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News & Views | 3/17/21

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"Our work is cut out for us," says PNHP president and Medicare for All backer Dr. Adam Gaffney. (Photo: National Nurses United/flickr/cc)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"A system that prioritizes profits over patients and ties coverage to employment was no match for a global pandemic and will never meet the needs of our people."

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), joined by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), speaks during a news conference to announce the introduction of S. 1, the For the People Act, in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. (Photo: Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Too much is at stake to delay a vote on this critical legislation or to allow archaic Senate rules to kill the bill."



Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) delivers his first speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday, March 17, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This issue is bigger than the filibuster," says Georgia Democrat in first-ever Senate floor speech.



 Butterflies seen at Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove on November 30, 2015.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"In only a few decades, a migration of millions has been reduced to less than two thousand butterflies."



Campaigners calling for public control of water are hosting a Virtual Rally to Reclaim Nestlé's Troubled Waters at 7:00 pm ET on Thursday. (Image: The Story of Stuff Project/Twitter)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Communities across the continent are now calling for Nestlé's existing contracts to end, and for local stewardship over the groundwater."



Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on February 10, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Walmart, which pays its CEO nearly 1,000 times more than its average worker, would pay up to $855 million more in taxes."



President Joe Biden delivers a primetime address to the nation from the East Room of the White House March 11, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"That's what it was supposed to be."



Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) arrives at a hearing regarding wages at large corporations on February 25, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"We will never eliminate poverty as long as so much of our nation's resources are flowing to the top."



Demonstrators wear chains while holding a sit-in inside the Capitol building in opposition of House Bill 531 on March 8, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It is a dangerous thing for the business community to be silent."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"My heart is broken tonight after the tragic violence in Atlanta that took eight lives. Once again we see that hate is deadly," said Sen. Raphael Warnock.


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Along with all other social justice issues, healthcare justice reaches into every section of our lives and our communities. (Photo: @Public_Citizen/Twitter)

by Donna Smith
Stand tall and with the power of our shared commitment and let’s teach more people to be active constituents who push their own Congressional members to co-sponsor the Medicare for All Act of 2021.



Members of the New York Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons (NYCAN) gathered outside the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building in Manhattan on the 75th anniversary of the bombing of the city of Hiroshima, to give notice to the New York City Council that it is time to bring Resolution 976 and INT 1621, known as the Nuclear Disarmament Legislation to the floor for a vote at the next Stated Meeting. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Tristan Guyette
It’s time we stop prioritizing weapons before citizens and re-evaluate our funding of nuclear weapons.



The Lempa River, whose watershed provides water for half of El Salvador (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Robin Broad, John Cavanagh
Americans will have to fight hard to protect their water from corporate greed. They can learn a lot from El Salvador.



Staffers place a sign on a podium in preparation for a news conference with House Democrats regarding H.R. 1, the For the People Act, on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Jeff Milchen
Our chance to preempt voter suppression could expire at any moment.



Ford F150 trucks go through robots on the assembly line at the Ford Dearborn Truck Plant on September 27, 2018 in Dearborn, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

by Jim Hightower
CEOs urgently need euphemisms to soften the image of their constant hunt for ways to kill jobs and funnel more money to themselves and top investors.



"Universal single-payer health insurance, or Medicare for All, would cover everyone with the same high-quality care, progressively financed." (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Ed Weisbart
Despite its life-saving importance, the American Rescue Plan continues to protect bloated corporations with our public dollars and does nothing to make healthcare more affordable for the nation.


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