Wednesday, September 23, 2020

JAPAN HAS BUILT A BLOODY MASSIVE GUNDAM ROBOT

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Japan's Gundam Factory Yokohama is now the proud owner of a fucking massive Gundam robot. It's over 18-meters tall, weighs 25 tonnes, and — after years of painstaking work putting the thing together — it's now in testing mode.

The model is based on the hugely popular 1970s anime series Mobile Suit Gundam. It was due to become the Factory's centerpiece on October 1 but its official unveiling has been pushed back thanks to coronavirus. For now, a testing video of the robot taking a knee and moving its arms and fingers around will have to suffice.

According to The Guardian, the robot took six years to make, ensuring each limb met various weight restrictions so it would move seamlessly and, assumedly, not fall apart and crush anyone in close proximity.

Watch: This factory in Yokohoma, Japan is testing its 60-foot-tall Gundam robot
The robot weighs 25 tonnes and is a recreation of a character from Japanese science-fiction.

An 18-metre tall statue of the robot in 2009 — The huge Gundam robot in Yokohama, Japan, can take a knee and move its arm. Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images

The huge Gundam robot in Yokohama, Japan, can take a knee and move its arm. Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images

MP Stella Creasy Tells Us Why Misogyny Must Be Treated As A Hate Crime

BY SUSAN DEVANEY 23 SEPTEMBER 2020

All it takes is a quick Google search to see that Stella Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow in London, has been fighting to make misogyny a hate crime in the UK for years now. In 2018, she successfully put forward an amendment to the “upskirting” bill, to help ensure misogyny would be seen as an aggravating factor in the offence. Now, far from being sidetracked from her mission by the ongoing global pandemic, she’s campaigning for misogyny to be treated as a hate crime in the enhanced version of the Domestic Abuse Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament.

“One of things we know is that, during Covid-19, there has been an increase in reports of abuse and harassment of women,” Creasy tells British Vogue. “People are talking about how life is going to have to be different post-Covid, let’s make one of the differences that women aren’t frightened, when we finally fully end lockdown, to be able to go about their business.”

Since the start of the pandemic in March, instances of domestic abuse have increased in every country that reports figures. Refuge, the UK’s largest domestic abuse charity, has witnessed a 66 per cent rise in demand for its National Domestic Abuse Helpline, and a staggering 950 per cent spike in traffic to its website. At least 26 women and girls have been killed at the hands of their abusers during the lockdown.

For Creasy, the link between misogyny and domestic violence is glaringly obvious. “We must recognise the root of where domestic abuse comes from,” Creasy explains. “First of all, we should be very clear that every kind of domestic violence deserves support and deserves resources. But what the evidence tells us is that disproportionately, it’s women and girls who are the victims – who are often repeat victims. By making misogyny a hate crime, in the same way that we recognise racial or religious hatred has motivated crimes and has therefore put people at risk, it [would recognise] how hatred and hostility of women causes harm.”

Creasy, along with the Liberal Democrat MP Christine Jardine and Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts, is pushing for “Amendment 84”, set to be debated in Parliament on 6 July, which would require police to record and act on offences that are motivated by misogyny. They have evidence that the change would prove effective. In 2016, Nottinghamshire Police became the first force in the country to treat misogyny as a hate crime. The move allowed women to report cases of abuse and harassment – including stalking, groping, indecent assault and kidnapping – under its Misogyny Hate Crime policy. Campaigners for the amendment say this approach increases the confidence of women to report abuse, and “positively changes how violence against women and girls is tackled”.

“What we’re seeing from Nottinghamshire is that this policy challenges the current culture of misogyny. What we’ve also seen is that the police who deal with domestic abuse and assault say that the link between violence against women and misogyny is very clear,” says Creasy. “I’ve always said that I’ll stop campaigning to make misogyny a hate crime when I go to a wedding where the bride gets up and says, ‘I met my husband because he followed me down a dark street in a van shouting get in the back, because he wanted to touch my breasts.’” Police forces in North Yorkshire, Somerset and Avon, and Northamptonshire have voluntarily taken their cues from Nottinghamshire to treat misogyny as a hate crime.

