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A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) to view this message in a browser window. [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) [] [] News & Views | 3/8/19 [] Feature... [] [Not Even One Republican Voted for Sweeping House Bill to Improve Democracy, Make Voting Easier](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) 1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3 by Jake Johnson, staff writer "Protecting our democracy shouldn't be a partisan issue, but the Republican Party has decided it is unwilling to even consider reform despite virtually all Americans agreeing that our system is broken." [] [] News... [] ['If We Stop, the World Stops!': Hundreds of Thousands of Spanish Women Take to Streets for Feminist Strike](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) [Students protest](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Hundreds of thousands of people across Spain marked International Women's Day on Friday with a "feminist strike," demanding stronger efforts to combat gender-based discrimination, pay gaps, and violence. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Nearly 1.4 Million Puerto Ricans Facing 'Dangerous' Food Stamp Cuts as Trump and Congress Fail to Act](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) 1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3 by Jake Johnson, staff writer "The fact that we've had to reduce benefits to those that need it the most is alarming. Puerto Ricans are being treated unequally and that is unfair." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump to Divert Up to $385 Million From Crucial Health Programs To Pay for 'Government-Sanctioned Child Abuse'](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) 1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3 by Julia Conley, staff writer Alzheimer's patients, lower-income preschool children, and HIV and cancer patients are among the Americans whose needs may go unmet so that the Trump administration can afford to detain thousands of migrant children. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Turning Its Back on Millions of Workers,' Trump Admin Moves Backward With New Overtime Pay Rule](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) [Trump with workers](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer After the U.S. Labor Department on Thursday unveiled a new proposed rule on overtime pay, critics accused President Donald Trump and his cabinet of "again siding with corporate interests over those of working people." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Elizabeth Warren Praised for Plan to Break Up Tech Giants](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) [Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveiled on Friday her plan for how to break up the nation's technology behemoths including Amazon, Facebook, and Google in order to boost competition and fuel innovation, and stop them from subverting democracy. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Citing 'Permanent Oil Price Decline,' Norwegian Fund's Fossil Fuel Divestment Could Spark Global 'Shockwave'](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) 1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3 by Jon Queally, staff writer In a move that climate campaigners say should send a "shockwave" through the global oil and gas industry, the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund—the largest of its kind in the world—has recommended the Norway government divest the entirety of the fund's $40 billion holdings from the fossil fuel industry. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [] [More News](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) [] [] Views... [] [International Women’s Day—A Woman’s Place Is Still in the Revolution](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) [Women remain at the forefront of the civil society movement, ensuring their rightful place in bringing about peace and building equality in communities at national and international levels. (Photo: John Flores/Flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) by Madeleine Zúñiga, Ema Jackson Now more than ever it is imperative that women are celebrated and elevated at the highest level for their immense contribution to shaping a world that is non-sexists, non-gender biased and unequivocally builds gender equitable systems for all --------------------------------------------------------------- [The 'We the People Amendment' Aims to Fix the Crisis of Corporate Rule](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) 1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3 by Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Greg Coleridge Because corporations are not people and big problems require bold solutions --------------------------------------------------------------- [Can We Divest From Weapons Dealers?](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) [Children in Street Kids School, Kabul, March 2019. (Photo: Maya Evans)](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) by Kathy Kelly Impoverished people living in numerous countries today would stand a far better chance of survival, and risk far less trauma, if weapon manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, and Raytheon stopped manufacturing and selling death-dealing products --------------------------------------------------------------- [Embracing Grassroots Feminism](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) 1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3 by Salena Tramel Feminism is inherently political and must not be viewed in isolation from other structural inequalities, including race, generation, and class --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Time for Medicare-for-All Has Arrived](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) [Doctors marched in New York in 2011 to demand health care for all. (Photo: Michael Fleshman / CC BY-SA 2.0)](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) by Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan It’s a matter of life and death --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Privacy-Focused Facebook? We'll Believe It When We See It.](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) [At the core of Zuckerberg’s announcement is Facebook’s plan to merge its three messaging platforms: Facebook’s Messenger, Instagram’s Direct, and WhatsApp. (Photo: Screenshot/EFF)](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) by Gennie Gebhart Above all, Facebook needs to be transparent about its business model --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiyfUyaOx3) [] [] Newswire... 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