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News & Views | 4/8/20

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and his wife Jane Sanders wave as they exit a campaign rally at Cowboys Dancehall on February 22, 2020 in San Antonio, Texas. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Let us go forward together. The struggle continues."

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Then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The end of Bernie Sanders' second campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday provoked an immediate wave of praise from climate campaigners for the Vermont senator's ambitious plans to address the planetary emergency and calls for former Vice President Joe Biden, now the party's presumed nominee, to embrace his ex-rival's progressive proposals.



Climate change protesters disrupt Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden during a campaign event on October 9, 2019 in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Photo: Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Why would we want a return to normalcy? We need a vision for the future, not a return to the past."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday reached out to Sen. Bernie Sanders' supporters and asked for their backing in the general election against President Donald Trump.



Glenn Fine

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"That Trump is using a pandemic to cover for his attack on democracy should send a chill down the spine of every patriotic American."



President Donald Trump speaks at a press conference on COVID-19, known as the coronavirus, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, March 13, 2020.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This guy is nothing if not a skilled provocateur."



Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks to the media after the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate on June 27, 2019 in Miami.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
In a speech to supporters Wednesday, Sanders promised that the "struggle continues."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Without a substantial, immediate response that addresses the magnitude of this problem, our small business sector will be devastated."



A restaurant in Krakow, Poland was closed due to the spread of the coronavirus on March 25, 2020.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As governments across the globe continue to grapple with how to best provide economic relief to workers and businesses impacted by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a new report from the United Nations labor agency warns that the public health crisis could cause working hours worldwide to decline by 6.7% in the second quarter of this year—the equivalent of 195 million full-time jobs.




by Julia Conley, staff writer
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order banning abortion care in the state during the coronavirus pandemic, making the procedure illegal in most cases in the state for the first time since before Roe vs. Wade was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.



"This is a plan a literal child would come up with."

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
An executive order quietly signed Monday makes clear the president. does not feel bound by international treaties on space exploration and resource extraction.


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President Donald Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Bill Barr, speaks at the daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on March 23, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Bernie Sanders
The American people deserve and require leadership from Washington amid this horrific pandemic and economic meltdown



The Let My People Go campaign is a Jewish-led bond fund effort organized by New Sanctuary, Never Again Action, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, and Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, intended to free as many immigrant detainees as possible. (Image: Let My People Go Campaign)

by Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum
It is incumbent upon us to amplify the cries of imprisoned immigrants with our own voices.



This election was a sham. It will cost votes—and lives. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Jill Richardson
The state’s election was a danger to public health and a democratic travesty—all to help Republicans suppress more votes.



The one certainty is that the most vulnerable and excluded members of society will suffer the worst consequences, as with all economic crises. (Photo: Giacomo Carra on Unsplash)

by Adam Parsons
The question is whether Covid-19 will awaken us to the stark inequalities of our world, or does it simply represent a new cause of impoverishment for the vast swathes of humanity who have long been disregarded by the public’s conscience?



To have a People's government, we must build it. (Photo: julian meehan/flickr/cc)

by Jim Hightower
This is not just a one-time, resist-and-dump Trump campaign we're undertaking but the mobilization of a long-term grassroots movement to reject the systemic corporate takeover of our elections and government at every level.



It has never been about whether the US could afford a progressive program; it has always been about whether the elite wanted to or were forced to fund it. It is an issue of political will, apparently, not economic means. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Dan Brook
We will either have democratic socialism or we will continue to socialize suffering.


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