Hundreds of Chicago’s mental health clinicians have signed an open letter to the mayor urging her to remove police from its crisis intervention response. They say police escalate situations & that other US programs w/o armed officers have been successful.
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"Palestinians look on in absolute bewilderment at the Israeli regime’s new self-appointed role as mediator and potential peacemaker.
If it was not so tragic, it would be a comedy" - @yarahawari https://t.co/Kj6mPLjime
The Western campaign to boycott and sanction Russia has effectively demolished almost all the anti-BDS excuses propagated by Israel and its anti-Palestinian apologists meant to thwart Palestinian calls for accountability and justice. @BDSmovement
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"Morally Consistent: Standing for Palestinian Rights and Against Antisemitism."
False accusations of antisemitism remain a major obstacle in building support for policies that end Israel’s occupation and dispossession of the Palestinian people.
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No US-Russia Proxy War in Ukraine!
Both major powers claim to be defenders of small nations and oppressed minorities. But nothing could be further from the truth. https://t.co/lMcMCqnw2y via @YouTube
With Russia-phobia being the fashion in US politics today, it's perversely amusing watching FL politicians copy a notorious bill that passed the Russian Duma years ago. Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law is eerily reminiscent of Russia's 2013 no LGBTQ "propaganda" to minors law.
1. A top executive for @CollegeBoard, an organization that shapes curriculum for hundreds of thousands of high school students, is aggressively pushing to limit discussions about race and history in classrooms
Follow along if interested.
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@BlockClubCHI And the City pretends to wonder why relations between cops vs. Black & Brown communities are so bad. Decades of unchecked police violence, tolerance of violent bigots in the ranks, and now you pretend that everything can be kumbaya?
BIDEN bears much responsibility for the horrors raining down on Gaza and East Jerusalem until he cuts off US aid to Israel. #FreePalaestine#SaveSheikhJarrah