The MPs’ proposal has received widespread support from multiple charities, including Women’s Aid, Refuge and the Jo Cox Foundation. “Domestic abuse is a form of violence against women and girls – it is a cause and consequence of women’s inequality in society,” says Lucy Hadley, head of policy and campaigns at Women’s Aid Federation of England. “Understanding the sexism which underpins and drives domestic abuse is essential to ending it for good.” Creasy argues that treating misogyny as a hate crime will also greatly help women from ethnic minorities. “Rather than them [BAME women] having to pick one side of their identity and say, ‘well, I was attacked under this’ or, ‘it happened under that’, they can be seen as who they are,” she says. “What the evidence from areas where this is happening shows is that, rather than saying, ‘well, okay because you were wearing a hijab this is why this happened’, they don’t have to pick.”

Under the law, women are protected in the workplace – but not at home or on the street. “Too many women get off a bus or off the Tube and walk along the street with their keys in their hand,” says Creasy. “We are so used to the idea that we have to try to keep ourselves safe, rather than the streets being as safe for us as they are for men. That’s the thing that gets to me, is that from a young age we are given so many messages like, ‘don’t wear that skirt’ or, ‘don’t walk down there’ or, ‘don’t listen to music as you walk home’. And you realise that nobody is saying the same thing to young boys. This amendment is actually about everybody being able to live equally, free from fear.”

In order to make this vision a reality, collective action is necessary – something Creasy knows only too well. “I know it’s really hard right now, when people look at politics and they look at the crises around the world, to think that change is possible, but it really is… don’t leave this up to politicians, people have a role to play, too.” Creasy is urging people to write to their local MP to ask them to support the amendment to the bill. “I know it [Parliament] looks like Hogwarts, but I don’t have a magic wand,” she says. “If there is anything that I’ve learned, especially in recent weeks from the Black Lives Matter movement, it’s that when people come together and raise their voices, it really does make a massive difference.”

Call the 24-hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline, run by Refuge, on 0808 2000 247, or visit nationaldahelpline.org.uk

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England And Wales Want to Make Misogyny A Hate Crime
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The Law Commission, an independent body that recommends legal changes in England and Wales, is recommending that misogyny be made a hate crime. Currently, hate crime legislation in the countries cover “protected characteristics” including race, religion, transgender identity, sexual orientation, and disability—the new recommendation would extend that list of protected characteristics to also include sex or gender. After reviewing the current hate crime laws, the commission said that the majority of evidence it had seen about gender-based crimes was related to misogyny, but that they would consult further on whether “sex or gender” as a protected category would cover both men and women, or just women.
The Guardian reports that this recommendation is just one part of a broader push for misogyny to be classified as a hate crime, with an emphasis on recognizing street harassment experienced by women. And this push has already begun to influence policy and practices on a local level—a pilot program in Nottinghamshire which treated public harassment of women as a gender-based hate crime found that the majority of the people interviewed wanted the policy to continue.
Professor Penney Lewis, the criminal law commissioner, said this about the recommendation:
“Hate crime has no place in our society and we have seen the terrible impact that it can have on victims... Our proposals will ensure all protected characteristics are treated in the same way, and that women enjoy hate crime protection for the first time.”

Misogyny Could Become A Hate Crime, Says Law Commission As Review Launched

Labour MP Stella Creasy urges women "abused or attacked online or offline" to “come forward and be heard”.

By Rachel Wearmouth

Labour MP and women's rights campaigner Stella Creasy, who represents Walthamstow

Misogyny is a step closer to being classified as a hate crime, the Law Commission has said.

A new consultation by the body, which is responsible for reviewing laws, will look at whether those who abuse women due to their gender should face tougher sentences.

As it stands, gender is not a protected characteristic or group under hate crime law and campaigners want that to change.

Currently protected by law in England and Wales are race, religion, sexual orientation, disability and transgender identity.

The commission has called for evidence from victims of hate crime, police officers, prosecutors and civil liberties groups so it can consider how a misogyny hate crime law might work in practice.

