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Young people from California to Alabama are under threat from policies that require school staff to alert parents if a student identifies as trans. Yasemin Smallens Human Rights Watch #transrights #republican
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Along with the United States, Israel provided weapons and training to Guatemala’s military and their campaign against Indigenous Maya civilians from 1974-1996. Mary Jo McConahay #israel #Guatemala #genocide
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NEW: While the media fixates on anti-war student encampments, students are reminding them where their focus should be: On the U.S. support for Israel's genocidal war on Gaza that most Americans oppose.
IPS Newman Fellow Sarah Gertler in The Progressive: progressive.org/op-eds/america…
Taylor Swift and her beau, Travis Kelce advocate for the bare minimum. Yet, the far right thinks they go too far. Whose side is the NFL on? Dave Zirin
#TaylorSwift #TravisKelce #NFL #Election2024
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'Successful reintegration should not be measured by a lack of arrests but by the opportunity for human flourishing.'
Dream.Org's Lauren Johnson shares her story and the need to redefine recidivism The Progressive: do.dream.org/44GmsEj
An interview with human rights activist Maung Zarni.
'What we are seeing is rather unprincipled state behaviors, on the part of the veto power holders at the Security Council.'
Michelle Z Chen #genocide #gaza #palestine #myanmar
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To lower recidivism, we must strengthen support and services for individuals impacted by incarceration. Dream.Org Texas Center for Justice and Equity #criminaljustice #incarceration #addiction
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Despite inequality—and a history of state neglect and repression—new unions in the Central American country send a positive sign. Jeff Abbott
#Guatemala #unions #workersrights
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To remember Hind’s story is an act of resistance. Commemorating her short life builds resolve to confront profiteers who benefit from developing, manufacturing, storing, and selling the weapons that prolong wars Kathy Kelly
#GazaCeasefire #HindsHall
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The persistently high unemployment rate for disabled adults and the shabby treatment of a lot of disabled people who are employed reflects their value, or lack thereof, in a capitalist society. Mike Ervin #jobs #disabilities #capitalism
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Michael Oppenheimer, climate scientist at Princeton University, explains the importance of refusing fossil fuel money on all levels. Divest Princeton #FossilFuels
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Politicians like Nikki Haley will proudly bust unions. But the latest events at Boeing are a clear example of what happens when corporations don't listen to their workers.Sarah Jaffe #unions #Boeing Whistleblower #Boeing
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Joe Biden is far from perfect—and his handling of the genocide in Gaza is worth criticism. But he's better than Trump.
Wajahat Ali #biden #Elecciones2024
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College campuses are no place for politics and disruption, and streets are not places to protest deaths on the other side of the world.
#freespeech #GazaSolidarityEncampment #letgazalive
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Morgan Sanchez, #PublicVoices Fellow with The OpEd Project and San José State University, writes on how university presidents are using the police against peaceful student and faculty protestors and argues that students have the right to protest apartheid via The Progressive.
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'For young Jews like me, there’s nothing antisemitic about calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.' - Sarah Gertler
#CeasefireNOW #GazaSolidarityEncampment
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Here's a piece I wrote for The Progressive on why Biden is better than Trump even though he's failing on Gaza. There's no both sides here.
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University presidents are using police against peaceful student and faculty protestors. #CampusesSayStop #FreePalestine #GazaSolidarityEncampment
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The new McCarthyism has arrived on college campuses—and with it, threats to the freedoms to speak, teach, research, and assemble in protest Hank Kalet Rutgers AAUP-AFT Academic Worker Union & Rutgers AAUP-AFT Academic Worker Union_ptl
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Op-Ed on #NewMcCarthyism The Progressive cowritten w/Sean T. Mitchell & Rutgers AAUP-AFT Academic Worker Union & Rutgers AAUP-AFT Academic Worker Union_ptl progressive.org/latest/suppres…