Women are protesting Donald Trump in DC and across the world.
Tens of thousands of people descended on Washington DC for the Women’s March on Washington, one day after President Donald Trump was sworn into office, marking one of the largest mass mobilizations after an inauguration in recent history. The organizers had originally applied for a permit for 200,000 people in DC, but now estimates have grown closer to 500,000 as of Saturday morning. More than 100 solidarity marches are taking place around the world, including an estimated 100,000 protestors in London.
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4: Study linking Roundup to serious disease fuels debate
UK scientists say they have conducted an unprecedented, long-term study showing a link between Roundup – one of the most widely used herbicides in the world – and severe liver damage in rat tests.
The research sparked further debate in the international scientific community over the potential health hazards to people caused by exposure to the well-known weed killer.
Scientists from King’s College London, whose findings were published in the journal Nature earlier this month, said their tests used cutting-edge technology to demonstrate that “extremely low doses” of the herbicide administered to rats through their drinking water had caused “non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)” over a two-year period.
NAFLD can lead to more serious liver disease such as cirrhosis, and increases the risk of other illnesses including diabetes, heart attacks and strokes.
“The study is unique in that it is the first to show a causative link between consumption of Roundup at a real-world environmental dose and a serious disease condition,” the report said.
Aljazeera
3: Northern Ireland’s EU exit will destroy peace deal, says Gerry Adams
Taking Northern Ireland out of the EU will destroy the Good Friday agreement, Gerry Adams has said.
He said fundamental human rights enshrined in the 1998 deal to end violence could be undermined, though the top legal adviser to Stormont ministers has said not a word of the agreement will be affected.
Adams, the Sinn Féin president, said Northern Ireland should enjoy special status within the European Union after Brexit, and said this would not affect the constitutional settlement that secures its status as part of the UK.
“The British government’s intention to take the north out of the EU, despite the wish of the people there to remain, is a hostile action. Not just because of the implications of a hard border on this island but also because of its negative impact on the Good Friday agreement,” he said a conference in Dublin on a united Ireland.
The Guardian
2: Michael Moore Addresses 25,000 Protesters in NYC: “There’s More of Us Than There are of Them!”
Democracy Now! broadcast our daily show live from WHUT on the campus of the historically black university, Howard University in Washington, D.C., less than four hours before Donald Trump became the nation’s 45th president. Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by almost 3 million votes, but he managed to win the Electoral College. He takes office as the least popular incoming president in at least a generation. We get an update from protests in Washington, D.C., and hear the speech Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore gave Thursday night, when nearly 25,000 people gathered in New York City to protest outside Trump International Hotel and Tower near Central Park. We are also joined live by Naomi Klein, journalist and best-selling author, whose most recent book is “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate,” and Lee Fang, reporter with The Intercept who covers the intersection of money and politics.
Democracy Now
1: Spot the Billionaires Given Special Seats on Donald Trump’s Inaugural Platform
SOME OF DONALD TRUMP’S top donors received choice seats on the platform where he took the oath of office on Friday. The Intercept exclusively obtained a list revealing that the incoming administration had allocated at least a dozen of 183 seats on the inaugural platform to donors and fundraisers.
The Intercept identified seven donors who were seated not far from the dais: Sheldon Adelson, Steve Wynn, Carl Icahn, Harold Hamm, Lew Eisenberg, Woody Johnson and Phil Ruffin.
The list, however, suggests that 17 other individuals listed as donors were given seats on the platform as well: Hushang Ansary, Roy Bailey, Brian Ballard, Tom Barrack, Joe Craft, Louis DeJoy, Robert Grand, Diane Hendricks, Peter Kalikow, Richard Lefrak, Ed McMullen, Steve Roth, Anthony Scaramucci, Tommy Hicks, Gentry Beach, Ray Washburne, and Ron Weiser.
The Intercept
