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Why We Must Protect Essential Workers From Billionaire Pandemic Profiteers

Billionaires are sequestered in protective bubbles and private jets while essential workers are without adequate personal protective equipment.
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Who Needs Zombies When We Have Republicans?

How else would you describe Americans who deny a pandemic that’s killed 250,000 people and the election that repudiated Trump?
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Don't Trash the Affordable Care Act—Expand It

Not even a raging pandemic stopped Republicans from dragging yet another effort to throw millions off their health care to the Supreme Court.
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The Return of the Goldilocks Apocalypse

There’s no returning to normal after Donald Trump.
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The Federal Government Owns 92% of Student Debt. Will Biden Wipe It Out?

Lifting these financial burdens would help individual debt holders meet daily needs, reduce the racial wealth gap, and give a boost to the national economy.
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Why Can’t Inner-Ring Democrats Just Say ‘No’ to Billionaires?

The problem runs even deeper than Donor Class donations.
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America Rejoins the World?

It simply doesn’t make a lot of sense to entrust leadership to a country with a severe personality disorder.

How Militarized Police and Fossil Fuel Corporations Are Criminalizing Protest

This new wave of anti-protest laws has emerged in the context of broader social justice mobilizations and demonstrations.

Reports and Resources

  • The Palestine Agenda & 2020 US Elections

    November 27 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm at Facebook Live

    A panel about the impact the US election will have on Palestine and the work for Palestinian rights in the US, part of the 13th Annual Convention for Palestine in the US under the theme "Against All Odds: Palestine Beyond 2020."

  • Music Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula

    December 14 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm at Online Zoom Event

    Hyung Joon Won will discuss how the power of music can help achieve harmony and peace between the North and South.

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