Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Jessica Corbett is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow her on Twitter: @corbett_jessica.
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News Monday, January 20, 2020 'Sit This One Out': FBI Slammed for Social Media Shoutout to Martin Luther King Jr. After the FBI took to Twitter Monday with a message that allegedly aimed to honor "the life and work" of Martin Luther King Jr., a chorus of critics promptly urged the bureau to "sit this one out," pointing to its history of spying on King and trying to convince the civil rights leader to kill himself. Read more |
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News Monday, January 20, 2020 Countering Annual Whitewash of His Legacy, Progressives Remember the 'Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Imperialist' Martin Luther King Jr. While the likes of President Donald Trump, right-wing Republicans, and Pentagon officials—in addition to many liberals—marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day with selective quotes and messages, progressives aimed to challenge their whitewashed narrative of the civil rights leader's legacy with detailed reminders of King's scathing critique of not only racism but also capitalism, militarism, and imperialism. Read more |
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News Monday, January 20, 2020 Blaming 'Flawed and Sexist' Capitalist System, Oxfam Report Finds 2,153 Billionaires Wealthier Than 4.6 Billion of World's Poorest "Economic inequality is out of control," declares Time to Care , a new report about global wealth inequality that Oxfam International published Monday, ahead of the annual World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland. Read more |
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News Friday, January 17, 2020 Millions Expected to Join Global Women's March to 'Act as a Catalyst for Political and Social Change' Millions of advocates for women's human rights are expected to take to the streets in dozens of cities worldwide on Saturday, Jan. 18 for the fourth annual Global Women's March. Read more |
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News Friday, January 17, 2020 Joining Thousands of Swiss Climate Strikers Before Davos, Greta Thunberg Tells World Leaders: 'You Haven't Seen Anything Yet' Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg joined thousands of protesters on the streets of Lausanne, Switzerland Friday ahead a summit for the world's business and political leaders in Davos that kicks off Tuesday. Read more |
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News Thursday, January 16, 2020 'Scale of This Failure Has No Precedent': Scientists Say Hot Ocean 'Blob' Killed One Million Seabirds On the heels of new research showing that the world's oceans are rapidly warming, scientists revealed Wednesday that a huge patch of hot water in the northeast Pacific Ocean dubbed "the blob" was to blame for killing about one million seabirds. Read more |
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News Thursday, January 16, 2020 Schumer Praised for Joining Sanders in Voting Against Trump Trade Deal That Ignores Climate Crisis Environmentalists and progressives nationwide celebrated Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's decision Thursday to vote against President Donald Trump's new trade deal because it ignored the human-caused climate crisis. Read more |
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News Thursday, January 16, 2020 Senate Urged to Convict Trump After GAO Says White House Broke Law by Freezing Ukraine Aid Sparking fresh calls for the Republican-controlled Senate to remove President Donald Trump from office, a federal watchdog agency announced Thursday that the White House violated the law by withholding congressionally approved U.S. military aid to Ukraine—a decision at the center of the impeachment probe. Read more |
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News Thursday, January 16, 2020 Standing With Labor, Farmers, and Climate Groups on Trump Trade Deal, Sanders Vows to Vote Against NAFTA 2.0 Sen. Bernie Sanders took to the Senate floor Wednesday to explain why he intends to stand with labor and climate groups in opposition to a major new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada ahead of an expected vote by the Republican-majority upper chamber Thursday to approve the deal. Read more |
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News Wednesday, January 15, 2020 Study Shows Being Rich Buys 9 Extra Years of 'Healthy' Living in US and UK A new study that highlights the serious impacts of wealth inequality in the United Kingdom and United States suggests that being rich can add about nine "healthy" years to a person's life. Read more |