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Why India’s Farmers’ Protests Have Sikhs Fearing Violent Attacks

Sunny Hundal OpenDemocracy
In December, Indian farmers march to Delhi to protest recent legislation.
Since India’s farmers protests began last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s far-right Hindu nationalist government has tried to violently suppress them, revealing how close “the world’s largest democracy” is to becoming an authoritarian state.

California’s Essential Workers Get Bumped Down Vaccination Line

Mark Kreidler Capital & Main
A pharmacist fills a syringe to prepare a dose of vaccine for front-line health care workers in Torrance, CA.
Critics of California’s new age-based vaccination scheme say it defies the evidence that workplace transmission is a major source of the virus’s spread, and fear largely minority essential workers will fall even further back in the vaccine queue.

Slave-built Infrastructure and Reparations

Joshua F.J. Inwood and Anna Livia Brand The Conversation
Recognizing that enslaved men, women and children built many of the cities, rail lines and ports that fuel the American economy is a necessary part of any accounting for the legacy of slavery.

Friday Nite Videos | February 5, 2021

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Tidbits - Feb. 4, 2021 - Reader Comments: Biden and the Left; Trumpism as Fascism; Andrew Yang; Palestine Denied Vaccine; China; Myanmar; Jim Campbell, Presente; Lila Downs New Song; Reinventing Solidarity Podcasts; Radical Futures of Black History

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Reader Comments: Biden and the Left; Trumpism as Fascism; Andrew Yang; Palestine Denied Vaccine; China; Myanmar; Jim Campbell, Presente; Lila Downs New Song to Essential Workers; Reinventing Solidarity Podcasts; Radical Futures of Black History; more

Change Is Not Scary — The Present System Is

Judith G. Atkins Greenfield Recorder
If you have Medicare, you know you just have to give your provider your Medicare card and they will bill Medicare for your treatment. Improved Medicare for All would do away with the need for supplemental coverage and expand the services covered.