Mondoweiss - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that he would annex all Israeli settlements, the Jordan Valley, and the northern Dead Sea area of the occupied West Bank if he wins Israel’s general elections next week. During a press conference Netanyahu vowed to “extend sovereignty” to all Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, effectively annexing swaths of land where more than 190 settlements have been built in contravention of international law.
43% of Americans say the Afghanistan War was a mistake; 52% disagree
The Poor People's Campaign will begin touring more than 20 states later this month to bring together residents of disenfranchised communities and help them register to vote. The Rev. William Barber, co-chair of the campaign, said that the tour begins Sept. 16 in El Paso, Texas, and will culminate on June 20 with an assembly on the National Mall in Washington. Three stops are planned in at least 22 states, with Day 1 focusing on the communities and their stories; Day 2 on voter registration and Day 3 on a march and rally.
A survey
released this week by the Commonwealth Fund found that, faced with
soaring costs under the for-profit status quo, 58 percent of U.S. small
business owners support replacing America's dysfunctional healthcare
system with Medicare for All. - Common Dreams
The share of Americans without health insurance rose from 7.9 percent in
2017 to 8.5 percent in 2018, the Census Bureau’s new Current Population
Survey data show — the first increase since the 2010 Affordable
Care Act drove historic coverage gains, particularly after its
major coverage expansions took effect in 2014.
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The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 set out demands for nothing less than the eradication of poverty.
50+ years after the original Poor People's Campaign racism is waxing not waning, 40 million Americans live in poverty, the top 1 percent has more wealth than the bottom 90 percent, and 'just 1 in 10 black Americans believe civil rights movement's goals have been achieved in the 50 years since Martin Luther King Jr was killed' (The Independent, 31 March 2018).
Clearly, what is needed is not a re-launch but rather a rethink. Rosa Luxemburg explains why: '...people who pronounce themselves in favour of the method of legislative reform in place of and in contradistinction to the conquest of political power and social revolution, do not really choose a more tranquil, calmer and slower road to the same goal, but a different goal. Instead of taking a stand for the establishment of a new society they take a stand for surface modifications of the old society” (Reform or Revolution).
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