[Editorial] Building on the PrEP victory<\/strong> When death dealers make ventilators, we know it's time to end the arms trade<\/strong> When Economists Try to Solve Health Crises, the Results Can Often Be Disastrous<\/strong> Athlete Activists Respond to the Coronavirus Pandemic<\/strong> Climate strike online<\/strong> Feudal Japan's Edo and the US Empire<\/strong> Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid & How to Organize in the Age of Coronavirus<\/strong> Can the World's Second Superpower Rise From the Ashes of Twenty Years of War?<\/strong>
\nThe Lancet | thelancet.com<\/a> | 2020-03-28
\nOn March 15, the UK Department of Health and Social Care announced funding to make pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication available on the National Health Service in England for HIV prevention. This decision will be met, finally, with a sense of achievement by HIV activists and care providers, who have fought long and hard to make tenofovir-based PrEP drugs widely accessible in the UK, 8 years after the US Food and Drug Administration approved them and more than 4 years after WHO recommended their use for people at high risk of acquiring HIV.
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\nEliza Egret | thecanary.co | 2020-03-28
\nPeace activists might be relieved to hear that UK arms companies are teaming up to make much-needed ventilators. Some of the country's biggest dealers in death<\/p>\n
\nJustin Podur | zcomm.org<\/a> | 2020-03-28
\nClassical economics helped kill millions in the British Empire's famines–following economic orthodoxy today could be just as deadly…
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\nDave Zirin | thenation.com<\/a> | 2020-03-27
\nAthlete Activists Respond to the Coronavirus Pandemic…
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\npip.hinman | greenleft.org<\/a>.au | 2020-03-26
\nClimate crisis Zebedee ParkesIssue 1258 Australia COVID-19 Fridays for the FutureMarch 27, 2020Around the world climate activists are continuing to hold weekly Friday strikes for climate action [mdas…
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\nHiroyuki Hamada | dissidentvoice.org<\/a> | 2020-03-25
\nAfter the warlord period of 15th century, Japan was united by a few families and then by a shogun family. The period is called the Edo period. They disarmed civilians and established a mild caste system. The country was closed except for a few ports controlled by the central government, travel restrictions were put in …
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\nStaff | democracynow.org<\/a> | 2020-03-20
\nAs lockdowns and layoffs sweep the U.S., mutual aid groups are forming to protect and provide for the vulnerable, including the elderly, incarcerated, undocumented and unhoused. We look at the incredible community networks across the country that are coming together to protect their neighbors during the coronavirus pandemic<\/p>\n
\nMedea Benjamin | zcomm.org<\/a> | 2020-03-02
\nIf there is a lesson for peace-loving Americans in the Obama and Trump presidencies, it is that we cannot just walk out of the voting booth and leave it to a champion in the White House to end our wars and bring us peace. In the final analysis, it really is up to us…
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