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News & Views | 4/14/21
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250 Groups Urge WTO Chief to Ditch Pharma-Friendly Approach and Embrace Vaccine Patent Waiver
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Global supply should not be dependent on the purely commercial
prerogatives and exclusive rights of pharmaceutical companies holding
the technology. There is simply too much at stake."
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If CEOs Really Want to Stop GOP Attacks on Voting, Say Progressives, They'd Support the For the People Act
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"While it's great that these executives and their companies oppose the
Jim Crow-style laws that GOP lawmakers are pushing across the country,
this kind of talk is cheap without action."
Climate Groups Cheer Keep It in the Ground Act of 2021
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Our public lands and waters belong to all of us—not to fossil fuel
executives who want to exploit our health and our kids' future to get
rich," said Sen. Jeff Merkley.
Jayapal Calls for Crackdown on Wealthiest After IRS Chief Says Tax Evasion Costs US $1 Trillion a Year
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by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"We don't just need a wealth tax, we also need to give the IRS the tools
it needs to make sure the ultra-rich finally pay their fair share."
Coalition Tells Biden White House That Any Further Fossil Fuel Projects 'Incompatible' With Paris Goals
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Together our groups represent millions of people across the country all
urging the Biden administration to put the health and safety of our
communities and our climate before oil and gas profits."
Federal Court Ends Trump Effort to Open 128 Million Acres of Atlantic, Arctic Oceans to Drilling
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"As the Biden administration considers its next steps, it should build
on these foundations, end fossil fuel leasing on public lands and
waters, and embrace a clean energy future."
Probe Finds Capitol Police Leaders Ignored Key Intel Ahead of January 6 Insurrection
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by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Congress itself is the target," warned one internal threat assessment
three days before the deadly attack by supporters of then-President
Donald Trump.
'Now, We Need to Make the Change Permanent': FDA Lifts Abortion Pill Restriction During Pandemic
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"The in-person dispensing restriction—which the Trump administration
fought to keep in place during the pandemic—prioritized ideology over
science and endangered the health and well-being of Americans."
'Too Dangerous to Exist': Coalition Calls for Ban on Private, Corporate Use of Facial Recognition
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Letting this tool of authoritarian control spread throughout the
private sector has serious implications for worker organizing rights and
heightens the risk of catastrophic biometric data breaches."
'Shame': Biden to Advance Trump-Era Sale of $23 Billion in F-35s and Armed Drones to UAE
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We have to stop choosing political expediency over human rights," said
Kate Kizer of Win Without War.
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Our House Continues to Burn, Yet Some Insist on Trying to Reason With Fire
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by Leonard Pitts Jr.
Tradition and aspirational values cannot matter more than the principles
they are meant to serve.
The Loutish Lemmings of the GOP
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by Michael Winship
Flailing into oblivion, the frat boy politics of the Republican Party
simply may end in its unseemly collapse – or national disaster.
What We Can Learn From the First New Deal to Make the New One Better
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by William Janeway
Whether it is called "Build Back Better" or a "Green Industrial Policy"
or, indeed, a Green New Deal, it is imperative to reject the false
dichotomy of "jobs against climate."
To Bust Monopoly Power, Start With the Companies Controlling Our Food
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by Jim Hightower
Busting the monopoly power of abusive and arrogant food giants is
broadly popular—even in Congress.
Denis Halliday: A Voice of Reason in an Insane World
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by Nicolas J.S. Davies
"I think the United States and its populous, who vote these governments
in, need to understand that the children and the people of Iraq are just
like the children of the United States."
Police Must End Deadly, Racist Traffic Stops
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by Will Bunch
A cop stopped Daunte Wright for expired tags. Then, Wright died. This is
intolerable.
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Newswire...
IMF's Planned Special Drawing Rights Allocation "A Good First Step," CEPR Co-Director Says
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
NIAC Applauds Committee Passage of NO BAN Act
National Iranian-American Council
UCS Delivers Letter to White House Signed by More Than 1,500 Scientists Urging Biden to Cut Emissions by at Least Half by 2030
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
FOE calls on Congress to pass Keep It in the Ground Act
Friends of the Earth
Stand Up America Celebrates Continued Momentum for D.C. Statehood After H.R. 51 Passes Oversight Committee
Stand Up America
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