Voices, The Peoples News
March 2, 2021
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Funders want to help ensure Native food sovereignty. Many in those communities want philanthropy to do better.
https://thecounter.org/philanthropy-acess-to-capital-native-food-sovereignty/
# Border / Immigration
A Demographic and Economic Profile of Undocumented Workers on the Pandemic’s Front Lines. These individuals are making sure that produce gets from the fields to our grocery stores and treating patients throughout the health care system; they are caring for our children and our grandparents and ensuring that the nation’s infrastructure remains safe.
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2021/02/18/495992/demographic-economic-profile-undocumented-workers-pandemics-front-lines/
# CoronaVirus
Death Rates Skyrocket in Israel Following Pfizer Experimental COVID “Vaccines.” Pfizer’s shot causes “mortality hundreds of times greater in young people compared to mortality from coronavirus without the vaccine, and dozens of times more in the elderly https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/death-rates-skyrocket-in-israel-following-pfizer-experimental-covid-vaccines/
Tanzanian President Says Citizens Will Not Be Guinea Pigs in COVID Vaccine Trials.
He said Tanzanians must not be used as guinea pigs in vaccine trials.
https://www.voanews.com/africa/tanzanian-president-expresses-doubt-coronavirus-vaccines
Johnson & Johnson vaccine could be a “game changer.” Here’s why a third option matters.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/j-j-vaccine-could-game-224439369.html
New York farm workers removed from vaccine eligibility without explanation. Despite being essential workers with a high risk for
Covid-19 infection, New York farm workers were not included in vaccination Phase 1B.
https://thecounter.org/new-york-farm-workers-removed-vaccine-eligibility-without-explanation-covid-19/
President Biden said that the United States will have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate all American adults for coronavirus by the end of May, crediting a “stepped up process” under his administration.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/541283-biden-us-will-have-vaccine-for-all-adults-by-end-of-may
# Economy / Trade
Progressives Won’t ‘Accept’ a Loss on $15 Minimum Wages https://www.thedailybeast.com/progressives-wont-accept-a-loss-on-dollar15-minimum-wage
Liberal senators and outside pressure groups are steaming over the Senate’s seeming failure to move a COVID-19 relief package with a provision hiking the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/541137-liberals-on-fire-over-failure-on-15-minimum-wage
Minimum-Wage Misfire Also Harms Disabled People. Bundled in the minimum-wage increase in the COVID relief bill was an abolition of subminimum wage for disabled people. That’s now gone too https://prospect.org/health/minimum-wage-misfire-also-harms-disabled-people/
Bernie Sanders to Force Vote on $15 Minimum Wage Amendment. The senator made clear that he will continue pushing to raise the federal minimum wage if his amendment fails to pass https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/541114-sanders-to-force-vote-on-15-minimum-wage-urges-democrats-to-ignore
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
Fractured, Part 2: The stress of being surrounded: Jane Worthington moved her grandkids to protect them from oil and gas wells—but it didn’t work. In US fracking communities, the industry’s pervasiveness causes social strain and mental health problems.
https://www.ehn.org/fractured-fracking-mental-health-toll-2650516366.html
The natural gas industry reveals its playbook for subverting local clean energy policy by pushing line-by-line revisions of proposed ordinances, activating customer opposition, and lobbying top state and local officials.
https://www.texasobserver.org/a-texas-city-had-a-bold-new-climate-plan-until-a-gas-company-got-involved/
When the Kids Started Getting Sick: After pressure from families, Pennsylvania has launched studies into whether fracking can be linked to local illnesses.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/when-the-kids-started-getting-sick
# Food / GMOs / Chemicals
Pandemic “doom shopping” is clogging up shipping ports. That means a lot of American food destined for export is getting stuck.
https://thecounter.org/pandemic-shopping-shipping-ports-american-food-exports-covid-19/
# Gov / Political
Supreme Court faces landmark challenge on voting rights. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday over a set of Arizona voting restrictions alleged to be racially discriminatory in a dispute that could set the most important voting rights precedent in nearly a decade.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/541107-supreme-court-faces-landmark-challenge-on-voting-rights
American opinions regarding Russia and China reaching historic lows:
Both pro- and anti-war voices have stated that the U.S. is on the cusp of entering a second Cold War, and a new Gallup poll suggests that the groundwork for such a conflict has already been laid.
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/540952-americans-views-of-china-russia-at-record-lows-gallup
Trump’s reemergence poses risks for GOP, media, exacerbates challenges for political leaders in both parties, as well as the media.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/541072-trumps-reemergence-poses-risks-for-gop-media
What if we replaced elected politicians with randomly selected citizens?
