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News & Views | 9/19/19

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by Dipti Bhatnagar
We have a choice between a better world that will be climate-just , or a world of injustice, suffering, and species collapse.

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Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders speaks during the AFL-CIOs first-ever Presidential Summit in Philadelphia. (Photo: Preston Ehrler/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
With 99.95 percent of those who gave still able to do so again, 2020 candidate says record milestone—reached faster than any other campaign in history—"is astonishing."


A group including tricolored blackbirds, red-winged blackbirds, and starlings take flight at the City of Santa Cruz Resource Recovery Facility on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, in Santa Cruz, Calif.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We have to act now to protect the places we know birds rely on."


An MQ-9 Reaper drone flies a combat mission.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Amnesty International said the bombing "suggests a shocking disregard for civilian life."


Md. activists

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
On the eve of a global climate strike and just days before a major United Nations climate summit, more than 450 environmental activists and organizations sent an open letter Thursday to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres urging him to support a global ban on fracking for fossil fuels, highlighting growing concerns about public health and the climate emergency.


Eugene Scalia

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Progressive groups and Democratic lawmakers expressed serious concerns Thursday about corporate attorney Eugene Scalia—President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Labor Department—as the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee met to consider his nomination.


A French mayor banned the pesticide glysophate from areas near homes in his village and inspired other municipalities to do the same.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Tests on the people of Langouët showed levels of glyphosate—one of the most widely used herbicides and the active ingredient in RoundUp—in their urine up to 30 times the recommended limit. It was especially high in children.

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by Ralph Nader
Everybody in, nobody out, free choice of doctor and hospital. It will produce far less anxiety, dread, and fear. Can you hear that, Congress and the White House?


Schools should be community hubs that prepare people for the skills we will need going forward to live through climate change. (Photo: Guy Smallman/Getty Images)

by Jessica Garraway, David Boenke
Students are striking for a future—educators should join them.


It is a parody of democracy that allows such irresponsible and corrupt gluttons to make globally important decisions. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Tamara Pearson
There is no democracy when you can't do anything about the companies polluting your rivers and air. The unbridled power of the big corporations is despotic.


As wealth continues to concentrate at the top, the extremely wealthy are using it shut out students who are already hundreds of steps behind on the road to success—all to give the already affluent another boost along the way. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Jessicah Pierre
Low-income parents risk jail for putting their kids in better public schools, while the rich bribe colleges to shut the poor out.


The wave of climate strikes led by young people has other parts of society joining in and following their lead - trade unions, human rights organisations and others. (Photo: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

by Jenny Ricks
The lack of meaningful and radical action from our governments, the denial of the existence of a climate crisis, the monied interests that drive our overconsumption and reliance on fossil fuels are all trying to prevent radical and effective solutions to the climate emergency—these are the usual...


Democratic presidential hopefuls former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) speak during the second round of the second Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by CNN at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Michigan on July 31, 2019. (Photo: Jim Waton/AFP/Getty Images)

by John Atcheson
Running a candidate who will advocate policies that are embraced by the elite are done in the interests of the oligarchy is literally the only path that leads to a Trump victory in 2020.

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