Voices, The Peoples News
July 27, 2021
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# Indigenous
Standing Rock activists hold event to call on Biden to shut down DAPL https://indiancountrytoday.com/the-press-pool/standing-rock-activists-hold-event-to-call-on-biden-to-shut-down-dapl
How the women of Standing Rock inspired the world. “A nation isn’t defeated until the hearts of the women are on the ground.”
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2021/07/26/women-of-standing-rock
# Border / Immigration
Texas begins jailing border crossers on trespassing charges | 22 July
2021 | Texas is beginning to arrest migrants on trespassing charges along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s actions that he says are needed to slow the number of border crossings
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-texas-immigration-c33939110eff92670d1d2b5488181bb0
Two El Paso-area Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities are seeing new large outbreaks in COVID-19 cases among detained migrants.
https://elpasomatters.org/2021/07/22/covid-cases-surge-at-el-paso-ice-detention-facilities/
‘Vile’: Biden DHS to Turn Away Migrant Families Under ‘Expedited Removal’ Policy “This administration continues to seek efficiency over safety and due process for migrant families.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/27/vile-biden-dhs-turn-away-migrant-families-under-expedited-removal-policy
# CoronaVirus
Nonprofit Sues HHS to Immediately Stop Emergency Use Authorization of
COVID-19 Vaccines
https://www.theepochtimes.com/nonprofit-sues-hhs-to-immediately-stop-emergency-use-authorization-of-covid-19-vaccine_3913266.html
California city wants vaccinated employees to put stickers on their IDs.
City employees in Montclair who want to work without a mask will need to have sticker on their ID badge starting Monday.
https://www.sbsun.com/2021/07/21/montclair-wants-vaccinated-employees-to-put-stickers-on-their-ids/
These US cities, government agencies have implemented COVID-19 vaccine mandates https://nypost.com/2021/07/26/us-cities-govt-agency-implement-covid-vax-mandates-for-workers/
Protests hit Athens and Paris over new coronavirus restrictions, vaccine mandates https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/15/coronavirus-latest-updates/
COVID-19 cases have been increasing in Texas and nationally, mostly among unvaccinated people, as the highly contagious delta variant has become dominant. Here’s what that means for Texans, both vaccinated and unvaccinated.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/26/texas-covid-19-delta/
Biden Team Weighs Return to Mask Mandates in Some States. The high-level conversations underscore the extent to which the administration is working to find new and more efficient ways to safeguard Americans living in communities with rising infection rates.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/26/biden-mask-mandates-500802
America Is Getting Unvaccinated People All Wrong. They’re not all anti-vaxxers, and treating them as such is making things worse.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/07/unvaccinated-different-anti-vax/619523/
Vaccines Could Drive The Evolution Of More COVID-19 Mutants: The new coronavirus variants have raised concerns about whether vaccines will remain effective against this disease. But the vaccines themselves could drive the evolution of more mutants. The virus is always mutating. And if one happens to produce a mutation that makes it less vulnerable to the vaccine, that virus could simply multiply in a vaccinated individual https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965703047/vaccines-could-drive-the-evolution-of-more-covid-19-mutants
Merck Created Hit List to ‘Destroy,’ ‘Neutralize’ or ‘Discredit’
Dissenting Doctors: Merck made a “hit list” of doctors who criticized Vioxx, according to testimony in a Vioxx class action case in Australia.