Campaigning Labour MP Stella Creasy, one of the most high-profile campaigners on the issue, has urged women attacked “online or offline” because of their gender to “to come forward and be heard”.

She said: “Misogyny drives crimes against women – recognising that within our criminal justice system will help us detect and prevent offences including sexual assault, rape and domestic abuse.”

Seven police forces in the country have already begun treating misogyny as a hate crime offence, which Creasy said has “proven results” in tackling violence against women.

She added: “I now urge every woman who has walked with keys in her hands at night, been abused or attacked online or offline to come forward and be heard in this consultation.

“This is our moment for change - rather than asking women to pick a side of their identity to be protected, its time to send a message that women should be equally able to live free from fear of assault or harm targeted at them simply for who they are.”

Among the areas for consideration is the level of online abuse and threats of violence directed at women in the public eye and the effect on their participation in debate and public life.

It will look at whether amending offences in which the majority of victims are women, such as rape, sexual assault and female genital mutilation, is helpful considering their already gendered nature.

A preliminary paper also raises the fact that domestic violence and coercive control by men against women may have a complex set of motivations beyond misogyny.

The consultation will also consider whether protection should cover both men and women, or just women.

The proposals on misogyny are part of a wider consultation into the patchwork of existing hate crime laws, which have been criticised for their complexity and the different levels of protection offered to different characteristics.

Exterior signage of UK Government Office in Westminster, London

Offences including assault, criminal damage and harassment attract longer sentences when the perpetrator is deemed to be motivated by prejudice or hatred towards a certain group.

There is separate legislation for inciting hatred on the basis of race if behaviour is found to be “threatening, abusive or insulting”.

But similar behaviour towards a particular religion or sexual orientation can only be prosecuted if the conduct is threatening, and not just abusive or insulting.

Criminal law commissioner Professor Penney Lewis said: “Hate crime has no place in our society and we have seen the terrible impact that it can have on victims.”

“Our proposals will ensure all protected characteristics are treated in the same way, and that women enjoy hate crime protection for the first time.”

As well as misogyny, the consultation will look at whether other groups and characteristics should be offered protection, for example homeless people, sex workers and members of alternative subcultures such as goths or punks.

The Law Commission is further reviewing whether age should be included, citing the physical vulnerability of the elderly and the fact they are often specifically targeted by fraudsters.

It will also consider whether certain non-religious philosophical beliefs merit protection, such as humanism.

The Law Commission’s call for evidence is open from September 23 until December 24.

The campaign is backed by major campaign organisations on hate crime, women’s rights and community safety including Citizens UK, Refuge, Women’s Aid, Southall Black Sisters, the Fawcett Society and Plan UK and Hate Crime Campaigners including the Jo Cox Foundation, Hope not Hate and Tell Mama.

It has also been supported by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region Steve Rotherham, Mayor of Sheffield City Region Dan Jarvis and Shadow Mayor for the West Midlands Liam Byrne – who came together earlier this year to back a call for all police forces to record when existing crimes are motivated by misogyny when Stella Creasy tabled an amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill on the issue.

Immigrant Women Detained By ICE Will No Longer See A Doctor Accused Of Performing Unwanted Gynecological Procedures

The gynecologist told ICE officials this week he will no longer see patients from a Georgia detention facility, according to an official with knowledge of the matter.

Last updated on September 22, 2020

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An undocumented Mexican immigrant waits to be deported from an ICE detention center in Phoenix, Arizona.

Immigrant women detained at a facility in Georgia will no longer see a doctor accused of performing unwanted gynecological procedures, an ICE spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday.

The gynecologist, Mahendra Amin, told ICE officials this week he would no longer see patients from the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, according to an official with knowledge of the matter.

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The allegations against Amin came after a whistleblower complaint was filed with the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General by Dawn Wooten, who worked as a nurse inside the detention center. Wooten, who primarily focused on medical care and COVID-19 testing inside the facility, alleged unwanted hysterectomies were being performed on immigrant women.

However, in a statement, Irwin County Hospital said that dating back to 2017, Amin had only performed two hysterectomies on immigrants at Irwin County Detention Center.

