Award-winning Investigative Journalist Robert Parry (1949-2018)
Award-winning investigative journalist and founder/editor of ConsortiumNews.com, Robert Parry has passed away. His ground-breaking work uncovering Reagan-era dirty wars in Central America and many other illegal and immoral policies conducted by successive administrations and U.S. intelligence agencies, stands as an inspiration to all in journalists working in the public interest.
Robert had been a regular guest on our Between The Lines and Counterpoint radio shows -- and many other progressive outlets across the U.S. over four decades.
His penetrating analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international conflicts will be sorely missed, and not easily replaced. His son Nat Parry writes a tribute to his father: Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews.
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Between The Lines' coverage and resource compilation of the Resistance Movement
- "The man who predicted Trump presidential win now says Trump impeachment could happen," AM Joy with Joy Reid, MSNBC, Jan. 21, 2018
- "Sketchy Kazakh money finds its way into Trump dealings," The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, Jan. 15, 2018
- "Red flags seen in many Trump real estate deals," The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, Jan. 15, 2018
- "Secret Money: How Trump Made Millions Selling Condos To Unknown Buyers," BuzzFeed, Jan. 12, 2018
- "The Scandals of Donald Trump: Presidential Edition," The Atlantic, May 15, 2017
- "Here's what we know so far about Team Trump's ties to Russian interests," Washington Post's ongoing compilation
- "What Comey Was Investigating, Explained," The Moscow Project, Center for American Progress
- "Donald Trump's Financial Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Mobsters Detailed In Explosive New Documentary from the Netherlands," Dutch TV documentary, Alternet.org, May 12, 2017
- Ongoing compilation of Trump's creeping authoritarianism," MotherJones.com
- Full resource list ...
Selected speeches from the Women's March in Hartford, Connecticut 2018, recorded and produced by Scott Harris
SPECIAL REPORT: "No Fracking Waste in CT!" Jan. 14, 2018
- Jen Siskind Jennifer Siskind, local coordinator for Food and Water Watch, describes the campaign to stop fracking waste in Connecticut, which so far has led to fracking waste bans in 34 towns around the state.
Interviewed by Richard Hill on Mic Check, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT
SPECIAL REPORT: "Resistance Round Table: The Unraveling Continues..." Jan. 13, 2018
- Lindsay Kanaly
The panel discusses Trump's long history of racism and the Republican voter suppression juggernaut confronting Democrats leading up to the 2018 elections. Special guest: Lindsay Kanaly, a lead organizer of the Women's Marches planned for Jan. 20, 2018. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill on Resistance Roundtable, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT.
SPECIAL REPORT: "Capitalism to the ash heap?" Richard Wolff, Jan. 2, 2018
- Richard Wolff,
Economics professor Richard Wolff declares U.S. capitalism to be beyond repair and
suggests the need for a radical alternative. Interviewed by Richard Hill
SPECIAL REPORT: Maryn McKenna, author of "Big Chicken", Dec. 7, 2017
- Maryn McKenna, investigative journalist and author of Big Chicken, talks about the widespread use and dangers of antibiotics in commercial poultry, beef and fruit production. Interview by Bill Duesing, Richard Hill and Guy Beardsly on WPKN's Organic Farm Stand.
SPECIAL REPORT: Nina Turner's address, Working Families Party Awards Banquet, Dec. 14, 2017
- Nina Turner, president of Our Revolution, talks about the fight ahead for progressives as she receives the Working Families Organization Award for Exceptional Leadership Towards Advancing Progress. The event was held in Meriden, CT.
Produced by Richard Hill.
SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Dec. 12, 2017
- Working Families Party of CT talks strategy and issues for 2018.
Lindsay Farrell, executive director of the Working Families Party of Connecticut, discusses the state's electoral landscape and lays out the issues and strategies that could lead to progressive victories in 2018. Interviewed by Richard Hill.
SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Dec. 9, 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: On Tyranny - one year later, Nov. 28, 2017
- Professor Timothy Snyder, author of the highly acclaimed resistance manual On Tyranny,
discusses his book and offers a fresh assessment of the state of our beleaguered republic. Timothy Snyder, history professor at Yale, is introduced by Stanley Heller, administrator of Promoting Enduring Peace, a Connecticut-based organization that sponsored this event at the United Church Parish House in New Haven on Nov. 28. A brief interview with Snyder conducted by WPKN radio producer, Richard Hill, follows his talk.
SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Nov. 12, 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Nov. 11, 2017
- Focus on the Republican tax plan, the just-released autopsy on the Democratic Party, and Internet censorship by Google, Facebook and Youtube. Including an interview with Hilary Grant, a lead organizer with Action Together Connecticut, who discusses the local results of the recent election, with hosts Richard Hill, Scott Harris and Ruth Baumgartner WPKN producers
SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: Resisting U.S. JeJu Island military base in South Korea, Oct. 24, 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: John Allen, Out in New Haven
- John Allen, founding director of the New Haven Pride Center, Connecticut, talks about his new LGBTQ television show, Out in New Haven, which presents a range of political and cultural issues to the community. Interviewed by Richard Hill on WPKN's Rainy Day Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018.
Promoting Enduring Peace presented its Gandhi Peace Award jointly to renowned consumer advocate Ralph Nader and BDS founder Omar Barghouti on April 23, 2017.
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Between The Lines Presentation at the Left Forum 2016
"How Do We Build A Mass Movement to Reverse Runaway Inequality?" with Les Leopold, author of "Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice,"May 22, 2016, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, 860 11th Ave. (Between 58th and 59th), New York City. Between The Lines' Scott Harris and Richard Hill moderated this workshop. Listen to the audio/slideshows and more from this workshop.
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JEREMY SCAHILL: Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker "Dirty Wars"
Listen to the full interview (30:33) with Jeremy Scahill, an award-winning investigative journalist with the Nation Magazine, correspondent for Democracy Now! and author of the bestselling book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," about America's outsourcing of its military. In an exclusive interview with Counterpoint's Scott Harris on Sept. 16, 2013, Scahill talks about his latest book, "Dirty Wars, The World is a Battlefield," also made into a documentary film under the same title, and was nominated Dec. 5, 2013 for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category.
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This Week on Between The Lines
Posted Sept. 27, 2017 for week ending Oct. 6, 2017
"I think it's important for all people who are concerned, really, ultimately about human survival, to weigh in on our congressional representatives (and say), 'Look, the obvious way forward on this is to negotiate.'"
– Joseph Gerson, disarmament coordinator with the American Friends Service Committee, on Donald Trump's and Kim Jong Un's ratcheting up a nuclear war crisis
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Interview with Joseph Gerson, disarmament coordinator with the American Friends Service Committee, conducted by Scott Harris
Since Donald Trump threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea in a speech before the UN General Assembly on Sept. 19, the war of insults between the American president and Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un has intensified. After North Korea threatened to detonate a nuclear weapon over the Pacific Ocean, Trump responded with a tweet that the North Korean Leader was, “obviously a madman… that would be tested like never before.” Later, Trump tweeted that if North Korea’s foreign minister echoed the thoughts of president Kim in his UN speech, “they won’t be around much longer!”
Story continues
Interview with Chad Bolt, policy manager with the national Indivisible movement, conducted by Scott Harris
After Senate Republicans’ latest unsuccessful attempt to repeal and replace President Obama’s signature health care reform legislation, the Affordable Care Act, opponents breathed a sigh of relief. The third failed bill to repeal Obamacare, sponsored by GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy, would have ended ACA provisions mandating health coverage, insurance premium subsidies, expansion of Medicaid and protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Graham-Cassidy went down to defeat after three Republicans announced their opposition, preventing the Senate from using a time-limited rule to pass a healthcare bill with only a slim majority vote.
