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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:truthout="http://www.truthout.org/"> <channel> <title>Articles – Truthout</title> <atom:link href="https://truthout.org/articles/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://truthout.org</link> <description>Fearless Independent Journalism</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 20:56:35 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3</generator> <image> <url>https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/cropped-Truthout-T-logo-sq-1200x1200-e1521532408148-60x60.png</url> <title>Articles – Truthout</title> <link>https://truthout.org</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height></image> <item> <title>Abortion Bans Push Some in US to Travel to Mexico for Reproductive Health Care</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-bans-push-some-in-us-to-travel-to-mexico-for-reproductive-health-care/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alejandra Marquez Guajardo]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 20:56:33 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion bans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reproductive Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317572</guid> <description><![CDATA[As US states like Florida impose more restrictions, more states in Mexico are legalizing abortion.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When its six-week abortion ban went into effect on May 1, 2024, Florida joined nearly two dozen other U.S. states that ban abortion or greatly restrict it. These laws came into effect after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade ended nearly 50 years of the constitutional right to abortion in the United States. Florida health officials in 2023 reported more than 84,000...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-bans-push-some-in-us-to-travel-to-mexico-for-reproductive-health-care/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Alejandra Marquez Guajardo]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The Conversation]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0502-mexico-flight-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='50731' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Says Acceptance of Election Loss Will Depend on How “Honest” Results Are</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-says-acceptance-of-election-loss-will-depend-on-how-honest-results-are/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 20:36:13 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 presidential election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[election fraud]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump election fraud claims]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317570</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump has repeatedly suggested that his loyalists would be justified in committing violence if he loses the election.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>During a campaign stop this week in Waukesha, Wisconsin, former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in this year’s presidential election, indicated that he wouldn’t accept the election results if he loses. When questioned by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about whether he’d concede should he lose the election to his Democratic opponent President Joe Biden...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-says-acceptance-of-election-loss-will-depend-on-how-honest-results-are/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0502-trump-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='92240' /> </item> <item> <title>Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs Repeals 1864 Near-Total Abortion Ban</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/arizona-gov-katie-hobbs-repeals-1864-near-total-abortion-ban/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 20:17:15 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion bans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona 1864 abortion ban]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona abortion law]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Katie Hobbs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reproductive Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317554</guid> <description><![CDATA[Abortion rights advocates said passage of a constitutional ballot initiative this November was still needed.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Thursday, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) signed a bill into law that repeals a 160-year-old anti-abortion statute that was first enacted when the state was just a territory. The 1864 law was re-implemented last month after the state Supreme Court ruled that it was still enforceable. The law forbids abortion at any stage of pregnancy and makes no exceptions for rape, incest, or to protect a...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/arizona-gov-katie-hobbs-repeals-1864-near-total-abortion-ban/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0502-hobbs-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='67588' /> </item> <item> <title>College Democrats Applaud Student Protests, Slam Biden for Gaza Policy</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/college-democrats-applaud-student-protests-slam-biden-for-gaza-policy/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 19:53:45 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 Election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317552</guid> <description><![CDATA[The statement is a show of the vast generational divide on Palestine within the party.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a bold statement released this week, college Democrats broke from President Joe Biden and the party establishment by condemning the administration for its support of Israel’s “destructive, genocidal, and unjust” assault on Gaza and throwing their support behind the wave of pro-Palestine protests sweeping the U.S. The College Democrats of America, the Democratic National Committee’s official...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/college-democrats-applaud-student-protests-slam-biden-for-gaza-policy/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0502-ucla-protest-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='169861' /> </item> <item> <title>New Federal Rules Protect LGBTQ People From Misgendering, Bathroom Bans</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/new-federal-rules-protect-lgbtq-people-from-misgendering-bathroom-bans/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 19:52:28 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[EEOC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[employment discrimination]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Workplace Discrimination]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Workplace Harassment]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317568</guid> <description><![CDATA[“There is simply no place for harassment at work, ” said the chief program officer for the National Women’s Law Center.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Monday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released updated guidance detailing that employers who refuse to use transgender workers’ preferred pronouns or who prevent them from using bathrooms corresponding to their gender identity are engaging in unlawful workplace harassment. The guidance will go into effect immediately. “Harassment, both in-person and online...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/new-federal-rules-protect-lgbtq-people-from-misgendering-bathroom-bans/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0502-m-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='88931' /> </item> <item> <title>2,000 Campus Protesters for Gaza Have Been Arrested. Momentum’s Only Building.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/2000-campus-protesters-for-gaza-have-been-arrested-momentums-only-building/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 19:26:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anti-Zionism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Boycott Divestment Sanctions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corporations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military-Industrial Complex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317558</guid> <description><![CDATA[Students nationwide face harsh repression from university administrators and the police, but they’re not backing down.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At the University of Florida encampment for Gaza, student protesters are forcing themselves to keep their eyes open night after night, fearing that if they doze off, they could be arrested. “We are not allowed to sleep,” University of Florida freshman Cameron Driggers told Truthout having spent multiple nights at the encampment. “We’ve literally had folks, at least a dozen each night...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/2000-campus-protesters-for-gaza-have-been-arrested-momentums-only-building/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0502-fl-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='190032' /> </item> <item> <title>As Israel Vows “Annihilation” of Rafah, Democrats Urge Biden to Withhold Aid</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/as-israel-vows-annihilation-of-rafah-democrats-urge-biden-to-withhold-aid/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 18:34:03 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pramila Jayapal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rafah]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317544</guid> <description><![CDATA[The lawmakers say Biden must withhold weapons that could be used for an assault on Rafah.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A group of House Democrats is urging the Biden administration to use “all tools possible” — including withholding military assistance to Israel — to prevent an Israeli assault on Rafah as Israeli officials are pledging “total annihilation” of Rafah and other neighborhoods in Gaza. In a letter sent Wednesday in an effort led by Representatives Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) and Madeleine Dean (D...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/as-israel-vows-annihilation-of-rafah-democrats-urge-biden-to-withhold-aid/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0502-rafah-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='128699' /> </item> <item> <title>Workers Rallied in New York City on May Day in Solidarity With Palestine</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/workers-rallied-in-new-york-city-on-may-day-in-solidarity-with-palestine/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 18:13:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[May Day]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Workers]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=317551</guid> <description><![CDATA[Demonstrators called for unions to apply political pressure for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to US arms to Israel.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Workers around the world rallied Wednesday to mark May Day, with many calling on the labor movement to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. In New York, Democracy Now! spoke to demonstrators who demanded that U.S. unions apply political pressure for a ceasefire in Gaza and to stop their government’s arms trade with Israel. “Workers do have the power to shape the world...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/workers-rallied-in-new-york-city-on-may-day-in-solidarity-with-palestine/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/SEG4-MayDay-Action-2-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='141041' /> </item> <item> <title>Democratic Leaders Say They’ll Back Keeping Mike Johnson as Speaker</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/democratic-leaders-say-theyll-back-keeping-mike-johnson-as-speaker/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 16:01:51 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Christian nationalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Democrats in Congress]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marjorie Taylor Greene]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mike Johnson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[motion to vacate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans in Congress]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317547</guid> <description><![CDATA[Polling shows a plurality of voters have a negative view of Speaker Mike Johnson and reject his far right views.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives announced on Tuesday that they would vote to stave off a motion to vacate measure against Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, a rare and questionable move that will likely prevent far right lawmakers from throwing the chamber into disarray for the second time in under a year. When a small group of Republicans had voted in October to...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/democratic-leaders-say-theyll-back-keeping-mike-johnson-as-speaker/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0502-mike-johnson-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='75108' /> </item> <item> <title>House Passes Bill That Defines Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/house-passes-bill-that-defines-criticism-of-israel-as-antisemitism/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 15:01:06 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anti-Zionism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Antisemitism Awareness Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317540</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jewish-led groups slammed the legislation as a tool for silencing the movement for Palestinian rights.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve legislation directing the U.S. Department of Education to consider a dubious definition of antisemitism, despite warnings from Jewish-led groups that the measure speciously conflates legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with bigotry against Jewish people. House members approved the Antisemitism Awareness Act — bipartisan...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/house-passes-bill-that-defines-criticism-of-israel-as-antisemitism/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0502-jewish-voice-for-peace-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='108080' /> </item> <item> <title>Pro-Palestinian Student Protesters Are Enacting the Highest Ideals of Education</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/pro-palestinian-student-protesters-are-enacting-the-highest-ideals-of-education/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thea Renda Abu El-Haj]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 14:05:10 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anti-Zionism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317536</guid> <description><![CDATA[Universities have largely abandoned their educational mission in relation to Gaza. Students are filling the vacuum.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>April 30, 2024, was the 56th anniversary of Columbia University calling in the police to arrest 700 students who had taken over Hamilton Hall in a protest against racism and the war on Vietnam. It was also the day when the Columbia administration invited the NYPD onto its campus for the second time in less than two weeks. Police in riot gear proceeded to arrest pro-Palestinian students...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/pro-palestinian-student-protesters-are-enacting-the-highest-ideals-of-education/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Thea Renda Abu El-Haj]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0502-student-protest-a-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='120960' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump-Appointed Judges Grant DOJ Request to Toss Landmark Youth Climate Case</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-appointed-judges-grant-doj-request-to-toss-landmark-youth-climate-case/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 14:02:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fossil Fuels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Judges]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Juliana v. United States]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317537</guid> <description><![CDATA[Three consecutive administrations have worked to prevent a trial, using legal tactics to delay and derail the case.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A panel of three Trump-appointed judges on Wednesday granted the Biden Justice Department’s request to have a landmark youth climate case dismissed, another setback for a long-running effort to hold the U.S. government accountable for damaging the planet and violating the rights of younger generations. The order handed down by a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel instructs an Oregon district court...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-appointed-judges-grant-doj-request-to-toss-landmark-youth-climate-case/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0502-climate-case-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='211468' /> </item> <item> <title>300+ Arrested in Police Raids on Columbia and CCNY to Clear Gaza Encampments</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/300-arrested-in-police-raids-on-columbia-and-ccny-to-clear-gaza-encampments/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 17:43:17 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Columbia University]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Policing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Student protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Universities]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=317497</guid> <description><![CDATA[Columbia University's president asked for continued police presence to ensure encampments aren't reestablished.