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News & Views | 9/20/19

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We're here to reclaim our right to live, our right to breathe, our right to exist."

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A boy holds a poster

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As millions of people of all ages joined the first-ever global #ClimateStrike on Friday—answering a call from students of the school strike for climate movement—youth activists from around the world shared why they are compelled to take to the streets to demand more ambitions efforts to tackle the planetary crisis.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
With millions marching to demand bold climate action in more than 150 countries around the world on Friday, a number of sentiments expressed on homemade signs and through other demonstrations captured the world's attention.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Climate strike leaders on Friday called on participants to keep Houston, Texas and the surrounding area in mind on Friday after severe flooding brought on by Hurricane Imelda left at least two people dead and required authorities to rescue at least 1,000 residents.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"They knew that it was real. Their own scientists told them that it was real. What do you do to people who lied in a very bold-faced way, lied to the American people, lied to the media?"


A man walks by U.S. drone graffiti painted on a wall during a campaign against drones in Yemen on May 31, 2018 in Sana'a, Yemen.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This is just one of the horrors of endless war."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We are going to make the changes that we need in this country when the working people of America stand up to the corporate elite, not take their money."

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Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg, center in orange shirt, participates in a youth climate strike outside the United Nations on Aug. 30 in New York City. Thunberg was also in town to address the U.N. Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23. (Photo: Mary Altaffer / AP)

by Sonali Kolhatkar
Not only is the cost of inaction going to be astronomical, but so is the cost to the human race, in terms of livelihoods, homes, environments and lives.


Participants of a demonstration clap their hands and write the Icelandic "Hu". The demonstrators follow the call of the movement Fridays for Future and want to fight for more climate protection. They want to support the calls for strikes and protests all over the world. (Photo: Patrick Seeger/dpa/Getty Images)

by Rachel Sarah
Today is the day we must stand up for all generations.


Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) met with press on Thursday Sept. 19, 2019 to announce that she would be introducing a House Resolution in support of teaching climate change in schools. (Photo:

by Bill Bigelow
“We need to teach every young person the human impacts of climate change and how to combat the climate crisis before it is too late.”


Students protest in front of the Scottish Parliament on March 15, 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland. This was part of the global climate strike in March, when students around the world demanded that elected officials take action on climate change. (Photo: Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)

by Stephanie Van Hook
Our emotional energy can be a source of power.


In recent years, as the American-led coalition has closed down bases in advance of a prospective U.S. military withdrawal, more and more Afghans have died or been injured by military waste exploding in abandoned areas once used by international security forces as firing ranges. (Photo: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images)

by Stephanie Savell
Why ending the Afghan War won’t end the killing.


House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., attend a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center with House and Senate Democrats on a report which they say shows that prescription drug prices have risen under President Trump on May 10, 2018. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

by Dana Brown
There has never been more momentum or more public outrage on drug pricing and issues of corporate excess in the pharmaceutical sector. The people deserve—and are demanding—much something much better.

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