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25 September 19
Bernie Sanders | The US Must Put Human Rights at the Center of US Foreign Policy
Bernie Sanders, The Houston Chronicle
Sanders writes: "When President Trump meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Houston, we will hear much about the friendship between the American and Indian peoples. However, there will be a deafening silence when it comes to a human rights crisis unfolding right before our eyes - and that is unacceptable."
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Bernie Sanders, The Houston Chronicle
Sanders writes: "When President Trump meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Houston, we will hear much about the friendship between the American and Indian peoples. However, there will be a deafening silence when it comes to a human rights crisis unfolding right before our eyes - and that is unacceptable."
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump Tuesday on Capitol Hill. (photo: Andrew Harnik/AP)
Pelosi Announces Impeachment Inquiry Into Trump Over Ukraine Scandal
Domenico Montanaro and Susan Davis, NPR
Excerpt: "After months of expressing caution on a push for impeachment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump Tuesday."
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Domenico Montanaro and Susan Davis, NPR
Excerpt: "After months of expressing caution on a push for impeachment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump Tuesday."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders. (photo: Mary Schwalm/AP)
Bernie Sanders Just Proposed the Campaign's Most Aggressive Wealth Tax
Daniel Newhauser, Vice
Newhauser writes: "If millionaires and billionaires are squirming at the prospect of Sen. Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax, wait until they get a look at what Sen. Bernie Sanders has in store for them."
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Daniel Newhauser, Vice
Newhauser writes: "If millionaires and billionaires are squirming at the prospect of Sen. Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax, wait until they get a look at what Sen. Bernie Sanders has in store for them."
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Migrant families are gathered inside the fence of a makeshift detention center in El Paso, Texas, on March 27, 2019. (photo: Sergio Flores/WP/Getty Images)
Immigrant Families Arrested at the Border to Be Sent Back to Mexico
Nicole Narea, Vox
Narea writes: "Starting next week, the Trump administration will begin sending most immigrant families arrested along the southern border back to Mexico to await their immigration court hearings."
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Nicole Narea, Vox
Narea writes: "Starting next week, the Trump administration will begin sending most immigrant families arrested along the southern border back to Mexico to await their immigration court hearings."
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Kaia Rolle was arrested for having a tantrum. (photo: Radharc Images/Alamy)
The Arrest of a Black Six-Year-Old Girl Exposes the Rotten Heart of US Policing
Arwa Mahdawi, Guardian UK
Mahdawi writes: "There is very little evidence that armed officers and stricter discipline measures have made US schools safer."
Arwa Mahdawi, Guardian UK
Mahdawi writes: "There is very little evidence that armed officers and stricter discipline measures have made US schools safer."
A girl was detained last week for kicking a school staff member. This reflects a zero-tolerance system that fuels the ‘school-to-prison pipeline’ and disproportionately affects minorities
black six-year-old girl called Kaia Rolle had a temper tantrum at her school in Florida last week and kicked a staff member. While that may not be ideal behaviour, she is six. Not exactly a hardened criminal, is she? Well, a school resource officer (a trained police officer who works in a school) called Dennis Turner would beg to differ. Turner handcuffed Kaia and arrested her on a battery charge. Turner also arrested a six-year-old boy in another, unrelated, incident on the same day.
The Orlando police department has apologised to the children and emphasised that Turner did not follow protocol. He was later fired. But make no mistake, what happened to these kids wasn’t just the fault of one bad officer; it was the fault of a rotten system. Over the past couple of decades, the US’s schools, particularly its public schools, have become militarised zones, patrolled by an increasing number of armed police officers. This has been coupled with a rise in zero-tolerance discipline policies that result in kids being suspended or expelled for minor infractions.
There is very little evidence that armed officers and stricter discipline measures have made US schools safer. There is, however, a lot of evidence that they are fuelling the “school-to-prison pipeline”, by which kids are pushed out of education and into the “criminal justice” system.
Not all kids, mind you. These policies disproportionately affect minorities. A 2018 governmental report found that, while black students make up fewer than 16% of US public school students, they account for 39% of suspensions. This has serious long-term consequences – studies show that kids who are suspended are more likely to be incarcerated as adults. So, don’t treat what happened to Kaia as an unfortunate accident. It was the result of deliberate policies.
Hani al-Bazoni, who was deported from the U.S. to Iraq under Donald Trump's strengthened immigration enforcement, shows a picture of his family. (photo: Reuters)
Iraqis Deported From US Face Fear, Isolation, Threats in Iraq
teleSUR
Excerpt: "U.S. congressmen, lawyers, and human rights activists say Iraq, still riven by sectarian divisions 16 years after the U.S.-led invasion, remains unsafe for returnees."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "U.S. congressmen, lawyers, and human rights activists say Iraq, still riven by sectarian divisions 16 years after the U.S.-led invasion, remains unsafe for returnees."
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The WECAN Indigenous Women's Tongass Delegation on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. (photo: Melissa Lyttle/Grist)
Indigenous Women Traveled 3,000 Miles to Save an Alaskan Forest From Trump
Nicole Javorsky, Grist
Javorsky writes: "In March, Wanda Culp and three other indigenous women traveled to Washington, D.C., from their home in Southeast Alaska, to meet with lawmakers in an attempt to persuade them to protect the Tongass National Forest."
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Nicole Javorsky, Grist
Javorsky writes: "In March, Wanda Culp and three other indigenous women traveled to Washington, D.C., from their home in Southeast Alaska, to meet with lawmakers in an attempt to persuade them to protect the Tongass National Forest."
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