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New York police in full riot gear stormed Columbia University and the City College of New York Tuesday night, arresting over 300 students to break up Gaza solidarity encampments on the two campuses. The police raid began at the request of Columbia President Minouche Shafik, who has also asked the police to remain a presence on campus until at least May 17 to ensure solidarity encampments are not...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/300-arrested-in-police-raids-on-columbia-and-ccny-to-clear-gaza-encampments/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman & Juan González]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/SEG1-CUnyandCU-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='74773' /> </item> <item> <title>EPA Changes Course on Widely Used Pesticide With Proposed Ban</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/epa-changes-course-on-widely-used-pesticide-with-proposed-ban/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Lerner]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 17:29:24 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Acephate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[child development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Farming]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pesticides]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317498</guid> <description><![CDATA[The agency cited evidence that acephate harms workers who apply the chemical and others through contaminated water.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a proposal this week to ban a controversial pesticide that is widely used on celery, tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables. The EPA released its plan on Tuesday, nearly a week after a ProPublica investigation revealed the agency had laid out a justification for increasing the amount of acephate allowed on food by removing limits meant to protect...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/epa-changes-course-on-widely-used-pesticide-with-proposed-ban/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Lerner]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[ProPublica]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0501-pesticide-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='69242' /> </item> <item> <title>Pro-Israel Mob Attacks Students in Violent Assault on Encampment at UCLA</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/pro-israel-mob-attacks-students-in-violent-assault-on-encampment-at-ucla/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 16:56:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[campus protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Students]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Universities]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317495</guid> <description><![CDATA[Campus security stood aside as the mob unleashed bricks, fireworks and pepper spray, organizers said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A pro-Israel mob violently attacked a Gaza solidarity encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles overnight Tuesday, hurling fireworks at the structure and beating demonstrators as campus security and city police stood by. Los Angeles Times higher education journalist Teresa Watanabe reported that members of the pro-Israel mob used explicitly genocidal language as they ripped down...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/pro-israel-mob-attacks-students-in-violent-assault-on-encampment-at-ucla/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0501-ucla-encampment-seige-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='204832' /> </item> <item> <title>Immigrant-Led Organizing Points the Way to a Better World for All Workers</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/immigrant-led-organizing-points-the-way-to-a-better-world-for-all-workers/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Bennion]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 15:17:25 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Farmworkers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[May Day]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Workers]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317485</guid> <description><![CDATA[Let’s follow the lead of immigrant workers organizing for a world without borders — this May Day and beyond.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“A world without borders is necessary if we are serious about ending the ravages of imperialism, the violent extraction of capitalism, and the oppressive racial social organization of our world,” writes migrant justice activist Harsha Walia. Walia’s claim points to how the carceral, exclusionary immigration system weakens labor rights not just for immigrant workers, but for all workers.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/immigrant-led-organizing-points-the-way-to-a-better-world-for-all-workers/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[David Bennion & Adrianna Torres-García]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0501-may-day-a-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>May Day Is About Confronting the Capitalist System That Governs Our Lives</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/may-day-is-about-confronting-the-capitalist-system-that-governs-our-lives/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Gilman-Opalsky]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 15:10:54 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Excerpt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Collective Power]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Imperialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[International Workers Day]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Karl Marx]]></category> <category><![CDATA[May Day]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wages]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317445</guid> <description><![CDATA[Let’s celebrate by coming together to imagine how workers’ collective power can transform the world.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Each year, May Day invites us to revisit and rethink revolutionary traditions from the nineteenth century for the present and the future. The annual international holiday comes out of a trajectory from the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago in 1886, when police attacked workers making demands for an eight-hour workday. At that time, the demand for an eight-hour workday was understood as a total...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/may-day-is-about-confronting-the-capitalist-system-that-governs-our-lives/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Richard Gilman-Opalsky]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[AK Press]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0501-may-day-1-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Our Unions Can Turn the Tide for the Campus Palestine Revolt</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/our-unions-can-turn-the-tide-for-the-campus-palestine-revolt/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Koslowski]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 14:40:22 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[campus protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Strikes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Student protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317489</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rank and filers can organize unions to join the encampments, strike for Palestine and turn words into action.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right now, the biggest student revolt of this century is rocking the country, denouncing the genocide of Palestinians and calling for divestment from Israel and an end to the war on Gaza. The repression has been bipartisan and savage. College administrators are calling in heavily armed police of Democrat-controlled cities to drag away hundreds of students and faculty, for the crime of sitting on a...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/our-unions-can-turn-the-tide-for-the-campus-palestine-revolt/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jason Koslowski]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Left Voice]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0501-pro-palestine-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='178759' /> </item> <item> <title>One Mistake Led to a Lifetime Ban of SNAP Benefits. This Reform Can Resolve It.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/one-mistake-led-to-a-lifetime-ban-of-snap-benefits-this-reform-can-resolve-it/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina Carrega]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 14:09:56 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Food Stamps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hunger]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prisons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[RESTORE Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SNAP]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317487</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lawmakers introduced the RESTORE Act to prevent further harm to those affected by the criminal justice system.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s been three years since Yasmeen Covington spent the night of her 29th birthday wearing a pair of handcuffs. It was her first and last brush with the criminal justice system, but she’s still paying for it. Shortly after her criminal case ended in 2021, Covington’s parents campaigned for her to leave the Bronx in New York and move to Charlotte, North Carolina, where they relocated years prior.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/one-mistake-led-to-a-lifetime-ban-of-snap-benefits-this-reform-can-resolve-it/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Christina Carrega]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Capital B]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0501-ebt-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='138848' /> </item> <item> <title>Amnesty International: Israel Repeatedly Committed War Crimes With US Weapons</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/amnesty-international-israel-repeatedly-committed-war-crimes-with-us-weapons/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 21:15:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Amnesty International]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317484</guid> <description><![CDATA[The human rights group called on the US to immediately suspend arms shipments to Israel.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amnesty International USA has called on the U.S. to immediately suspend weapons transfers to Israeli forces in a new report finding that Israel has repeatedly committed egregious violations of international law using U.S.-made weapons fired on Gaza and beyond. The report finds that, over the past seven months, Israeli forces have used U.S. weapons like JDAMs, small diameter bombs and white...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/amnesty-international-israel-repeatedly-committed-war-crimes-with-us-weapons/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0430-gaza-a-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Top UN Human Rights Official Raises Alarm Over Repression of Student Protests</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/top-un-human-rights-official-raises-alarm-over-repression-of-student-protests/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:49:04 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317469</guid> <description><![CDATA[Over 1,200 protesters have been arrested across dozens of campuses just over the past two weeks.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Top UN human rights officials are expressing alarm over the recent wave of violent repression by university administrators against the student protests for Palestinian liberation that have swept the U.S., raising concerns that protesters’ rights to free speech and assembly are being violated. A statement on Tuesday said that UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, the UN’s top human...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/top-un-human-rights-official-raises-alarm-over-repression-of-student-protests/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0430-arrests-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>The Biden Administration Is Reportedly Moving to Reclassify Marijuana</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/the-biden-administration-is-reportedly-moving-to-reclassify-marijuana/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nandika Chatterjee]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:19:31 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biden Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cannabis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DEA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drug Reclassification]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drugs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marijuana]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Schedule 1 drug]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Schedule 3]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317478</guid> <description><![CDATA[The proposed reclassification would recognize that cannabis has medical uses and less potential for abuse.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marijuana is finally on track to be reclassified as a less dangerous drug by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, multiple news outlets reported Tuesday. The proposed reclassification must still be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget, but it would recognize that cannabis has medical uses and less potential for abuse compared to harder drugs.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/the-biden-administration-is-reportedly-moving-to-reclassify-marijuana/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Nandika Chatterjee]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Salon]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0430-marijuana-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Says He Would Let States Prosecute Anyone Who Violates an Abortion Ban</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-says-he-would-let-states-prosecute-anyone-who-violates-an-abortion-ban/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:17:33 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 presidential election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion bans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reproductive Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317475</guid> <description><![CDATA[He also said he wouldn’t intervene if states attempt to monitor pregnancies to determine compliance with abortion bans.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Former U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview published Tuesday that if reelected in November, he would allow states to monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute anyone who violates an abortion ban. That position, said one leading reproductive rights organization, underscores the grave threat the presumptive GOP nominee poses to fundamental freedoms. “There is zero doubt in my mind that...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-says-he-would-let-states-prosecute-anyone-who-violates-an-abortion-ban/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0430-donald-trump-r-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Slapped With Fines, Warning of Jail Time If He Keeps Violating Gag Order</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-slapped-with-fines-warning-of-jail-time-if-he-keeps-violating-gag-order/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:16:59 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[contempt of court]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gag order]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Juan Merchan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Manhattan District Attorney]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump gag orders]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump trials]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317481</guid> <description><![CDATA["Continued willful violations" of the gag order could result in an "incarceratory punishment," the judge said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New York Justice Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing the trial regarding former President Donald Trump allegedly concealing “hush money” payments in an illegal manner, has ruled that Trump violated terms of his gag order and fined him thousands of dollars for doing so. Within his order, Merchan ruled that Trump was in contempt of court for issuing nine statements, on his social media site Truth...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-slapped-with-fines-warning-of-jail-time-if-he-keeps-violating-gag-order/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0430-trump-c-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Offers Alarming Details on How He’d Govern If Elected President Again</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-offers-alarming-details-on-how-hed-govern-if-elected-president-again/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:10:53 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 presidential election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dystopian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Political Violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Time Magazine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump violence]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317470</guid> <description><![CDATA[When asked if his loyalists would enact violence if he loses, Trump said “it depends.