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Longtime Los Angeles police officer Deon Joseph will sit down with Truthdig on Thursday, March 30, to discuss homelessness, mental health, crime and policing on L.A.’s skid row.

By Lauren McCauley / Common Dreams Privacy advocates are pressing voters to urge their representatives to vote against S.J. Resolution 34, a bill that would strip citizens of their right to online privacy.

The lake, which flows into the Missouri River, serves as the primary water source for numerous indigenous tribes, including the Standing Rock Sioux and the Cheyenne River Sioux.

By Jon Else / TomDispatch In one now-historic decade, civil rights organizers brilliantly identified the levers of government power they could seize, but most of those levers are out of reach today. How will modern activists achieve change?

and the rest / CC BY-SA 2.0 “They think we are slaves,” one Brazilian domestic worker told Politico Magazine for a piece on the terrible conditions some au pairs face when participating in the U.S. government’s program “founded in 1986 under the auspices of promoting diplomacy and cultural exchange.” Journalist Zack Kopplin describes the role of an au pair as a job in which “in return for light housework and child care, [au pairs] join an American family for a year, learning the language and culture.”... Читать дальше...

Professor Natasha Dow Schüll and Chris Hedges discuss how casino capitalism, present in everything from algorithms to today’s political rhetoric, tries to keep people from “a position where they [can] act as decision-making subjects.”

By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org It’s good to have fresh thinking about how government might function more efficiently. But it’s important to remember that government is not a business.

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Trump’s Executive Order deregulating dangerous gas emissions is the greatest mean-spirited reversal since the Red Coats, defeated in 1783, returned in 1812 and burned down the White House.

By Alexandra Rosenmann / AlterNet Democrats on Capitol Hill are gloating about the demise of the American Health Care Act. Bernie has done them one better.

By Medea Benjamin Without an urgent effort to find a political solution and get massive food aid into the country, almost 7 million people may face starvation.

Much of the media claimed that anti-Trump supporters were the aggressors, but the alternative newspaper has a different story.