Story continues
Interview with Erick and Jason Ramos, sons of Giaconda and Franklin Ramos, who faced deportation order, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Before this year, most undocumented immigrants who have been caught up in the U.S. legal system for years or decades, were allowed to stay in the U.S. as long as they regularly checked in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, because they weren’t deemed a priority for enforcement. But under the Trump administration, many have now become targets for deportation. People who have no criminal record, are gainfully employed, paying taxes and integral members of their communities now face separation from their families by being forced to return to a country they haven’t lived in or visited for years.
Story continues
This week’s summary of under-reported news
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Compiled by Bob Nixon
- According to Foreign Policy magazine, Afghanistan’s Nimruz province is a case study of what went wrong during the 16-year US-led war in Afghanistan. After billions of dollars spent in aid, the province is still controlled by drug lords, smugglers, kidnappers and a corrupt military.
("On the Edge of Afghanistan," Foreign Policy, Sept. 12, 2017)
- Two months after the summer’s deadly fire at London’s Grenfell Tower, former tenant Tomassina Hassel and her son were living in a hotel along with other displaced Tower residents. Many tenants were not sure where they would find a new home in a community that had become gentrified, and was unaffordable to the working poor.
("Grenfell Fire Casts Harsh Light on London's Dwindling Low-Income Housing," Aug. 18, 2017, Christian Science Monitor)
- 20 years ago, Newton, Iowa was a blue-collar union town, home to a large Maytag factory, lots of good paying jobs, and a contract with the United Auto Workers. Employees there could look forward to a full pension upon retirement. Fifteen years ago, before the big recession hit and corporate mergers took its toll, 4,000 workers were employed by Maytag. But in 2006 when Whirlpool merged with Maytag the Newton plant was shut down, leaving the rust belt town in economic free-fall.
("When Green Jobs Come at the Expense of Unions," In These Times, Sept. 27, 2017)
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Sarah Anderson: Trump-GOP Supported Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Produce Jobs
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Norman Solomon: Democrats' Progressive and Wall-Street Friendly Wings Battle Over Party's Future
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Reed Miller: LGBTQ Prison Support Group Black and Pink Works to Empower their Incarcerated Members
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Carolina Borotolleto: Dreamers Mobilize to Save DACA and Resist Trump
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Angel Candelario: Fight For $15 Labor Day Protests Demand Living Wage and a Union
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Robert Buzzanco: Unchecked Development and Deregulation Exacerbated Hurricane Harvey’s Destruction in Texas
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John H. Cushman Jr.: Texas Flood Linked with Extreme Weather Patterns Long Predicted by Climate Change Research
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Bo Webb: Trump Suspends Funds for Health Impact Study of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
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Melinda St. Louis: NAFTA Renegotiation Must Prioritize Public Interest Over Corporate Power
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Mark Hertsgaard: No Institutional Safeguards Stand Between Donald Trump and Nuclear War
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Chip Gibbons: DOJ Demands Data on Visitors to Anti-Trump Protest Website
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John Jairo Lugo: Community Groups Join Forces to Make New Haven, CT a Leading U.S. Sanctuary City
August
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Rabbi Mordechai Liebling: Witnessing White Supremacy's Violence and Hatred in Charlottesville
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Naomi Ages: Federal Report on Climate Change Impact Leaked Before Trump Can Censor It
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Linda Sarsour: Women’s March Organizer on Effective Resistance in the Age of Trump
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Brenda Shum: Trump Department of Justice Prepares to Sue Universities Over "Discrimination" Against White Applicants
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Jesus Morales-Sanchez: Community Stands in Solidarity with Guatemalan Immigrant Under Deportation Order
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Hilary O. Shelton: NAACP Issues Travel Advisory for Missouri for 'Jim Crow' State Law and Rise in Hate Crimes
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Matthew Gardner: Trump Tax Cut Plan Would Benefit Wealthiest Americans
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Masada Disenhouse: Climate Activists Say California's Cap and Trade Legislation is Gift to Big Oil
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Josh Ruebner: Congressional Bill Would Criminalize Americans' Support for Israel Boycott
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Dedrick Asante-Muhammad: America's Growing Racial Wealth Divide Endangers Nation's Future Economic Health
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Steve Palumbi: Climate Change's Rising Ocean Temperatures Bleaching and Killing Earth's Vital Coral
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George Lakey: Scandinavian Economic Model Provides Blueprint for a More Egalitarian Society
July
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Tomas Lopez: Is Presidential Commission on Election Integrity a GOP Trojan Horse to Expand Voter Suppression?