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new report details how former President Donald Trump would continue to flout democratic norms and descend deeper into authoritarianism if given a second chance to serve in the White House. According to a newly published Time magazine article, the former president intends to institute an “imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world” if he’s elected again this fall in...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-offers-alarming-details-on-how-hed-govern-if-elected-president-again/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0430-dtrump-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Students Sue After CUNY Folds to Backlash Against Muslim Commencement Speakers</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/students-sue-after-cuny-folds-to-backlash-against-muslim-commencement-speakers/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:52:52 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CUNY]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317474</guid> <description><![CDATA[CUNY's law school canceled student commencement speeches after Muslim women used the platform to criticize Israel.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In May 2023, months before the October 7 Hamas attacks would spark Israel’s gruesome retaliation against Gaza, Fatima Mousa Mohammed gave a fiery commencement speech at the graduation ceremony for the famously progressive law school at the City University of New York (CUNY). An immigrant from Yemen and the second Muslim woman elected by fellow students to speak at commencement...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/students-sue-after-cuny-folds-to-backlash-against-muslim-commencement-speakers/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0430-cuny-palestine-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Scholar: Why Is Israel Targeting the Families of Those It Already Killed?</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/scholar-why-is-israel-targeting-the-families-of-those-it-already-killed/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:26:17 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Airstrikes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Refaat Alareer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[targeted killings]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=317471</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jehad Abusalim, friend of late Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, discusses the deaths of Alareer’s daughter and grandson.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Friday killed the eldest daughter and the infant grandson of the prominent Palestinian poet and past Democracy Now! guest Refaat Alareer, who himself was killed in an Israeli airstrike in December. Shaima Refaat Alareer was killed along with her husband and 2-month-old son while sheltering in the building of international relief charity Global Communities.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/scholar-why-is-israel-targeting-the-families-of-those-it-already-killed/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/SEG4-Refaat-with-children-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Pro-Palestine Protesters Occupy University Hall After Columbia Refuses to Divest</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/pro-palestine-protesters-occupy-university-hall-after-columbia-refuses-to-divest/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:31:56 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Columbia University]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317462</guid> <description><![CDATA[Protesters renamed the building “Hind’s Hall” after Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in Gaza.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Columbia University’s pro-Palestine protesters took over a building on campus, known as Hamilton Hall, early on Tuesday morning, after university administrators threatened students in a solidarity encampment and said that the university “will not divest from Israel” in a statement on Monday. Students occupying the building have dubbed the building “Hind’s Hall” after Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old girl...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/pro-palestine-protesters-occupy-university-hall-after-columbia-refuses-to-divest/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0430-hinds-hall-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Vermont Farmworkers Go to Amsterdam to Fight for “Milk With Dignity”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/vermont-farmworkers-go-to-amsterdam-to-fight-for-milk-with-dignity/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashley Smith]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:02:41 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dairy Farms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fair Food Program]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Farmworkers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hannaford]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Milk with Dignity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[solidarity]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317463</guid> <description><![CDATA[Stonewalled by a US supermarket chain, farmworkers took the struggle to its parent company in Amsterdam.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Vermont farmworkers organization, Migrant Justice, scored an enormous victory in 2017 when it forced Ben & Jerry’s to join its fair labor program, Milk with Dignity. That program guarantees better wages and working conditions for workers on farms in its dairy supply chain. On the heels of this breakthrough, Migrant Justice launched a new struggle in 2019 to get the supermarket chain, Hannaford...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/vermont-farmworkers-go-to-amsterdam-to-fight-for-milk-with-dignity/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Ashley Smith]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0430-farmworkers-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>4th Circuit Rules Against States Discriminating Against Trans Patients</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/4th-circuit-rules-against-states-discriminating-against-trans-patients/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:00:29 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gender-Affirming Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trans Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[TRANSGENDER RIGHTS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317464</guid> <description><![CDATA[Arguments about "costs" being too burdensome were soundly rejected by the court.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Monday, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that state-based health care systems in North Carolina and West Virginia that prevent transgender and nonbinary people from attaining gender-affirming care were unconstitutional barriers to their needs. The en banc ruling, in which the entire circuit court takes part, stops a discriminatory Medicaid regulation in West Virginia from being...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/4th-circuit-rules-against-states-discriminating-against-trans-patients/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0430-trans-rights-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Photojournalist Violently Arrested at Texas Campus Protest Faces Felony Charge</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/photojournalist-violently-arrested-at-texas-campus-protest-faces-felony-charge/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 13:56:14 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[campus protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Journalists]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317450</guid> <description><![CDATA[Press freedom advocates condemned Carlos Sanchez's arrest and called for the charge against him to be dropped.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A photojournalist who was violently arrested while covering a pro-Palestine student protest at the University of Texas at Austin last week is reportedly being charged with felony assault on an officer, a charge that press freedom advocates condemned as an obvious attempt to intimidate reporters. Citing court documents, a local NBC affiliate reported Monday that FOX 7 journalist Carlos Sanchez...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/photojournalist-violently-arrested-at-texas-campus-protest-faces-felony-charge/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0430-ut-austin-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Journalism Professors: NYT Risks Credibility With Inaction on Oct. 7 Article</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/journalism-professors-nyt-risks-credibility-with-inaction-on-oct-7-article/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 21:14:04 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corporate Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317447</guid> <description><![CDATA[Reports have found that the claims in the paper’s “Screams Without Words” article are questionable, if not fabricated.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dozens of tenured journalism professors at top schools across the U.S. have raised concerns that The New York Times is risking its own credibility, as well as the credibility of journalism at large, with its inaction on an article about sexual violence on October 7 that has come under scrutiny in recent months due to its reliance on questionable — and, in some cases, debunked — evidence.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/journalism-professors-nyt-risks-credibility-with-inaction-on-oct-7-article/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0429-nyt-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>UN Official Says Clearing Gaza of Unexploded Bombs Could Take 14 Years</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/un-official-says-clearing-gaza-of-unexploded-bombs-could-take-14-years/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 20:54:27 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317436</guid> <description><![CDATA[There is currently 40 million tons of debris in Gaza, a UN Mine Action Service official said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israel’s genocidal assault of Gaza has turned such a large volume of what were once homes and neighborhoods into ruins that it could take 14 years just to clear the debris, including a number of unexploded ordnance, according to a UN explosives expert. There is currently an estimated 37 million metric tonnes, or about 41 million tons, of debris across Gaza, Iraq UN Mine Action Service Chief Pehr...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/un-official-says-clearing-gaza-of-unexploded-bombs-could-take-14-years/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0429-gaza-r-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Arizona Republicans Select Indicted Fake Elector to Represent Them at RNC</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/arizona-republicans-select-indicted-fake-elector-to-represent-them-at-rnc/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 20:12:47 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona election subversion indictments]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona Republicans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[election subversion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fake electors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jake Hoffman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317439</guid> <description><![CDATA[State Sen. Jake Hoffman was one of 18 individuals indicted for trying to subvert Arizona's election results in 2020.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Arizona Republicans have selected one of the 18 individuals who were indicted last week on charges of election subversion to serve as a member of the Republican National Committee (RNC). State Sen. Jake Hoffman (R) announced his appointment to the RNC national committee on Saturday, posting to the social media site X about his selection by the state party. “I’m humbled and honored to have been...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/arizona-republicans-select-indicted-fake-elector-to-represent-them-at-rnc/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0429-jake-hoffman-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Biden Administration Strengthens Health Care Protections for LGBTQ People</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/biden-administration-strengthens-health-care-protections-for-lgbtq-people/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 20:11:07 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ACA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Discrimination]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trans Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317443</guid> <description><![CDATA[“Today’s rule is a giant step forward for this country toward a more equitable and inclusive health care system.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Friday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to bolster protections against discrimination in health care. “Today’s rule is a giant step forward for this country toward a more equitable and inclusive health care system...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/biden-administration-strengthens-health-care-protections-for-lgbtq-people/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0429-nurse-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Israeli Bombs Kill at Least 5 Children in Rafah Ahead of Threatened Invasion</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-bombs-kill-at-least-5-children-in-rafah-ahead-of-threatened-invasion/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Olivia Rosane]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:56:32 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rafah]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317440</guid> <description><![CDATA["This is who they are targeting," said the surviving uncle of a 1-year-old who was killed on Sunday night.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israeli airstrikes killed between 20 and 30 people in Rafah Sunday night, including at least five children. Among the slain children was a one-year-old boy whose parents had been trying to have a child for 10 years before he was finally born. “This is who they are targeting,” the boy’s uncle, Mahmoud Abu Taha, said in a video shot by CNN in the courtyard of Rafah’s Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-bombs-kill-at-least-5-children-in-rafah-ahead-of-threatened-invasion/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Olivia Rosane]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0429-rafah-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Sanders: It Is Not Antisemitic to Oppose Israel’s Assault of Gaza</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-it-is-not-antisemitic-to-oppose-israels-assault-of-gaza/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:02:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317420</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sen. Bernie Sanders added that there isn't "any doubt" that Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing in Gaza.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks smearing thousands of U.S. students who are protesting against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, emphasizing that it is not antisemitic to oppose Israel’s horrific bombing and starvation campaign against Palestinians. In an interview on CNN on Sunday, Sanders, who is Jewish, condemned antisemitism...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-it-is-not-antisemitic-to-oppose-israels-assault-of-gaza/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0429-bernie-sanders-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Activists in Freedom Flotilla Blocked From Sailing to Gaza</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/activists-in-freedom-flotilla-blocked-from-sailing-to-gaza/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 17:47:06 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[freedom flotilla]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humanitarian Aid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[solidarity]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=317431</guid> <description><![CDATA[“If Israel thinks that this is the end of our effort … they are sadly mistaken,” says one organizer of the flotilla.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hundreds of activists aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla were blocked in Turkey on Saturday as they attempted to set sail for the besieged Palestinian territory with 5,500 tons of aid. Organizers say Guinea-Bissau withdrew its flagged ships under pressure from Israel and the United States. The Gaza Freedom Flotilla brings together a “cross-section of humanity” in hundreds of community leaders from...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/activists-in-freedom-flotilla-blocked-from-sailing-to-gaza/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/SEG1-floatililaguest-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>They Risked Their Lives for Freedom in Iran. Now They Fear Israel’s Bombs.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/they-risked-their-lives-for-freedom-in-iran-now-they-fear-israels-bombs/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Shams]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sanctions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War on Gaza]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317423</guid> <description><![CDATA[Having survived waves of domestic repression, protesters in Iran are now in the crosshairs of Israeli bombs.