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TODAY'S TOP STORIES - April 28, 2017 The Top 10 Resistance Victories in Trump's First 100 Days By John Cavanagh, Sarah Anderson, Domenica Ghanem, AlterNet New social movements are making their power felt in ways that would have been unimaginable before Trump took office. READ MORE» Epic Fight Over Florida's Political Future Looms As Constitutional Amendment to Restore Felon Voting Rights Clears Hurdle By Lulu Friesdat, AlterNet Repealing the Jim Crow law that keeps 1.5 million Floridians from voting. READ MORE» The 100 Days That Turned America Upside Down By Neal Gabler, BillMoyers.com Trump, promised to disrupt the country. He has—and more. READ MORE» Ivanka, the Fairytale Princess of False Feminism By Adele M. Stan, The American Prospect Fifty-three percent of white women voted for Trump, and Ivanka was one of the reasons. READ MORE» The Trump Family's Massive Grift: As a Business and Branding Venture, This Presidency and His Family Are Doing Swell By Heather Digby Parton, Salon Legislative accomplishments? Zilch. But in terms of building the family fortune for the future, it's all going well. READ MORE» What You Need to Know About April 29th's Climate March By Ilana Novick, AlterNet The People's Climate March is part of more than a week of intersectional direct action, beginning with the March for Science and ending with May Day. READ MORE» American Media Continues to Ignore Historic Hunger Strike Underway in Israeli Prisons By Vijay Prashad, AlterNet The Western media should pay more attention to the Palestinian prisoner strike. READ MORE» President Trump's Corporate Government By Robert Weissman, AlterNet The Trump administration is off to a roaring start on delivering the goodies to Big Business. READ MORE» Elizabeth Warren Issues a Dire Warning to Pro-Choice America By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet "We could be in that fight up to our eyeballs this very week with the new budget coming through." READ MORE» To Have Impact, the People's Climate March Needs to Reach Beyond Activists By Jill Hopke, The Conversation Approximately seven in 10 Trump voters may be reachable on climate issues—but march organizers need to consider how to engage them. READ MORE» Hightower: The Postal Service Is Doing Great, Despite Lies and Distortions From the Right-Wing By Jim Hightower, AlterNet Contrary to the Washington Post's report, the nation's public post offices racked up a $610 million operating profit last year, and a $1.2 billion profit the year before. READ MORE» Trump's Full of It on Opioid Epidemic: GOP Health Plan Would Slash Medicaid Funding for Drug Treatment By Amanda Marcotte, Salon Trumpcare 2.0 will make the opioid problem only worse by slashing the Medicaid funds that get people treated. READ MORE» Are People Moving to States Where Marijuana Is Legal? By Ryan Carrigan, Move Buddha How much of a draw is the right to have and use weed? READ MORE» Homeless and Unemployed in an Economy We're Supposed to Think Is Liberating By Ilana Gershon, University of Chicago Press In Ilana Gershon's new book "Down and Out in the New Economy," the employer power dynamic is called into question. READ MORE» Remembering the Insider Who Blew the Whistle on Corporate Greed By Sam Pizzigati, OtherWords Graef Crystal proved that corporations won't police themselves. Maybe good policies can. READ MORE» Officers Deprive Man Water in Solitary for 7 Days And Dehydrate Him to Death By Jack Burns, The Free Thought Project Terrell Thomas's death was a murder, not an accident. READ MORE» You are subscribed as: bsamad2007.adnan@blogger.com View this mailing as a webpage. SUPPORT ALTERNET | CONTACT US | PRIVACY POLICY | UNSUBSCRIBE © 2015 Independent Media Institutes All Rights Reserved 1881 Harmon Street, Berkeley, CA 94703