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🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Signs of a massacre in Bucha, a town near Kyiv, have intensified calls for investigations into possible war crimes by Russia. Footage and photographs from Bucha show the corpses of at least twenty men strewn across the streets. The town’s mayor has said the victims included men and women and at least one child, and that they’ve already buried 280 people in mass graves.
Today, hundreds of people are assembling at the U.S. Department of Education in D.C. to urge President Biden to cancel all federal student debt. The pause on payments is currently slated to end on May 1st, and Biden has yet to announce either another extension or any kind of relief for borrowers. Braxton Brewington, the press secretary for The Debt Collective, joins us to discuss why debt needs to be canceled rather than paused.
And in headlines: Six people are dead after a mass shooting in Sacramento, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved the country’s parliament, and Amazon workers at a warehouse in New York voted to form the company's first union in the U.S.
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The Debt Collective – https://debtcollective.org/
Washington Post: “What the student loan payment pause has meant to Black women” – https://wapo.st/3K5SjTH
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday April 4th, I'm Trevelle Anderson. |
| 0:09.1 | And I'm Priyanka Eribindee and this is what a day recipient of one of the 1 million |
| 0:13.2 | or so Grammy Awards that were given before the broadcast started last night. |
| 0:16.9 | Yes, they only give away like 5 awards during the show and about 80 before, so just trust |
| 0:22.4 | us, we were one of the first 80. |
| 0:24.4 | Don't look for any red carpet photos or anything like that, but like it definitely happened. |
| 0:31.4 | On the show, today is the day of action for student debt cancellation and we hear from |
| 0:36.6 | one of the organizers. |
| 0:38.0 | Plus, one Amazon warehouse votes to unionize while another is too close to call. |
| 0:42.7 | But first, signs of a massacre in a town near Kiev have intensified calls for investigations |
| 0:48.0 | into Russia's war crimes. |
| 0:49.9 | Alright, so tell us what's going on. |
| 0:51.7 | Yeah, the details that we have come from a town northwest of Kiev called Butcha. |
| 0:57.4 | After peace talks last week between Ukraine and Russia, Russian forces had started to leave |
| 1:02.0 | Kiev to reposition elsewhere. |
| 1:04.1 | But once they departed, photos and videos captured the destruction and brutality that they left |
| 1:08.4 | behind, specifically in Butcha. |
| 1:11.3 | The footage and photograph show the corpses of at least 20 men strewn across the city's |
| 1:16.4 | streets. |
| 1:17.4 | Some of their hands had been tied behind their backs and they had gunshots in the back |
| 1:20.5 | of their heads. |
| 1:21.5 | The town's mayor had said that the victims included men and women and at least one child |
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