21 Jun
Amy Goodman | ‘Dreamers’ Add New Chapter to Their Story
Thursday,
21 June 2012
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Samuel Alito with Chief Justice John Roberts.
Amy
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 AmyGoodman, Op-Ed: “Undocumented immigrants in the United States number around 12 million people, a group larger than the populations of most countries on the planet. Among those are as many as 800,000 young people who are now most likely eligible for limited legal status, thanks to executive action taken last week by President Barack Obama.” |
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 JackieWeidman, News Report: “Today the Senate rejected another attempt to block vitally important public health safeguards. Forty-eight Democratic Senators and 5 Republican colleagues voted against Senator Jim Inhofe’s (R-OK) Congressional Review Act resolution, S.J. Res 37, which would have blocked the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard. Forty-one Republicans and 5 Democrats voted for it to stop the mercury protections.” |
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Republicans
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 JoeConason, Op-Ed: “This week, Republicans on Capitol Hill opened yet another front in their continuous sniping against the Obama administration, the Justice Department and Attorney General Eric Holder. Having demanded a federal investigation of intelligence leaks, they now claim to be outraged because Holder has asked two United States attorneys to conduct that probe — and one of the two happens to be a Democrat.” |
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In
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 VijiSundaram, News Report: Because of the size of its population and the large number of its uninsured, California, more than any other state, has a “great stake” in the outcome of the Supreme Court’s decision, noted Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access, during a press conference June 19. He said the state has been “aggressively implementing” the ACA to maximize its benefits. About 50,000 Californians will lose health care coverage if the high court strikes down the law. |
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Deep-Sixing
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 FlyntLeverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, Op-Ed: “Since talks with Iran over its nuclear development started up again in April, U.S. officials have repeatedly warned that Tehran will not be allowed to ‘play for time’ in the negotiations. In fact, it is the Obama administration that is playing for time. Some suggest that President Obama is trying to use diplomacy to manage the nuclear issue and forestall an Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear targets through the U.S. presidential election.” |
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 SuevonLee, News Report: “The growth of the private detention industry has long been a subject of scrutiny. A recent eight-part series in the New Orleans Times-Picayune chronicled how more than half of Louisiana’s 40,000 inmates are housed in prisons run by sheriffs or private companies as part of a broader financial incentive scheme. The detention business goes beyond just criminal prisoners.” |
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Transfer
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 StephenPitt, Cartoon: Stephen Pitt is NationofChange’s art director. Stephen is a southern California artist whose work focuses on matters political, social, and economic. In 2004 Stephen began drawing and painting political imagery to communicate his sincere displeasure with disturbing changes set in motion by ideologues acting in bad faith. With a background in figurative drawing and respect for color, Stephen traded the 6B pencil for a digital stylus and went to work. Published by the San Francisco Chronicle and Z Magazine, Stephen’s work has since been seen on Truthout and Firedoglake. |
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 AmyGoodman and Juan Gonzalez, Video Report: “On Wednesday, 17-year-old environmental activist Brittany Trilford of Wellington, New Zealand, addressed more than a hundred heads of state at the opening plenary of the Rio+20 U.N. Earth Summit, the largest United Nations gathering ever. ‘We are all aware that time is ticking, and we are quickly running out,’ Trilford said. ‘You have 72 hours to decide the fate of your children, my children, my children’s children. And I start the clock now.’” |
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Juan
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 JuanCole, Truthdig Op-Ed: “The Syrian upheaval has gone through several stages. It began with relatively peaceful protests by crowds in a handful of small and medium-size cities outside the large metropolitan areas of Damascus and Aleppo. Severe repression by the national regime led some revolutionaries to turn to guerrilla tactics. The ruling Baath government subjected the quarters held by the Free Syrian Army to heavy artillery and tank assaults.” |
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Youth
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 SusanFerriss, News Report: “A group of Florida public defenders is asking a state court to remove and stop sending troubled juveniles to a privately run detention facility they claim is rife with abuses. A court filing disclosed Wednesday also accuses Florida juvenile-justice officials of lax oversight and asks the court to appoint an independent monitor to investigate the Thompson Academy, a 154-bed ‘moderate risk’ residential center in Florida’s Broward County.” |
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Day
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 Josh Harkinson, Special Coverage: “As we enter Day 277 of the Occupy movements the protests have spread not only across the country but all over the globe. Thousands of activists have descended on Wall Street these past weeks as part of the #OccupyWallStreet protest organized by several action groups. What follows is a live video stream and live Twitter feed of this event.” |
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Robert
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 RobertReich, Op-Ed: “The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the main regular of derivatives (bets on bets), wants to extend Dodd-Frank regulations to the foreign branches and subsidiaries of Wall Street banks. Horror of horrors, say the banks. ‘If JPMorgan overseas operates under different rules than our foreign competitors,’ warned Jamie Dimon, chair and CEO of JP Morgan, Wall Street would lose financial business to the banks of nations with fewer regulations, allowing ‘Deutsche Bank to make the better deal.’” |
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Notorious
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 InésBenítez, News Report: The closure of one of Spain’s eight immigration detention centers on Wednesday was celebrated by human rights groups, which for years have denounced the prison-like conditions in the centers. “We are pleased with the closure of the Centro de Internamiento de Extranjeros (CIE – immigrant detention center) of Málaga, and we congratulate all of the organizations that took part in the struggle to achieve this,” Mamen Castellano, president of the NGO Andalucía Acoge told IPS. |
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Puerto
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 GeorgeLakey, Op-Ed: “Radical activists often face a dilemma about how to relate to campaigns. Campaigns focus on relatively short-term and winnable goals rather than the fundamental change that we radicals long for. Sometimes we choose to hold ourselves aloof because we can see that stopping a particular environmental danger or human rights abuse doesn’t necessarily open the |
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