Here's an Incredible Offer, Donald: Resign

[t]   Saturday, July 21, 2018 [t r u t h o u t] [View Recent Newsletters]( [Tell a friend about Truthout!]( [Donate Today!](   Truthout is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization; donations are tax deductible.   BuzzFlash Hamas: Deal Reached With Israel to Restore Calm in Gaza [Read the Article at Al Jazeera English](   Bannon Says He Will Set Up Group in Europe to Boost Far-Right Figures [Read the Article at The Hill](   Protests Continue to Rock Iraq as Rights Groups Report Beatings and Killings [Read the Article at Middle East Eye](   The Untold Ways Women Are Fighting to Protect Abortion Access if Landmark Roe v. 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[Read the Article]( [Five Steps Toward Ending the Black Homeownership Crisis in the US]( Teri Williams, Truthout: Homeownership among Black Americans is sinking according to a new housing report from Harvard University, which shows that only 43 percent of Black Americans owned homes in 2017 compared with 72 percent of whites. In the absence of leadership at the national level, here are some obvious tactical solutions we can implement to close the racial homeownership gap. [Read the Article]( ["This Is Zero Hour": Youth-Led Marches Across the Globe Demand Immediate and Ambitious Climate Action]( Jack Johnson, Common Dreams: Declaring that climate change is "an issue of survival" that must be confronted with urgency, young activists across the globe on Saturday kicked off three days of marches and demonstrations to pressure elected officials to safeguard the planet for both its current inhabitants and future generations. [Read the Article]( [ICE Was Designed to Terrorize Immigrant Communities]( Janine Jackson, FAIR: When we simply demand things like "family unity," what we get is family unity behind bars, says Jacinta Gonzalez, senior campaign organizer at Mijente. Movements now need to demand the abolition of ICE and decriminalization of migration while building alliances, particularly between Black and Latinx communities. [Read the Interview and Listen to the Audio]( [States Attacking ACA Would Suffer Most if Preexisting Conditions Shield Gets Axe]( Harriet Rowan, Kaiser Health News: If the Affordable Care Act's protections for people with preexisting medical conditions are struck down in court, residents of the Republican-led states that are challenging the law have the most to lose. Nine of the 11 states with the highest rates of preexisting conditions among adults under 65 have signed onto the lawsuit to strike down the ACA. [Read the Article]( [Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates]( Marshall Allen, ProPublica: With little public scrutiny, the health insurance industry has joined forces with data brokers to vacuum up personal details about hundreds of millions of Americans. Patient advocates warn that using unverified, error-prone "lifestyle" data to make medical assumptions could lead insurers to violate privacy laws, improperly price plans or discriminate against anyone tagged as high cost. [Read the Article]( [Using Dogs as a Tool of Racist Repression]( Alex Moyle, Socialist Worker: Like many aspects of modern policing, police dogs have their historical roots in slavery and colonialism. Throughout the country, police departments cynically exploit people’s love of dogs to make the abuse of human beings by police K9 units and the abuse of the dogs themselves seem acceptable, obscuring a mass of brutality, corruption and abuse. [Read the Article]( [I've Worked for Tips for 60 Years. DC Council Should Listen to the Voters Who Want to Raise My Wages]( Venorica Tucker, TalkPoverty.org: Even with tips, $3.89 an hour isn't enough to get by in Washington, DC. Many of the places where tipped workers are employed find ways to cut into paychecks, taking a percentage off the top. Some people still make good money, but many struggle. That's why some workers are pushing for the DC City Council to pass Initiative 77, which would raise the tipped minimum to match the actual minimum wage. [Read the Article]( [Want to strengthen Truthout and help us plan for the future? Click here to become a monthly sustainer.]( [The Newspaper Guild] Please add messenger@truthout.org to ensure you receive our messages Truthout is a proud member of the Newspaper Guild/CWA, Local 36047 [Subscribe]( | [Unsubscribe]( [Privacy Policy](