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18/06/20
Author: 
Eugene Kung - Staff Lawyer, Michael Bissonnette - Staff Lawyer
Chief Dalton Silver of Sumas First Nation speaking to media after the latest oil spill on their territory (Photo: Rueben George).
June 16, 2020  [Very interesting historical information about First Nations' territorial rights -- and lack thereof! Gene McGuckin]
18/06/20
Author: 
ILWU Local 500
Posted on June 16, 2020

Longshore Will Observe Juneteenth

Work Will Stop for 8 Hours on Historic

In solidarity with ILWU International, there will be no work on the 8 AM shift of Friday, June 19, 2020 as we are supporting anti-racism – what this Union is founded on.

18/06/20
Author: 
David Kroman
King County Labor Council members leave the auditorium hall at the Labor Temple in downtown Seattle, June 19, 2019. (Photo by Matt McKnight/Crosscut)

June 17, 2020

The vote comes amid ongoing protests and weeks of pressure from community advocates and some union members. 

Amid heightened scrutiny of police unions and their place in the labor movement, the King County Labor Council voted Wednesday to expel the Seattle Police Officers Guild, which represents roughly 1,300 officers, from its ranks.

14/06/20
Author: 
Jake Johnson
"Preparing for the possibility of Trump refusing to concede isn't just reasonable, it's the responsible thing to do," said Ezra Levin, co-executive director of Indivisible. (Image: Stand Up America)

 June 12, 2020

"Preparing for the possibility of Trump refusing to concede isn't just reasonable, it's the responsible thing to do."

"I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election... if I win."

That was then-candidate Donald Trump's message to his supporters and the nation just a month before his victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race.

Category: 
14/06/20
Author: 
Associated Press 

After days of violent confrontations, police have largely withdrawn from now 'festival-like' area

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09/06/20
Author: 
Nick Turse

June 5 2020

IN THE FACE of protests composed largely of young people, the presence of America’s military on the streets of major cities has been a controversial development. But this isn’t the first time that Generation Z — those born after 1996 — has popped up on the Pentagon’s radar.

07/06/20
Author: 
Jeff Schechtman
‘US News & World Report’ photograph of soldier standing guard on the corner of 7th & N Street NW in Washington, DC, with the ruins of buildings destroyed during the riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 8, 1968. Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris (D-OK) with members of the Kerner Commission (inset). Photo credit: Library of Congress / Wikimedia and Library of Congress / Wikimedia

June 5, 2020

Reading Time: 12 minutes

Today we’re facing the exact same questions that Americans were asking just over fifty years ago, in 1967 and 1968, as riots took place all across America, resulting in over 70 dead and untold injured. 

In order to understand how civil unrest had reached such proportions, and how to prevent it from occurring in the future, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders — known as the Kerner Commission, after its chairman, Otto Kerner Jr., who was governor of Illinois at the time. 

07/06/20
Author: 
Caitlin Johnstone
US flag with soldiers
June 4, 2020
 

We are witnessing the head-on collision between the story America’s political, media and educational institutions tell Americans about what their country is, and the reality of what their country actually is.

I have a bedtime story for you.

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