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News & Views | 9/10/20

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cover image of WWF's Living Planet Report 2020

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"In the midst of a global pandemic, it is now more important than ever to take unprecedented and coordinated global action to halt and start to reverse the loss of biodiversity."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's attempt at passing the Republicans' "skinny" coronavirus relief plan—prioritizing corporations over the health, safety, and livelihoods of working families—failed on Thursday, advocacy groups demanded that the Senate "get serious" about providing relief to Americans.


A firefighter douses flames as they push towards homes during the Creek fire in the Cascadel Woods area of unincorporated Madera County, California on September 7, 2020. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"President Trump's silence and complete disregard for the millions of people at risk is horrifying," said one climate advocate.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"$13,494 is a bug splat on the windshield for this massive company, apparently just like those workers' lives were."


Teacher Bob Anderson goes over the syllabus with his students in his World History class at Trinity High School on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020 in Weaverville, CA. The Trinity Alps Unified School District reopened amid the coronavirus pandemic, resuming in-person classroom instruction. (Photo: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Sending kids back to school without adequate testing available for them or their younger family members is a recipe for disaster."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The Postal Board of Governors met secretly today and issued a statement saying they're fine with DeJoy slowing the mail before an election and they're not worried about any campaign finance violations because DeJoy has decided he's innocent."



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
New report details how state initiative leveled the playing field for candidates and ultimately led to better legislative outcomes for communities.


Flames from the Bear wildfire near Oroville, California leap into the air as a police officer watches from his vehicle on September 9, 2020. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"We're seeing more wildfires, more acres burned, and longer, more intense fire seasons," says the Union of Concerned Scientists.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"In Canada or the U.K., there are no cracks of this sort: billing the patient like this is simply not allowed," said Dr. Adam Gaffney, president of Physicians for a National Health Program.


Smoky skies from the northern California wildfires casts a reddish color in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This cannot become our new normal."


Roger Garbey and Andres Hernandez install a solar panel system on the roof of a home on January 23, 2018 in Palmetto Bay, Florida. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"We have an opportunity to not just recover from these interlocking crises, but to thrive by creating millions of good-paying, union, clean, green jobs while building a more just, healthy, and stable economy that leaves no one behind."

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President Donald Trump holds a press conference announcing Vice President Mike Pence will lead the effort combating the spread of the coronavirus in Washington, D.C. on February 26, 2020. (Photo: Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Mike Lofgren
The Woodward tapes provide the evidence: the president committed political genocide.


Vaccines developed in the public sector should be separated from the profit model and available to all to ensure prompt and equitable access. "Rather than competition between a limited number of firms," writes Lawson, "we need cooperation across the whole sector." (Photo: Javier Zayas Photography/iStock/via Getty Images)

by Alex Lawson
Only by taking the vaccine industry into full public ownership, with small "d" democratic controls in place, can we provide an internationalized response to this and future pandemics that properly recognizes vaccines as a global public good.


The Creek Fire jumps CA-168 on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020 in Fresno County, CA. (Photo: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Debi Smith
Our planet, the only home we humans currently know, is quite literally on fire—and, even as I write this, my home and family is in the very frightening middle of it.


A coalition of Americans gathered for the March for the Dead, Fight for the Living, a candlelit procession across the Brooklyn Bridge to the Trump Building at 40 Wall Street in Manhattan demanding the Trump administration and beyond to take responsible action to save lives and end suffering from COVID 19 on August 21, 2020. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Derrick Z. Jackson
Trump's response to the coronavirus is not what that the US public desires. They want the government to shut down its fatal nonsense.


"Though few seem to realize it, Trump has provided the nation with a roadmap of how he could unilaterally destroy Social Security, without the need for Congress, once the election is over," writes Altman. (Photo: Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

by Nancy J. Altman
No one should doubt or downplay Trump’s serious threat to Social Security.


"The entrenched system is heavily weighted—always has been—against the interests of working people, women, people of color, the poor and others deprived of power by structural inequities," writes Solomon. "We always have to keep organizing and putting up a fight." (Photo: DonkeyHotey/flickr/cc)

by Norman Solomon
Progressives have the opportunity to get much better results fighting President Biden than fighting President Trump.

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