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News & Views | 5/20/20

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Image: Global Green New Deal

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The time to build the future we deserve is now, and international solidarity is the tool we need to begin its construction."

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Colorado residents joined the National Day of Mourning on Wednesday with a vigil urging Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) to "put people first and support the HEROES Act."

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the U.S. death toll from Covid-19 climbed toward 100,000 and congressional Republicans continued "pumping the brakes" on further relief spending, a coalition of advocacy groups on Wednesday held a "National Day of Mourning" to protest the GOP's inadequate response to the coronavirus pandemic.


The Dow Chemical logo is shown on a building in downtown Midland, home of the Dow Chemical Company corporate headquarters, December 10th, 2015 in Midland, Michigan. Recent news reports have indicated a possible merger between Dow and DuPont.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This has the potential to be a major environmental disaster."


Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), testifies during a hearing titled "Oversight of the Environmental Protection Agency" in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 20, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Al Drago/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"For Wheeler to claim these rollbacks were for the good of the nation is absurd and insulting," says environmental leader.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's so unbelievably shocking to see corporate lawyers actively discussing having foreign investors use ISDS to challenge countries over their coronavirus lockdown measures, and try to extract 'expected future profits' from them."


Climate change activists from the group "No Going Back—another world is possible," took part in a social distancing protest on May, 4 2020 in St. Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
After an analysis revealed Tuesday that lockdowns from the coronavirus pandemic caused planet-heating emissions to drop in early April by an unprecedented 17%, climate scientists and activists warned that progress will quickly be erased if the world returns to business as usual and called for systemic changes in the global energy, food, and transportation sectors.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Government watchdog Public Citizen reported Wednesday that nearly two-thirds of high-level meetings at the department since Trump took office have been attended by oil, gas, and coal companies and lobbyists. 



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Blackmailing states to prevent them from holding a fair election in November."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"With this perverse cost-shift, corporate immunity could result in only the most irresponsible corporations surviving the pandemic."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Demanding McDonald's prioritize public health and worker safety over profits, hundreds of employees at the fast food chain went on strike Wednesday, a day before the company was set to hold its annual shareholders' meeting.


Walter Barton

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The state of Missouri executed Walter "Arkie" Barton on Tuesday night despite concerns about his conviction and claims of innocence that he maintained until his last breath, sparking renewed calls from human rights groups for an end to the death penalty.

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Maria Mora came to find information about her claim but found the California State Employment Development Department was closed due to coronavirus concerns on Thursday, May 14, 2020 in Canoga Park, CA. (Photo: Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Mark Dudzic, Richard Master
This solution is the most seamless for patients, and the most cost-effective approach for taxpayers. Plus, it prevents an unnecessary and massive transfer of government money to America’s health insurance companies.



by Vandana Shiva
Protecting bees is an ecological duty, pushing them to extinction is an ecological crime. The threat to bees is a threat to humanity.


Fortunately, we have an alternative to this fossil-fuelled, neoliberal capitalist normal: the Green New Deal. (Photo: Climate Justice Ottawa)

by Claire O’Manique
This crisis has reinforced what we already know—our current economic system is leading us down a path of destruction.


The acting IG’s ouster calls into question the future of the Chao-McConnell investigation, other critical oversight, and whether the watchdog was dismissed for unearthing damaging information. (Photo: Cheriss May/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

by Donald K. Sherman
The President’s attack on inspector general independence at the Department of Transportation deserves just as much public scrutiny as all the rest.


It will be impractical, and in many places impossible, to safely conduct the election in 2020 unless the numbers voting on Election Day are greatly reduced. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Bernie Horn
We need tens of millions of fewer Americans voting at the polls. Sending ballots in the mail is the simplest solution.


Local news outlets cover stories and offer community-level information—potentially lifesaving during a global pandemic—that national outlets will never provide. (Photo: iStock / Getty Images Plus)

by Victor Pickard
Newspapers must be for the people. It’s worth investing our tax dollars in them.

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