[ACLU\2020 Election]
ACLU: “For his anti-civil rights and civil liberties agenda, Donald Trump will be democratically and ceremoniously removed from the Oval Office by his employer: the American people.”
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White Supremacists
ACLU: Donald Trump Was Fired by The American People
Columbus Day Represents Worst of America’s True Legacy
[Columbus Day and America’s True Legacy]
PeaceVoice\Koehler: “By officially ignoring the worst of our true legacy, by pretending that “liberty and justice for all” and other platitudes are the bedrock of the nation, we create a world where such values have no chance to actually prevail.”
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SPLC: Over 100 Confederate Symbols removed since George Floyd’s Murder
[Confederate Symbols]
SPLC\Lecia Brooks: “The extrajudicial killing of Black people has reignited the movement to remove Confederate symbols, even in Southern states where regressive preservation laws halted removal and circumvented the will of communities.”
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Equal Justice in America is Needed to Make Black Lives Matter
[Peace Voice]
PeaceVoice\Kriesberg: Going forward, local BLM chapters and other activist groups need to expand their range of tactics beyond rallies and protest marches.
We need Reparations to Repair Media Apartheid System
[Media Reparations]
Free Press\Joseph Torres: “Media Reparations are essential to ensuring our government repairs the harms it caused by adopting media policies that have materially, physically and spiritually subjugated Black people in the United States.”
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Bass, Tri-Caucus leads call for Trump to disavow Proud Boys
[Trump\White Supremacy]
Letter: “Your repeated failure to definitively and consistently renounce white nationalism in our country, not only during the debate but throughout the entirety of your presidency, has given life and voice to the darkest corners of our society.”
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Congressional Black Caucus Unveils Policy Agenda to Advance Black Families
[Jobs and Justice Act of 2020]
Rep. Bass: “When we developed the Jobs and Justice Act of 2020, we knew that Black America was going to need policies that not only solved the imminent issues but addressed the long-term impact of COVID-19 on our community.”
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