‘I Got Him,’ Said Fired Atlanta Police Officer Immediately After Shooting Rayshard Brooks Newsweek
From coast to coast, protests against police brutality and racism are still going strong Vox
Thousands march in Minneapolis to oppose police crimes FightBack!
As Calls to Defund the Police Grow Louder, Joe Biden Wants to Give Them More Money. Intercept
A cosmetics company CEO has apologized for threatening to call police on a Filipino man who was stenciling “Black Lives Matter” in chalk at a home in a wealthy San Francisco neighborhood. It was his own home, and video of the encounter went viral.
The 1900 New York City Anti-Black Police Riot New York Almanack
Pentagon Surplus Handouts Stoke The Militarization Of US Police Barron’s
Union Pres Says Minneapolis Is Trying to Punish Transit Workers Who Wouldn’t Help the Police In These Times
Oluwatoyin ‘Toyin’ Salau, Missing Black Lives Matter Activist, Reportedly Found Dead NewsOne
Protest in a small town: Black Lives Matter comes to rural America — and it matters Salon
LGBTQ2S
Thousands rally for black trans lives in New York City Axios
An open letter to JK Rowling’s blog post on Sex and Gender, by Sophie Grace Chappell
Coronavirus
Public health workers fighting virus face growing threats AP
She Survived the Coronavirus. Then She Got a $400,000 Medical Bill. NYTimes
Record spikes in new coronavirus cases, hospitalizations sweep parts of U.S. Reuters
Arizona sees alarming surge of more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases daily Guardian
Indigenous Peoples
Hundreds rally in Halifax to demand justice for Indigenous people Saltwire
Cherokee Nation Removes Two Confederate Monuments from Its Capitol Square Native News Online
Capitalist crisis
There’s a Simple Solution to the Unemployment Crisis: Offer Everyone a Job Common Dreams
A Crash in the Dollar Is Coming Stephen Roach, Yale, former chief economist for Morgan Stanley
The world is having serious doubts about the once widely accepted presumption of American exceptionalism.
The Illusion of a Rapid US Recovery Project Syndicate
Labor
Alaska Air will cut thousands of jobs and shrink to survive downturn
Luxury Boston Hotel Lets Go Workers, Even As It Reopens
GM Rebuffs Union Request to Shut Plant Because of Covid Outbreak
China
U.S. Naval Buildup in Indo-Pacific Seen as Warning to China Time
A Black American woman in Hong Kong has been en mass harassed by HK people into cancelling a Black Lives Matter protest she'd planned in HK. They accused her of being "backed by the CCP," called her derogatory terms, & claimed BLM distracted from "HK Lives Matter." Her statement: pic.twitter.com/XjuidLVUQH
— Qiao Collective (@qiaocollective) June 12, 2020
‘All lies’: how the US military covered up gunning down two journalists in Iraq Guardian
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