Tuesday, April 12, 2016

RSN: Attorneys General Come Down on Accreditor of For-Profit Colleges, Democracy Spring: Thousands Descend on US Capitol, Over 400 Arrested, Oxfam: Most of World Bank's Private Investments Linked to Tax Havens





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Scott Galindez | Democracy Spring: Thousands Descend on US Capitol, Over 400 Arrested 
Over 400 activists were arrested outside the US Capitol. (photo: Paulina Leonovich/Twitter) 
Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News 
Galindez writes: "Thousands of Americans have descended on Washington to launch one week of civil disobedience under the banner Democracy Spring. Their main demand is to get money out of politics." 
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Oxfam: Most of World Bank's Private Investments Linked to Tax Havens 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "As the Panama Papers continue to shed light on the widespread issue of tax evasion around the globe, Oxfam has revealed that the World Bank is also complicit in promoting tax havens with the majority of its private investments going to companies with offshore accounts, according to a new report released Monday." 
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School Officer Fired After Video Showed Him Body-Slamming a 12-Year-Old Girl 
Lindsey Bever, The Washington Post 
Bever writes: "A Texas school police officer who became enmeshed in controversy after he was captured on video seemingly body-slamming a sixth-grade girl has been fired from the San Antonio Independent School District." 
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Attorneys General Come Down on Accreditor of For-Profit Colleges 
Annie Waldman, ProPublica 
"Twelve state attorneys general have asked the federal Department of Education to revoke the recognition of the much-criticized Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools." 
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Boko Haram Increasingly Using Children in 'Suicide' Attacks, UNICEF Says 
Camila Domonoske, NPR 
Domonoske writes: "Boko Haram used four children in such attacks in 2014 - and 44 in 2015, according to a report from UNICEF. Nearly one out of every 5 suicide attack conducted by Boko Haram used a child, and more than two-thirds of the children were girls." 
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'What Happened in World War II Is Happening Again': Immigrant Detention Centers Through the Eyes of a Therapist 
Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times 
Excerpt: "The metal fence was what she noticed first, miles of tall barrier topped by barbed wire strung across the south Texas pastures - just like the internment camp nearby where she had been held as an infant. And on the other side of the fence, again, 71-year-old Satsuki Ina saw mothers and children: this time, Central Americans." 
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People Still Don't Get the Link Between Meat Consumption and Climate Change 
Annick de Witt, Scientific American 
Excerpt: "A new kind of messaging could make it easier to appreciate the enormous benefits of moving away from a meat-heavy diet." 
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