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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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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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In the streets and neighborhoods: Two component parts of the same resistance
June 10, 2020“I have seen the rich looting. They loot and get away with it because they are protected. Common people get blamed for everything that is wrong with this country. So it doesn’t matter how we act.”
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Voter suppression in Georgia portends catastrophe for November
June 10, 2020In the Georgia primaries, voters in African-American areas waited in line for hours, forcing many to give up in yet another GOP move to rig results.
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‘Justice for George Floyd’ petition sets record: 17 million names
June 10, 2020There are petitions, and there are petitions…and then there’s the petition by started by a 15-year-old Portland, Ore., girl.
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