Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Jessica Corbett is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow her on Twitter: @corbett_jessica.
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News Friday, August 18, 2017 Al Gore Has Just One Small Bit of Advice for Trump: 'Resign' "If you had to give Trump one piece of advice, what would it be?" "Resign," said former vice president and environmental activist Al Gore, in an interview with the website LADbible . Watch: Gore's call for President Donald Trump to resign comes amid speculation that Trump will leave office early,... Read more |
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News Friday, August 18, 2017 ACLU Shifts Position on Defending Armed Demonstrations After Charlottesville The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) will no longer defend groups that insist on marching with firearms, following violent gatherings of white supremacists in Charlottesville , Virginia last weekend. "If a protest group insists, 'No, we want to be able to carry loaded firearms,' well, we don't... Read more |
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News Thursday, August 17, 2017 After Charlottesville, Republicans Defend Bills to Protect Drivers Who Hit Protesters Following Heather Heyer death on Saturday—killed when a suspected Nazi sympathizer allegedly drove his car into a crowd of people counter-protesting violent white supremacist gatherings in Charlottesville , Virginia—Republican lawmakers have doubled down on proposals that critics say offer immunity... Read more |
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News Thursday, August 17, 2017 Trump on the Brink? Impeachment Support Grows Amid Speculation He'll Resign As the majority of Americans and his own party denounce the president's response to Charlottesville, Democrats move to impeach him Read more |
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News Wednesday, August 16, 2017 Four Arrested for Toppling Confederate Statue, But Zero Neo-Nazis Yet Arrested for This Brutal Beating As communities across the United States enact or expedite plans to take down monuments revering those who advocated for white supremacy and slavery, police in Durham, North Carolina have arrested four people for their alleged roles in toppling a statue of a Confederate soldier. Meanwhile in Charlottesville, Virginia—where white supremacists and neo-Nazis violently demonstrated over the weekend—police have yet to arrest anyone for viciously beating Deandre Harris, a 20-year-old black man, even though photo and video footage of five white men assaulting Harris has been virally circulated on social media and televised news for several days. Read more |
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News Wednesday, August 16, 2017 Oregon Lauded as Progressive Model for Reproductive Healthcare Reform As Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed on Tuesday a law that bans state insurance providers from covering abortion, pro-choice advocates celebrated a bill signed by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown that proponents are calling the nation's most progressive reproductive healthcare policy. "There is still work to be... Read more |
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News Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Ignoring Threat of Rising Seas, Trump Eliminates Flood Risk Standards On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that reportedly eliminates flood-risk standards for federally funded public infrastructure projects—in a purported effort to expedite the approval process for projects such as highways and bridges, as part of his $1 trillion... Read more |
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News Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Ahead of Charlottesville, Trump Cut Funds for Group Fighting White Supremacy A few weeks before Heather Heyer was murdered and many others were injured after a coalition of hate groups gathered violently in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Trump administration—under guidance from trusted aides such as Katharine Gorka—revoked a $400,000 federal grant from a U.S. nonprofit dedicated to rehabilitating former white supremacists and other extremists. Read more |
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News Tuesday, August 15, 2017 'Shame! Shame!': New Yorkers Surround Trump Tower to Protest President's Return Protesters on Fifth Ave. in New York City shouted "Shame! Shame! Shame!" as President Donald Trump returned to Trump Tower Monday night for the first time since he took office in January. Thousands of people—and an inflatable rat designed to resemble Trump—filled the streets of Midtown letting the president know "New York hates you!" Read more |
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News Monday, August 14, 2017 Dems Demand Answers About FCC's Apparent Favoritism Toward Sinclair As the New York Times published a scathing new report detailing how Sinclair Broadcast Group "is ridding itself of regulation" on Monday, three ranking Democrats on relevant House of Representatives committees sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman about his agency's... Read more |