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News & Views | 4/8/21

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Plant hire equipment is for sale on an auction yard with power station in background in England. (Photo: BuildPix/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
NOAA warned that carbon dioxide and methane "continued their unrelenting rise in 2020."

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President Joe Biden speaks about gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 8, 2021. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"The idea that we have so many people dying every single day from gun violence in America is a blemish on our character as a nation," the president said.


Organized labor advocates rallied in downtown Los Angeles on March 22, 2021 in solidarity with Amazon workers amid their historic unionization vote in Bessemer, Alabama. (Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Stronger unions mean higher wages, safer working conditions, and dignity for all people who work. The PRO Act is our first step to get there."


A gas flare at a petroleum refinery in Norco, Louisiana lights up the sky on August 21, 2019. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"These companies are producing a significant percentage of the carbon that we use, which is destroying our planet, and we want to know what they are doing to transform their companies away from fossil fuel."


Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean speaks during an event on November 9, 2017 in Danville, Pennsylvania.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Dean currently works in the lobbying division at Dentons, a law firm that has represented Pfizer and other industry giants.


Interior Secretary Deb Haalands stands in Bears Ears National Monument in Utah.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Campaigners tell Biden's new Interior Secretary to undo the attack on Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Manchin represents a state that is 1/22 the population of California and 92% white, yet he can singlehandedly block policies supported by 70-80% of Americans."


People hold pro-worker signs and rally outside a Whole Foods Market after marching from Amazon headquarters in solidarity with Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama on March 26, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This decline of unions wasn't inevitable—it was a deliberate policy choice made on behalf of wealthy interests and corporations, and it can be reversed."


Workers walk a picket line in front of the Miami Tower as they strike against the building's cleaning contractor, SFM Services, on February 12, 2021 in Miami, Florida. They accuse the company of having unsafe working conditions, low wages, intimidation and retaliation over union organizing efforts. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"We need to do better for working people," said one advocate.


Members of National Nurses United, the largest nurses union in the United States, protest in front of the White House April 21, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
More than 3,600 health workers died of Covid-19 during the first year of the pandemic, according to a new investigation.

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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. waves to onlookers while leading the 125,000 strong 'Walk to Freedom' on Woodward Avenue in Detroit in 1963. (Photo: Tony Spina / Detroit Free Press)

by Kai Newkirk, Rev. Stephen A. Green
King's full radical vision is still the best guide for how to lead America to the promised land.


People stand in line outside of the Georgia State Capitol to pay respects to the late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) on July 29, 2020 in Atlanta. (Photo: Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

by Julie Hollar
Oh yes they are.


Migrants mostly from Central America are dropped off by the US Customs and Border Protection at a bus station near the Gateway International Bridge, between the cities of Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico, on March 15, 2021. (Photo: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)

by Robert C. Koehler
The United States created a hellish world for millions and now demonizes those trying to escape it.


A woman wearing a face mask is seen outside a Covid-19 vaccine clinic in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on April 6, 2021. (Photo: Zou Zheng/Xinhua via Getty) (Xinhua/Zou Zheng via Getty Images)

by Linda McQuaig
Privatization has left us scrambling for vaccines in today's pandemic—a dangerous situation that last week drove the desperate Trudeau government to announce a $415 million federal contribution to the expansion of vaccine production capacity at the old Connaught plant, now owned by French...


"The U.S. military's new emphasis on near-peer conflicts will undoubtedly help funnel trillions of dollars into yet more weaponry, including a revamped nuclear arsenal," writes Astore, "but it does not bode well for reasoned diplomacy or anything like peace on this planet." (Image: CodePink)

by William Astore
Why 2021 looks so much like 1981—and why that should frighten us all.


"Pregnancy could be a rewarding yet challenging and stressful experience for women," writes Tanjeem. "Pregnant women need not the additional burden of dealing with the impossible “choice” of getting the vaccine in the absence of reliable clinical trial data." (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

by Nafisa Tanjeem
And why scientific protocols should move away from protecting women from research and support women through research.

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