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News & Views | 4/10/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We have got to work together to make sure that anyone in America who is sick—regardless of their income or immigration status—can seek the medical treatment they need during this national emergency."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Friday called on the federal government to take bold action to ensure working Americans receive their paychecks for the duration of the crisis.


Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg (L) and Former Vice President Joe Biden (R) speak during a break in the ninth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by NBC News, MSNBC, Noticias Telemundo and The Nevada Independent at the Paris Theater in Las Vegas, Nevada, on February 19, 2020. (Photo: Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"This would be a mistake of colossal proportions."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It is outrageous that in the richest country in the history of the world, people are going hungry," said Bernie Sanders, who called for more urgent relief from Congress.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Property and business insurance companies are claiming they're unable to cover small business losses and are not equipped to do so in any public health crisis.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Our actions now can lay the foundation for a just and resilient recovery, but only if we recognize the scale of this unprecedented crisis and fashion a response that meets that scale."


Young protesters attend the Global Climate Strike in London on March 15, 2019.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The global climate advocacy group 350.org on Friday welcomed a new demand from 11 member nations of the European Union to use the continent's Green Deal policy guidelines as a framework for economic recovery from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.


Locust nymphs aggregated on the ground at a hatch site near Isiolo town in eastern Kenya on Feb. 25, 2020

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
While much of the world focuses on the coronavirus pandemic that has infected over 1.6 million people across the globe, East Africa is battling the worst invasion of desert locusts in decades—a monthslong "scourge of biblical proportions" that experts warn could get worse with a larger second wave already arriving in parts of the region.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Totally wrong and is setting us up for a second wave of cases. If we hit a peak soon and open up too soon, the next peak will be worse."


"We often hear about the beauty of America," Bernie Sanders says in his final campaign ad, "and this country is incredibly beautiful. But to me, the beauty I will remember most is in the faces of the people we have met from corner of this nation to the other. The compassion, love, and decency I have seen in them, makes me so hopeful for our future. It also makes me more determined than ever to work to create a nation that reflects those values." (Photo: Screenshot/BernieSanders.com)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Please stay in this fight with me."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"A hedge fund that serves a bunch of billionaire family offices? Who cares? They don't get to summer in the Hamptons? Who cares!"

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Illinois' 4th Congressional District map shows the utter insanity of one of the country's worst cases of gerrymandering. (Image: SBTL1 / flickr Public Domain)

by Bill Moyers
Veteran journalist talks with Ratf**ked author David Daley, whose reporting and advocacy on gerrymandering and voting rights have fired up a generation of activists fighting for free and fair elections.


Even before COVID-19, domestic violence was already a global emergency. (Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images)

by Lisa Davis, Yifat Susskind
We need a global plan to address the predictable rise in gender-based violence that COVID-19 is triggering.


Then, when the pandemic is over, let’s insist that the U.S. honor the UN Charter’s prohibition against the threat or use of force, which wise American leaders drafted and signed in 1945, and start living at peace with all our neighbors around the world. (Photo by Greg Wahl-Stephens/Getty Images)

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
If we can give up war during a pandemic, why can’t we just give it up altogether? In which devastated country would you like the U.S. to start fighting and killing again when the pandemic is over? Afghanistan? Yemen? Somalia? Or would you prefer a brand new U.S. war against Iran, Venezuela or...


The Wisconsin Experiment was a farce and a travesty. But those voters represent the fortitude and the long line we all need to join to preserve democracy. (Photo: Daniel Acker/Reuters)

by Derrick Z. Jackson
It shows we need a doubling and tripling of our efforts to assure free and fair elections, with online registration, mail-in voting options, and safe in-person voting procedures across the country.


Senator Bernie Sanders during an interview with the editorial board of The New York Times in February, 2020. (Photo: Screengrab/NYT)

by Laura Flanders
In the Times ' world, it’s apparently ok to bemoan a society and an economy that privileges the rich over the poor, but it’s unacceptable to run for the presidency on a promise to reverse those priorities.


The Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant is seen in the early morning hours March 28, 2011 in Middletown, Pennsylvania. (Photo: Jeff Fusco/Getty Images)

by Harvey Wasserman
Nuclear safety cannot be shortchanged—especially in the midst of an outbreak like what the nation is now experiencing.

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