Congress would be made up of ordinary people, selected in lotteries, not elections. It’s an idea that goes back thousands of years—but is getting new attention.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90606492/what-if-we-replaced-elected-politicians-with-randomly-selected-citizens
The political fortunes of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) have dropped like a stone, and his decline is sharpening hard questions about the favorable image he enjoyed in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/541113-the-memo-cuomos-fall-raises-questions-for-media
The Biden administration on Tuesday is announcing new sanctions on Russia in response to Moscow’s poisoning and jailing of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/02/biden-administration-sanctions-russia-over-navalny-imprisonment-472397
Trump’s Strategy for Returning to Power Is Already Clear. The former President is positioning himself and his audience as the only true Americans https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/trumps-strategy-for-returning-to-power-is-already-clear
Biden’s Syria Attack: An Actual Impeachable Offense. President Biden should be impeached for his attack on Syria, as should have Trump and Obama before him.
https://www.eurasiareview.com/01032021-ron-paul-bidens-syria-attack-is-an-actual-impeachable-offense-oped/
Is mob justice now poetic justice? Obama’s “kill list” policy, reserved the right to unilaterally order the death of any American deemed an imminent threat.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/540820-is-mob-justice-now-poetic-justice
If Biden Wants to Protect Troops, He Should Bring Them Home, Not Bomb Syria.
Biden seems determined to continue the failed policies of his predecessors, regardless of their illegality.
https://truthout.org/articles/if-biden-wants-to-protect-troops-he-should-bring-them-home-not-bomb-syria/
In the Middle of a Pandemic, We Shouldn’t Be Funding a New Cold War With China The U.S. is in a crisis of the first order. Focusing on the wrong threats is the last thing we can afford now.
https://truthout.org/articles/in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic-we-shouldnt-be-funding-a-new-cold-war-with-china/
# Law Enforcement
15-Year-Old Dead After ‘Targeted’ AR School Shooting: “This was not random,” Pine Bluff Police Lt. David DeFoor told NBC of the shooting at Watson Chapel Junior High.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/progressives-wont-accept-a-loss-on-dollar15-minimum-wage
# Legal / Judicial / DOJ
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that officials have classified the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by former President Trump’s supporters as domestic terrorism.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/541185-wray-fbi-deemed-jan-6-attack-domestic-terrorism
Litigation Tracker: Pending Criminal and Civil Cases against Donald Trump https://www.justsecurity.org/75032/litigation-tracker-pending-criminal-and-civil-cases-against-donald-trump/
Pics Show Group of Men Watching Jan. 6 Riot From Memorial. The photos could bolster prosecutors’ claims that armed Trump supporters were ready to help take the building on behalf of the former president.
https://www.arlnow.com/2021/03/01/exclusive-while-the-capitol-was-stormed-a-group-of-men-gathered-near-the-marine-corps-war-memorial/
The FBI tracked down some of the Capitol rioters in truly surprising ways. When Maryland State Police arrested Daniel Egtvedt, the Capitol riots weren’t a part of the discussion. Egtvedt was arrested trying to stop an older relative from leaving home to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/capitol-insurrection-rioter-cases-fbi-search
# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
A former Food and Drug Administration chief scientist said there is “promise” in the medical benefits of cannabis components but that more data is needed.
https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pagopvideo/554799478.mp4
# Medical / Global
President Biden will announce Tuesday that Merck will help make Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, administration officials said, a partnership between rival companies that could help produce more doses.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/541165-merck-to-help-make-johnson-johnson-vaccine
# Other News
Messages Reveal Proud Boys Infighting: ‘Traitors Everywhere’: Members have been shaken by the number of arrests in the aftermath of the Capitol riot, as well as revelations about leader Enrique Tarrio.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/proud-boys-infighting-revealed-by-leaked-telegram-messages-claiming-traitors-are-everywhere?ref=home
FRATERNAL ORDER OF ALT-KNIGHTS (FOAK) Formed as the “tactical defense arm” of the Proud Boys, the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights (FOAK) has become an accelerant for violence at right-wing rallies.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/fraternal-order-alt-knights-foak
Proud Boys Infighting Sees Leading Member Form Breakaway Group to Fight ‘White Genocide’: Infighting has broken out between two leading members of the Proud Boys group, with one announcing he will be taking control of the far-right organization to address “White Genocide” and the “failures of multiculturalism.”
https://www.newsweek.com/proud-boys-based-stickman-enrique-tarrio-goys-1546597
The War Between the Rich and Super-Rich Over a Golf Course. A Chinese holding company run by billionaire Yan Bin bought the Wentworth golf club in 2015, spurring a backlash from its membership.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/mar/02/wentworth-golf-club-reignwood-yan-bin
# Science
What Are Sperm Telling Us? Endocrine disruptors are everywhere:
plastics, shampoos, cosmetics, cushions, pesticides, canned foods and A.T.M. receipts. They often aren’t on labels and can be difficult to avoid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/opinion/sunday/endocrine-disruptors-sperm.html
# Social
Did James Plymell need to die? Homelessness is criminalized in cities and towns across the West.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.3/north-law-enforcement-did-james-plymell-need-to-die
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