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A coalition of healthcare advocacy organizations gathered outside Pfizer Worldwide Headquarters in Manhattan on March 11, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We need a people's vaccine, not only to protect people in the world's poorest countries, but to ensure that people all over the world who've already been vaccinated aren't put at risk again."

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A woman holds a poster reading, "Wake up humans, you're endangered too," at a Fridays for Future protest for climate action in Vienna, Austria on March 19, 2021. (Photo: Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"People who spend their careers studying our economy are in widespread agreement that climate change will be expensive, potentially devastatingly so."



A billboard with the image of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is seen vandalized with red paint and feces as a protest of his governmental management of the coronavirus pandemic, in Carpina, Pernambuco state, Brazil, on March 27, 2021. (Photo: Leo Malafaia/AFP via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
A leading opposition figure said the country "can't overcome" Covid-19 with Bolsonaro, because "he is the crisis incarnate."



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
"There are many millions of seniors who would be very, very grateful if we did that right now."



A participant holding a sign at a climate march on September 20, 2020.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This goal is both technically feasible and necessary—now we need action."



<p>Thousands of New Yorkers are seen pre-pandemic on the streets on July 26, 2017 in opposition to anti-trans policy moves by then-President Donald Trump

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Stripping youth of this care even when it is recommended by their doctors, supported by their parents, and demanded by the dire situations of the youth is cruel and deadly."



Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson—President Joe Biden's nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and "the other public defenders and civil rights lawyers in this group are exactly the kind of judges we need to rebalance our courts," said Demand Justice executive director Brian Fallon. (Photo: Bill O'Leary/<em>The Washington Post</em> via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The president, said one leading advocate, "is demonstrating his commitment to building a diverse bench of qualified, fair-minded judges with a commitment to equal justice under the law."



 A CVS pharmacist gives the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a resident at the Emerald Court senior living community in Anaheim, CA on Friday, January 8, 2021. The vaccine was optional for staff and residents. (Photo by Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

by Common Dreams staff
"We are not out of the woods yet, but these numbers are incredibly encouraging and a major morale booster for frontline caregivers who have been working tirelessly for more than a year to protect our residents."



The signers of a new joint statement released Tuesday say that while Covid-19 has made clear that "united action is needed," they expressed their collective belief "that nations should work together towards a new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and response," and added that such "a renewed collective commitment would be a milestone in stepping up pandemic preparedness at the highest political level." (Photo: European Council)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"The Covid-19 pandemic has been a stark and painful reminder that nobody is safe until everyone is safe."



Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on July 28, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The American people should be able to trust that the senior leadership of the Social Security Administration will advocate on their behalf—not needlessly and cruelly obstruct the delivery of survival checks."


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While the economic model lurking behind Biden's plan may be old indeed, the attempt to outsource U.S. immigration enforcement to Mexican and Central American military and police forces has proven to be a distinctly twenty-first-century twist on border policy. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

by Aviva Chomsky
Biden's plan actually promotes an old economic development model that has long benefited U.S. corporations. It also aims to impose a distinctly militarized version of "security" on the people of that region.



Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org leading a 2018 panel discussion on the book "DRAWDOWN: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming", presented at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Michael Winship
"The physical trends are ominous, but at the very least, there's going to be one hell of a fight."



Margaret Keenan, 90 at the time and the first U.K. patient to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, chats with Lorraine Hill at University Hospital Coventry on Dec. 9, 2020, a day after getting the shot. (Photo: Jonny Weeks/Pool/Afp via Getty Images)

by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Britain's vaccination rate has far outpaced the rest of the West. The triumph belongs to its National Health Service.



A coalition of health justice advocates gathered outside Pfizer's headquarters in Manhattan on March 11, 2021 to call on the Biden administration to push pharmaceutical companies to commit to equitable global vaccine distribution and help end the pandemic everywhere by supporting the waiver of the World Trade Organization's monopoly protections for Big Pharma. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Brian Wakamo
People in high-income countries that represent 16 percent of the world’s population have received 56 percent of doses.



The Republican Party knows that it cannot hold national power in a fair vote. (Photo: Getty/ Stock Photo)

by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Republican-controlled state legislatures across the US are enacting new restrictions on voter participation that target non-whites. Since the Civil War, the white supremacist culture—embraced by a shrinking minority in America—has always based its power on violence and voter suppression.



New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams (Photo: Jason Willams/Facebook Page)

by Bill Quigley
Members knocked on doors, made thousands of calls and texted to get the word out about the importance of the election and the important issues in the DA race.


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