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February 1, 2020

How Chaos at Chain Pharmacies Is Putting Patients at Risk

Ellen Gabler New York Times

Pharmacists across the U.S. warn that the push to do more with less has made medication errors more likely. “I am a danger to the public,” one wrote to a regulator.

February 1, 2020

The Sanders Revolution in Des Moines, Iowa

Marc Kagan

Bernie's staff here says we knocked on 130,000 doors this weekend. I did about 250 of those doors, so do the math: 500 people like me. Possibly I’m just swept up in the moment, but it seems like a great social movement in the making.

February 1, 2020

If Democrats Want to Honor Legacy of Dr. King, Says Ocasio-Cortez, "We Have to Be Dangerous Too"

Julia Conley Common Dreams

Congresswoman from New York said Martin Luther King Jr. would disagree with establishment Democrats who believe "we can capitalism our way out of poverty."

February 1, 2020

US Navy’s Deployment of New “Low-Yield” Nuclear Warhead a Dangerous Step

Julian Borger The Guardian

Last December the US Navy deployed the new W76-2 low-yield Trident submarine warhead. Critics of the warhead say it accelerates a drift towards thinking of nuclear weapons as a means to fight and win wars, rather than as a deterrent of last resort.

February 1, 2020

The Long Arm of the Law: On the Rise of the Global “Good Cop”

Lyle Jeremy Rubin The Baffler

Protesters march against police brutality in Oakland, California.

Badges Without Borders is a book about America’s post-WWII “global transit of police ideas and personnel.” Its critical framework is indebted to a rich legacy of thought centering on the racist underbelly of the international economic order.

January 31, 2020

Friday Nite Videos | January 31, 2020

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The Times They Are a-Changin' | Bernie Sanders. Trump Forwards His Xenophobic Agenda. The Lost Neighborhood Under New York's Central Park. The First Rainbow Coalition | Trailer. Reflecting on Kobe Bryant.

The Times They Are a-Changin' | Bernie Sanders

January 31, 2020

Real change is all around us. Every conversation, protestor, canvasser, donation fuels this movement.

Trump Forwards His Xenophobic Agenda

January 31, 2020

President Trump plans to expand his infamous travel ban with the intention of cracking down on so-called “birth tourism.”

The Lost Neighborhood Under New York's Central Park

January 31, 2020

Before Central Park was built, a historically black community was destroyed.

The First Rainbow Coalition | Trailer

January 31, 2020

In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party formed alliances across lines of race and ethnicity with other community-based movements in the city, including Latino group the Young Lords and the southern whites of the Young Patriots. Check local listings on PBS.