‘Say Her Name’: Rallies and Marches Mark One-Year Anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s Killing Common Dreams
Radical Anti-Racist Unionism Has a History in Bessemer, Alabama Jacobin
LAPD faces ‘post-Rodney King environment’ as scrutiny over George Floyd protests builds LA Times
Political prisoners
A former member of the Black Panther Party seeks parole nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder Washington Post
Arizona GOP lawmaker John Kavanagh says ‘quality’ of vote should matter Washington Post
Workers at Tate’s Bake Shop say management threatened to have them deported if they joined a union Daily Mail
#COVID19
The Differences Between the Vaccines Matter Hilda Bastian, The Atlantic
Yes, all of the COVID-19 vaccines are very good. No, they’re not all the same.
Owners of Hospital Conglomerate Made Billions as Health Care Workers Lacked PPE Truthout
What Happens When Investment Firms Acquire Trailer Parks New Yorker
The financial industry’s pursuit of profits from mobile-home communities is undermining one of the country’s largest sources of affordable housing. … There isn’t a single American state in which a person working full time for minimum wage can afford a one-bedroom apartment at the fair-market rent.
Why Bitcoin Is More Like a $100 Bill Than Gold Yahoo Finance
Cuomo
Cuomo Never Let Me Forget I Was a Woman Jessica Bakeman
China
Beijing’s Decades-Long Policies in Xinjiang, CIA Interference, Funding of Separatist and Terrorist Groups Oronoco Tribune
Foreign Correspondent: What’s Really Going on with China’s Uighurs? Reese Erlich, The Progressive
Antony Blinken, Biden’s Secretary of State, told a Senate committee that he agreed China was engaged in “genocide.”
But Zhun Xu, an associate professor of economics at John Jay College, says politicians are seeking scapegoats for serious U.S. economic and other problems. Creating or exaggerating human rights violations is one way to “play the China card,” he tells me in a phone interview from New York.
“There is bipartisan support to create an outside enemy,” he says.
Haiti
Haitian social organizations demonstrate outside the US embassy Peoples Dispatch
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