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In fall 2022, they were on the streets of Tehran facing down Iranian riot police. Chanting “Woman, Life, Freedom,” their voices captured the world’s attention — until their friends were shot, loved ones arrested, and they were forced to run for their lives. Less than two years later, those same protesters now face a very different kind of danger. Having survived waves of domestic repression...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/they-risked-their-lives-for-freedom-in-iran-now-they-fear-israels-bombs/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Alex Shams]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0429-iran-protest-2-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Florida’s 6-Week Abortion Ban Is Taking Effect This Week</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/floridas-6-week-abortion-ban-is-taking-effect-this-week/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 17:05:27 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion Access]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion ballot initiatives]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Florida abortion ban]]></category> <category><![CDATA[six-week abortion bans]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317430</guid> <description><![CDATA[As a six-week ban is set to begin, a majority of Floridians say they back expanding, not restricting, abortion rights.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A six-week abortion ban is set to be fully implemented in the state of Florida later this week. The ban, which was deemed enforceable by the state Supreme Court earlier this month, contains limited exceptions, allowing a pregnant person to obtain the procedure in cases of rape, incest and human trafficking but only for up to 15 weeks of pregnancy. The ban also supposedly allows abortion in cases...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/floridas-6-week-abortion-ban-is-taking-effect-this-week/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0429-abortion-fl-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Berkeley’s Free Palestine Encampment Draws on Legacy of Palestinian Protests</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/berkeleys-free-palestine-encampment-draws-on-legacy-of-palestinian-protests/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly Hayes]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 17:04:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Columbia University]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[solidarity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[UC Berkeley]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317421</guid> <description><![CDATA[Student organizer Malak Afaneh discusses the demands of the movement and calls for students everywhere to organize.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Following the arrest of over 100 students at Columbia University on April 18, Palestine solidarity encampment protests have multiplied across the US. Police crackdowns have occurred at other schools as well, including Northeastern University in Boston, where about 102 protesters were arrested. Officials at Northeastern claimed that the protest had been “infiltrated” by organizers who had “no...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/berkeleys-free-palestine-encampment-draws-on-legacy-of-palestinian-protests/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Kelly Hayes]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Organizing My Thoughts]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0429-ucberkeley-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Biden Says He’s “Happy” to Debate Trump. Polls From 2020 May Indicate Why.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/biden-says-hes-happy-to-debate-trump-polls-from-2020-may-indicate-why/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:50:33 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 Election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 presidential election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[debate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Presidential Debates]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317422</guid> <description><![CDATA[Biden saw a nearly 4-point bump in his polling numbers the first time he and Trump debated in 2020.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Howard Stern’s radio program on Friday, President Joe Biden indicated that he was willing to debate former President Donald Trump, his Republican rival in the 2024 presidential election. During the interview, Stern told the Democratic incumbent president that it was a “fantasy” of his to see Biden square off against Trump. Biden replied that a debate would indeed happen at some point during the...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/biden-says-hes-happy-to-debate-trump-polls-from-2020-may-indicate-why/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0429-biden-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Netanyahu Reportedly Worried ICC Is Preparing to Issue Arrest Warrant for Him</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/netanyahu-reportedly-worried-icc-is-preparing-to-issue-arrest-warrant-for-him/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:38:29 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[International Criminal Court]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317409</guid> <description><![CDATA[Israel is reportedly working with the US to head off possible international criminal court warrants for its officials.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly growing increasingly concerned that the International Criminal Court is preparing to issue arrest warrants for him and other top government officials for committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip. The Times of Israel reported Sunday that the Israeli government, in partnership with the U.S., is “making a concerted effort to head off” possible...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/netanyahu-reportedly-worried-icc-is-preparing-to-issue-arrest-warrant-for-him/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0429-benjamin-netanyahu-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Biden Must Recognize All Student Debt as Hardship. It’s the Key Step to Relief.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/biden-must-recognize-all-student-debt-as-hardship-its-the-key-step-to-relief/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maddy Clifford]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:20:30 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Student Debt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Student Debt Cancelation]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317314</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Department of Education is making debt relief contingent on proof of “hardship,” but the debt itself is hardship.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Joe Biden is making headway in canceling student debt, despite a right-wing Supreme Court that struck down his initial plan to cancel up to $400 billion in student debt last year. Although his Plan A used the HEROES Act of 2003, the Biden administration has since used the Higher Education Act of 1965 to administer $138 billion in relief. Most of this relief has come as fixes to existing...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/biden-must-recognize-all-student-debt-as-hardship-its-the-key-step-to-relief/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Maddy Clifford]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0429-joe-biden-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Farmers Unions Are Targeting Modi in India’s Elections</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/farmers-unions-are-targeting-modi-in-indias-elections/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ritwika Mitra]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:03:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[BJP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[farmers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Farmers Unions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hindu Nationalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[India]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Modi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Narendra Modi]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317356</guid> <description><![CDATA[Farmers remain united in their opposition to Modi's far-right government and their demands for economic justice.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the world’s largest democracy began the first of its seven-phase general elections last week, India’s farmers were back on the streets protesting the government’s U-turn on earlier promises. It has not been long since the farmers grabbed the world’s attention by camping at the borders of the national capital in Delhi for a year, forcing Narendra Modi’s government to meet their demands.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/farmers-unions-are-targeting-modi-in-indias-elections/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Ritwika Mitra]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Waging Nonviolence]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2008846421-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Your Food Could Have 10 Times as Much of This Toxic Pesticide Under New Proposal</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/your-food-could-have-10-times-as-much-of-this-toxic-pesticide-under-new-proposal/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Lerner]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:01:43 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Factory Farms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Food]]></category> <category><![CDATA[food systems]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pesticides]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317350</guid> <description><![CDATA[The EPA is relying on industry-backed tests to relax regulations on acephate, linked to neurodevelopmental disorders.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you bite into a piece of celery, there’s a fair chance that it will be coated with a thin film of a toxic pesticide called acephate. The bug killer — also used on tomatoes, cranberries, Brussels sprouts and other fruits and vegetables — belongs to a class of compounds linked to autism, hyperactivity and reduced scores on intelligence tests in children. But rather than banning the pesticide...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/your-food-could-have-10-times-as-much-of-this-toxic-pesticide-under-new-proposal/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Lerner]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[ProPublica]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1240232766-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>How the Jackson Water Crisis Turned Into a Struggle Against Privatization</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/how-the-jackson-water-crisis-turned-into-a-struggle-against-privatization/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lylla Younes]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 16:59:06 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environmental Racism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jackson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Privatization]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racial Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Water]]></category> <category><![CDATA[water privatization]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317374</guid> <description><![CDATA[Thanks to a federal ruling, residents of Jackson will have a say in how the city resolves its yearslong water crisis.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the summer of 2022, heavy rainfall damaged a water treatment plant in the city of Jackson, Mississippi, precipitating a high-profile public health crisis. The Republican Governor Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency, as thousands of residents were told to boil their water before drinking it. For some, the pressure in their taps was so low that they couldn’t flush their toilets and were...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/how-the-jackson-water-crisis-turned-into-a-struggle-against-privatization/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Lylla Younes]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Grist]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1247284492-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Leaked State Dept. Memo: Israel Likely Violates International Law Using US Arms</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/leaked-state-dept-memo-israel-likely-violates-international-law-using-us-arms/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 16:42:36 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[International Law]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[military aid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[State Department]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US weapons transfers]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317370</guid> <description><![CDATA[A report by 4 State Department bureaus found the Israeli government's assurances "neither credible nor reliable."]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A newly leaked internal memo shows that officials at four U.S. State Department bureaus don’t believe the Israeli government’s assurances that it is using American weaponry in Gaza in compliance with international law, rejecting them as “neither credible nor reliable.” The memo, first reported by Reuters on Saturday, is a joint submission from the State Department’s bureaus of Democracy...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/leaked-state-dept-memo-israel-likely-violates-international-law-using-us-arms/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2147727241-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Physicians Like Me Must Oppose Medical Discrimination Against Methadone Patients</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/physicians-like-me-must-oppose-medical-discrimination-against-methadone-patients/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Leslie W. Suen]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 15:54:05 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Discrimination]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drug Policy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Methadone]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Opioid Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category> <category><![CDATA[war on drugs]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317266</guid> <description><![CDATA[Methadone patients are routinely denied the care they need, ultimately exacerbating health disparities.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While working as a physician at our local county hospital at San Francisco General recently, I cared for a patient I will call Jack. He stuck out to me because he had been in the hospital for two months, an exceptionally long time for a hospital admission, as most people are only admitted for three to five days. He’d been hospitalized for a stroke and needed post-acute rehabilitation in a skilled...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/physicians-like-me-must-oppose-medical-discrimination-against-methadone-patients/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Leslie W. Suen]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-462014742-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>20 Years After Abu Ghraib, Its Victims Take Their Torturers to Court</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/20-years-after-abu-ghraib-its-victims-take-their-torturers-to-court/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maha Hilal]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 14:45:48 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Al-Shimari v. CACI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War On Terror]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317310</guid> <description><![CDATA[Survivors exposed the violence of the “war on terror,” refusing to let it be relegated to the dustbin of history.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“My life before and after [Abu Ghraib] were very different,” Salah Hasan Nusaif Al-Ejaili testified in a Virginia courtroom on Monday, April 15, the beginning of the trial in the case of Al-Shimari v. CACI. Al-Ejaili, one of the three plaintiffs in the case, was an Al Jazeera journalist who was detained in November 2003 and held in the Iraq prison’s “hard site,” which was reserved for “high-value”...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/20-years-after-abu-ghraib-its-victims-take-their-torturers-to-court/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Maha Hilal]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-451510636-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s Conviction Is Another Blow to His Accusers</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/overturning-of-harvey-weinsteins-conviction-is-another-blow-to-his-accusers/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Gerson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:45:17 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Harvey Weinstein]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MeToo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sexual Assault]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sexual Misconduct]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sexual Violence]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317339</guid> <description><![CDATA[Weinstein's accusers say the ruling shows just how much it takes for survivors of sexual violence to be believed.