Cornel West and Margareta Matache | Roma and African Americans Share a Common Struggle




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Cornel West and Margareta Matache | Roma and African Americans Share a Common Struggle 
Roma migrants from Romania demonstrating in Oslo in 2015. (photo: Alamy)
Cornel West and Margareta Matache, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "On 20 February, we mark the abolition of Roma slavery on the territories of today's Romania. Much has changed across continents but the enslavement of people in both Romania and the US has converted into new forms of exploitation and control."
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What's Different Now? Parkland Students Won't Let Us Get Away With No Action on Guns
Fabiola Santiago, The Miami Herald
Santiago writes: "The reaction from the students was swift, poignant."
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Former 'Kremlin Troll' Arrested After Speaking to Western Journalists
The Moscow Times
Excerpt: "A former employee of St. Petersburg's infamous 'troll factory' was arrested in St. Petersburg on Sunday, hours after speaking about his work as a pro-Kremlin commentator to foreign journalists."
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Lynn Holland | Honduras: Hearing the Call for Democracy
Lynn Holland, Carnegie Council
Holland writes: "Less than 800 miles from our shores, Hondurans protesting against a fraudulent presidential election have been clubbed, shot at, terrorized, and arbitrarily arrested by the hundreds. Yet this crisis has hardly produced a blip on the radar screen of mainstream U.S. news."
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Bad Bedside Manner: Bank Loans Signed in the Hospital Leave Patients Vulnerable
Shefali Luthra, The Washington Post
Luthra writes: "Laura Cameron, three months pregnant, tripped and fell in a parking lot and landed in the emergency room in May. She was flat on her back - scared, in pain and attached to a saline drip - when a hospital representative came by to discuss how she would pay her bill."
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Syria: Hundreds Killed in 'Relentless Bombing' of East Ghouta
Zouhir Al Shimale, Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "At least 27 were killed in fresh attacks by Syrian forces, raising the death toll to more than 270 in the past three days."
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The World's Efforts to Slow Climate Change Aren't Working
Brady Dennis and Chris Mooney, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Global emissions of carbon dioxide are rising again after several years of remaining flat. The United States, under President Trump, is planning to withdraw from the Paris accord and is expected to see emissions increase by 1.8 percent this year, after a three-year string of declines. Other countries, too, are showing signs they might fail to live up to the pledges they made in Paris."
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