Common Dreams Highlights | Thursday, 4 December 2014

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News & Views | 12.04.14 Featured… ‘This Stops Today‘: Nationwide Protests Planned in Wake of Eric Garner Decision http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/04/stops-today-nationwide-protests-planned-wake-eric-garner-decision Headlines… In Absence of Public Debate, Kerry Vows to Wage War ‘As Long As It Takes’ http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/04/absence-public-debate-kerry-vows-wage-war-long-it-takes Low-Wage Workers Retake National Stage in ‘Fight for 15’ http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/04/low-wage-workers-retake-national-stage-fight-15 Obama Ready to Defy Base in Order to Advance Trans-Pacific Partnership http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/04/obama-ready-defy-base-order-advance-trans-pacific-partnership Fears of Renewed Devastation as Super Typhoon Hagupit Targets Philippines http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/04/fears-renewed-devastation-super-typhoon-hagupit-targets-philippines ‘Worst’ Ecological Disaster in Israel’s History as Pipeline Spews Oil http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/04/worst-ecological-disaster-israels-history-pipeline-spews-oil “I Can’t Breathe”: Eric Garner’s Plea Becomes Rallying Cry for Justice http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/04/i-cant-breathe-eric-garners-plea-becomes-rallying-cry-justice and more… **************************************************** Views… Fania Davis: This Country Needs a Truth and Reconciliation Process on Violence Against African Americans—Right Now http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/12/04/country-needs-truth-and-reconciliation-process-violence-against-african-americans Tom Engelhardt: War to the Horizon http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/12/04/war-horizon Eric Holt-Giménez: Tangled Roots and Bitter Fruit: What Ferguson and New York Can Teach the Food Movement http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/12/04/tangled-roots-and-bitter-fruit-what-ferguson-and-new-york-can-teach-food-movement William Grover, Joseph Peschek: Our Imperial System: On How Not to Think About the American Presidency http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/12/04/our-imperial-system-how-not-think-about-american-presidency Steven Thrasher: The Eric Garner Decision Confirms a Holiday of Horrors. ‘Tis the Season for More Protest, Not Less http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/12/04/eric-garner-decision-confirms-holiday-horrors-tis-season-more-protest-not-less **************************************************** Newswire… Friends of the Earth: Cruise Ships Flushed More Than a Billion Gallons of Sewage into Oceans Again This Year http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/12/04/cruise-ships-flushed-more-billion-gallons-sewage-oceans-again-year NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Denounces Grand Jury Decision Not to Indict New York Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the Choking Death of Eric Garner http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/12/04/naacp-legal-defense-educational-fund-denounces-grand-jury-decision-not-indict Don’t Shoot Coalition: St. Louis Activists Decry Grand Jury Decision in Eric Garner Death http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/12/04/st-louis-activists-decry-grand-jury-decision-eric-garner-death and more…

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