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Jan 8, 2025 | 
whatimreading.net | Tyler Walicek |Phil Lewis
By Tyler Walicek, TruthoutA major lawsuit has been filed by leading civil rights attorneys on behalf of the daughters of Malcolm X in an effort to litigate claims of state complicity in the 1963 murder of the Black revolutionary leader. The suit comes in the wake of a reinvestigation that led to critical exonerations of two of the alleged killers in 2021.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Tyler Walicek |Heather Vogell
The rent is, infamously, too damn high. That refrain has such staying power because the United States’s noxious rent crisis has shown no signs of abating, with rents rising over 30 percent since 2019. All manner of ill effects have resulted; the rapid simultaneous growth of the homelessness crisis is no coincidence. Obfuscations aside, the correlation there is quite direct.
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Jan 28, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Tyler Walicek |Samantha Borek
The Alabama Policy Institute wants to loosen child labor laws to address a labor shortage caused by too-low pay.
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Nov 19, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Ella Fassler |Tyler Walicek |Sharon Zhang |Zane McNeill
Every Wednesday night, members of Woodbine Soccer, a collective of soccer players, haul a generator, lights and goals to a local public park in Ridgewood, Queens. About 50 regulars of varying skill levels and backgrounds trickle in and we set up the field together for a few hours’ worth of scrimmaging.
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Nov 18, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Jessica Kutz |Tyler Walicek |Nicholas Powers |Kwolanne Felix
This story was originally published by The 19th. For the first time, a national climate assessment has included a section dedicated to women’s health and acknowledges that LGBTQ+ people are more vulnerable to the climate crisis. The Fifth National Climate Assessment was released Tuesday by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, a project mandated by Congress that aims to help the public understand climate change impacts.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Heather Digby Parton |Mike Ludwig |Henry A. Giroux |Tyler Walicek
He is planning to purge the executive branch and turn it into a patronage grift for cronies and sycophants if reelected. ByHeather Digby Parton, SalonPublishedNovember 13, 2023Former President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a campaign event on November 11, 2023, in Claremont, New Hampshire.
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Nov 12, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Tyler Walicek |Camilo Pérez-Bustillo |Donna Nevel |Michel Moushabeck
Part of the SeriesStruggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian LiberationAn incisive new report released by researchers affiliated with Rutgers University lays out in detail the many ways in which the U.S. political establishment has instrumentalized anti-Muslim bigotry and disingenuously redefined the idea of “antisemitism” in order to defuse criticisms of the Israeli government and justify dehumanizing policies toward Palestinians.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Tyler Walicek |Sabrina Fernandes |Kwolanne Felix |Mike Ludwig
The auto and steel industries of the last century once made Detroit, Michigan, a symbol of the U.S.’s domestic mass-production might. Yet they have left another legacy in parallel, one far more ignominious: the legacy of pollution and death, of poisons that to this day are still lacing the city’s air and water, leaching into the soil.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Tyler Walicek |Sharon Zhang |George Yancy |Zane McNeill
Across U.S. universities and workplaces, a growing number of dissenting voices have faced swift reputational, career and personal backlash after speaking out against the Israeli government’s retributive mass killing of Palestinians. The October 7 Hamas attacks indiscriminately killed over a thousand Israelis, many of them civilians.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Marjorie Cohn |Frances Madeson |Tyler Walicek
In their impromptu camp built in the median just outside Mexico City’s northern bus terminal, a group of Venezuelan migrants adjusted the plastic bags covering their tents in an effort to keep the rain out. It was a cold and wet night with the rains caused by Otis, the massive Category 5 hurricane that struck the state of Guerrero on October 25, reaching all the way to the Mexican capital.
