[George Floyd\”Othering”]
Winslow Myers: “To have to explain to the innocent why they are an “Other” is a kind of madness, one that fuels the rage that is pouring into the streets of our cities…this cultural tendency toward “Othering” encompasses so much.”
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BY PEACE VOICE
AMERICAN POLICING MUST RESPECT SANCTITY OF BLACK LIVES
[Memorial Day Killing of George Floyd]
Robert Koehler: “Floyd’s death is only the latest hell inflicted on a community of color somewhere in this country, either by police officers or armed white vigilantes.”
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INCOMPETENCY OF TRUMP PRESIDENCY HAS CAUSED OVER 100,000 AMERICAN COVID-19 DEATHS
[COVID-19\Incompetency of Trump Presidency]
Wim Laven: “Trump’s pattern of delay, deflection, dishonesty, and distraction has produced many utterly unnecessary deaths of Americans—we have by far the largest number of deaths from this plague, more than 102,000 out of 354,000 worldwide.”
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U.S. MEMORIAL DAY: TRUE PATRIOTISM IS TURNING SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES
[Memorial Day]
Dr. Hastings: “As a Dad, it took me several years to craft my life to be able to do a Plowshares action, that is, an act of direct disarmament, literally using hand tools to dismantle or disable a weapon of war.”
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AMERICAN POLICING MUST BE REBUILT ON TRUST NOT VIOLENCE
[Racial Policing]
Koehler: “We must disarm our concept of social order. This means a different sort of training for police officers — less target practice, more psychological awareness. Many police themselves recognize this.”
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PRESIDENT OBAMA PROTECTED AMERICA FROM EBOLA UNLIKE TRUMP’S CATASTROPHIC COVID-19 NON-RESPONSE
[Ebola 14\COVID-19]
TrumpDeathClock.com charts deaths from COVID-19 and the portion estimated as preventable, 53,781 unnecessary COVID-19 deaths in America as of May 17.
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THE PANDEMIC OF AMERICAN RACISM MUST BE HEALED TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY
[American Racism]
Koehler: “Real change would probably have to begin with an enormous public conversation, and national acknowledgment of our history, including slavery and genocide — the theft of people, the theft of the continent — followed by atonement, reparations.”
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TRUMP’S BOTCHED COVID-19 RESPONSE AND MISMANAGEMENT FURTHER ENDANGERS AMERICANS
[COVID-19\Trump Incompetence]
Dr. Tom Hastings: “I have never witnessed any US president botch anything so disastrous as Trump has botched the response to COVID-19. I didn’t know so many mistakes were even possible and he just won’t stop.”
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AMERICA’S RACIAL FAULT LINES AND COVID-19 RIPPLING DEVASTATION THRU MINORITY AMERICA
[COVID-19 and Racism]
Pro. Moss: “In the U.S., the pandemic has underscored the pervasiveness of racism in our society, manifesting like trigger faults in myriad ways and posing formidable barriers to recovery and to the achievement of any semblance of democratic life and culture.”
Photo: Pro. Andrew Moss