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News & Views | 2/9/21

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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) speaks during opening arguments in the historic second Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on February 9, 2021. (Photo: Washington Post/YouTube screen grab)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"This cannot be the future of America," the Maryland Democrat said. "We cannot have presidents inciting... mob violence against our government and our institutions because they refuse to accept the will of the people."

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Democratic House impeachment managers introduced a 13-minute video at former President Donald Trump's trial on Tuesday. (Photo: YouTube/C-SPAN)

by Common Dreams staff
"If the pursuit of justice does not fuel you, let the rage and horror of this piece of testimony do it."



Then-President Donald Trump arrives at the "Stop The Steal" Rally on January 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The president of the United States incited a murderous insurrection, then used his bully pulpit to fan the flames of hatred."



"A world based on 100% renewable energy is possible, and we are able to transform the energy system fast enough to avoid the climate catastrophe."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The solutions will not only save consumers money, but also create jobs and provide energy and more international security, while substantially reducing air pollution and climate damage from energy."



Pro-Trump rioters invaded the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. (Photo: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The Senate, and the nation as a whole, need to hear from witnesses who can testify not only about the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, but also about Trump's actions leading up to that attack."



"Our study adds to the mounting evidence that air pollution from ongoing dependence on fossil fuels is detrimental to global health," said co-author Eloise Marais. (Photo: Marcel Kusch/picture alliance via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Now more than ever we can see the healthier, more just and sustainable world that climate actions can deliver," said one Harvard doctor.



President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on October 21, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"I think it very well may be the case that reluctant senators change their mind and vote to convict," prosecution aides said.



Participants seen holding a banner at the press conference in Manhattan on February 6, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Rep. Mondaire Jones demanded the immediate return of "wrongfully deported" as Rep. Ayanna Pressley denounced ICE as "rogue agency."



Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline hold a protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Oct. 25, 2016.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"They are running because of one simple fact: DAPL IS AN ILLEGAL PIPELINE."



Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing December 12, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We shouldn't care whether Republicans are gonna vote for this or not. The vast majority of the American people support this package, Republicans and Democrats."


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"For the last seven years," writes Houska, "I have been fighting Line 3 with everything I have. If built, Line 3, a massive toxic tar sands pipeline, would destroy the sacred wild rice beds my people depend on for our food, our culture and our way of life. It would contribute as much to the climate crisis as 50 new coal-fired power plants. It would endanger 800 wetlands and 200 waterways." (Image: StoptheMoneyPipeline)

by Tara Houska
Over the next two months, we're going to make the financial companies that support Enbridge and its toxic tar sands project feel the heat. Here's the plan.



Vicki Ibarra opens a late medical bill for her son at her home on Saturday, February 2, 2019 in Fresno, California. (Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Laura Packard
Hedge funds and private equity firms make profits off our misery and threaten any future health care reform.



US President Donald Trump is seen on TV from a video message released on Twitter addressing rioter at the US Capitol, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021. Trump told his supporters on Wednesday to "go home" after they stormed the US Capitol following a rally during which he repeated his spurious claims of election fraud. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

by Trevor Potter
We cannot begin to address this threat and rebuild trust unless we send a clear message that future presidents cannot incite an insurrection at the end of their term and get away with it.



A Publix supermarket cashier. A 2019 Oxfam report shows that raising the minimum wage to $15/hr would benefit 40 million workers and their families. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/UIG via Getty Images)

by Mary Babic
When employers don’t pay people enough to survive, those workers are compelled to seek government assistance, meaning taxpayers are essentially subsidizing the corporations.



Members of the National Guard walk beside barbed wire fencing on U.S. Capitol grounds at sunrise on February 8, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Senate is scheduled to begin the second impeachment trial of former U.S. President Donald J. Trump on February 9. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

by Ralph Nader
If the Democrats do not go full throttle in this trial—this last clear chance to exercise the Constitution against Tyrant Trump—they will be remembered as profiles of infamy.



In this long exposure photo, the LNU Lightning Complex fire continues to burn in the ridges near Chemise Road in Healdsburg, California on August 21, 2020. (Photo: Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)

by Rebecca Gordon
Climate change, the bomb, or the flame of hope?


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