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A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) to view this message in a browser window. [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) [] News & Views | 7/4/19 [] Feature... [] [Trump Celebrates Himself on July 4th](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) [Members of the US military are seen next to a Bradley Fighting Vehicle as preparations are made for the "Salute to America" Fourth of July event with US President Donald Trump at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC, July 3, 2019, which will feature flyovers by the Blue Angels, an airplane used as Air Force One, as well as military demonstrations and a speech by Trump. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) by Medea Benjamin, Ann Wright This isn't the first time a U.S. president has militarized Fourth of July celebrations for cynical and political purposes, but hopefully it's the last [] [] News... [] ['Straight Out of Orwell': While Slashing Climate Regulations, Trump Plans Speech Touting His 'Environmental Leadership'](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) 1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB by Jake Johnson, staff writer Trump "plans to go on the offensive against criticism of his industry-friendly rollbacks of environment protections" in an address at the White House next week, The Guardian reported --------------------------------------------------------------- [Greta Thunberg Thanks OPEC Chief for Suggesting Climate Campaigners Pose 'Greatest Threat' to Oil Sector](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) [Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg turned to Twitter Thursday to thank a key fossil fuel leader for suggesting that climate campaigners—including youth who have joined the global "Fridays for Future" movement Thunberg inspired with her school strikes outside Sweden's parliament last year—greatly threaten the oil sector. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['A Brutal Violation of Press Freedom': Glenn Greenwald Targeted With Investigation by Brazilian Government After Reporting on Corruption](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) [Glenn Greenwald, founder and editor of The Intercept, gestures during a hearing at the Lower House's Human Rights Commission in Brasilia, Brazil, on June 25, 2019.](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) by Eoin Higgins, staff writer "Criminally investigating journalist Glenn Greenwald for reporting on corruption within the Bolsonaro government is a shocking violation of his rights as a reporter." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Biggest Earthquake in 20 Years Hits Southern California](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) [An earthquake hit southern California Thursday, centered in the town of Ridgecrest.](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) by Eoin Higgins, staff writer The 6.4 magnitude quake, centered in the southern California city of Ridgecrest, was felt 113 miles away in Los Angeles --------------------------------------------------------------- [Study Finds Holding Governments and Corporations Legally Accountable for Climate Crisis 'Has Become a Global Phenomenon'](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) [Youth climate activists](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer An analysis published Thursday details how lawsuits that aim to push governments to more ambitiously the address climate emergency and make polluting corporations pay for the damage caused by their sizable contributions to the global warming are growing in popularity around the world. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Monstrous': Trump Blames Migrants for Appalling Conditions at Border Patrol Detention Centers](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) 1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB by Jake Johnson, staff writer "It's hard to overstate the level of venality and depravity this man is capable of." --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) [] [] Views... [] [What Does It Mean to Abolish ICE?](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) [Abolish ICE means many things. Above all, it is a proclamation that a better world is possible. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) by Natascha Elena Uhlmann Our demand is not a return to the so-called civility of the Obama years, but an unapologetic end to an apparatus that preemptively criminalizes migration, and enforces a hierarchy based on the accident of birth --------------------------------------------------------------- [How Do You Celebrate a Flawed Nation?](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) 1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB by Jill Richardson To love America is to love the movements that have fought for centuries to make it better --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trouble at the Border](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) [We cannot prepare to kill others without first dehumanizing them. (Photo: flickr/cc/Takver)](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) by Robert C. Koehler It’s about a culture of militarism, which, unavoidably, equals a culture of racism --------------------------------------------------------------- [This 4th of July, We Will Still Hold Some Truths to Be Self-Evident](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) [Something about the commonality of simple summer joys being shared from generation to generation was oddly comforting.](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) by Donna Smith The promise of our shared interests in anything close to attainment of our declared values and reason for being is lost to us unless we all stand together --------------------------------------------------------------- [Progressive Patriotism for July 4](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) [Trump doesn’t understand that the ways Americans express their patriotism are as diverse as our nation. (Photo: Pixabay/CC0)](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) by Peter Dreier, Dick Flacks As both a candidate and as president, Trump has consistently confused patriotism and nationalism --------------------------------------------------------------- [An Open Letter to Randi Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers Regarding the Humanitarian Crisis at the Border](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) [That collective imagination, that boldness to dream, is exactly what is needed in this moment of national crisis when families and children are being detained at the border, kept in squalid conditions and held, in what Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rightly calls, concentration camps. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) by Eric W. Maroney Let us carry the torch reignited by the CTU and the UTLA to illuminate the collective imagination and the bold dream for justice --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3AYvq9cqisB) [] [] Newswire... 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