Politics
Illinois Communists condemn Trump’s move toward guns and secret police
July 24, 2020“The City of Chicago is united in rejecting the provocation of the Trump administration in sending hundreds of militarized, highly armed secret-police gunmen into our streets in the midst of a public health crisis and economic...
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House votes to toss statues of rebels from U.S. Capitol
July 24, 2020The Democratic-run U.S. House voted to eject statues of Confederate leaders, plus racist U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, from the U.S. Capitol, especially Statuary Hall.
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Confederate statues are monuments to the ‘Lost Cause’ cult of white supremacy
July 23, 2020Confederate monuments are not memorials to fallen soldiers or to victims of war: They are intentional instruments in revisionist U.S. history pushing a sympathetic view of the Confederacy.
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People of color face mass homelessness as eviction moratoriums end
July 22, 2020Black and brown Americans—the very people who are more likely to succumb to coronavirus or lose their jobs because of it—are disproportionately on the brink of also losing the four walls that public health officials have...
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Black Women’s Lives Matter
July 21, 2020When Black women are killed, the ensuing protests—if they even occur—are tiny compared to when Black men are killed.
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