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Cornel West | My Letter of Resignation From Harvard
Cornel West, Cornel West's Facebook Page
West writes: "How sad it is to see our beloved Harvard Divinity School in such decline and decay."
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Biden Denounces "21st Century Jim Crow Assault" on Voting Rights in Philadelphia Speech
Kathryn Watson, CBS News
Watson writes: "President Biden denounced efforts by lawmakers in Republican-led states to impose new restrictions on voting, decrying their efforts as a '21st century Jim Crow assault' and urging Congress to pass federal laws to protect voting access."
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Sanders, Biden Meet as Infrastructure Bill Swells Past $3.5 Trillion
Lisa Mascaro and Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press
Excerpt: "Emerging from a private meeting at the White House, Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that he and President Joe Biden are on the same page as Democrats draft a 'transformative' infrastructure package unleashing more than 3.5 trillion in domestic investments on par with the New Deal of the 1930s."
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Notorious Ransomware Gang REvil Mysteriously Disappears After Causing Global Havoc
Lucas Ropek, Gizmodo
Ropek writes: "The Russian-speaking cybercriminal group REvil has gone dark. Its websites were taken offline early Tuesday morning, and nobody is sure why."
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COVID-19 Accelerated the Corporate Takeover of the Economy
Grace Blakeley, Jacobin
Blakeley writes: "Unless working people organize to resist it, the legacy of the pandemic, like the legacy of the financial crisis, will be a permanent shift in power in favor of capital."
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"Fly So Far": New Film Tells Stories of Women in El Salvador Jailed for Decades Under Abortion Ban
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "The award-winning documentary 'Fly So Far' looks at the criminalization of abortion in El Salvador through the incredible story of Teodora Vásquez, a woman who in 2008 was sentenced to 30 years in prison after she had a stillbirth at nine months pregnant."
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American West Stuck in Cycle of "Heat, Drought and Fire," Experts Warn
Maanvi Singh, Guardian UK
Singh writes: "As fires propagate throughout the US west on the heels of record heatwaves, experts are warning that the region is caught in a vicious feedback cycle of extreme heat, drought and fire, all amplified by the climate crisis."
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