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Women who accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct were stunned by the Thursday decision by the New York Court of Appeals to overturn his 2020 felony conviction, again speaking out about the former Hollywood mogul’s behavior. Both survivors and legal experts said the court’s ruling points to issues with how difficult it can be for survivors of sexual violence to be believed and how the...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/overturning-of-harvey-weinsteins-conviction-is-another-blow-to-his-accusers/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jennifer Gerson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The 19th]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-881138538-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>It’s Long Past Time for Restaurant Workers to Earn a Livable Wage</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/its-long-past-time-for-restaurant-workers-to-earn-a-livable-wage/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Helen H. Abraha]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:42:31 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Minimum Wage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Restaurant Association]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Restaurant Workers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tipped Wages]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tipped Workers]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317327</guid> <description><![CDATA[The federal minimum wage for tipped workers hasn’t risen since 1991. Workers are taking on the industry to change that.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Growing up, I looked up to my father and aunt, who began restaurant industry careers after immigrating from Eritrea in the 1970s. When I started working, a restaurant job was a natural choice. While I took great pride in my work, I struggled with the conditions. I was often on my feet for 10-12 hour shifts six days a week, had no access to affordable health care, was wholly unaware of my worker...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/its-long-past-time-for-restaurant-workers-to-earn-a-livable-wage/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Helen H. Abraha]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[OtherWords]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1973664749-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>African Governments Are Increasingly Turning Against US Military Presence</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/african-governments-are-increasingly-turning-against-us-military-presence/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Thurston]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:42:06 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[AFRICOM]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chad]]></category> <category><![CDATA[counterterrorism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Coup]]></category> <category><![CDATA[niger]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sahel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US Military]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317367</guid> <description><![CDATA[In just the last week, the US announced withdrawals of military personnel from both Niger and Chad.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The U.S. military presence in Central and West Africa is proving increasingly unwelcome. On Wednesday, the State Department announced that the U.S. would soon begin “an orderly and responsible withdrawal” of its more than 1,000 U.S. service members currently deployed in Niger.” A mere 24 hours later, came reports that the Pentagon will withdraw its 75 Army Special Forces personnel as early as next...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/african-governments-are-increasingly-turning-against-us-military-presence/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Alex Thurston]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Responsible Statecraft]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2147771990-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>UN Warns of Impending Catastrophic Escalation of Sudan Conflict</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/un-warns-of-impending-catastrophic-escalation-of-sudan-conflict/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:39:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[humanitarian crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sudan War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[UAE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Weapons Sales]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317364</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rep. Ilhan Omar has proposed a resolution to block arms sales to the UAE over its support for a paramilitary group.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The United Nations’ top humanitarian affairs officials on Friday called for an immediate deescalation of hostilities in Sudan, where rival factions in the military government have been fighting for a year and where an attack on the city of El Fasher is reportedly imminent. About 800,000 people in the city, the capital of North Darfur state, are in “extreme and immediate danger,” U.N.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/un-warns-of-impending-catastrophic-escalation-of-sudan-conflict/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2150027998-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>10 Years Later, Flint Residents Are Still Waiting for Lead Pipes to Be Replaced</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/10-years-later-flint-residents-are-still-waiting-for-lead-pipes-to-be-replaced/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:26:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drinking Water]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environmental Racism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Flint]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Flint water crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lead]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Water]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Water Contamination]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Water crisis]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317345</guid> <description><![CDATA[Biden pledged to replace all of the US’s lead pipes, but he’d need billions of dollars more from Congress to do it.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ten years after government mistakes and cost-cutting measures caused a drinking water disaster that afflicted daily life in Flint, Michigan, and exposed thousands of schoolchildren to harmful levels of lead, residents are still waiting for a resolution as environmentalists warn that the U.S. faces a spiraling water safety and affordability crisis. In March, a federal judge held city and state...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/10-years-later-flint-residents-are-still-waiting-for-lead-pipes-to-be-replaced/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1238903035-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Crackdowns on Protests Are Exposing Higher Ed’s Complicity in Israel’s Genocide</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/crackdowns-on-protests-are-exposing-higher-eds-complicity-in-israels-genocide/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frances Madeson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:14:16 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Policing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317301</guid> <description><![CDATA[Student protests are ramping up, and university administrations are menacing students with police and surveillance.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the Palestinian death toll in Gaza and the West Bank mounts daily, campus protests against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza continue to spread across the U.S., where students and faculty often face police crackdowns. Student activists from Pomona Divest from Apartheid in southern California, The Coalition for Mutual Liberation at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and Resist WashU in St.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/crackdowns-on-protests-are-exposing-higher-eds-complicity-in-israels-genocide/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Frances Madeson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2149597182-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Abortion Advocates Criticize Proposed Texas Medical Board Guidance</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-advocates-criticize-proposed-texas-medical-board-guidance/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:58:41 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[doctor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[emergency]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medical Boards]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317330</guid> <description><![CDATA[Advocates say that the rules might discourage doctors from performing legal and necessary abortions.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Doctors performing life-saving abortions in Texas may soon need to record if they attempted to transfer the patient to another facility before resorting to terminating a dangerous pregnancy. Some argue that this requirement exceeds the legal scope of the state’s abortion ban and could discourage doctors from performing legal and necessary abortions. “This creates even more uncertainty for doctors...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-advocates-criticize-proposed-texas-medical-board-guidance/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0426-doctor-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>David Pecker Testifies That Trump Thanked Him for Suppressing Salacious Stories</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/david-pecker-testifies-that-trump-thanked-him-for-suppressing-salacious-stories/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:51:31 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Pecker]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Karen McDougal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Cohen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump indictments]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump trials]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317316</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee for president, faces 34 felony-level charges in the New York-based trial.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>David Pecker, the former publisher of The National Enquirer, testified on Thursday in the New York trial against former President Donald Trump, providing damning details of the scheme to “catch and kill” negative news stories for the then-GOP nominee for president in the runup to the 2016 election. The Manhattan District Attorney’s office alleges that Trump and his then-fixer lawyer Michael Cohen...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/david-pecker-testifies-that-trump-thanked-him-for-suppressing-salacious-stories/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0426-trump-c-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Alabama House Passes Bill That Could Be Used to Criminalize Librarians</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/alabama-house-passes-bill-that-could-be-used-to-criminalize-librarians/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Olivia Rosane]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:47:41 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Book Bans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[libraries]]></category> <category><![CDATA[obscenity law]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317319</guid> <description><![CDATA[Critics argue the legislation violates the First Amendment.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Alabama House of Representatives voted 72-28 on Thursday in favor of a bill that would apply the state’s criminal obscenity laws to public libraries, public school libraries, and the people who work there. Critics, including the Alabama Library Association, have warned that the bill could see librarians jailed and argued that it violates the First Amendment. “This is a pig,” Rep.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/alabama-house-passes-bill-that-could-be-used-to-criminalize-librarians/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Olivia Rosane]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0426-library-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Infectious Disease Experts Warn Bird Flu Outbreak Bigger Than Previously Thought</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/infectious-disease-experts-warn-bird-flu-outbreak-bigger-than-previously-thought/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicole Karlis]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:46:31 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bird flu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[disease]]></category> <category><![CDATA[H5N1]]></category> <category><![CDATA[outbreak]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pandemic]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317308</guid> <description><![CDATA[Epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina said “the worst case scenario” is that this could turn into a “massive pandemic.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For weeks, the dairy industry has been gripped by a highly contagious virus that is threatening to only get worse. Federal regulators announced this week that samples of pasteurized milk tested positive for H5N1, the strain of bird flu that has jumped from poultry to cows with one recent infection in an American. At the moment, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that the country’s...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/infectious-disease-experts-warn-bird-flu-outbreak-bigger-than-previously-thought/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Nicole Karlis]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Salon]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0426-cows-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Maryland Governor Signs “Freedom to Read Act” Into Law</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/maryland-governor-signs-freedom-to-read-act-into-law/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:14:39 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Book Bans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Librarians]]></category> <category><![CDATA[libraries]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317315</guid> <description><![CDATA[“Maryland takes a bold step forward in safeguarding the rights and dignity of LGBTQ+ youth and educators.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Thursday, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) enacted HB 0785, known as the Freedom to Read Act, into law, prohibiting libraries that receive state funding from banning books. “Schools should be working to build inclusive environments that reflect the diversity of their student body and community. It is especially critical that state leaders like Governor Moore rise up for policies that foster...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/maryland-governor-signs-freedom-to-read-act-into-law/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0426-wes-moore-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>4 States Tell Schools to Ignore New Title IX Rules That Protect LGBTQ Students</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/4-states-tell-schools-to-ignore-new-title-ix-rules-that-protect-lgbtq-students/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Reed]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:30:13 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Discrimination]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Right to Bully]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Students]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Title IX]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trans Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[TRANSGENDER RIGHTS]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317304</guid> <description><![CDATA[The challenges could set up a federal showdown that might end up in a protracted court battle ahead of the elections.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Friday, the Biden administration released its final Title IX rules, which include protections for LGBTQ+ students by clarifying that Title IX forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The rule change could have a significant impact as it would supersede bathroom bans and other discriminatory policies that have become increasingly common in Republican states within...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/4-states-tell-schools-to-ignore-new-title-ix-rules-that-protect-lgbtq-students/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Erin Reed]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Erin In The Morning]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0426-lockers-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Police Violently Crack Down on Emory University’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/police-violently-crack-down-on-emory-universitys-gaza-solidarity-encampment/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:30:07 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Policing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Students]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Teachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Universities]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=317299</guid> <description><![CDATA[Police used tear gas and stun guns to break up the encampment as they wrestled people to the ground.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a wave of student protests against Israel’s war on Gaza continues to spread from coast to coast, schools and law enforcement have responded with increasing brutality to campus encampments. One of the most violent police crackdowns took place at Emory University in Atlanta on Thursday, when local and state police swept onto the campus just hours after students had set up tents on the quad in...