Sunday, September 6, 2015

RSN: Landmark Agreement Moves 757 Species Toward Federal Protection, The People's Obituary of Henry Kissinger - Before His Death




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Robert Reich | Bernie Joins the Picket Line 
Robert Reich. (photo: Richard Morgenstein) 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page 
Reich writes: "Bernie joined workers in a picket line today at a plant in Iowa, where they're seeking higher wages. The last candidate for president I recall joining a picket line was Robert F. Kennedy in 1968." 
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Fire at Planned Parenthood Clinic Determined to Be Arson 
Elliot Smilowitz, The Hill 
Smilowitz writes: "A fire at a Planned Parenthood facility Friday was determined to be caused by arson, authorities said." 
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Thousands of Doctors Are Protesting Trump's Plan for Mass Deportation, Say It Will Make America Sick 
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress 
Lee writes: "The American College of Physicians (ACP) called on physicians to speak out against policy proposals seeking to deport the country's undocumented population this week, warning that mass deportation would devastate public health." 
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Black Lives Matter to Begin Taking On Republicans 
Kevin Cirilli, The Hill 
Cirilli writes: "The Black Lives Matter movement has become a political flashpoint, stirring a backlash from the right and an increasingly heated debate about race. Now the movement's activists have vowed to put more pressure on Republicans." 
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The People's Obituary of Henry Kissinger - Before His Death 
Steven Cohen, The New Republic 
Cohen writes: "I had written on Kissinger earlier, mostly on Latin America. And I always felt that he was left out in a lot of the conversations on the rise of the right in America. Then I stumbled upon his undergraduate thesis." 
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Celebrations Follow Resignation of Guatemalan President, but Activists Say Struggle Is Not Over 
Jeff Abbott, Upside Down World 
Abbott writes: "After nearly 21 consecutive weeks of protests, the administration of Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has finally unraveled. At 1am in the morning on September 3, the President's spokesman, Jorge Ortega made the announcement that the embattled President had officially resigned." 
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Landmark Agreement Moves 757 Species Toward Federal Protection 
Center for Biological Diversity - Press Release 
Excerpt: "On July 12, 2011, the Center for Biological Diversity struck a historic legal settlement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, requiring the agency to make initial or final decisions on whether to add hundreds of imperiled plants and animals to the endangered species list by 2018. The Endangered Species Act is America's strongest environmental law and surest way to save species threatened with extinction." 
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