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(Photo: Getty)](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) by Astra Taylor An erasure of all student loans currently on the books, would be a significant boon to GDP, boosting the economy by approximately $100 billion a year for at least 10 years, yielding lower unemployment rates, increased spending, and more [] [] News... [] [On 'Hottest Day in History of France,' World Told 'Do Not Look Away' as Police Tear-Gas Climate Campaigners in Paris](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) [Activists with Extinction Rebellion pepper-sprayed by police as they occupied the Sully Bridge in Paris on Friday. (Photo: Extinction Symbol/Screenshot/via Twitter)](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer "Watch this video and ask yourself," said Greta Thunberg, "who is defending who?" --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Rising Enthusiasm for Medicare for All' Has Provoked Dramatic Surge in Industry-Backed Lobbying: Report](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) [m4a rally](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer An analysis published Friday by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen shows that "rising enthusiasm for Medicare for All has prompted industry to increase its lobbying against the proposal dramatically," suggesting that powerful healthcare interests perceive the movement to replace the nation's for-profit system "as a politically viable threat." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Privacy Advocates Celebrate as Massachusetts City Becomes Second in US to Ban Facial Recognition Technology](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) [a facial recognition system for law enforcement ](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Civil liberties advocates around the country celebrated after Somerville, Massachusetts on Thursday became the second city in the United States to bar local government—including law enforcement—from using facial recognition technology. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [Common Dreams is fueled by readers, like you. 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Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) take part in the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate on June 27, 2019 in Miami, Florida.](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) by Eoin Higgins, staff writer "Before these debates, the Democratic National Committee could say that this year would be different and there would be a meaningful debate on climate change. As of last night, they can no longer credibly do that." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rich Will Keep Getting Richer and 'Nothing Will Change,' Says Bernie Sanders, Unless US Leaders Have Guts to Take on Powerful Corporations](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) 1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk by Jake Johnson, staff writer "If we don't have the guts to take them on, we'll continue to have plans, we'll continue to have talk, and the rich will get richer, and everybody else will be struggling." --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) [] [] Views... [] [Who Can Afford a Green New Deal? We Can!](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) [Once seeing the Green New Deal not as a choice but an investment in life itself, funding streams appear that were before invisible—many wielding the power to make our economy fairer, too. (Photo: @skenigsberg/Twitter)](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) by Frances Moore Lappé, Zachary Field Let’s drop the false narrative of "unaffordability." --------------------------------------------------------------- [As Immigrant Deaths Pile Up, We Need to Find Our Moral Compass](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) [Rosa Ramirez cries when shown photographs of her son, Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramírez, her granddaughter Valeria and her daughter-in-law Tania Vanessa Avalos while speaking to journalists at her home in El Salvador on Tuesday. (Photo: Antonio Valladares / AP)](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) by Sonali Kolhatkar To Trump and his supporters, immigrants are not human --------------------------------------------------------------- [Over Two Nights, Democrats Start Building the Wall Against Trump](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) [Democratic presidential hopefuls (L-R) Former US Vice President Joseph R. Biden, US Senator for Vermont Bernie Sanders and US Senator for California Kamala Harris arrive on stage for the second Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, June 27, 2019. (Photo: Jim Watson/ AFP) ](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) by Michael Winship Who will rid us of this turbulent fake? --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Democratic Debate Report Card](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) [Democratic presidential candidates (L-R) former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) take part in the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate on June 27, 2019 in Miami, Florida. A field of 20 Democratic presidential candidates was split into two groups of 10 for the first debate of the 2020 election, taking place over two nights at Knight Concert Hall of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, hosted by NBC News, ](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) by Peter Dreier It's not a list based on preference, but an assessment of how they performed over the last two nights --------------------------------------------------------------- [Image of Migrants Should Stir Our Outrage and Our Compassion](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) [The deaths of Oscar and Valeria remind us of what we know and cannot forget: Our border policies have consequences. (Photo:Getty) ](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) by Juan Castillo As difficult as it is to see, we cannot and should not turn away. If we become numb to this, we risk losing our soul. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Supreme Court Refuses to Stop Partisan Gerrymandering](1f9d0/ct30_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) [By barring the federal courts’ oversight of partisan gerrymandering, the Supreme Court has made it harder to fight for fair maps. (Image: Circle Creative Studio)](1f9d0/ct31_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) by Yurij Rudensky, Annie Lo With the Supreme Court shirking its responsibility, other strategies for getting fair maps are more important than ever --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct32_0/1?sid=TV2%3AsHipR0COk) [] [] Newswire... 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