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News & Views | 12/23/20

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
The grassroots organization People for Bernie on Tuesday advised the Democratic Party to take a page from right-wing Vice President Mike Pence after Pence told a rally crowd in Florida that progressives and Democrats "want to make rich people poorer, and poor people more comfortable."

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) heads to his office from the floor of the Senate on December 20, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If you don't see that in your bank account, you have Mitch McConnell to thank."


The climate cost of organic meat production is as dear as that of conventionally produced animal products, a study published in December 2020 revealed. (Photo: Farm Sanctuary/Flickr/cc)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"The prices are lying," said one of the study's researchers. "Climate costs are rising and we are all paying these costs."


Miguel Cardona speaks after President-Elect Joe Biden announced his nomination for Education Secretary at the Queen theatre on December 23, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Unlike Betsy DeVos, Secretary-designate Cardona will ensure that the federal government's role in education is to ensure access and opportunity for every student."

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Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff speaks with supporters before voting early at the Metropolitan Library on December 22, 2020 in Atlanta. (Photo: Megan Varner/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"We need additional, substantial direct Covid relief and the only way we'll get it is by winning these two Senate races in Georgia."


People vote at St. Frances de Chantal Church on November 3, 2020 in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Photo: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"At a time in our country when voting rights are under assault, New York is living up to our potential as a progressive leader."


Philip Esformes attends the 15th annual Harold & Carole Pump Foundation gala at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on August 7, 2015 in Century City, California. (Photo: Tiffany Rose/Getty Images for Harold & Carole Pump Foundation)

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The corrupt, the criminal, murderers of children—that's who Donald lets off the hook. We can never forget and never forgive the unspeakable cruelty."


Former Blackwater security guard Nick Slatten and his lawyer Thomas Connolly leave an arraignment hearing at U.S. district court on January 6, 2009 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"While U.S. Army contractors convicted of massacring civilians in Iraq are pardoned, the man who exposed such crimes against humanity, Julian Assange, rots in Britain's Guantanamo."


Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) attend a House Oversight and Reform Committee business meeting in Rayburn Building on Tuesday, January 29, 2019.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We can pass $2,000 checks this week if the Senate GOP agrees to stand down," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Highlighting the need to unite the labor movement behind the push for far-reaching climate action including a just transition to a renewable energy economy, several environmental groups are calling on President-elect Joe Biden to nominate Rep. Andy Levin as his secretary of labor. 


A volunteer removes plastic bottles and other trash polluting Ruaka River in Nairobi, Kenya. An increasing production of single-use plastics for beverage and other uses has become a nightmare in solid waste management in the country. (Photo: James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"This is an important milestone in fighting plastic pollution, transitioning shifting to a circular economy, and achieving the aims of the European Green Deal."

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Social Security is essential for Georgians. (Photo: US News & World Report)

by Andrew Young, Nancy J. Altman
Ossoff and Warnock understand that Americans of all political backgrounds rely on our earned Social Security benefits, and support protecting and expanding them.


As the House was preparing to vote on the modest relief package, Rep. Pramila Jayapal was leading a virtual townhall to unveil The People’s Agenda, the top legislative priorities of the Progressive Caucus for 2021. (Photo: Alex Edelman -Pool/Getty Images)

by Sarah Anderson
The Progressive Caucus has unveiled a legislative agenda designed to meet the scale of the pandemic catastrophe and reduce our vulnerability to future crises.


An umbrella keeps the rain off of a statue of Jesus Christ during the Via Crusis, or 'Way of the Cross,' during which about 200 Catholics walked through the Dupont Circle neighborhood to mark Good Friday. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Gary Olson
Honest Christians must unapologetically assert that Jesus’s message is totally at odds with society's dominant culture.


Senator Thom Tillis (above), who authored the felony streaming legislation, launched a "discussion draft" of the so-called Digital Copyright Act. (Photo by Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images)

by Jason Kelley
Internet users and innovators, as well as the basic legal norms that have supported online expression for decades, are under attack.


The Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Uruguayan Luis Almagro. (Photo: ERIKA SANTELICES/AFP via Getty Images)

by Mark Weisbrot
Bolivian right would not have succeeded, where Trump has failed, if not for an important difference: the Bolivian right had powerful help from outside the country in pulling off their coup.


Miguel Cardona, whom President-elect Joe Biden has chosen to be his education secretary, speaks to educators earlier this year. (Photo: YouTube/State Education Resource Center)

by Evan Greer
The man Biden intends to nominate to lead the Education Department cares deeply about racial and class inequality. This is one way to show it.

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