Truss pledges tax cuts as she launches leadership campaign
Liz Truss has launched her campaign to be the new leader of the Conservative party by promising tax cuts from “day one”. She wrote in the Daily Telegraph that she would reverse the recent rise of National Insurance Contributions and reduce corporation tax. The move puts clear blue water between her and frontrunner Rishi Sunak, […]
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Grassroots Defense Committees Support Criminalized Survivors of Violence
Bayley Pitts believed she would be helped when she reported to the police that she was a teenage victim to sexual violence at her biological father. She did not — and now, Pitts faces the prospect of losing her mother, Wendy Howard, to the same system that failed to protect either of them. In an […]
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Mutual Aid Groups That Arose During COVID Gather to Build Power Regionally
Nearly two years after the pandemic, ad-hoc collective care networks emerged from the cracks in state neglect. This July, mutual aid organizers from all over the U.S. meet in Indiana to plan for survival and crisis management. “To the extent that we engage in this work only as an emergency response, it’s doomed to stay […]
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A New Play Imagines the End of Isolation for All Incarcerated People
“The Box,” a play about solitary confinement in prison, is going on the road this summer as part of the “End of Isolation” tour. Sarah Shourd, one the three American hikers imprisoned in Iran between 2009 and 2010, wrote and directed the play. It features formerly incarcerated actors, including John Neblett, who plays “Jake Juchau” […]
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Experts Fear That Backsliding on Abortion Rights Will Go Beyond US Borders
The overturning Roe v. WadeAfter a major equality conference in Spain last week, activists and academics warned that the U.S. will support fringe anti-abortion movements across Europe. One told openDemocracy: “Now they will be able to crawl out of marginality and point to a major democracy having moved in their direction.” Neil Datta was the […]
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Abortion Activists Slam White House for Saying They Are “Out of Step” With Dems
Comments from the White House communications director Kate Bedingfield over the weekend have touched a fresh nerve among progressives already frustrated by the Biden administration’s tepid response to the right-wing attack on abortion rights including the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade last month. In a detailed piece of reporting by the Washington […]
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Reparations for Racist Laws Are Gaining Traction at State and Local Levels
Georgia state Senator Kim Jackson has almost given up on the idea of Black Georgians receiving reparations for past injustices. “In Georgia, the concept of reparations is a politically dead issue. It will not move,” said Jackson, a Black woman who is from a farming background and sits on Senate Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Committee. […]
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Critics Warn Drilling Project in Arctic Would Unleash Dangerous “Carbon Bomb”
Climate groups raised the alarm and put President Joe Biden on notice after the Bureau of Land Management opened the public comment period Friday for a proposed drilling project in the Alaskan Arctic that critics warn would unleash a dangerous “carbon bomb” and threaten pristine ecosystems if given approval by the federal government. Oil giant […]
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Letting Medicare Negotiate Drug Prices Would Save US Nearly $290 Billion
Friday’s Congressional Budget Office revealed that a Senate Democrats’ proposal to allow Medicare to negotiate directly to lower drug prices would result in nearly $290 Billion in savings and new revenue over ten year implementation. This is a predictable but crucial finding for lawmakers trying to revive a legislative deal in coming weeks. The Democratic […]
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Right Wing “Woke Heat Maps” Target and Track Progressives for Crackdown
Missouri’s right-wing group has launched a “woke heat map” documenting instances of “wokeness” in an attempt to fight back against “critical race theory” and alleged “grooming” in schools across the state. The group, dubbed “Liberty Alliance,” says it is “committed to fighting back against the Woke agenda that is permeating all across Missouri.” “The first […]
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