"Dr. Amin is a long-time member of the Irwin County Hospital medical staff and has been in good standing for the entirety of his service to the Irwin County community," the hospital said.

Scott Grubman, an attorney for Amin, did not immediately return a request for comment.

In a previous statement through his attorney, Amin "vigorously" denied the allegations.

"Dr. Amin is a highly respected physician who has dedicated his adult life to treating a high-risk, underserved population in rural Georgia," Grubman said. "We look forward to all of the facts coming out and are confident that, once they do, Dr. Amin will be cleared of any wrongdoing."

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BuzzFeed News asked the hospital's general counsel for information on how many total procedures Amin had performed on immigrant women, in what situations a doctor was allowed to conduct procedures without consent, and how often an interpreter was used when treating detainees, but did not hear back.

Ken Cuccinelli, the second-in-command at DHS, told the National Review that not only did he request the department's inspector general quickly finish its investigation, but that he was also sending three staff members to do a separate investigation. Cuccinelli said the agency was sending a nurse, a lawyer, and a Coast Guard doctor to the facility.

Adolfo Flores is a reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in McAllen, Texas..

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We Aren’t Nationally Mourning The 200,000 COVID-19 Victims Because If We Did It Would Be A Reckoning

“If you actually recognize the horrific toll this is taking,” one history professor told BuzzFeed News, “then you’re acknowledging the weight of the problem and the failure of the response.”

Amber Jamieson BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on September 22, 2020

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A volunteer artist setting up a memorial in the Bronx on May 19 to honor the victims of the pandemic.

Earlier this month, on Sept. 11, as has happened every year since the 2001 terror attacks, a moment of silence was held at 8:46 a.m. ET, the exact time a plane struck the north tower of the World Trade Center.

The names of the nearly 3,000 people killed were read aloud. Flags around the country were lowered to half-mast. Democratic nominee Joe Biden stopped his presidential campaign for the day. The Tribute in Light art installation projected two beams into the sky, exactly where the towers stood, as part of an annual ritual of grief.

And on that day, more than 1,100 Americans died from the coronavirus.

“The difference was on 9/11 we were attacked by a foreign agent,” said Martin Quinn, whose father, Frederick Harold Quinn, died in August from COVID-19 after two months of illness. “I almost feel like during the pandemic we’re attacked by our own country.”

Over six months into the coronavirus pandemic, 200,000 Americans have now died from the virus — a grim toll the country hit Tuesday. Despite the enormous number of deaths — and the impact felt deeply by survivors of the virus, loved ones of the dead, and those suffering the enormous economic fallout — there has been no official national mourning. No minute of silence, no plans for a memorial to be erected in their honor, no collective grieving.

Instead, at the highest levels of government, there have been attempts to downplay the severity of the pandemic and even discount the dead. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump insisted that the number of deaths from the coronavirus in the US — the highest in the world — was much lower “if you take the blue states out.” At a rally on Monday night, he told supporters, "it affects virtually nobody."

“There’s no acknowledgment of the death and the suffering, and that’s politically motivated,” said Quinn. “They want to brush the deaths under the rug. They want to ‘downplay’ it, in Donald Trump’s own words, and we’ve been robbed of mourning.”

Properly mourning and memorializing the dead would require a national reckoning with how government at every level mishandled the pandemic, how the US failed so much in contrast to other countries, and how structural inequalities made the virus much deadlier for Black and Latinx Americans.

But with the presidential election rapidly approaching and Trump seeking to shift focus from his administration’s response to the pandemic, politics is hindering any national effort to mourn for the coronavirus, according to Micki McElya, a history professor at the University of Connecticut and author of The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery. “If you actually recognize the horrific toll this is taking,” McElya told BuzzFeed News, “then you’re acknowledging the weight of the problem and the failure of the response.”

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Demonstrators with COVID Families marching on Sunday in New York City in honor of coronavirus victims.

