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News & Views | 4/20/21

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 Protesters march around downtown Minneapolis near the courthouse calling for justice for George Floyd after closing arguments in the Chauvin trial has ended on Monday, April 19, 2021 in Minneapolis, MN. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
One racial justice advocate said that there are "no victories today," for "justice would mean George Floyd is still with us."

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks during a press conference to re-introduce the Green New Deal in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (Photo: Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"We are in a civilization-altering moment in our history and it's time for America's political leaders to muster the courage and moral clarity to pass the Green New Deal," said the Sunrise Movement's executive director.




by Julia Conley, staff writer
After years of lobbying political candidates and lawmakers in Washington to support Medicare for All and helping to bring the issue to the forefront of the healthcare debate in the 2020 election, advocate Ady Barkan announced Tuesday he is bringing the fight to his home state of California.



Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett arrives for the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th U.S. president on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The members of Congress note that Americans for Prosperity, a Koch-funded advocacy group, mounted a "full-scale campaign" in support of the justice's confirmation.


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A Yemeni malnourished child lies on a bed where he receives treatment at the malnutrition treating department in Al-Sabeen hospital on January 26, 2021 in Sana'a, Yemen.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It is human actions that are driving famine and hunger, and it is our actions that can stop the worst impacts."



The U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of the SAFE Banking Act, which, if passed by the Senate and President Joe Biden, would give state-legal cannabis businesses access to banks and other financial institutions. (Photo: Darren415/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"A supermajority of the House has voted affirmatively to recognize that the legalization and regulation of marijuana is a superior public policy to prohibition and criminalization."



Steam rises from the cooling towers of the Jänschwalde lignite-fired power plant of Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG (LEAG) in Germany on December 2, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Unless governments around the world move rapidly to start cutting emissions, we are likely to face an even worse situation in 2022."



Andrew Saul arrives for his confirmation hearing to be commissioner of the Social Security Administration before the Senate Finance Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill October 2, 2018 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It is unacceptable that nearly 100 days into President Biden's first term, Social Security employees and the public we serve continue to remain under the thumb of Trump political appointees."



A gas flare at a petroleum refinery in Norco, Louisiana lights up the sky on August 21, 2019.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"To protect our communities and make good on his promises, Biden needs to end fossil fuel exports now."



"Limiting cancellation to only those borrowers who hold certain types of loans and degrees would deny relief to many struggling borrowers," as would "arbitrary cancellation cutoffs based on income," a coalition of civil rights groups explained on April 19, 2021. (Photo: Debt Collective via Facebook)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The only solution that addresses the harms of the past and clears the landscape to create a better system going forward is to cancel $50,000 of student debt per borrower."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
"The coronavirus pandemic has been used as grounds to block journalists' access to information sources and reporting in the field."


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Members of the Comunidad de Paz de San José de Apartadó march in memory of victims of the continuing violence in Colombia. (Photo: Comunidad de Paz de San José de Apartadó)

by Defend the Sacred Alliance, Kumi Naidoo, Nnimmo Bassey, Noam Chomsky, Helena Norberg-Hidge, et al.
We stand with the Colombian Peace Community of San José de Apartadó



The US is starting to recognise that it doesn’t have an endless frontier to move on to, and that much of its vast territories have been poisoned by fossil fuel industries, ground down by exploitation,including for agri-chemicals. (Photo: jetsandzeppelins/Flickr/cc)

by Natalie Bennett
You reap what you sow.



A display of guns for sale is seen at Coliseum Gun Traders Ltd. in Uniondale, New York on September 25, 2020. (Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)

by Thom Hartmann
If America is to again be a "shining city on the hill" we must end our gun violence epidemic.



In a photo taken on March 27, 2021 immigrants from Honduras, who arrived illegally across the Rio Grande river from Mexico, rest on the US side of the river bank following their crossing, before making their way towards a makeshift processing checkpoint in the border city of Roma. (Photo: ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)

by Mélissa Godin
Our world is becoming more walled due to the influence of private profiteers on governments—and increasingly displaced people pay the price.



Getting rid of public education spending would massively reduce the tax burden on wealthy individuals at the state level. (Photo: Ryan Stanton/flickr/cc)

by Valerie Strauss, Carol Burris
They all have the same purpose: To undo public education—not only the institution but also the public funding of schools.



The horrific wildfires that were ignited across Southeast Asia for land-clearing in 1997-98, combined with a regional drought, killed off many fruit-bearing trees in the forests of Malaysia. Fleeing the dead forests, fruit bats found sustenance in domestic orchards, bringing with them the Nipah virus. (Photo: by Mohd RASFAN / AFP)

by Stan Cox
Escaping ecological catastrophe and reducing the frequency of pandemics that might be lurking in the decades ahead is well within our capability, but it will require assiduous respect for ecological limits and great restraint in our interactions with nature.


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