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/police-violently-crack-down-on-emory-universitys-gaza-solidarity-encampment/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/SEG1-teargassandtaze-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Mass Graves in Khan Yunis Reveal Unspeakable Horror of US-Backed Gaza Invasion</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/mass-graves-in-khan-yunis-reveal-unspeakable-horror-of-us-backed-gaza-invasion/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Seraj Assi]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:30:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Khan Yunis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass graves]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317294</guid> <description><![CDATA[Emboldened by unconditional military and diplomatic support from the US, Israel continues to act with impunity in Gaza.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Palestinians in Khan Yunis have continued to unearth dead bodies in what is believed to be the largest mass grave in Gaza’s history, first discovered at Nasser Hospital last Saturday. The discovery comes two weeks after the Israeli military withdrew its troops from the southern city on April 7 after a three-month siege, leaving utter destruction in their wake. The massacre site is teeming with...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/mass-graves-in-khan-yunis-reveal-unspeakable-horror-of-us-backed-gaza-invasion/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Seraj Assi]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0426-mass-grave-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Poll Shows Majority of Americans Would Back Federal Abortion Rights Protections</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/poll-shows-majority-of-americans-would-back-federal-abortion-rights-protections/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:53:38 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion ballot initiatives]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Polls]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317302</guid> <description><![CDATA[The issue of abortion rights could help determine who wins in local, state and federal elections this fall.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new poll demonstrates that, in this pivotal election year, abortion rights could play a key role in determining who will win the White House and control of Congress. Several states across the country are set to hold referenda regarding abortion rights and access to the procedure. Those elections will have tremendous consequences for the states themselves, but could also motivate more supporters...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/poll-shows-majority-of-americans-would-back-federal-abortion-rights-protections/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0425-scotus-uterus-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>WSJ Reports Trump Allies Drafting Plan to Give Him Control Over Fed If Reelected</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/wsj-reports-trump-allies-drafting-plan-to-give-him-control-over-fed-if-reelected/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:55:20 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 presidential election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jerome Powell]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317291</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump recently suggested the Fed's indication that interest rate cuts may be coming soon is a ploy to help Democrats.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right-wing allies of former U.S. President Donald Trump are reportedly crafting a plan to give the executive branch control over Federal Reserve policy decisions, an effort that comes as the presumptive GOP nominee continues to signal his authoritarian intentions for a potential second term. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that former Trump administration officials and other supporters...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/wsj-reports-trump-allies-drafting-plan-to-give-him-control-over-fed-if-reelected/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0426-trump-powell-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Is Trump Tithing or Conning His Voters? Either Way, He Aims to Cover Legal Fees.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/is-trump-tithing-or-conning-his-voters-either-way-he-aims-to-cover-legal-fees/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sasha Abramsky]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:44:14 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 Election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Campaign Finance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump lawsuits]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trumpism]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317289</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump’s leadership PAC alone has spent almost $60 million on his attorneys’ bills since early 2023.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Donald Trump’s first criminal trial is underway and three others are in the pipeline. The former president has more than half a billion dollars in civil penalties already accrued against him for both defaming E. Jean Carroll (whom a civil court previously found him liable for sexually assaulting) and for corrupt business practices. As a result, the GOP presidential candidate is facing huge legal...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/is-trump-tithing-or-conning-his-voters-either-way-he-aims-to-cover-legal-fees/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sasha Abramsky]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0426-trump-a-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Sanders Sharply Rebukes Netanyahu’s Claim That Campus Protests Are Antisemitic</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-sharply-rebukes-netanyahus-claim-that-campus-protests-are-antisemitic/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:50:21 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Students]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Universities]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317264</guid> <description><![CDATA[“It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable for your actions,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said in a scathing statement.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jewish U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a scathing statement Thursday pushing back against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s characterization of burgeoning protests on American university campuses as “antisemitic,” declaring, “It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable for your actions.” “No, Mr. Netanyahu. It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in a little over six...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-sharply-rebukes-netanyahus-claim-that-campus-protests-are-antisemitic/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0425-bernie-sanders-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Legal Experts: Expect More Delays Following SCOTUS Hearing on Trump’s Immunity</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/legal-experts-expect-more-delays-following-scotus-hearing-on-trumps-immunity/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:48:34 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Absolute Immunity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Presidential Immunity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Special Counsel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump election interference case]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump indictments]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317258</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court may delay rendering an opinion in the case until as late as July 3.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today regarding the “absolute” presidential immunity claims made by former President Donald Trump in the federal case surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election outcome. The highly anticipated hearing featured a clear rejection of the idea that former presidents can enjoy absolute immunity when it comes to their actions while in...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/legal-experts-expect-more-delays-following-scotus-hearing-on-trumps-immunity/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0425-donald-trump-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>UT Austin Faculty Strike in Solidarity With Pro-Palestine Student Protesters</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/ut-austin-faculty-strike-in-solidarity-with-pro-palestine-student-protesters/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Olivia Wood]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:45:30 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Strikes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[teachers strike]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Universities]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317260</guid> <description><![CDATA[Faculty are acting together, without a union, to break the law and stop work in order to protect the student movement.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Faculty from universities across the country have begun to mobilize in solidarity with the student movement for Palestine. From NYU, where faculty linked arms to protect students from police; to Columbia University, where faculty engaged in a solidarity walkout with the Gaza Solidarity Encampment; to Barnard College, where staff planned a sick-out in defense of their students — faculty are rising...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/ut-austin-faculty-strike-in-solidarity-with-pro-palestine-student-protesters/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Olivia Wood]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Left Voice]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0425-ut-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Biden EPA’s New Rules for Fossil Fuel-Powered Plants Met With Mixed Response</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/biden-epas-new-rules-for-fossil-fuel-powered-plants-met-with-mixed-response/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Olivia Rosane]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:14:11 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biden Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Coal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Emissions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fossil Fuels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Power Plants]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317255</guid> <description><![CDATA[The rules limit emissions from existing coal and new gas-powered plants, but existing gas-powered plants are excluded.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency announced a final quartet of rules on Thursday to limit climate-warming emissions from existing coal and new gas-powered plants, as well as reduce mercury, wastewater, and coal ash pollution from coal facilities. While several environmental groups and climate advocates praised the new rules, others pointed out that they still exclude emissions...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/biden-epas-new-rules-for-fossil-fuel-powered-plants-met-with-mixed-response/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Olivia Rosane]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0425-gas-fired-power-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>93% of Trans Teens Live in States That Have Proposed or Passed Anti-Trans Laws</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/93-of-trans-teens-live-in-states-that-have-proposed-or-passed-anti-trans-laws/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:09:47 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anti-trans bill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anti-Trans Legislation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trans Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[trans youth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[transgender youth]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317257</guid> <description><![CDATA[Research shows that debates around anti-transgender laws negatively impact trans youth’s mental wellbeing.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Approximately 93 percent of transgender youth aged 13 to 17 live in states that have proposed or passed anti-trans laws, according to a new report by the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. “For the second straight year, hundreds of bills impacting transgender youth were introduced in state legislatures,” Elana Redfield, federal policy director at the Williams...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/93-of-trans-teens-live-in-states-that-have-proposed-or-passed-anti-trans-laws/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0425-trans-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Arizona House Passes Repeal of 1864 Anti-Abortion Law, Senate Vote Set for May</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/arizona-house-passes-repeal-of-1864-anti-abortion-law-senate-vote-set-for-may/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 18:28:11 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion ballot initiatives]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion bans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona abortion ban]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ben Toma]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317253</guid> <description><![CDATA[Even with the repeal, a constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights is still needed, organizers warned.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Arizona state House of Representatives has passed a repeal of the 1864 territorial-era statute that banned abortion in nearly every circumstance. House Bill 2677 repeals the statute, which was re-implemented earlier this month by the state Supreme Court, whose conservative justices ruled that it was still in force absent federal protections for abortion that were ended when the federal Supreme...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/arizona-house-passes-repeal-of-1864-anti-abortion-law-senate-vote-set-for-may/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0425-arizona-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>SCOTUS Ignores Housing Crisis in Hearing on Laws Criminalizing Unhoused People</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/scotus-ignores-housing-crisis-in-hearing-on-laws-criminalizing-unhoused-people/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eleanor J. Bader]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:32:02 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[City of Grants Pass v. Johnson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Criminalization]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Homelessness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Housing Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317239</guid> <description><![CDATA[As the court hearing took place, unhoused people and their allies rallied outside, demanding “housing, not handcuffs.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Grants Pass, Oregon, population 39,000, has passed three ordinances since 2017 to prohibit “sleeping on public sidewalks, streets, or alleyways,” and prohibit camping on “sidewalks, streets, alleys, lanes, public rights of way, parks, benches, or other publicly-owned property or under bridges or viaducts.” According to University of Mississippi law professor William W. Berry III...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/scotus-ignores-housing-crisis-in-hearing-on-laws-criminalizing-unhoused-people/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Eleanor J. Bader]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5004-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Dozens of Dems Say They’ll Vote Against Motion to Vacate Speaker Mike Johnson</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/dozens-of-dems-say-theyll-vote-against-motion-to-vacate-speaker-mike-johnson/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:14:10 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category> <category><![CDATA[House Democrats]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marjorie Taylor Greene]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mike Johnson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[motion to vacate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Speaker of the House]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317238</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Democratic House conference hasn't formed an official position on how members should vote on such a measure.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As some Republicans in the House of Representatives ramp up efforts to oust Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), a new report reveals that Democrats may come to the extremist speaker’s rescue should such a vote be forced to the floor of the chamber. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) filed a motion to vacate Johnson from his post late last month. So far, two other Republicans have...