In this vacuum of national mourning at a governmental level, activists who have had loved ones die because of the pandemic are filling the void. Quinn and other members of COVID Families, a group formed by the Center for Popular Democracy, organized a March for the Dead protest on Sunday, holding a moment of silence for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and then marching to Trump Tower. On Monday night, a DC group called the COVID Memorial Project began placing 20,000 American flags on the National Mall in honor of the 200,000 people who have died. And on Oct. 4, the National COVID Remembrance, a protest day created by Covid Survivors for Change, a national community of families of COVID victims and survivors, will take place at the Ellipse in Washington, DC, calling for a national moment of silence.

Quinn co-organized the first March for the Dead, Fight for the Living protest in New York City on Aug. 21, just three days after his father’s death. The protest was a procession over the Brooklyn Bridge, with marchers dressed in white and carrying photos and even ashes of their loved ones killed by the virus, followed by a reading of victims’ names.

“[These activist protests] are building on a long tradition on activist mourning,” said history professor McElya, “using grief and anger and fury at the unnecessary loss of life that government neglect is producing.”

Both Quinn and McElya likened the demonstrations to activism during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In 1991, activists put a condom over the home of then–North Carolina Republican senator Jesse Helms. In 1992, people scattered the ashes of their loved ones killed by the virus on the lawns outside the White House. The goal then, as it is now, was to try to force a governmental response that would lead to a national reckoning.

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A woman walks past the New York City AIDS memorial in St Vincent's Park in Manhattan's West Village in 2017.

Over 100,000 New Yorkers had died from HIV/AIDS by the time the AIDS Memorial opened in Manhattan in 2016. The soaring sculpture and gathering place lies in the West Village on the former site of the city’s first and largest AIDS ward. “There was decades of lack of acknowledgment of how devastating the disease was to various communities, so part of the memorial is really about acknowledgment in a public way that bad things have happened,” memorial cofounder Christopher Tepper told BuzzFeed News.

The AIDS memorial is also a physical space, not just a monument, allowing people to come together. After the death of AIDs activist Larry Kramer in May, people gathered there to grieve. The memorial has also been the site of protests, poetry readings, and candlelight vigils.

But, Tepper said, politics also colored people’s perceptions of the monument. “When it was being built, people asked, ‘Why would you build a memorial to a disease? Why wouldn’t you build a memorial to cancer survivors if you’re going to build one to AIDS?’” recalled Tepper. “That comes from a place from sheltered misunderstanding to how impactful the AIDS crisis was to specific communities.”

In contrast, the sudden shock and horror of 9/11 became a traumatic bonding experience for the whole country, a collective experience witnessed by people everywhere on their television screens. Flower memorials sprung up around the country, not just in the spaces where the attacks occurred. US embassies around the world were swamped with people leaving notes of condolence and lighting candles. Grief was everywhere and the loss was acknowledged. “We felt like our sadness was recognized by the government,” said Quinn, who lived in New York City at the time of the attack. “It’s the opposite feeling now.”

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Mourners place flowers and pictures at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum on Sept. 11, 2020.

Back in May, McElya wrote a column for the Washington Post entitled “Almost 90,000 Dead and No Hint of National Mourning. Are These Deaths Not ‘Ours’?,” comparing how the US treats those killed in war or terror attacks to deaths from the coronavirus or the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

“The protests and the political funerals and organic swell of refusal not to mourn by the American people is exactly what I was looking for in May,” McElya told BuzzFeed News. “It’s about challenging the state and challenging the country to wake up, [about asking] why it values some people less than others, why it refuses to mark some deaths and honors others.”

She sees the new wave of COVID-19 memorial protests as a direct outcome of the summer’s Black Lives Matter demonstrations. Both require Americans to confront and grapple with questions of why Black people are more likely to die than white people at the hands of police and as a result of the virus. “It’s a failure to value Black lives or honor Black deaths. I think they are intimately, directly connected,” said McElya.

Latinx Americans are also deeply suffering from the virus, being four times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than white people. But they too are demanding their dead not be forgotten. Maria del Rosario Palacios, 30, will be traveling from her home in Gainesville, Georgia, to attend the National COVID Remembrance on Oct. 4 in DC, where a moment of silence will be held to highlight the plight of essential workers and the Latinx community. “This is us coming together to honor what has happened and the folks we’ve lost,” said Palacios.

