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News & Views | 10/1/20

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The film— entitled "Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair"— is a sequel to last year's "A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" and runs with the idea that the year 2020 became an "historic turning point" for the world, one in which "the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic and global uprisings against racism drive us to build back a better society in which no one is sacrificed, and everyone is essential." (Image: The Leap/The Intercept/Illustration by Moll Crabapple)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"The true power and possibility of this project is not onscreen," explains executive producer Naomi Klein. "That resides in the movement of movements that is fighting for this vision of radical repair every day.

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The New York Immigration Coalition held a rally to call on the Trump administration to protect asylum seekers and the right to refugee resettlement in New York City on August 3, 2019. (Photo: Karla Ann Cote/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
The Trump administration is" trying to grind our refugee system to a halt and ensure that Black and Brown immigrants don't have refuge here."


Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has come under fire for her anti-abortion views. (Photo: Caroline Brehman/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Trump said he's only nominating justices who'll end Roe and criminalize abortion," says NARAL Pro-Choice America's president Ilyse Hogue. "We take him at his word."


Harvard Law School students demonstrated against a recruitment dinner hosted by Paul Weiss, a law firm representing ExxonMobil, in January 2020. (Photo: Aaron Regunberg/Twitter)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Law firms write the contracts for fossil fuel projects, lobby to weaken environmental regulations, and help fossil fuel companies evade accountability in court."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Personnel is policy, and we need experts in the White House who put climate and environmental justice ahead of corporate profits."


Oil pump jacks in Los Cerritos Wetlands, Long Beach, California. (Photo: Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Big Oil is exploiting Covid-19 to go on an unprecedented borrowing binge, and the Trump administration is to blame."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is the overlap between white supremacy, the climate emergency, misogyny, and human rights abuses."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Human rights defenders in Iran, the U.S., Nicaragua, and Belarus were recognized this year for what is known as the "Alternative Nobel Peace Prize."


After a five-year campaign, Cambridge Unviersity on Thursday agreed to divest from the fossil fuel industry. (Photo: Zero Carbon Cambridge)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
While welcoming the move as a "massive victory," campaigners said that "this announcement comes five years too late and we'll be pushing for the 2030 commitment to be brought forward."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
A new analysis by the Washington Post found that the coronavirus recession has eliminated low-wage jobs at around eight times the rate of high-wage jobs.


A North Atlantic right whale and calf seen on March 22, 2019.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Seismic blasting harms whales in the search for offshore oil that we should leave in the ground."

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A protester dressed as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and another dressed as U.S. President Donald Trump stand outside the White House in the wake of the disappearance of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Oct. 19. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
So long as U.S. leaders continue to coddle the Saudis, it’s difficult not to ask who is more evil—the maniacal Saudi crown prince or the mendacious Western governments and businesspeople who support him?


The Trump administration took $1 billion in stimulus funds that were supposed to go towards making masks and other protective equipment for the pandemic — and gave most of it to weapons manufacturers. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Phyllis Bennis
Make no mistake: The Trump administration’s heartlessness and militarism are costing lives.


If there’s a silver lining, it’s that Trump’s tax manipulations reveal where the weak spots are in the current system. (Photo: Khalil Bendib / OtherWords.org)

by Chuck Collins
There are two tax systems in America: one for you and me, and one for the wealthiest 0.1 percent.


The more Americans grow accustomed to voting by mail, and the more they keep demanding that it be made easier and more reliable, the harder their votes will be to suppress or toss out. (Photo art by No-Mad / Shutterstock.com)

by Bob Moser
Wherever remote voting becomes routine, turnout soars. And we all know who loses then.

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