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#ShutDownSTEM: Scientists strike, halt research to focus on Black lives
June 11, 2020The STEM academic research community held a work-stoppage in response to the mass uprising following Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and the countless other police murders.
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AFL-CIO recommends actions to end police racism
June 11, 2020Police must “use force only when necessary to resolve conflict and protect public and officer safety” and departments must ‘prohibit and regulate tools and tactics with a high risk of death or injury disproportionate to the...
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‘The Vote’: As if our lives depended on it, then and now
June 11, 2020The Vote, writer-director Michelle Ferrari’s history of American women’s struggle to win the right to participate in elections, is more than an excellent comprehensive history.
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Disastrous oil spill ravages pristine Arctic lake
June 10, 2020Environmentalists and local officials have raised alarms about the disaster, which they say is the worst of its kind in the Russian Arctic.
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‘The Ascent’: 1970s Soviet film affirms deeply human values in dangerous times
June 10, 2020The Ascent is not the type of movie you would expect about World War II—or the Great Patriotic War, as it was known in the Soviet Union where the film was made.
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