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Syris Valentine

Syris Valentine is an essayist, journalist, and fiction writer focused on illuminating solutions in a time of crisis. Through freelance reporting and independent writing for Just Progress, their blog and...

• EEUU experimentó un crecimiento asombroso en energía solar y eólica
• U.S. experienced staggering growth in solar and wind power over the last decade

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Yamazoe Taku

Yamazoe Taku is a member of the Diet, Japan's parliament. He is chair of the Policy Commission of the Japanese Communist Party.

• Japan aims to become major arms exporter; Communists slam government

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Yang Sheng

Yang Sheng is a chief reporter at the Global Times covering Chinese politics, diplomacy, and military affairs.

• Following U.S. lead, NATO war alliance puts target on China

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Ashley Dines

Ashley Dines is a mother of two, a parent leadership coordinator at the Children’s Cabinet, and an expert on poverty with RESULTS from Las Vegas, Nevada.

• Madre sin hogar pide crédito fiscal para inquilinos para que la vivienda sea asequible
• Homeless mother calls for renter’s tax credit to make housing affordable

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Juan Carlos Gomez

Juan Carlos Gomez is a senior policy analyst on immigration at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP.org).

• Dejemos de jugar a la política con las vidas de los inmigrantes
• Stop playing politics with immigrants’ lives

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Jovana Gec

Jovana Gec is a reporter at the Associated Press office in Belgrade, Serbia.

• 50 years after Yugoslavia protected abortion rights, that socialist legacy is threatened

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Darko Bandic

Associated Press photographer and bass guitar player, Zagreb, Croatia.

• 50 years after Yugoslavia protected abortion rights, that socialist legacy is threatened

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Lea Skene

Lea Skene is an Associated Press reporter in Baltimore.

• Cargo ship hits key Baltimore bridge, bringing it down

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Jawanza James Williams

Jawanza James Williams is a Black, radical Queer, prison abolitionist, socialist, feminist, Christian engaged in social critique, local, and state politics in New York. Originally from Beaumont, Texas, he is...

• Right-wing fever dream: New York’s bipartisan ‘law and order’ panic

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