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June 20, 2023

Top News

Raising Alarm Over Human Rights Abuses, Tlaib, Omar, and Raskin to Boycott Modi Address

"The evidence of Modi's escalating repression of India's religious minorities is extensive," said one Muslim civil rights group.

'An Act of Ecocide': Civil Society Groups Condemn Weaponization of Ukraine Dam

"The destruction of the dam represents the most serious single blow to the environment during the war," said one advocate.

On World Refugee Day, Calls to 'Broker Peace' So 35 Million People Can Go Home

"We know too well the cost of inaction: a world with the highest forced displacement in recorded history," the U.N.'s top refugee official noted. "We cannot let this continue."

'Blatant as it Comes': Ethics Experts Sound Alarm Over Trump Hotel Deal With Oman

"How and when is he going to sell out U.S. interests?" Virginia Canter of CREW asked. "That is the question this creates."

'A True Scandal, and Should Be Covered as Such': Outrage Over Medicaid Purge Grows

"Pausing disenrollment was a tremendous act of social welfare; restarting it is criminal," said one single-payer advocate.

Himalayan Glaciers Could Lose 80% of Their Ice by 2100, Threatening Billions of Lives

"We need leaders to act now to prevent catastrophe. There is still time to save this critical region, but only if fast and deep emissions cuts start now."

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Rights Groups Blast UK Bill to Ban Public Bodies From Boycotting Israel

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Opinion

Where Are All the Affordable EVs?

Automakers have solved problems of affordability and engineering before. With the planet at stake, they must do so again.

East Peterson-Trujillo

Remembering Gus Newport, A Progressive Titan

The former Berkeley mayor's record of accomplishments from civil rights activism to groundbreaking political initiatives to far-sighted community economic development programs to global solidarity and elder statesman leadership could fill volumes.

Why California’s Public Employee Pension Funds Should Divest From Fossil Fuels

To date almost 1,600 institutions worldwide with over 40 trillion dollars in assets have divested from fossil fuel companies; CalPERS and CalSTRS should join them.

Carlos Davidson

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