[COVID-19\ CARES Stimulus Package]
Angelica Salas: “This country must protect every worker, including immigrants…At 15-19 percent of the country’s population, their suffering will affect all of us.”
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Trump Administration
COMMUNITY FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS INVOLVEMENT IN SMALL BUSINESS COVID-19 RELIEF FUNDING IS CRITICAL
[SBA COVID-19 Relief Loan Funding]
Velazquez: “To expand opportunities for women-, minority-, and veteran-owned businesses, we must increase the role of mission-based lenders, those who are deeply embedded in their communities, such as community banks, community development financial institutions, and SBA microloan intermediaries.”
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BLACK PASTORS DECLARE STATE OF EMERGENCY REGARDING AFRICAN-AMERICAN COVID-19 DEATHS
[Black Pastors\COVID-19]
In their letter, the pastors said they “decry the callous and misguided rhetoric from places of power that blames Blacks for these deaths.”
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JAMES SUES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OVER COVID-19 SICK LEAVE RESTRICTIONS
[COVID-19\Sick Leave\Trump Administration]
James: “The paid sick leave and emergency family leave provisions of the FFCRA were enacted to protect public health and to provide economic security to working families. The Trump Administration’s rule makes it harder.
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IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY GROUP LAUNCHES AD AHEAD OF DACA SUPREME COURT RULING
[Immigration\DACA\Coronarivus]
Cesar Hernandez: “Being a doctor to me means being able to prevent suffering in others…if DACA were to go away, I would just not be able to continue for the foreseeable future…DACA… has been life-changing for me.”
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COVID-19 WAS MANUFACTURED CHAOS FROM TRUMP AND CHINESE INACTION
[COVID-19\Trump\China]
Dr. Laven: “The increasingly autocratic Trump dithered, misunderstood, failed to act, dismissed the threat as nothing, and let coronavirus win.”
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WE NEED A VACCINE TO STOP COVID-19—AND WAR
[COVID-19\War]
Koehler: “We need a permanent halt: to war….Just as much as we need medical vaccines, we need social vaccines.”
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TRUMP USES COVID-19 CRISIS TO ELIMINATE CIVIL RIGHTS PROTECTIONS
[Civil Rights Protections\COVID-19]
Morial: “In an act of breathtakingly bad faith, the federal compliance office has issued an order suspending equal opportunity requirements during the coronavirus crisis. Companies who contract with the federal government are now free to discriminate.”
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CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS CALL FOR LIFTING SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN
[Iran Sanctions]
The Trump Administration levied additional sanctions against Iran in the midst of the pandemic, which has to date killed more than 2,600 Iranians.
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BAP: MADURO INDICTMENT A PRELUDE TO RACIST U.S AGGRESSION
[Maduro Indictment\U.S. Imperialism]
The charge leveled at the Venezuelan leader might have some semblance of credibility for some sectors of the U.S. population, and it will be used by the corporate press to further legitimize the illegal and murderous objectives of U.S. imperialism.
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