Friday, October 2, 2015

RSN: Bill McKibben | How to Protect a Planet, Ex-Massey CEO Faces Criminal Trial for Fatal Mine Explosion: A First in Coal Country,



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Scott Galindez | Bernie Raises Almost as Much Money as Hillary 
The 10,000 plus crowd to see Senator Bernie Sanders at the Veteran's Memorial Coliseum in Madison erupt with applause on July 1st, 2015. (Photo: Arun Chaudhary) 
Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News 
Galindez writes: "If the Clinton campaign wants to find Bernie Sanders, all they have to do is look in the left lane at the Million Person March passing them by. They don't have a super-PAC, and they aren't pouring money into television ads that people fast-forward through with their DVRs - they're doing it the old fashioned way, with a grassroots campaign." 
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New York Police Brutality 2015: NYPD Announces New Use of Force Rules 
Eyder Peralta, WSHU 
Peralta writes: "The New York Police Department unveiled a new set of rules regarding its use of force, The New York Times, Newsday and the New York Post are reporting. The new policy will establish new, explicit guidelines on when to use force and how to track those incidents." 
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Trump Says He Will Send All Syrian Refugees Home if He Is US President 
Middle East Eye 
Excerpt: "Donald Trump has announced that he will make all Syrian refugees leave the United States if he is elected president." 
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Senators Roll Out Criminal Justice Reform Bill 
Jordain Carney, The Hill 
Carney writes: "A bipartisan group of senators rolled out a criminal justice bill Thursday, calling it the most historic reform proposal in decades." 
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Ex-Massey CEO Faces Criminal Trial for Fatal Mine Explosion: A First in Coal Country 
Claire Zillman, Fortune 
Zillman writes: "In America's long, dangerous history of mining, not once has a coal mine owner been charged criminally for a worker's death. Coal miner fatalities, in some ways, have been considered a business expense-tragic, but an unavoidable cost in an industry that harvests the mineral from stubborn earth. All of that changed with the indictment of Donald Blankenship." 
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Jessica Valenti | Opposition to Legal Abortion Takes Magical Thinking and a Lack of Logic 
Jessica Valenti, Guardian UK 
Valenti writes: "There was a time when I empathized with those on the other side of the abortion debate. They felt abortion was murder - and no matter how wrong I knew they were, I understood that believing such a thing would mean fighting to make abortion illegal. But I don't understand anymore. There are too many holes in their logic." 
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Bill McKibben | How to Protect a Planet 
Bill McKibben, Medium 
McKibben writes: "It shouldn't have to be this way. In a rational world governments would be working overtime to shut off the flow of carbon to the atmosphere?-?instead it was Barack Obama who gave Shell the green light to go north." 
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