Author: Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole
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AIDS Activists to Paul Ryan: \”Your Budget Dreams Are Our Nightmare\”
Eleven AIDS activists were arrested Thursday afternoon while staging a sit-in at the office of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. They were opposing plans to dismantle the health care programs that people living with HIV depend upon.
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In The Basket Of Bad Trump Appointees, Jeff Sessions Is Uniquely Awful
People\’s Action and other groups call for \”uncompromising opposition\” to Trump\’s attorney general pick. “Our question for members of the United States Senate is simple: do they support racism, or do they not?\”
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On the Ground In Working-Class Pennsylvania, Signs That Voters Get It
A racially-mixed neighborhood in Lancaster, Pa., contains many residents anxious to vote and in particular to record their rejection of the policies that Donald Trump would promote if he became president.
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Fighting Racism to Build Solidarity With the White Working Class
Here\’s one example of how progressives in states like Maine are working to heal the divisions of wedge politics practiced by Donald Trump and by far-right politicians across the nation.
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Amid \”Men Yelling Indistinctly\” During VP Debate, Shards Of Substance
Tuesday\’s vice-presidential debate offered moments of real contrast between the America that works for all promised by Democrat Hillary Clinton and the alt-right and tea-party policies of a Donald Trump administration.
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Trump Dodges His Racist Past In His Latest Black Voter Outreach
Members of Michigan People\’s Campaign appeared during Donald Trump\’s visit to Flint, Michigan to demand he answer for specific instances of racial discrimination by him and his companies.
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A Day of Action To Stop An Oil Pipeline and \”Keep It In The Ground\”
\”Day of Action\” events around the country will protest construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, while a petition drive calls for a broader halt to oil extraction.
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Time For Obama and Clinton To Oppose The Dakota Access Pipeline
The confrontation over the Dakota Access Pipeline challenges President Obama, the Democratic candidate who is seeking to succeed him, Hillary Clinton, and Congress to be clear whose side they are on.
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Flip the Trump Script: Endorse The Movement For Black Lives Platform
A script prepared for Donald Trump for an interview about race with a Detroit pastor reveals his antipathy for even acknowledging the existence of systemic racism. The Movement for Black Lives agenda offers a contrast.
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Trump\’s Immigration \’Pivot\’ and the Effort to Expose It For What It Is
Trump is trying to have it both ways: Reassure his base that he is the same candidate who promised to kick out all 11 million undocumented immigrants while offering what sounds like more rational, realistic policy.