If Left Unchecked, Trump Will Obliterate the Right to Asylum

Sunday, July 21, 2019 [| Some stories must be told: Help us report on the issues that matter most. |]( [If Left Unchecked, Trump Will Obliterate the Right to Asylum]( Marjorie Cohn, Truthout Trump's new asylum rule undermines well-established law and prevents refugees fleeing persecution from receiving asylum. It is part of his administration's war on migrants. As Trump threatens to conduct mass raids inside the U.S., instilling fear and terrorizing immigrant communities, he is sending more troops to intensify his militarization of the southern border. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The U.S. Gave Slavers Their Land Back. What About Black Folks' Reparations?]( Taru Taylor, Truthout U.S. history, from 1662 until now, chronicles how white property rights have been used to deny Black human rights. The Crown of England and the white majority of people in the United States owe a legal duty of restitution to descendants of slaves due to slavery, neo-slavery and segregation. H.R. 40, the bill for a commission to study reparations, can help fulfill the promise of "40 acres and a mule." [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [1970s Activism Laid Foundation for Today's Prison Abolitionist Feminism]( Anton Woronczuk, Truthout In All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence, author Emily Thuma brings our attention to feminist movements in the 1970s that resisted the use of policing and imprisonment as a means to end gender violence. Thuma's book uncovers a rich history of grassroots activism that grasped how state violence caused harm rather than addressed it. [Read the Interview →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- We still need to raise more than $36,000 for Truthout -- can we count on you to get us a little closer? It takes less than 30 seconds to make a tax-deductible one-time or monthly donation, so please help our independent, authority-challenging journalism stand strong by giving what you can! [Donate Now →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: Trump's Agenda Is Driven by Racism]( Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) sustained her criticism of President Donald Trump's immigration policies and rhetoric on Saturday. Speaking in her home district of Queens to a crowd of over 200 people during a town hall, the New York Democrat ended her remarks by calling on constituents to "organize, organize, organize." [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Federal Officials Are Illegally Campaigning for Trump at Work]( Yeganeh Torbati, ProPublica Federal workplaces are supposed to be free of politics, but a Trump administration appointee used a government forum Wednesday to express support for the president's reelection. Though it's illegal for federal employees to engage in political activities while they are on the job, a trend may be emerging after the Trump administration took no action against "repeat offender" Kellyanne Conway. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How Corporate Journalism Is Normalizing the Concentration Camps]( Janine Jackson, FAIR More people are recognizing how journalistic framing can impede us from understanding reality and changing the world, says journalist Arun Gupta. This is evident in corporate reporting on immigrant abuses, where an overly legalistic approach prevents journalists from identifying concentration camps as concentration camps. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Which 2020 Democrats Are Taking Money From the Health Care Industry?]( Karl Evers-Hillstrom and Jessica Piper, Center for Responsive Politics Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) called on fellow Democratic presidential candidates to reject contributions from the health care industry last week. The Vermont senator's announcement came days after campaigns filed their second quarter finance reports, which showed that a number of the 2020 presidential candidates, including Sanders, had accepted contributions from health care and pharmaceutical executives. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bolsanaro Stands By as 20,000 Miners Invade the Yanomami Amazon Reserve]( Sue Branford, Mongabay Illegal goldminers have entered one of Brazil's biggest Indigenous reserves. The Yanomami say that Jair Bolsonaro's anti-Indigenous rhetoric and the administration's lax enforcement policies have emboldened the illegal miners to be more aggressive and threatening. Bolsonaro claims Indigenous people want mining and industrial agribusiness on their lands, but the Yanomami vehemently deny such demands. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- In Case You Missed It --------------------------------------------------------------- [We Got to the Moon. We Can Overcome War and Capitalism.]( William Rivers Pitt, Truthout I stand in awe before the moon. Though I am flush with the knowledge of what lurks behind and beneath our allegorical "greatness," that lunar light still remains to me a beacon of almost limitless possibility. We got to the moon -- we did that. Because we did, we can do other things, and perhaps snatch the meaning of greatness from those who have cloaked it in avarice, plunder and violence. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- ["Religious Freedom" Laws Are Unraveling Civil Rights as We Know It]( Stephanie Guilloud, Truthout While Trump keeps the world occupied with outrageous tweets, several states, with the backing of this administration and some help from the Supreme Court, have been busy dismantling decades of civil rights wins with "religious freedom" laws. When people are socially emboldened and legally protected to discriminate, deny and reject based on "moral convictions," we all have something to lose. 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