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People’s Vaccine: Calls Grow for Equal Access to Coronavirus Vaccine as Rich Countries Hoard Supply

While the United States, Britain and other wealthy countries race to vaccinate their populations against the coronavirus, a new report finds that as much as 90% of the population in dozens of poorer countries could be forced to wait until at least 2022 because wealthy countries are hoarding so much of the vaccine supply. A growing movement is calling for the development of a people’s vaccine and the suspension of intellectual property rights to expand access. We speak with Dr.

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson Wins “Alternative Nobel” for Work Against Mass Incarceration

Civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, was one of four human rights defenders to win this year’s Right Livelihood Award on December 3. “I work in a country that has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. I work against a system that treats you better if you’re rich and guilty than if you’re poor and innocent,” he said in accepting the honor.

Tuesday Night Owls: Tracking COVID’s spread among Latinos in a small Colorado community

Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week

43 DAYS UNTIL JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS TAKE THE OATH OF OFFICE

Markian Hawryluk at Kaiser Health News writes—Tracking COVID’s Spread Inside a Tight-Knit Latino Community:

Early in the pandemic, Ximena Rebolledo León, a registered nurse at Telluride Regional Medical Center in southwestern Colorado, needed to find everyone who’d been in contact with a sick Latino worker

Tuesday Night Owls: Tracking COVID’s spread among Latinos in a small Colorado community

Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week

43 DAYS UNTIL JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS TAKE THE OATH OF OFFICE

Markian Hawryluk at Kaiser Health News writes—Tracking COVID’s Spread Inside a Tight-Knit Latino Community:

Early in the pandemic, Ximena Rebolledo León, a registered nurse at Telluride Regional Medical Center in southwestern Colorado, needed to find everyone who’d been in contact with a sick Latino worker

Judge rips New York officials for disastrous election and orders thousands of votes to be reviewed

In a scathing ruling, a state judge excoriated seven local boards of election for botching the administration of last month’s election in New York’s 22nd Congressional District and ordered officials to fix their many errors, which could result in more than a thousand untallied ballots getting counted.

Last week, Judge Scott DelConte ordered all eight county boards to produce official tallies in the race between Democratic Rep.

Judge rips New York officials for disastrous election and orders thousands of votes to be reviewed

In a scathing ruling, a state judge excoriated seven local boards of election for botching the administration of last month’s election in New York’s 22nd Congressional District and ordered officials to fix their many errors, which could result in more than a thousand untallied ballots getting counted.

Last week, Judge Scott DelConte ordered all eight county boards to produce official tallies in the race between Democratic Rep.

Democrat senators add language to defense bill requiring federal officers ID themselves at protests

One of the more chilling and underreported developments of the past four years has been the Trump administration’s employment of unidentified federal officers to threaten, intimidate, attack, and arrest lawful protesters. Often heavily armed, these steroid-bulked goons with no personal identification were dispatched last June, for example, to intimidate protesters in Washington, D.C.

Democrat senators add language to defense bill requiring federal officers ID themselves at protests

One of the more chilling and underreported developments of the past four years has been the Trump administration’s employment of unidentified federal officers to threaten, intimidate, attack, and arrest lawful protesters. Often heavily armed, these steroid-bulked goons with no personal identification were dispatched last June, for example, to intimidate protesters in Washington, D.C.