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News & Views | 4/22/20
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Humanity Must 'Tackle Two Crises at Once,' Says Greta Thunberg of Climate and COVID-19 on 50th Earth Day
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The 50th annual global Earth Day coming amid the coronavirus pandemic
sparked fresh demands from Fridays for Future founder Greta Thunberg,
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, and others for the
international community to simultaneously tackle the COVID-19 and
climate crises.
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Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz Warns US Barreling Toward Second 'Great Depression' Thanks to Trump-GOP Failed Covid-19 Response
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If you leave it to Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell we will have a
Great Depression. If we had the right policy structure in place we could
avoid it easily."
Warren Demands Investigation Into Trump's Coronavirus Response, Saying He Put 'Political Expediency' Before Public Health
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Sen. Elizabeth Warren led nine of her Democratic colleagues in the
Senate Wednesday in demanding a federal investigation into President
Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
'Time Is Running Out': MoveOn Demands Congress Stay in Session as McConnell Balks at Swift Next Step on Relief
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We are in a national health and economic emergency and we need Congress
to start acting like it."
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Coronavirus Crisis Makes Clear Pentagon Should Get No More Money This Year for Its 'Wasteful War Machine': 60+ Groups
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We cannot continue spending billions of dollars on weapons of war while
people across the country struggle to buy food, pay rent, and survive a
pandemic."
'Cruel and Outrageous': DeVos Blocks Undocumented Students From Receiving Coronavirus Emergency Aid
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Immigrant rights groups on Wednesday condemned the Trump
administration's decision to exclude undocumented students from a $6
billion aid program that the Education Department unveiled earlier this
month, calling the exclusion needlessly "cruel."
Ex-EPA Officials Mark 50th Earth Day With Scathing Snapshot of How Trump 'Is Hurting People and the Natural World'
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
An organization launched in 2017 by former staffers of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency marked the 50th annual Earth Day
Wednesday by releasing a report about the efforts of President Donald
Trump's administration to gut regulations enacted under his predecessors
to preserve public health and the planet.
After Revelations of Improper Stock Sales by Rep. Shalala, Groups Demand Pelosi's Pick for Bailout Oversight Step Down
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Not understanding disclosure is a pretty bad look for the member of
Congress chosen to force disclosure out of the Treasury Department and
Federal Reserve on its lending programs."
'Mother of All Distractions': Amid Covid-19 Failures, Trump Threatens War With Order to 'Shoot Down' Iranian Boats
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If the xenophobia isn't doing the trick and providing a good enough
distraction, there's always the classic authoritarian move: gin up a
war."
'Never Heard of Anything Like This': Watchdogs Sound Alarm as Trump Puts For-Profit Insurer in Charge of Covid-19 Hospital Funds
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's simply bizarre and unconscionable that the Trump administration
would have United manage billions in relief to hospitals."
Calls for Vote-by-Mail Intensify After At Least 19 Cases of Coronavirus Are Linked to Wisconsin Primary Election
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Voting rights advocates demanded state and federal lawmakers expand
voting-by-mail immediately on Wednesday as Wisconsin health officials
announced that nearly 20 people in the state who recently tested
positive for the new coronavirus had voted in person on Election Day two
weeks ago.
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Cooperation Humboldt and the Solidarity Economy
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by Margaret Kimberley
Founded in 2017, Cooperation Humboldt was already incubating worker
cooperatives, administering food sovereignty programs, advocating for
public banking and participatory budgeting, and exploring housing
cooperatives, an arts hub, and eco-villages—all before the pandemic
arrived in the U.S.
The Corporate Welfare During Covid-19 Pandemic Is Morally Repugnant
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by Robert Reich
Here's the bottom line: no mega-corporation deserves a cent of bailout
money.
My Earth Day
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by Jon Hinck
We still need to demonstrate that we can rebuild the economy in a way
that preserves life on this blue planet. Earth Day+50 is the time to do
that.
Abolish Earth Day
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by Markie Miller, Crystal Jankowski
For 50 years, environmentalists have celebrated the illusion that the
law is on their side.
Stopping Trump’s Demonic Reversals of the Long-term Benefits of the First Earth Day April 22, 1970
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by Ralph Nader
The omnicidal Republicans controlling the Senate support Trump's
reckless agenda regardless of the environmental harm done to their own
families.
The Deadly Economic Disease Behind COVID-19
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by Jim Hightower
The severity and gross disparity of our country's present economic
collapse is not simply caused by a sudden viral outbreak but by a
severe, decadeslong plutocratic policy of intentionally maximizing
profits for the rich and minimizing everyone else's well-being.
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Amazonian Indigenous Leaders Share Earth Day Video Message With the World
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IMF Credit Tool to Bolster COVID-19 Response
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