by People's Action | Aug 31, 2017 | Breakfast
Hurricane Aftermath Threatens Drinking Water, Chemical Plants Blasts, ‘chemical reactions’ rock storm-crippled chemical plant in Texas as Harvey flooding persists. WaPo: "The remnants of Hurricane Harvey carried its wrath up the Mississippi Delta on Thursday, but not...
by People's Action | Aug 30, 2017 | Breakfast
Mexico Offers Support to Hurricane Victims Mexico says nope to Trump's wall but offers Harvey disaster relief 'as good neighbors do'. DailyKOS: "Mexico has reasserted that their nation 'will not pay, under any circumstances and under any circumstances, a wall or...
by People's Action | Aug 29, 2017 | Breakfast
UN Issues Warning on Rise of US Racism U.N. issues warning on U.S. Racism. UN News Centre: "The United Nations body monitoring implementation of the global convention on prohibiting racial discrimination has called on high-level politicians and public officials of the...
by People's Action | Aug 28, 2017 | Breakfast
Trump Pardons Arpaio Arpaio pardon dangerously accelerates Trump’s assault on the rule of law. New Yorker: "Since Watergate and the release, in 1976, of the Church Committee report, which detailed wider executive-branch abuses, this vast federal bureaucracy has...
by People's Action | Aug 25, 2017 | Breakfast
Arpaio's Shadow Pardon or not, the fight against Joe Arpaio's legacy is far from over. Splinter: "Outside the convention center, immigrant rights activists set up giant, inflated figures of the ousted Maricopa County sheriff, Joe Arpaio, and President Trump. Arpaio in...
by People's Action | Aug 24, 2017 | Breakfast
Federal Judge Throws Out Texas Voter ID Law Federal judge tosses out Texas voter ID law supported by Trump administration. LA Times: "A federal judge struck down Texas’ controversial voter identification law Wednesday, ruling that it illegally discriminated against...
