retweets 64 liker
    Angre
  4. for 11 timer siden

    Unless we address the conditions of people who use drugs, people who are homeless, we’ll never rid ourselves of the coronavirus.

    3 svar 12 retweets 25 liker
    Angre
  5. for 11 timer siden

    While US militarization in Africa frames the black body as an “enemy without,” American policing deems the black body an “enemy within.”

    13 retweets 41 liker
    Angre
  6. for 20 timer siden

    Covid-19 has exposed the weaknesses in American society. The pandemic has also shown us that we’re only as safe as the most vulnerable among us.

    1 svar 20 retweets 43 liker
    Angre
  7. for 22 timer siden

    NYC's Department of Education botched the early days of the Covid crisis with fatal consequences—more than 70 educators died. As schools develop a plan to reopen, can they be trusted to get it right this time?

    1 svar 15 retweets 16 liker
    Angre
  8. for 24 timer siden

    "Making Juneteenth a federal holiday would be far more than a symbolic gesture. It would provide space for growth as a nation. It’s a day for celebration, but also a day for education." —

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    Angre
  9. 19. jun.

    “He could be hanging out with super right-wingers like Cardinal Spellman and then be taken seriously by someone like Mailer. Being so fluid, being a changeling, served him in the way that he moved through so many different worlds.”

    6 retweets 10 liker
    Angre
  10. 19. jun.

    "Long before the current recession, Covid-19, and a lynching caught on tape, black people in American had felt the pressure of economic inequality, health disparities, and a racist criminal justice system."

    4 svar 21 retweets 33 liker
    Angre
  11. 19. jun.

    Boston has taken a worst-of-both-worlds approach to drug users who are experiencing homelessness.

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    Angre
  12. 19. jun.

    The fact that Juneteenth is primarily celebrated by black Americans, and largely ignored by the rest of the country, is part of a larger problem, writes

    1 svar 32 retweets 85 liker
    Angre
  13. 19. jun.

    Violence is a constant embedded in a staggering number of American policies that protect the interests of a tiny but powerful portion of this country.

    3 svar 14 retweets 29 liker
    Angre
  14. 19. jun.

    Pence claims the pandemic is on its way out. The numbers tell a different story, both in and outside of prisons.

    1 svar 13 retweets 28 liker
    Angre
  15. 19. jun.

    The US military has inflicted some of the most grotesque forms of violence on Africans under the pretext of protecting Americans.

    3 svar 25 retweets 41 liker
    Angre
  16. 19. jun.

    "While African Americans know from experience that we must often work twice as hard to do half as well as our white neighbors, we also know that our communities have long been over-policed and disproportionately prosecuted."

    3 svar 12 retweets 16 liker
    Angre
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    19. jun.

    Like Paul Wellstone and Russ Feingold, Charles Booker is an insurgent grassroots candidate mounting a primary challenge to a well-funded favorite of Dem Party leaders. Like Wellstone and Feingold, can beat an incumbent GOP senator in November.

    3 svar 34 retweets 82 liker
    Angre
  18. 19. jun.

    Minneapolis is now considered a vanguard in the national effort to defund the police, and is its public school system led the way.

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    Angre
  19. 19. jun.

    Patent monopolies have fueled the drug pricing crisis, and they may block access to a future Covid-19 vaccine.

    8 retweets 11 liker
    Angre
  20. 19. jun.

    Marked by disease, endless wars, and a dying planet, the American empire is finally reaching its decline.

    16 svar 48 retweets 80 liker
    Angre

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