The single mother-of-three survived COVID-19 and said the virus has completely disrupted her life. A grandparent of hers died, and two of her children suffered symptoms of the disease. For months her mother was also sick, experiencing a stroke and developing diabetes, unable to return to her job as an essential worker at a poultry plant since June. As a COVID-19 long-hauler, her mother now requires twice-weekly doctor visits.

Palacios said she’s felt deeply isolated throughout the pandemic and the lack of mourning has felt like a lack of community. “It doesn’t feel like…we’ve been able to come together as a country,” she said, “especially with the disproportionate amount of death we’ve had.”

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Relatives of COVID-19 victims drive next to their images displayed in a drive-by memorial at Belle Isle State Park on Sept. 2 in Detroit.

Detroit is one of the few cities to host official events, turning Memorial Day festivities on Aug. 31 into a remembrance of citizens who died from the virus. Residents rang bells for 15 minutes to honor the 1,500 dead and families of victims partook in a drive-thru procession in Belle Isle Park.

But even where deaths from the virus have been highest, there has been little discussion of how to mourn the victims. Over 23,000 people have died from COVID-19 in New York City and while Mayor Bill de Blasio announced in May a plan for a ticker-tape parade to honor healthcare workers once the pandemic is over, there has been no discussion from his office of anything more somber for the dead. Mayoral spokesperson Mitch Schwartz confirmed to BuzzFeed News the city still hopes to hold the healthcare worker parade “when large gatherings are safe...But right now, the best way to thank those workers and honor those we’ve lost is to fight COVID-19 in our own lives. Wear a mask, practice social distancing, and check in on your neighbors.”

In New York City, smaller memorials are instead springing up. March for the Dead wants to create ad hoc shrines around the city, said Quinn, similar to those that emerged after 9/11 in Union Square and in subway stations, with photos and flowers of those who were killed. For several weeks in August and early September, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden played a sound installation composed to honor COVID victims in its famous cherry tree esplanade, which this year bloomed to no visitors. Artist Kristina Libby has also been creating floral hearts and placing them in iconic New York locations as a tribute to those who died from the virus. “These are my small steps towards creating a memorial, to having a larger cultural conversation about dying and to knitting us closer together as a community,” she wrote Friday in an Instagram caption.

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Memorials, whether permanent or temporary, would give people a space to grieve. Many like Quinn who’ve had loved ones die from the virus couldn’t hold large funerals due to the pandemic. Now, they fear these victims will be forgotten. “I feel robbed of mourning,” said Quinn.

A sympathy card from a family friend last week described his father, an 87-year-old former activist priest in New Jersey who sung sentences to his son to the tune of “Baby Shark,” as a “cheerleader of everyone around him.” For six months before his death, he’d been unable to see his family because of the quarantine restrictions. Quinn feels bereft, but not without hope. “I'm trying to channel all my anger and sadness into action,” he said.

The COVID Families group modeled itself on the September 11th Families’ Association, a nonprofit that represents victims and built the 9/11 Tribute Museum. The new organization serves as a community of survivors, said Jennifer Lynn Walker, senior director of mobilization and advocacy for the Center for Popular Democracy, which is leading the COVID Families project. But it is also, she said, a fundamentally political group designed to “come together and get restitution, and serve as a moral voice for future policies, so there’s not the same level of government failure.”

For the COVID-19 victims’ families, mourning is not just about grief, or moving on, but about figuring out how we got here and making sure it doesn’t happen again.

“Moments of national mourning are both collectively healing, but they can also be a time of reckoning,” said McElya, the history professor. “Reckoning is what this country seems utterly resistant to doing.”

Amber Jamieson is a reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.

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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

England And Wales Want to Make Misogyny A Hate Crime
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Misogyny Could Become A Hate Crime, Says Law Commission As Review Launched

Labour MP Stella Creasy urges women "abused or attacked online or offline" to “come forward and be heard”.

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