I CAN’T BREATHE (NOW HEAR THIS newsletter, June 2020)

George Floyd, echoing Eric Garner in 2014, gasped “I can’t breathe” as a Minneapolis police officer pinned his neck to the pavement with his knee, blocking his windpipe and…

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MAYDAY! / MAY DAY (NOW HEAR THIS newsletter, May 2020)

It’s May 1, the traditional day of spring celebrations. In the nineteenth century, May Day also became the day to celebrate workers, who…

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EARTH DAY 2020 – A CALL FOR VIRTUAL CELEBRATION – Guest Article from Pedro Valverde

Fifty years ago, on April 22, 1970, environmentalists marched worldwide as the first Earth Day shook the nations of the world…

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