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The merger will place two of the largest U.S. broadcast news networks — CBS News and CNN — under the control of a single company that “has shown it is willing to warp and manipulate news coverage to please the president,” said Craig Aaron.
South Carolina federal judge ruled last week that the Trump administration’s termination of hundreds of environmental justice grants was illegal, a decision that could impact $20 million in federal funding rescinded from the Walker River Paiute Tribe in Nevada.
“It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different or a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place and had worked for, for a long stretch of time before we, the United States, pulled out of it,” Obama said of Trump’s decision in 2018.
Israel wants to use football “as an instrument to promote normalization and peace,” as Israel has killed at least 565 Palestinian soccer players, coaches, and sports staff since the start of its genocide in Gaza in 2023. Between 5,000 and 6,000 survivors of the genocide have also lost limbs.
They were demanding investments in renewable energy alongside demands not traditionally associated with the environmental justice movement, including affordable housing, food justice, and increased funding for rec centers and public libraries.
“This has been one of the most shallow and corrupt merger review processes we’ve ever seen,” warned Aaron, saying that the many violations of press freedom committed by CBS News since its acquisition last year could soon be seen at CNN.
On May 21, activists with the Philadelphia chapter of the Sunrise Movement began a protracted hunger strike, vowing to starve themselves until Mayor Cherelle Parker committed to spending an extraordinary $1.19 billion municipal budget surplus on community programs.
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A recent hunger strike in Philadelphia demonstrated the expanding scope of environmental justice organizing.