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/dozens-of-dems-say-theyll-vote-against-motion-to-vacate-speaker-mike-johnson/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0425-mike-johnson-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Grand Jury Indicts Trump Aides, Arizona GOP Officials Over Fake Electors Scheme</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/grand-jury-indicts-trump-aides-arizona-gop-officials-over-fake-electors-scheme/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:08:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2020 Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anthony Kern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fake electors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jake Hoffman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kelli Ward]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mark Meadows]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317237</guid> <description><![CDATA[Donald Trump was described as "unindicted co-conspirator 1" in the indictment announced by Arizona’s attorney general.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A grand jury in Arizona on Wednesday charged seven aides to Donald Trump and nearly a dozen Republican officials over a “fake electors” scheme in the state that aimed to keep the former president in power after his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden. Trump, who is currently facing nearly 90 charges across four criminal cases as he runs for another White House term, was described as “unindicted co...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/grand-jury-indicts-trump-aides-arizona-gop-officials-over-fake-electors-scheme/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0425-anthony-kern-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Across the US, Campus Protests for Palestine Face Intensifying Police Crackdowns</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/across-the-us-campus-protests-for-palestine-face-intensifying-police-crackdowns/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:51:24 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Divestment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Policing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Students]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Universities]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=317235</guid> <description><![CDATA[Student protests calling for university divestment from Israel and the US arms industry continue coast to coast.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Student protests calling for university divestment from Israel and the U.S. arms industry have rocked campuses from coast to coast. The nonviolent protests, which have been characterized as “antisemitic” for their criticism of Israel, have been met with an intensifying police crackdown as university administrators threaten academic discipline and arrests. On Wednesday, local and state troopers...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/across-the-us-campus-protests-for-palestine-face-intensifying-police-crackdowns/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/CampusCrackdownCREDIT-Reuters-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Administrators Are Trying to Strip Decision-Making Power From Faculty</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/administrators-are-trying-to-strip-decision-making-power-from-faculty/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bertin M. Louis Jr.]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:35:36 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[AAUP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[consensus decision-making]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corporate Universities]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DEI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[faculty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shared governance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[university administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317204</guid> <description><![CDATA[Scholar DeShana Collett discusses the threats to shared governance at her university and, by extension, other schools.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 2023-2024 academic year has already been very challenging for institutions of higher learning. In the midst of college closures, the firing of tenured faculty members, politically motivated bans of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs, academic program cuts at public universities, attacks on faculty and students protesting the war on Gaza, and attacks on Black faculty...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/administrators-are-trying-to-strip-decision-making-power-from-faculty/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Bertin M. Louis Jr. & Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0425-university-of-kentucky-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Watchdog Group Calls Out GOP Senators Over Harlan Crow, Leonard Leo Defenses</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/watchdog-group-calls-out-gop-senators-over-harlan-crow-leonard-leo-defenses/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:39:36 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Harlan Crow]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Leonard Leo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Senate Judiciary Committee]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317214</guid> <description><![CDATA[Leonard Leo has chosen to ignore a Senate Judiciary Committee subpoena given to him earlier this month.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leonard Leo, co-chair of the right-wing legal group The Federalist Society and noted coordinator of dark money donations to conservative causes, and Harlan Crow, a billionaire Republican donor known for his lavish gifts to Supreme Court justices, have received robust support from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee for refusing to abide by subpoenas issued by Democrats.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/watchdog-group-calls-out-gop-senators-over-harlan-crow-leonard-leo-defenses/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0424-graham-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>US Supreme Court Considers Whether Hospitals Must Provide Emergency Abortions</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/us-supreme-court-considers-whether-hospitals-must-provide-emergency-abortions/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:14:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[EMTALA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pregnancy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317218</guid> <description><![CDATA[“If these extreme politicians succeed, doctors will be forced to withhold critical care from their patients.” ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a decisive abortion rights case regarding whether hospitals are obligated to provide abortions in emergency situations under federal law, even in states where abortion is prohibited. “Anti-abortion politicians have brought this case to the nation’s highest court to challenge long-standing federal protections for emergency care abortion care,”...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-supreme-court-considers-whether-hospitals-must-provide-emergency-abortions/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2149410361-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Rejecting Safety Amendments, TN GOP Passes Bill Allowing Handguns for Teachers</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/rejecting-safety-amendments-tn-gop-passes-bill-allowing-handguns-for-teachers/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:49:09 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gov. Bill Lee]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gun Violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Handguns for Teachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[School Shooting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317212</guid> <description><![CDATA[The legislation doesn’t allow schools or school districts to opt out of the program.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Democratic leader in the Tennessee House on Tuesday warned that a bill pushed through by Republicans to permit teachers to carry concealed handguns was “nothing but a bad disaster and tragedy waiting to happen,” after the GOP cut off a debate and refused to include amendments that aimed to add safety measures to the legislation. House Bill 1202 passed in a 68-28 vote, and Republican Gov.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/rejecting-safety-amendments-tn-gop-passes-bill-allowing-handguns-for-teachers/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0424-tennessee-guns-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Climate Activists Blockade HQ of World’s Second-Largest Funder of Fossil Fuels</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/climate-activists-blockade-hq-of-worlds-second-largest-funder-of-fossil-fuels/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:26:07 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Big Oil]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Citigroup]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Action]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environmental Racism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fossil Fuels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LNG]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=317211</guid> <description><![CDATA[Activists from around the world gathered in New York this week to condemn Citigroup’s environmental racism.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hundreds of climate activists gathered at the global headquarters of Citigroup in New York on Wednesday to demand the banking giant stop financing fossil fuel companies. The protests come on the heels of a first-of-its-kind Earth Day hearing where environmental activists from around the world gathered in New York this week to condemn what they call Citigroup’s environmental racism.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/climate-activists-blockade-hq-of-worlds-second-largest-funder-of-fossil-fuels/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman & Juan González]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/Citigroupprotest-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>California Gov. Newsom Proposes Bill to Help Arizonans Seeking Abortion Care</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/california-gov-newsom-proposes-bill-to-help-arizonans-seeking-abortion-care/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:39:33 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona abortion ban]]></category> <category><![CDATA[California]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317208</guid> <description><![CDATA[The bill is a response to Arizona’s abortion ban, which will likely prompt abortion seekers to travel to California.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is set to propose new legislation that would allow Arizona abortion providers to become certified faster within California. Newsom has said that the bill is necessary because of an 1864 anti-abortion statute that will soon be re-implemented in the Grand Canyon State, and the high likelihood that Arizonans will travel to California in the months afterward seeking...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/california-gov-newsom-proposes-bill-to-help-arizonans-seeking-abortion-care/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0424-newsom-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Despite Violent Threats, Maine Signs Trans and Abortion Sanctuary Bill Into Law</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/despite-violent-threats-maine-signs-trans-and-abortion-sanctuary-bill-into-law/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Reed]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:38:14 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion Access]]></category> <category><![CDATA[access to health care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gender affirming care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trans Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317191</guid> <description><![CDATA[It codifies gender-affirming and reproductive care as legal rights and offers protection from out-of-state prosecution.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Tuesday, Gov. Janet Mills of Maine signed LD 227, a sanctuary bill that protects transgender and abortion providers and patients from out-of-state prosecution, into law. With this action, Maine becomes the 16th state to explicitly protect transgender and abortion care in state law from prosecution. This follows several bomb threats targeting state legislators after social media attacks from far...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/despite-violent-threats-maine-signs-trans-and-abortion-sanctuary-bill-into-law/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Erin Reed]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Erin In The Morning]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0424-maine-abortion-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Senate Approves $95B Package With $17B in Unconditional Military Aid for Israel</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/senate-approves-95b-package-with-17b-in-unconditional-military-aid-for-israel/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:21:28 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biden Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US military aid to Israel]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317188</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sanders condemned the Senate's refusal to allow a vote on his amendment to cut military aid to Israel from the bill.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the support of nearly 80% of the chamber’s lawmakers, the U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved a sprawling foreign aid package that includes $17 billion in unconditional military assistance for the Israeli government as it ramps up its catastrophic assault on the Gaza Strip. The final vote on the $95 billion package, which also included military aid for Ukraine and Taiwan, was 79-18...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/senate-approves-95b-package-with-17b-in-unconditional-military-aid-for-israel/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0424-palestine-girl-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Corporate Power Has Long Dominated Alabama. Autoworkers May Change That.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/corporate-power-has-long-dominated-alabama-autoworkers-may-change-that/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Derek Seidman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:19:16 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[autoworkers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CEO Pay]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corporate Power]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gov. Kay Ivey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[UAW]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wages]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317178</guid> <description><![CDATA[The UAW’s fight to unionize autoworkers represents a larger struggle against the state’s corporate power structure.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week, the United Auto Workers (UAW) notched a historic victory when workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted decisively to unionize. This is the first triumph in the UAW’s ambitious new campaign to organize over a dozen nonunion auto plants across the U.S., especially in the South. Now the focus moves to Vance, Alabama, where 5,000 Mercedes-Benz workers will vote on a...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/corporate-power-has-long-dominated-alabama-autoworkers-may-change-that/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Derek Seidman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0424-uaw-grouphug-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Judge Rejects Trump Lawyer’s Gag Order Defense: “You’re Losing All Credibility”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/judge-rejects-trump-lawyers-gag-order-defense-youre-losing-all-credibility/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:57:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gag order]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hush Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Juan Merchan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump trials]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317193</guid> <description><![CDATA[Prosecutors seek a $1,000 fine for each of the 10 times Trump has seemingly violated the court-imposed gag order.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New York Justice Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money trial, has so far refused to issue a formal decision over whether Trump violated a gag order in the case, although he chastised Trump’s lawyers on Tuesday for claiming their client was trying to follow the rules imposed on him. Trump has been charged with 34 counts relating to covering up hush money payments to women he...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/judge-rejects-trump-lawyers-gag-order-defense-youre-losing-all-credibility/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0424-blanche-trump-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Summer Lee Wins Primary Against Opponent Backed by Billionaire GOP Megadonor</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/summer-lee-wins-primary-against-opponent-backed-by-billionaire-gop-megadonor/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:56:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[AIPAC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MAGA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category> <category><![CDATA[primaries]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Summer Lee]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Squad]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317177</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lee defeated Bhavini Patel, who characterized Lee as "fringe” and actively courted Republican and pro-Israel voters.