The list, emailed between Merck employees, contained doctors’ names with the labels “neutralise,” “neutralised” or “discredit” next to them. One email said: We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120425015207/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-42841411/merck-created-hit-list-to-destroy-neutralize-or-discredit-dissenting-doctors/
CDC to recommend masks for vaccinated people in some situations: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans to adjust its mask recommendations to advise people vaccinated against COVID-19 to again wear masks indoors in certain situations, according to a source familiar with the expected announcement.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/564996-cdc-to-recommend-masks-for-vaccinated-people-in-some-situations-report
Small Farms Vanish Every Day in America’s Dairyland: “There Ain’t No Future in Dairy”
Farming families are facing a choice: compete with high-production outfits, if they can, or abandon generations of dairy farming https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/21/small-farms-vanish-every-day-in-americas-dairyland-there-aint-no-future-in-dairy
Department of Justice Declares COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Legal. Federal law doesn’t prohibit public agencies, private business from requiring vaccines for employees https://www.theepochtimes.com/department-of-justice-declares-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-legal_3920759.html
# Economy / Trade
Fat Cats on a Hot Tin Roof. ProPublica cracked open the vault on America’s biggest tax grifters, revealing how the Midas men dip, dodge and duck, paying pennies on the dollar, if that, while we suckers have to pony up. How rich.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/12/opinion/billionaires-taxes.html
130 countries back deal on global minimum tax for companies. The deal calls for a global minimum tax of at least 15%, a key element pushed by Biden as he seeks to raise more revenue for his infrastructure and clean energy plans. Technical details still need to be worked out and it would be at least 2023 before the agreement takes effect.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-government-and-politics-business-c9c7e0cd24f9f2fc226fc0038f2c7245
# Education / Schools
‘Parents are powerless’: Students face being held back after a year of remote learning Pandemic-related learning loss means some parents are weighing whether their children should repeat a grade. In 18 states, they won’t have a choice.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/22/repeat-school-year-482336
Lack of school and child care could mean losing ‘a generation of working parents’
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/06/lack-of-school-and-child-care-may-push-some-parents-out-of-workforce.html
Josh Hawley’s “Love America Act” Is All About Protecting Racism. Under Hawley’s bill, public schools that teach the actual history of our Constitution lose all their federal funds.
https://truthout.org/articles/josh-hawleys-love-america-act-is-all-about-protecting-racism/
# Employment / Labor
Report: Big Labor Hides Millions in 2020 Election Spending. Experts say reported political spending is a portion of actual total https://freebeacon.com/elections/report-big-labor-hides-millions-in-2020-election-spending/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals In a Win For Protestors, Court Stops Police From Blockading Line 3 Camp https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/23/huge-legal-win-court-stops-police-blockading-line-3-protester-camp
# Environment / Climate / Interior
Warming rivers in US West killing fish, imperiling industry. Baby salmon are dying by the thousands in one California river, and an entire run of endangered salmon could be wiped out in another.
https://nowthisnews.com/news/warming-rivers-in-us-west-killing-fish-imperiling-industry
California’s water crisis comes for the birds: The West’s Water Crisis Is Still Really Bad for Birds. Climate change and water diversion are drying up essential wildlife sanctuaries for migrating and local birds.
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-wests-water-crisis-still-really-bad-birds
The Untrained Bipartisan Deal-Makers: The senators negotiating the infrastructure package don’t have expertise in infrastructure, and it’s showing.
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/building-back-america/infrastructure-summer-untrained-bipartisan-deal-makers/
# Food / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Pandemic-driven hunger is making the world more unequal. Worsening inequality, as poorer people and nations lose years of gains in the battle against hunger and poverty, is likely to be one of the lasting legacies of the pandemic.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/12/coronavirus-peru-hunger-inequality/
# Gov / Politics
Sen. Ron Johnson demands answers from Biden on administration’s work with Big Tech to censor online posts –Sen. Johnson called the Biden administration’s ‘flagging’ of social media posts ‘a dangerous assault on freedom of speech’
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/gop-senators-demand-answers-biden-administration-big-tech-censor-speech
John Podesta, Michele L. Roberts: A path to climate, economic and environmental justice is finally on the horizon https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/564798-a-path-to-climate-economic-and-environmental-justice-is-finally-on
Republicans Recast Riot Defendants as ‘Political Prisoners’: Several GOP lawmakers, including Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene, are scheduled to appear on the steps of the DOJ to decry the treatment of the jailed rioters.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-recast-jan-6-riot-defendants-as-political-prisoners
Meet the Consulting Firm That’s Staffing the Biden Administration: Less than six months into the Biden administration, more than 15 consultants from the firm WestExec Advisors have fanned out across the White House.
