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Brett Wilkins

Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

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Sep 22, 2020
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Economy & Labor

Jayapal Leads Proposal for Constitutional Amendment to End Corporate Personhood

50 Democratic congressmembers joined Jayapal in introducing an amendment to “put power back into the hands of people.”
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Brett Wilkins,
Common Dreams
April 7, 2021
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Human Rights

Rashida Tlaib Says That Support Is Growing in Congress for Palestinian Rights

Tlaib also said the pandemic underscores how Israel’s “occupation threatens the lives and well-being of Palestinians.”
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Brett Wilkins,
Common Dreams
April 5, 2021
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland listens as President Joe Biden holds his first cabinet meeting in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 1, 2021.
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Human Rights

Haaland Announces Investigative Unit for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced that the Bureau of Indian Affairs will create the Missing and Murdered Unit.
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Brett Wilkins,
Common Dreams
April 3, 2021
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Rio Grande Valley residents, including Native and environmental activists, participate in an annual climate march and rally on March 3, 2019, protesting the border wall’s impacts on the land and wildlife in the area.
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Environment & Health

Cancellation of Fracking Project in Texas Shows Power of Grassroots Organizing

The project was one of three proposed fracked natural gas terminals in the Rio Grande Valley. 
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Brett Wilkins,
Common Dreams
March 23, 2021
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Íñigo Errejón speaks passionately
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Economy & Labor

Spain Plans to Begin Experimenting With a Four-Day Workweek

Employees would work 32 hours per week, with no reduction in pay.
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Brett Wilkins,
Common Dreams
March 17, 2021
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A refinery is seen on August 29, 2017, in Deer Park, Texas.
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Politics & Elections

Texas Refineries Release Over 300,000 Pounds of Pollutants During Storm

Winter Storm Uri disrupted supplies needed to keep the state’s refineries and petrochemical plants operating.
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Brett Wilkins,
Common Dreams
February 22, 2021
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Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater USA, arrives to appear before a closed door session of the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, November 30, 2017, in Washington, D.C.
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War & Peace

Prominent Trump Ally Illegally Supplied Libyan Warlord With Armed Mercenaries

A new report says Erik Prince, the founder and former CEO of the mercenary firm Blackwater, violated a UN arms embargo.
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Brett Wilkins,
Common Dreams
February 21, 2021
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A child is seen in a house a day after it was hit by airstrikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition that left six people killed and more than 40 others injured on May 17, 2019, in Sana'a, Yemen.
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War & Peace

Ilhan Omar: Arms Sale Freeze Is “First Step” to End US Support for War on Yemen

The Biden administration is imposing a temporary freeze on arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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Brett Wilkins,
Common Dreams
January 28, 2021
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Central American asylum seekers wait as U.S. Border Patrol agents take groups of them into custody on June 12, 2018, near McAllen, Texas.
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Immigration

“Damning” New IG Report Finds Proof of Trump Team Cruelty to Asylum Seekers

The report directly implicates Trump in the disastrous family separation policy.
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Brett Wilkins,
Common Dreams
January 15, 2021
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Abortion rights advocates including NARAL Georgia Director Laura Simmons (2nd-L) rally in front of the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta to protest new restrictions on abortions that were passed in Georgia, on May 21, 2019.
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Reproductive Rights

Reproductive Rights Advocates Say Ohio Fetal Remains Bill Is Unconstitutional

Senate Bill 27 was signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Mike DeWine.
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Brett Wilkins,
Common Dreams
January 1, 2021
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