09 August 20
Pandemic Fundraising: Unique and Challenging
There is no playbook for fundraising in the grip of a deadly pandemic and its global economic impact. The COVD-19 virus is novel and solutions will need to be novel as well.
Making this work starts with people doing what they can. As always some will be able to do more, some perhaps a bit less but doing what you can is the key.
Please be safe out there we’re going to need our community.
Marc Ash
Founder, Reader Supported News
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09 August 20
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PODCAST: Marc Ash | Interview With Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen
Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "In this the second episode of The RSN Podcast, I am joined by RootsAction co-founders Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen. We discussed their article, 'New Progressive Campaign to Vote Trump Out in Swing States,' the direction of the progressive movement heading into the 2020 presidential election cycle, and what comes after. It was quite a good conversation."
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A man speaks with a library worker after receiving an unemployment form in Miami Beach, Florida. (photo: Marco Bello/Reuters)
Trump's Stimulus Orders May Not Be Enforceable
Maggie Haberman, Emily Cochrane and Jim Tankersley, The New York Times
Excerpt: "President Trump took executive action on Saturday to circumvent Congress and try to extend an array of federal pandemic relief, resorting to a legally dubious set of edicts whose impact was unclear, as negotiations over an economic recovery package appeared on the brink of collapse."
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Mark Zuckerberg. (photo: B&T)
Facebook Removes Troll Farm Posing as African-American Support for Donald Trump
Ben Collins and Kevin Collier
Excerpt: "Facebook removed hundreds of accounts on Thursday from a foreign troll farm posing as African-Americans in support of Donald Trump and QAnon supporters. It also removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to conservative media outlet The Epoch Times that pushed pro-Trump conspiracy theories about coronavirus and protests in the U.S."
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Cori Bush. (photo: Courtesy of Cori Bush for Congress)
Cori Bush Has Proved Progressives Are Gaining Strength - and That Gives Me Hope
Arwa Mahdawi, Guardian UK
Mahdawi writes: "Cori Bush used to be homeless - now she's on her way to the House of Representatives."
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A protester confronts police in Beirut. (photo: Al Jazeera)
Tear Gas and Clashes in Beirut Amid Fury Over Massive Explosion
Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
Bulos writes: "Demonstrators stormed government buildings, lighting fires and fighting pitched street battles with security forces in the Lebanese capital on Saturday, even as the country's embattled prime minister called for early parliamentary elections."
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Sunday Song: Sam Cooke | Chain Gang
Sam Cooke, YouTube
Excerpt: "That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang."
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Photographs of the leak show thick, sticky oils coating the water and the ground. (photo: Oumme Sakina Auckburaully/CNN)
A Stricken Ship Is Leaking Tonnes of Fuel Into the 'Pristine Lagoons' of the Indian Ocean
Sara Spary and Amy Woodyatt, CNN
Excerpt: "Mauritius is facing a 'state of environmental emergency' after a wrecked ship began breaking up, spilling oil into the Indian Ocean."
The vessel ran aground at Pointe d'Esny on the east of the island nation in late July, according to local media reports and environmental campaigners. This is close to the Blue Bay Marine Park reserve and a number of popular tourist beaches.
Damage to the boat has since caused it to leak out polluting waste into the surrounding area, and photographs circulating on social media appear to show thick, sticky oils coating the water and the ground.
On Friday, Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth declared a state of environmental emergency. Mauritius lies next to the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, and Jugnauth also appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron for help on Twitter.
The Mauritian leader said "our country does not have the skills and expertise to refloat stranded ships."
On Saturday, Macron said that France was deploying teams and equipment from Reunion Island in response.
Happy Khambule, Greenpeace Africa senior climate and energy campaign manager, warned that the bulk carrier was leaking "tonnes of diesel and oil into the ocean," and threatening the area's wildlife.
"Thousands of species around the pristine lagoons of Blue Bay, Pointe d'Esny and Mahebourg are at risk of drowning in a sea of pollution, with dire consequences for Mauritius' economy, food security and health," Khambule said in a Friday statement.
A clean-up operation is underway.
The country's minister of the environment Kavy Ramano said on Friday: "We are in a situation of environmental crisis."
Younous Omarjee, a member of the European Parliament from Reunion Island, told CNN that international cooperation was needed to deal with the "ecological disaster."
"This is a serious environmental crisis and we are not yet aware of all the consequences it could have. It's also terrible for Mauritius, whose economy is based on tourism and has already been severely impacted by the pandemic," he told CNN.
France's Minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili announced Saturday that France is providing support to the Mauritian authorities to deal with the fuel leak.
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