It’s a remarkable march through the revolving door, especially for a firm that only launched in 2017. The pipeline has produced a dominance of WestExec alums throughout the administration https://theintercept.com/2021/07/06/westexec-biden-administration/
Trump Snubs Bush Family With Texas AG Endorsement. George P. Bush, Jeb Bush’s son, broke ranks with his own family to endorse Trump for president in 2016, despite attacks on both of his parents.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/564957-trump-endorses-ken-paxton-over-george-p-bush-in-texas-attorney-general-race
‘A Hitman Sent Them,’ Capitol Police Officer Says of January 6 Attackers. Officer Harry Dunn testifies before Congress on the January 6 insurrection. “I want you to get to the bottom of that,” Officer Harry Dunn told lawmakers.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/565065-capitol-police-officer-harry-dunn-on-jan-6-mob-a-hitman-sent-them
Biden Is Imposing Harsher Sanctions on Cuba — and Guantánamo Remains Open President Biden himself has called the notorious gulag an “advertisement for creating terror.”
https://truthout.org/video/biden-is-imposing-more-harsh-sanctions-on-cuba-and-guantanamo-remains-open/
# Law Enforcement
Attorney: Jan. 6 Prisoners Brutally Beaten, Stripped, Hogtied, Humiliated by Guards – Detainee Blinded in One Eye – Worse Abuse Than Gitmo https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/attorney-jan-6-prisoners-brutally-beaten-stripped-hogtied-humiliated-guards-one-prisoner-blinded-one-eye-worse-abuse-gitmo-video/
Atlanta Cop Suspended for Kicking Handcuffed Woman in Head https://www.thedailybeast.com/atlanta-police-sergeant-suspended-without-pay-after-video-shows-him-kicking-handcuffed-woman-in-the-head
Texas Children Lead Police to Gravely Injured Mom in Bathtub. Police found the woman with multiple wounds in a bathtub, but they are not sure what caused the injuries.
https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/children-lead-police-to-bloody-scene-with-mother-lying-in-bathtub-with-severe-wounds
Black Women Giving Birth in Prison Face Surveillance Disguised as Medical Care The midsection shackle, which requires a guard standing over the birthing process, is offered as “hands-on” care.
https://truthout.org/articles/black-women-giving-birth-in-prison-face-surveillance-disguised-as-medical-care/
Colorado Cop Accused of Pistol-Whipping, Choking Unarmed Man. Officer John Haubert now faces three felony charges over the incident.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/aurora-colorado-police-officer-john-haubert-accused-of-pistol-whipping-choking-unarmed-man
# Legal / Judicial / DOJ
Live coverage: House panel holds first hearing on Jan. 6 probe:
Testimony from four police officers will take center stage on Tuesday as a panel begins its work investigating the events of Jan. 6 at the Capitol.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/564978-live-coverage-house-panel-holds-first-hearing-on-jan-6-probe
Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Sentenced to 45 Months in Prison ‘For Exposing US War Crimes’: “His crime was telling this truth: 90% of those killed by U.S. drones are bystanders, not the intended targets,” said Edward Snowden. “He should have been given a medal.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/27/drone-whistleblower-daniel-hale-sentenced-45-months-prison-exposing-us-war-crimes
# Military / DOD
U.S. Sends Over 2 Dozen F-22 Fighter Jets to Guam as Tensions Rise with China https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/15/asia/us-air-force-f-22-guam-tinian-exercise-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
# Social
Report: Real Estate Groups Paid GOP Lawmakers Huge Sums to Reinstate Evictions Senators Mike Crapo and Pat Toomey have received hundreds of thousands from real estate lobbyists, a new report shows.
https://truthout.org/articles/report-real-estate-groups-paid-gop-lawmakers-huge-sums-to-reinstate-evictions/
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