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Stan Heller: Israel and Palestinian Authority President Impose Extended Power Blackout on Gaza
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Susan Rogers: As GOP Senate Repeal and Replace Bill Dies, Support for Single-Payer, Universal Healthcare System Grows
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Cassady Craighill: Protesters Demand G20 Nations Do More to Address Climate Change
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Toni Harp: U.S. Conference of Mayors Adopts Resolutions Opposing Trump's Military Budget Increase
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Annie Bird: DEA Lied About Deadly Honduran Drug Raid, Accountability Demanded
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Tim Shorrock: As Tensions Rise on Korean Peninsula, Newly-Elected South Korean President Seeks Diplomatic Thaw with the North
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Jeremy Brecher: Climate Activists Must Devise Global Strategy to Challenge Power of Fossil Fuel Industry
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Alka Pradhan: Trump Nominates a Bush Administration Lawyer Who Authorized Torture
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Gerald Friedman: Senate Healthcare Bill Will Cause 22 Million to Lose Health Insurance, Tens of Thousands to Die
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Andrea Flynn: GOP Senate and House 'Repeal and Replace' HealthCare Bills Attack Women's Reproductive Rights
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Mike Oxford: Disability Rights Activists Arrested in Direct Action Protest Opposing GOP's Deep Medicaid Cuts
June
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Morris Pearl: GOP House Guts Dodd-Frank Financial Regulations, Inviting Next Financial Disaster
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Alden Meyer: Climate Alliance Tells World: Trump Doesn’t Speak for U.S. on Climate Change
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Melissa Mays: Michigan State Officials Face Manslaughter Charges in Flint Water Crisis Deaths
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Mark Weisbrot: Labour Party's Jeremy Corbyn Surprises Pundits with UK Election Gains
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John Nichols: U.S. Progressive Movement Looks to Broaden Agenda Beyond Trump Resistance
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Lee Stewart: Coalition Demands Senate Block All New Nominations of Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioners
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Karen Orenstein: Trump's Rationale for Withdrawing U.S. from Paris Climate Accord Based on Lies
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Marc Mauer: Trump to Reinstate Drug War-Era Harsh Sentences in Federal Drug Cases
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Cathy Kennedy: California Senate Takes First Step Toward State Single-Payer Universal Healthcare
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Alex Lawson: Trump Budget Poses Grave Threat to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
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Ron Fein: Evidence and Momentum Grows for Trump Impeachment
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Cleve Jones: Lifelong Activist's Lessons Learned Fighting for Social Justice
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Marjorie Cohn: Evidence Mounts That Trump Attempted to Obstruct Justice In Russia Probe
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Kathy Kelly: Saudi Arabia Intervention and U.S. Arms Fuel Escalating Carnage in Yemen's Civil War
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Matt Remle: North American Indigenous Divestment Campaign Targets Banks Funding Tar Sands Crude Oil Pipelines
May
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Richard Wolff: French Election Highlights the Failure to Address Unemployment and Inequality
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Sahar Francis: Palestinian Hunger Strike Calls Attention to Human Rights Violations in Israeli Prisons
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Wendell Potter: Health Insurance Industry Supports GOP Attempt to Repeal Obamacare Protections
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Christine Ahn: Women Activists Call on Trump to Initiate Regional Peace Talks with North Korea
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Matthew Gardner: Trump "Tax Reform" Plan Revives Voodoo Economics
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Aaron Greenberg: Graduate Student Hunger Strikers Pressure Yale to Start Union Contract Talks
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Marcy Wheeler: Trump Prosecution of Julian Assange Would Pose a Grave Threat to Press Freedom
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Mark Weisbrot: Unemployment, Xenophobia Lifts Fascist Candidate to Final Round of French Election
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Dan Barrett: Connecticut Activists Work to Establish Effective Police Civilian Complaint Review Board
April
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John Feffer: Trump and Kim Jong Un Trade Threats Risk Triggering Deadly Conflict in Korean Peninsula
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Sara Shor: Opponents Vow to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline After Trump Grants Construction Permit
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Walt McRee: Leading Democratic Candidate for New Jersey Governor Calls for State-Owned Public Bank
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Paul Kawika Martin: Trump's Syria Missile Strike: Symbolic Show of Force or Prelude to Wider U.S. War?
