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Supreme Court Appears Ready to Overturn Roe v. Wade, Women’s Right to Abortion    

Interview with Jenny Ma, senior staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

Trump-Era Program Continuing Under Biden Threatens to Privatize Medicare

Interview with Kay Tillow, chairwoman of Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care, conducted by Scott Harris

After Years of Corruption and Violence, Hondurans Elect Nation’s 1st Progressive Woman to be President

Interview with Suyapa Portillo Villeda, associate professor of Chicanx, Latinx and Transnational Studies at Pitzer College, conducted by Scott Harris

This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – Dec. 8, 2021

Compiled by Bob Nixon

  • Trump ally undermines Biden diplomatic plan after Sudan military coup
  • Secretive, privatized prisons keep migrants out of Europe
  • Starbucks launches aggressive anti-union effort in upstate NY

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UPDATE to this week's Between The Lines Under-reported news story! Big win in Buffalo, NY for Starbucks workers this week.

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Roe v. Wade guaranteed a women's right to abortion while the pregnancy is less than the 24-week of medical viability (for a fetus). The Mississippi case seeks to limit those abortion rights to 15 weeks. If the Supreme Court rules in favor of this case, it basically ends Roe v. Wade. Some states have passed so-called trigger laws, which will enable abortion bans to go into effect as soon as the Supreme Court upholds the Mississippi law, if it does. #abortionrights
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This Week's Between The Lines:

• Center for Reproductive Rights' Jenny Ma: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Overturn Roe v. Wade, Women’s Right to Abortion

• Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care's Kay Tillow: Sounding the Alarm: Trump-Era Program Threatens Future Privatization of Medicare

• Pitzer College's Suyapa Portillo Villeda: After Years of Corruption and Violence, Progressive, Female Candidate Wins Honduras Presidential Election

• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Sudan security forces fire tear gas at march against military rule
- Secretive prisons that keep migrants out of Europe
- Starbucks launches aggressive anti-union effort in upstate NY

#EUmigration #Medicareprivatization #RoevWade #Starbucksantiunion
#abortion #abortionrights #honduras #honduraselection #hondurasfemalepresident #medicare #prochoice #reproductiveRights
#starbucksunions #sudan #womensrights
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1) Alison Gash, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon and Anne Rumberger, an activist with NYC for Abortion Rights and NYC-DSA, discuss their views on recent oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case and the widely shared expectation that the conservative majority on the court will overturn or severely erode the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing a woman's right to abortion.

2) Kay Tillow, Chair Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care discusses her group's concern re: the dangers of the Global Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) model, that's designed to privatize traditional Medicare -- and the measures that President Biden and Congress can take to stop this Medicare experiment that threatens the future of Medicare as we know it.

3) Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Associate Professor of Chicanx, Latinx and Transnational Studies at Pitzer College will assess the recent presidential election in Honduras, the historic role Washington has played in supporting undemocratic and corrupt Honduran regimes -- and what we know about the Biden administration's response to the election victory of progressive candidate Xiomara Castro.

4) Blair Bertaccini, a long time labor activist and former elected union officer in Connecticut, talks about his recent trip to Venezuela to observe that nation's November 21st presidential election won by incumbent Nicolas Maduro, the effects of U.S.-imposed economic sanctions and major accomplishments in building new housing.

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Dear Between The Lines Listeners:

Yesterday, #Gestapo and #DeSantis topics in Twitter were trending, apparently over likely 2024 presidential contender Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' latest proposal to create a private militia, which would be under his authority. This is the latest among many alarming post-Trump authoritarian moves he has attempted to enact — whether by legislation or by executive order — including creating a state law enforcement agency meant to target the sorts of trumped-up election issues former president Donald Trump and his allies still continue to perpetuate; banning mask and COVID vaccine mandates at the local level; or offering immunity to motorists who "accidentally" kill protesters blocking a street.

Nevertheless, DeSantis is just one of many operatives in a relentless Republican onslaught threatening democracy. The GOP have proposed 425 voter suppression bills in 49 states, passed 33 such laws in 19 states — making it more difficult for communities of color, young people and other Democratic-leaning constituencies to vote.

Democracy is seriously at risk. This week, Between The Lines' Scott Harris discusses a December deadline for voting rights legislation with Ben Jealous, president of People for the American Way. Jealous notes that voter suppression is not the only threat, but also election subversion — where some states are setting in place regulations that allow legislatures to overturn the popular will of the voters and winners of elections in the future.

Jealous urges your senators and President Biden to get behind the passage of these two bills:
• The John Lewis bill, which restores the power of the U.S. Department of Justice to stop bad redistricting plans and voter suppression bills before they take effect.
• The Freedom to Vote Act, which addresses laws already in existence — such as restrictions on Sunday voting or the removal of polling places from minority neighborhoods.

Jealous says: "We need both. One, if you will, prevents the next round of attempts to light the Constitution on fire and destroy our voting rights. And the other one puts out the flames that are that are currently burning in our democracy."

Here's a link to his interview
https://btlonline.org/december-deadline-looms-for-senate-democrats-to-pass-critical-voting-rights-legislation/

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