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News & Views | 4/12/21

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A Veolia sign is seen on December 14, 2020 in Hamburg, Germany. (Photo: Jeremy Moeller/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Veolia's plan to dominate public water services all across the globe is becoming a terrifying reality."

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An on-air journalist makes a report as flames flare up behind him from the Santa Ana wind-driven Bond fire burning near a hill-side residence along Santiago Canyon Road in Silverado, California on December 3, 2020. (Photo: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Why 'emergency'? Because words matter. To preserve a livable planet, humanity must take action immediately ."



Fossil Free Divest NY, in coordination with community members and dozens of groups across America, held a rally outside the office of the New York State Comptroller in New York City, on May 14, 2018.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Kudos to Tom DiNapoli for making it clear that you can't build your retirement on tar sands."



Kentucky Democrat Charles Booker formed an exploratory committee to consider running against for the U.S. Senate in 2022. (Photo: Charles Booker/YouTube)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"I know Rand Paul is watching this movement. I know he's scared. He should be. He knows we can transform Kentucky."



Protesters confront law enforcement after police shot and killed Daunte Wright during a traffic stop on April 11, 2021 in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. (Photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Yet another Black life was taken by those sworn to protect, and we join the community in mourning Wright's loss," said the ACLU of Minnesota.



U.S. Army Lt. Caron Nazario filed a lawsuit against the two Windsor, Virginia police officers—one of whom has been fired—for allegedly violating his constitutional rights by illegally assaulting, detaining, and searching him. (Photo: Windsor Police body camera screen grab)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"This should have been a routine traffic stop and the video speaks for itself."



Iran Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said at a Monday news conference accused Israel of being behind an attack on the Natanz nuclear facility and vowed revenge for the attack of sabotage that outside critics is clearly aimed a scuttling diplomatic efforts between Tehran, the U.S., and others. (Photo: PressTV)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"This is sabotage all right," said one outside critic of the attack on Natanz, reportedly carried out by Mossad. "But the target is Biden's diplomacy with Iran."



Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clarke speaks during a press conference after he joined ISNAD, the defence committee of toppled Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, 28 December 2004 in Amman. (Photo: KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP via Getty Images)

by Democracy Now!
"The world is the most dangerous place it's ever been now because of what our country has done, and is doing, and we have to take it back."



Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks with reporters in the Senate subway on Tuesday, December 8, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"When the scientists tell us we have five or six years before there will be irreparable damage done because of climate change, I'm not going to slow down."



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

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We need the cooperation of the whole world and the elimination of all the barriers to the production and distribution of vaccines."


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A person holds "Vote Union Yes!" signs during a protest in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate and the unionization of Amazon.com, Inc. fulfillment center workers at Kelly Ingram Park on March 27, 2021 in Birmingham, Alabama. (Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

by Rebekah Entralgo
In the face of intimidation by one of the largest companies in the world, Alabama workers bravely spoke out about the need for greater labor protections.



Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh attends the wedding of Princess Eugenie of York to Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel on October 12, 2018 in Windsor, England. (Photo: Alastair Grant - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

by Jonathan Cook
In normal times the propaganda is better masked, wrapped in the illusion of choice and variety.



Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) talks to reporters with Sen. John Thune (R-SD) (L) and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) following the weekly Senate Republican caucus luncheon in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill March 16, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Robert Reich
Corporations can and should bankroll much of what America needs. But they won't as long as corporations keep bankrolling American politicians.



Chairman Joe Manchin, (D-WV), looks on as Congresswoman Deb Haaland, D-NM, speaks during the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on her nomination to be Interior Secretary on Capitol Hill on February 23, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Jim Watson-Pool/Getty Images)

by Fred Wertheimer
The senator from West Virginia says he sees himself as a defender of the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd. If we review Byrd's legacy, however, it's clear Manchin is not doing that.



Marlboro Red cigarettes seen in a Tobacco Store. (Photo by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Michél Legendre
Big Tobacco has targeted Black communities for generations with multi-billion dollar marketing campaigns and a plethora of deadly products.



Protests march through downtown St. Paul, MN with a Stop Line 3 banner on January 29, 2021. (Photo: Tim Evans/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Cynthia Kaufman, Miriam Eide
For years organizations have been calling on pension funds to divest from fossil fuels due to environmental racism and the climate impact of these investments.


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