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rep. Summer Lee, a member of the progressive “Squad,” won the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District on Tuesday, fending off an opponent whose campaign was backed by a billionaire Republican megadonor and ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Lee, a vocal critic of the Netanyahu government and leading supporter of a cease-fire in Gaza...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/summer-lee-wins-primary-against-opponent-backed-by-billionaire-gop-megadonor/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0424-summer-lee-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Afghan Asylum Seekers Are Being Denied Their Religious Rights in ICE Prisons</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/afghan-asylum-seekers-are-being-denied-their-religious-rights-in-ice-prisons/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laila Ayub]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:36:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Asylum Seekers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prisons]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317124</guid> <description><![CDATA[Detained Afghan asylum seekers remind us that the US immigration system is rooted in anti-Muslim racism.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Each week, my organization, Project ANAR, receives multiple requests for assistance from Afghans of all ages who are detained in U.S. immigration prisons after crossing the southern border to seek asylum here. And each year, Ramadan brings to the forefront the depths of anti-Muslim racism they experience while navigating the U.S. immigration system. Part of my job as a grassroots immigration...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/afghan-asylum-seekers-are-being-denied-their-religious-rights-in-ice-prisons/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Laila Ayub]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0424-refugee-camp-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>South Korean High Court Hears First-Ever Youth Climate Case in Asia</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/south-korean-high-court-hears-first-ever-youth-climate-case-in-asia/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:40:54 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biden Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Activism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category> <category><![CDATA[youth climate activists]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317121</guid> <description><![CDATA[The lawsuit notes that the government is constitutionally obligated to protect Koreans from the climate emergency.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of South Korea’s two highest courts on Tuesday began hearing Asia’s first-ever youth-led climate lawsuit, which accuses the country’s government of failing to protect citizens from the effects of the worsening, human-caused planetary emergency. Nineteen members of the advocacy group Youth4ClimateAction filed a constitutional complaint in March 2020 accusing the South Korean government of...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/south-korean-high-court-hears-first-ever-youth-climate-case-in-asia/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Cops Raid Palestinian Solidarity Encampments, Arrest Protesters at Yale and NYU</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/cops-raid-palestinian-solidarity-encampments-arrest-protesters-at-yale-and-nyu/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:22:04 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Columbia University]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York University]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NYPD]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Student Activists]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yale]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=317119</guid> <description><![CDATA[The encampment at Columbia University is entering its seventh day despite mass arrests of protesters there last week.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Palestinian solidarity protests and encampments are appearing on college campuses from Massachusetts to California to protest Israel’s attacks on Gaza and to call for divestment from Israeli apartheid. This week, police have raided encampments and arrested students at Yale and New York University. Palestinian American scholar and New York University professor Helga Tawil-Souri describes forming a...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/cops-raid-palestinian-solidarity-encampments-arrest-protesters-at-yale-and-nyu/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman & Juan González]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/SEG1-Columbia-Protests-3-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Ohio Attorney General Asks Court to Restrict Judge’s Pause on Anti-Trans Law</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/ohio-attorney-general-asks-court-to-restrict-judges-pause-on-anti-trans-law/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:19:45 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Attorney General]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bans on gender-affirming care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trans Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[transgender youth]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317118</guid> <description><![CDATA[However, AG David Yost had no issues with the "court's authority" when it issued an injunction against gun ordinances.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Monday, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) urged the Ohio Supreme Court to review a lower court judge’s temporary restraining order against the state’s gender-affirming care ban for transgender youth, arguing that the decision to block the ban was overly broad. In March, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the state over the gender-affirming care ban, House Bill 68, on behalf of two...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/ohio-attorney-general-asks-court-to-restrict-judges-pause-on-anti-trans-law/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2082107757-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Human Rights Advocates Slam UK Move to Deport Asylum Seekers to Rwanda</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/human-rights-advocates-slam-uk-move-to-deport-asylum-seekers-to-rwanda/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:38:53 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rwanda]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rwandan genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317114</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Labour Party has vowed to scrap the legislation if it wins control of the government later this year.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Legal and human rights experts on Tuesday said the British Conservative Party’s decision to push through a bill allowing the government to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda — feffectively overriding last year’s Supreme Court ruling — represented a “desperate low” from lawmakers eager to exploit migrants ahead of elections expected later this year. “A lot of this is performative cruelty...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/human-rights-advocates-slam-uk-move-to-deport-asylum-seekers-to-rwanda/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>More Than 20 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Die in Iowa as Legislature Adjourns</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/more-than-20-anti-lgbtq-bills-die-in-iowa-as-legislature-adjourns/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Reed]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:36:56 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[legislation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trans Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317104</guid> <description><![CDATA[The state has been the site of fierce resistance to anti-LGBTQ+ legislation this year.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the latest in a series of victories for trans and queer people in statehouses across the United States, Iowa’s legislature has adjourned sine die without passing a single piece of explicitly anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. This is despite more than 20 bills being introduced targeting LGBTQ+ individuals, including some introduced and prioritized by the governor herself. Other states...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/more-than-20-anti-lgbtq-bills-die-in-iowa-as-legislature-adjourns/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Erin Reed]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Erin In The Morning]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>We Can’t Trade a Path to Legalization in Exchange for More Border Militarization</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/we-cant-trade-a-path-to-legalization-in-exchange-for-more-border-militarization/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eleanor J. Bader]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:31:53 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abolition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Detention Watch Network]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Family Separation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigrant Detention]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Incarceration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prisons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Unbuild Walls]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317097</guid> <description><![CDATA[Author Silky Shah says immigration enforcement and the prison-industrial complex are intertwined systems of oppression.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Silky Shah, executive director of the Detention Watch Network, a 27-year-old, national coalition working to abolish the incarceration of immigrants in the United States, says that the domestic “immigration enforcement system and the prison-industrial complex are not separate, but are intertwined systems of oppression.” Her first book, Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/we-cant-trade-a-path-to-legalization-in-exchange-for-more-border-militarization/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Eleanor J. Bader]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Public Health Finally Sees Incarceration as a Crisis. Abolition Is the Solution.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/public-health-finally-sees-incarceration-as-a-crisis-abolition-is-the-solution/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Cristian Farias]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:31:20 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abolition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mass Incarceration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prisons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317105</guid> <description><![CDATA[Backed by research, more public health advocates are opposing projects that harm rather than heal their communities.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Body and Soul, a pathbreaking examination of the Black Panther Party’s abiding commitment to health activism, Alondra Nelson recounts how Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, and other party leaders came to prioritize the pursuit of health and healing as vital to their survival — in more ways than one. As the Panthers’ reputation for armed resistance to police violence and demands for a society that left...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/public-health-finally-sees-incarceration-as-a-crisis-abolition-is-the-solution/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Cristian Farias]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout / Inquest]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1617311621-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Migrants Tricked Into DeSantis Flight Scheme Qualify for Residency Visas</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/migrants-tricked-into-desantis-flight-scheme-qualify-for-residency-visas/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:22:42 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Martha's Vineyard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Migrants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[u visa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[visas]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317094</guid> <description><![CDATA[The migrants "are now able to legally work in the United States" and are protected from deportation, their lawyer said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some of the dozens of migrants who were tricked by a scheme orchestrated by Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office into boarding an airplane in Florida and flying to Martha’s Vineyard in 2022 have been granted temporary visas due to the fact that they may have been victims of a crime. DeSantis’s office coordinated two planes to fly the migrants (most of whom had come to the U.S. from Venezuela) from San...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/migrants-tricked-into-desantis-flight-scheme-qualify-for-residency-visas/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0423-desantis-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Sanders to Push Amendment Removing Military Funding for Israel in Aid Package</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-to-push-amendment-removing-military-funding-for-israel-in-aid-package/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:09:51 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biden Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[financial aid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[military funding]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317098</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sanders’s amendment would restore US funding to UNRWA, the most important aid agency working in Gaza.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that he would put forth an amendment to remove offensive military funding for Israel from a House-passed aid package that the Senate is set to consider this week. The amendment would “cut billions in offensive military funding to Israel from the proposed national security supplemental package,” Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a statement. The package...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-to-push-amendment-removing-military-funding-for-israel-in-aid-package/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Israel Tied With Iran Among Top Jailers of Journalists in 2023, Report Finds</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israel-leads-countries-in-jailing-reporters-since-start-of-genocide-in-palestine/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:15:57 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Committee to Protect Journalists]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[IDF]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel Defense Forces]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Journalist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestinian]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317089</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Committee to Protect Journalists says 2023 saw the highest number of arrests of Palestinian journalists since 1992.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A recent report from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) found that Israel tied with Iran as one of the world’s leaders in jailing journalists for 2023. “Israel has appeared several times on CPJ’s annual census, but this is the highest number of arrests of Palestinian journalists since CPJ began documenting arrests in 1992 and the first time Israel has ranked among the top six offenders,”...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israel-leads-countries-in-jailing-reporters-since-start-of-genocide-in-palestine/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2110555809-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>As Climate Crisis Grows, Youth Environmental Movements Are Radicalizing</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/as-climate-crisis-grows-youth-environmental-movements-are-radicalizing/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Powers]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:06:29 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Refugees]]></category> <category><![CDATA[environmental activism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Extinction Rebellion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Greta Thunberg]]></category> <category><![CDATA[radical democracy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sunrise Movement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Youth Activism]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317059</guid> <description><![CDATA[Failed by their governments and faced with an unlivable future, young people are fighting for their lives.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Carrying a rifle, a young Indigenous man searches the Amazon forest for illegal loggers, followed by a crew from the 2023 documentary film We Are Guardians. Five thousand miles away, youth from Just Stop Oil throw soup on the painting “Sunflowers” by Vincent Van Gogh at the National Gallery in London in 2022. They yell as reporters film them, “What is more important? Art or life?</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/as-climate-crisis-grows-youth-environmental-movements-are-radicalizing/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Nicholas Powers]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0422-climate-crisis-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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