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April 21, 2017

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Bernie: 'Our Job Is to Radically Transform the Democratic Party'. John Oliver | French Elections. Ode to Joy in Nuremburg. Dirt and Deeds in Mississippi. A Message to Trump from Climate Scientists.

Bernie: 'Our Job Is to Radically Transform the Democratic Party'

April 21, 2017

Even though he doesn't identify as a member of the party, Senator Bernie Sanders is on the road with DNC Chair Tom Perez.

Dirt and Deeds in Mississippi

April 21, 2017

The largely unknown and pivotal role played by Black landowning families in the deep South who controlled over a million acres in the 1960s. Available through California Newsreel.

A Message to Trump from Climate Scientists

April 21, 2017

Scientists at a national conference of the American Geophysical Union speak out.

April 21, 2017

Gorsuch's First Vote Hastens an Arkansas Execution

Nathalie Baptiste Mother Jones

Ledell Lee received "inadequate representation at every stage of his case."

April 21, 2017

Jeff Sessions Thinks Hawaii Is Not a Real State

Dahlia Lithwick Slate

There is a long, overtly racist history of discrediting the legitimacy of Hawaii’s statehood that Sessions has just tapped into.

April 21, 2017

Latest GOP Health Plan Is Comical, But Deadly

Eugene Robinson The Washington Post

A draft framework being circulated this week would pretend to keep the parts of Obamacare that people like, but allow states to take these benefits away.

April 21, 2017

Why Native Americans Do Not Separate Religion From Science

Rosalyn R. LaPier The Conversation

For many Native Americans, myth and medicine, religion and science, are not viewed as separate, but are interwoven into the fabric of our lives.

April 21, 2017

Lament

Debra Marquart New Letters

Earth Day on our minds, what can be more rueful than what's happened to the once-ignored state of North Dakota, fracked to its core? Poet Debra Marquart sings a lament.

July 31, 2013

Strike For Day Seeks To Raise Fast-Food Pay

Steven Greenhouse The New York Times

Fast-food workers one day strike spreads to many cities. Workers at MacDonald's, Taco Bell, Popeye's, Long John Silver's and other restaurants hold one day strike demanding higher wages.