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News & Views | 9/11/19

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Kumi Naidoo

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a personal plea sent to more than tens of thousands of schools around the world Wednesday, Amnesty International secretary general Kumi Naidoo called on educators and administrators to allow students to join global climate strikes later this month.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), at the end of her patience, demands to know why ICE official Daniel Renaud refuses to answer her questions during a hearing on Wednesday, September 11. (

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This is a threat to the rule of law."


The 9/11 attacks, Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday, "began an era of endless war for our country and we must change course."

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"U.S. power should be measured not by our ability to blow things up, but to bring people together around our common humanity."


A picture taken on July 4, 2019 shows a blood-stained stretcher following a reported airstrike on a hospital in the village of Kafr Nabl, in the southern Idlib province.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The conflict, now in its ninth year, "continues to torment civilians who bear the brunt of hostilities"



by Julia Conley, staff writer
As the climate crisis and the Trump administration's anti-immigration agenda intersect with immigration officials barring some Hurricane Dorian evacuees from the U.S., the Sunrise Movement, United We Dream, and other groups are rallying in Washington, D.C. Wednesday night to demand that Bahamians be allowed into the country.


Rideshare drivers hold signs during a protest outside of Uber headquarters on August 27, 2019 in San Francisco, California. Dozens of Uber and Lyft drivers staged a protest outside of Uber headquarters in support of California assembly bill 5 and to organize a union for rideshare drivers. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

by Common Dreams staff
While Sanders, Warren, Harris, and Buttigeig have come out in favor of state's bill that would offer far-reaching labor protections, Biden remained quietly on the sidelines



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The insurance companies are working hard to shift the blame and stop the movement for Medicare for All."

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Habib (standing, left) serves fruit at a meeting for parents at a “Street Kids School” meeting. Six years ago, Afghan Peace Volunteers members befriended Habib after his father had been killed when a bomb exploded in Kabul. His colleague Masoma is in the background. (Photo: Kathy Kelly)

by Kathy Kelly
Amidst political posturing, aerial terrorism, and street bombings, Afghan citizens pursue their daily work toward peace.


Zachary Norris is executive director at Ella Baker Center and co-founder of Restore Oakland. (Photo: Brooke Anderson)

by Deonna Anderson
In Oakland, social justice groups are fighting the prison industrial complex through renovated space dedicated to restorative justice and community building.


It’s tempting to look for easy ways to fix big problems by trimming around the edges to avoid making the real changes you don’t want to make. Tempting, but not feasible. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Jill Richardson
Polluting industries want you to think the climate crisis is your fault, not theirs.


Construction workers employed by the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1942. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Tim Butterworth
The GOP hopes the S-word will scare you, but great public works projects transformed this country for the better.


On the battleground of public relations, Business Roundtable (the chief lobbing front for America's biggest corporations) has declared its solidarity with all of us who seek economic fairness and equal opportunity. (Photo by Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)

by Jim Hightower
They're still going to plunder your unions, paychecks, jobs, health, environment and overall well-being. The only difference is that they now want you to think they feel bad about it.


The National Security Council had been the principal forum for consideration of key policies for 72 years. Bolton destroyed it in 17 months. (Christopher Halloran via Shutterstock)

by Joseph Cirincione
Trump created the storm, but Bolton aimed it expertly. An aerial view of the White House post-Bolton would reveal a devastated landscape.

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