New York Times best-selling author Andra Watkins: ‘Project Esther’ Advocates Suppression of Pro-Palestinian Protest, Equating All Dissent with Terrorism

Progressive Democrats of America Executive Director Alan Minsky: Passive Democrats Fail to Convene Emergency Meeting to Confront Trump’s Assault on Democracy

Defend and Recruit organizer Umme Hoque: Growing National Boycott Campaign Targets Avelo Airlines for its ICE Deportation Flights Contract

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Seventy-five of the poorest nations owe large debts to China
• Tax breaks flipped GOP representatives on Medicaid cuts
• Pro bono architectural aid rebuilding Los Angeles after wildfires

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Social Security Works' Alex Lawson: Trump-GOP House Budget Bill will Literally Kill Americans Who Lose Access to Healthcare

Vietnam veteran Russell Brown: Veterans and Allies’ 40-Day Fast Demands Israel Restore Full Humanitarian Aid to Gaza

Connecticut Action Group's Helen Humphries: Campaign Targets Insurance Companies to End Their Underwriting and Investments in Fossil Fuels

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Salvadoran dictator arrests human rights lawyer Ruth Lopez
• Peru courts grant "personhood" status to Marañon River in Amazon basin
• Trump emergency logging directive supercharges wildfire risk

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Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Popular Democracy in Action's Analilia Mejia: Overwhelming Opposition to Trump-GOP’s Extreme Medicaid, SNAP Budget Cuts

Democracy for the Arab World's Raed Jarrar: Trump Visit to Oil-Rich Gulf Monarchies Produces Mixed Outcome

Democratic Constitution Blog's Luke Pickrell: Repairing the Constitution’s Democracy Deficit Key to Challenging Trump Authoritarian Power Grab

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• South Sudan conflict escalates
• New policies criminalize homelessness
• Unique labor organization organizes ex-convicts

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