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Debra Torres: CT National Popular Vote Activists Push for Legislation to Nullify Electoral College
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Dr. Sarah Evanega: March For Science Warns that Without Truth and Transparency, Authoritarianism Can Take Over
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Tim Donaghy: With Rollback of Obama Climate Regulations, Trump Declares War on Planet Earth
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Chris Calabrese: GOP Congress and Trump Strip Americans of Internet Privacy Protections
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Tony Ferraiolo: Connecticut Rally Demands Equal Rights for Transgender Community
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Carol Paris: GOP's Failure to Replace Obamacare Opens Space to Debate Medicare-For-All System
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Jim Dean: Progressive Groups Pressure Senate Democrats to Block Trump Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch
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Connie Leeper: Local and Climate Activists Unite to Oppose Atlantic Coast Pipeline
March
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Gerald Friedman: Economist: Under GOP Healthcare Plan, 24,000 Additional Uninsured Will Die Annually
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JoDe Goudy: Native Nations Rise Protest Demands Respect for Sovereignty, Culture and the Environment
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L.A. Kauffman: 40-Year History of Radical Activism Offers Useful Lessons for Today's Trump Resistance Movement
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Kevin Martin: Trump's New Travel Ban: Same Hateful Policy in a New Package
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James S. Henry: Links Between Trump, Russian Oligarchs, The Bank of Cyprus and Wilbur Ross Uncovered
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Linda Anderson: Keystone Pipeline Opponents Resist Trump's Construction Green Light
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Benjamin Schreiber: Trump and Pruitt Plan to Dismantle EPA Through Deep Budget Cuts, Staff Layoffs
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Shannon Jackson: Progressives Ponder Next Move After Ellison Loses to Perez in DNC Chair Election
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Julie Richards: Drug Addiction Plaguing Northern Plains Indigenous Communities Linked to Oil Industry
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Norman Solomon: Nationwide Effort to Impeach Donald Trump Launches with Petition Drive
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Matt Wood: New Trump FCC Chairman Aims to End Net Neutrality, Consumer Protections
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Fatima Rojas: Advocacy Groups Reach Out to Immigrant Communities Fearful of Trump Mass Deportations
February
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Allegra Chapman: Attorney General Sessions Must be Watched Closely for Biased Conduct
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Chase Iron Eyes: Opponents Prepare for Last Stand After Trump OKs Resuming DAPL Construction
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Leslie Cagan: Unity, Diverse Tactics and Local Focus Key to Sustain Anti-Trump Activist Movement
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Elliott Mincberg: If Senate Confirms Gorsuch for Supreme Court, Corporate America Wins, Workers Lose
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Carol Burris: DeVos Narrowly Confirmed by Senate, Resistance to Privatization of Education Continues
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Keishar Tucker: “Inside the Box” Project Aims to Inspire Movement to End Solitary Confinement
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Pardiss Kebriaei: Legal Challenge Temporarily Blocks Trump Muslim Ban
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Medea Benjamin: Do Massive Anti-Trump Protests Signal Rebirth of a U.S. Progressive Movement?
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Marc Mauer: Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform Efforts Likely to Suffer Under Trump