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Posted Jul 28, 2021
Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority Dealt Death Blow to Voting Rights Act
Interview with Steven Rosenfeld, editor with Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute, conducted by Scott Harris
Posted Jul 28, 2021
U.S. Drone Program Whistleblower Daniel Hale Sentenced to Nearly Four Years in Prison
Interview with Nick Mattern, co-coordinator of the group BanKillerDrones.org, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Posted Jul 28, 2021
GOP Politicians, Right-Wing Media Spread Covid Disinformation to Sabotage Biden Presidency
Interiew with Amanda Marcotte, a senior politics writer at Salon and author, conducted by Scott Harris
Posted Jul 28, 2021
This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – July 28, 2021
Compiled by Bob Nixon
- Pegasus Project: spyware leak suggests lawyers, activists surveilled
- Celebrating secession and succession in South Sudan
- American farm workers at risk in record-breaking heat
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Critical Race Theory in the Classroom & Labor’s Important Role Combating Voter Suppression
The Resistance Roundtable panel of Scott Harris, Richard Hill and Ruthanne Baumgartner speak with Harvard law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen, a contributing writer to The New Yorker. Gersen discusses her recent article, "The Importance of Teaching Dred Scott." Labor activist Bill Fletcher Jr. also joins the panel. He is author and co-author of several books, including: 'They’re Bankrupting Us' – and Twenty Other Myths About Unions.
A2: The reality is that if #S1 isn’t passed before redistricting, we run the risk of GOP legislatures gerrymandering maps so that many voters, especially voters of color, are effectively disenfranchised. #S1TownHall 1/2 https://t.co/zTTZ3gjtsH
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NEW: "A Moral Political Economy: Present, Past, and Future" by Federica Carugati & CASBS director @margaretlevi
Published in connection w/ @CASBSStanford's Creating a New Moral Political Economy program
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“Congress must be the backstop for the attacks on democracy and the right to vote. If Republicans remain opposed to policies that strengthen our democracy Democratic senators, including Joe Manchin, must do what is necessary to enact critical protections.” https://t.co/HKwbN0zRW2
The National Nurses United union is pleading that masks be “universal, in all settings, for all people, regardless of vaccination status.” https://t.co/mJDF0v2hvp
This is how far behind most of the country is: the picture below has gone viral today as Americans "discover" that all of Trumpworld knew violence was coming January 6. The investigation of January 6 by independent journalists has moved so far beyond "What did Steve Bannon know?" https://t.co/1DW8VqDvNs
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