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  Chomsky: Trump Has Adopted a “Viva Death!” Approach to the Presidency

  The protests are not just calling for an end to police brutality in Black communities, but for much more fundamental restructuring of social and economic institutions
• Ward: Not So Young, Gifted, and Black

  It is time to put words into action. Don’t ask what you should do. Just do something. This is the information age. There is no excuse for inaction
• Ludwig: Uprisings Are Driving a Surge in Mutual Aid in Minneapolis and Beyond

  “This is a hard reset, and young people are not going to allow us to go back to the way things were, because they understand that it’s not working”
• Sims: “We Need You to Fight for Us to Breathe”

  Organized labor is a direct threat to white supremacy. We need to put that threat into action
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  Kolhatkar: Police Violence Is Enabled by ‘Liberal’ Politicians’ Massive Spending

  George Floyd’s death proves again why America needs to defund bloated and militarized police departments
• Sirota: 10 Things Democrats Could Do If They Actually Wanted to Stop Trump’s Power Grab

  Democrats have done a miserable job of acting as an opposition party to Trump — but not because they don't have significant power to halt his authoritarianism
• Morrissey: The COVID-19 Exposure

  We must renew efforts to document the rapacious and unsustainable destructiveness of the capitalist web of life, and we must argue convincingly for other ways of living
• Risen: Donald Trump Is an Autocrat. It’s Up to All of Us to Stop Him

  I have a question for American leftists: Do you finally see the difference between the Democrats and Donald Trump?
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  Grim: Insurgent Candidates Scored Big Victories in Down-Ballot Elections

  From New Mexico to Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., progressive challengers to Democratic incumbents scored a series of victories on Tuesday night, continuing to grind out an insurgency that in just a few years has dramatically reshaped the politics of the Democratic Party
• Hauss: Police are Attacking Journalists at Protests

  We are facing a full-scale assault on the First Amendment freedom of the press
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  Dolan: Trump’s War on the Hungry

  The Trump administration has waged war on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, commonly called food stamps
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  Baker: Employment Jumps 2.5 Million in May, as Unemployment Falls to 13.3 Percent

  Seventy-three percent of the unemployed report being on temporary layoff
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  Alperovitz: “The old ideas are collapsing”

  Interview on crisis, community ownership and the next system
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  Rojas: America has its knee on the necks of Black & Brown People

  Our struggles moving forward must be guided by the principles of “nonviolent revolution” and inspired by all our fallen ancestors who gave their lives in the fight to liberate Black and Brown people here and around the world
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  Elbaum: Black America: Beyond 1968 This Time

  The building blocks for a Third Reconstruction that cuts deeper into every unjust structure in the country are in place. Black America is leading the charge that can propel us all into a new and better era
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  Cole: Remembering Big Floyd the Artist and Dreams of Transcendence

  Long before he uttered those fateful words during his last moments, “I can’t breathe,” his lyrics were already expressing the same sentiment.
• Contributors: Solidarity means dismantling the system everywhere

  Co-authors include: Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Aruna Roy, Elizabeth Gómez, Alcorta Ece, Temelkuran Renata Avila, and others
• Shahrigian: De Blasio Staffers Demand `Radical Change from Mayor’ in Open Letter

  Two-hundred thirty-six current and former staffers for Mayor de Blasio signed an open letter calling on him to live up to the promises of reform that initially drew them to work for him. One demand is to cut the $6 billion police budget by 1/6
• Lindorff: Urban Poor Lose Fear and Release Pent-Up Rage

  The torching of our cities, and the looting of the malls is what is really sending the message that we’re “all in this together,” by making it clear that if this country continues down its current path towards ever increasing racial and economic inequality, no one, regardless of their wealth and power, will escape the consequences
• Timm: Police — Not Protesters — Are Overwhelmingly Responsible for Attacking Journalists

  We are witnessing a truly unprecedented attack on press freedom in the United States, with journalists being systematically targeted while covering the nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd
• Zimet: Bible-brandishing Con

  “That’s what it was for - to clear the patio so that man could stand (there) with a Bible. They turned holy ground into a battleground.”
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  Street: Dear History Students

  Their violence was unprovoked. There had been no violence from or by the protesters. Anyone who dares call it a riot needs to be clear: it was strictly a police riot.