Friday, September 20, 2019  Disabled People Cannot Be "Expected Losses" in the Climate Crisis Julia Watts Belser, Truthout The structural barriers that disability communities face every day become a matter of life or death during disaster. If we persist in framing disability and climate change as a problem of physical vulnerability, we miss the underlying realities of structural violence. Working for climate justice requires challenging the root causes of vulnerability, rather than treating disabled people as inevitable casualties of climate change.
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Trump Cuts Emissions Standards While Accusing Homeless People of "Polluting" William Rivers Pitt, Truthout What we are confronted with now is beyond strange. The policy bowl of rancid jellybeans was overflowing again this past week when following a secretive fundraiser in San Francisco, Trump bizarrely announced that the Environmental Protection Agency would issue the city a violation because its homeless population was polluting the oceans by dropping needles in storm drains. Then he announced he was revoking California's auto emissions standards.
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Today Is Far From the End. A Climate "General Strike" Is Coming. Shane Burley, Truthout To demand immediate action on climate change, the newly formed Earth Strike movement is borrowing a traditional labor organizing tactic -- refusing to work or participate in society. On September 27, participants in the General Strike for Climate will walk out of schools and workplaces, suspend commercial operations and boycott banks in an effort to pressure governments to act.
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Global Climate Action's Biggest Obstacle Is U.S. Foreign Policy Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, Truthout As wars and the climate crisis threaten the future of humanity, people around the world are struggling to unite in the effort to cool our burning planet and prevent the spread and escalation of violent conflicts. But the U.S. is stifling those efforts with its insistence on leveraging its economic and military power to have the final say on issues that affect the whole world.
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Pelosi's Plan Is Not Enough. Lower Drug Prices Now Through a Public Option. Dana Brown, Common Dreams House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently released the Lower Drug Costs Now Act to address prescription drug costs, arguing that inflated drug prices are evidence of market failure. However, markets aren't designed to prioritize the public good over corporate greed. That is why we need a public alternative that is solely dedicated to the public's health priorities.
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Two Years After Hurricane Maria, We Need Action on Climate More Than Ever Marysel Pagán Santana, Truthout Two years ago, I waited out Hurricane Maria, a climate-fueled disaster. Now, as the climate crisis barrels forward, intensifying disasters that otherwise might have been kept at bay, we cannot stop at mobilizing around preparing for and dealing with the aftermath of disaster. We must transfer those organizing skills toward pushing for climate action.
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U.S. Denies Visa to Afghan Teen Invited to First-Ever UN Youth Climate Summit Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Afghan climate youth activist Nasratullah Elham was invited to participate in the first-ever UN Youth Climate Summit, but the United States rejected his visa. Elham says his activism is based on the crisis's impact on his home country, and that climate change is not only a future problem, but a current one for many people around the world.
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Wisconsin Lawmakers Seek to Criminalize Environmental Protests David Armiak, Center for Media and Democracy Expanding on a current law passed in 2015, lawmakers in Wisconsin have introduced a bill designed to quash protests around fossil fuel infrastructure. The legislation echoes similar bills pushed in nine states by the American Legislative Exchange Council and the Council of State Governments over the last two years.
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Iraqi Kids Test Positive for Depleted Uranium Remnants Near Former U.S. Air Base Mike Ludwig, Truthout Independent researchers found high levels of radioactive heavy metals associated with toxic depleted uranium pollution in the hair and teeth of children born near a former U.S. air base in southern Iraq. The findings appear to bolster claims made by Iraqi doctors who observed high rates of congenital disabilities, such as heart disease and malformed limbs, in babies born after the first year of the bloody 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
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Youth Activists Tell Washington "We're Coming for You" on Climate Change Jaskiran Dhillon, Truthout As the world teeters on the edge of climate disaster, young immigrants, Indigenous youth and communities of color are taking the lead in pushing for climate action at the local level. Organizers with the Youth Climate Strike know that climate change is not just an environmental problem, and they are committed to addressing the underlying economic and sociopolitical causes of the crisis more broadly.
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