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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Something that's really common among young people is we just aren't given that platform. Now, Greta and millions of other kids are showing that we don't need it handed to us. We can fight for the platform."

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out former Sen. Barbara Boxer on Twitter Thursday for helping the ride-hailing company Lyft fight against a proposed state-level bill in California that aims to expand workers' benefits and rights.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Schumer is blackballing progressives in open primaries for GOP-held seats."



A dock sits damaged near the Statue of Liberty

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A draft United Nations report warns "the same oceans that nourished human evolution are poised to unleash misery on a global scale unless the carbon pollution destabilizing Earth's marine environment is brought to heel," according to Agence France-Presse, which exclusively reported on the 900-page scientific assessment Thursday.


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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"At a time when the federal government's job should be to help localities and states move faster toward cleaner energy and a cleaner economy, the government is walking off the field."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
Rep. Ilhan Omar on Wednesday offered her perspective on the threats and threatening political rhetoric targeting her and her family due to her position as one of the first Muslim women in Congress.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The labor movement has a powerful wind at its back. And we will carry this momentum into new organizing campaigns and our work in the 2020 elections."


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A fire burns trees next to grazing land in the Amazon basin in Ze Doca, Brazil. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

by Osprey Orielle Lake
The lives of every future generation and our species as humans depends on the collective effort to generate new development models. Humanity has no Plan B for the Earth. Our fight is so urgent that we must all get together right now. The fight for Mother Earth is the mother of all fights.



 Greta Thunberg arrives in New York after a 15-day journey crossing the Atlantic. (Photo: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images)

by Rebecca Solnit
Even in such a divided and troubled country, there is hope. Between us we can beat the climate destroyers.



San Juan, Puerto Rico/USA in July 2019 (Photo: © Osvaldo Olmos / Shutterstock)

by Carlos Figueroa
The recent resignation of Governor Rosselló should be understood within the larger framework of a flawed US democratic state that continues its economic stranglehold over Puerto Rico.




by Norman Solomon
The very biggest fear among corporate elites is that Warren or Sanders could win—and then use the presidency to push back against oligarchy.



Boris Johnson thinks he can trample over the little people in the country like he’s falling out of an Oxford Union bar trussed up in full Bullingdon gear, giddy with the power he has always expected to wield. (Photo: BackBoris2012/cc/flickr)

by Eloise Todd
Throughout the land people are sharing stories of why democracy is important to them. Together we can bring down Johnson and end this farce.



Bernie will lead our country to enact the Green New Deal and bring the world together to defeat the existential threat of climate change. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Ronnie Cummins
Finally, we have a true Declaration of War against fossil fuel pollution and global warming, a radical legislative program that can head off climate catastrophe and supercharge a just transition to a 21st Century Green Commonwealth


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