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News & Views | 4/21/21

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People hold signs calling for U.S. President Joe Biden to support a Green New Deal and end his support of pipelines and the fossil fuel industry in St. Paul on January 29, 2021. (Photo: Tim Evans/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Science and justice demand that we reduce emissions by 70% from 2005 levels by 2030 on the road to zero emissions by mid-century."

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Activists participate in a global climate demonstration organized by the Fridays for Future movement in Cologne, Germany on March 19, 2021, (Photo: Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"This deal shows that Europe's climate action is all smoke and mirrors," said a Greenpeace E.U. campaigner.


LGBTQ+, immigrant rights, harm reduction, and criminal justice reform groups, led by people who trade sex, launched a 20+ organization coalition, Decrim NY, to decriminalize and decarcerate the sex trades in New York City and state.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The announcement, said one reform advocate, "should not supplant the need to pass legislation that would fully decriminalize sex work."


View of the Tesoro Anacortes oil refinery in Skagit County, Washington on January 15, 2017. (Photo: Linda, Fortuna future/Flickr/cc)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Fossil fuels are the greatest contributor to climate change. Allowing the continued expansion of this industry is unconscionable."

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A coalition of healthcare advocacy community organizations gathered outside Pfizer Worldwide Headquarters in Manhattan on March 11, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We urge all countries in opposition to this, including the U.S. and the E.U., to stand on the right side of history and join hands with those in support."


Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) speaks during a news conference with a bipartisan group of lawmakers on December 14, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
A top restaurant industry lobbyist reportedly "couldn't contain his excitement" at the West Virginia Democrat's remarks.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
As 2020 came to a close, the bottom 50% of earners controlled just 2% of U.S. wealth.


A climate change activist holds a sign depicting Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro with the slogan "Exterminator of the Future" during a protest against the Brazilian leader over the fires in the Amazon rainforest on August 23, 2019.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Urgent action must be taken to address threats to the Amazon, our climate, and human rights, but a deal with Bolsonaro is not the solution."


The reality of college tuition debt was on display at the Northeastern University graduation at the TD Garden on May 03, 2019.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The Vermont senator's office described the proposal as "the most substantial federal investment in higher education in the modern history of the United States."


A voter walks to a booth to fill out their ballot at Public School 160 on November 3, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"By passing this bill, the state Assembly has sent a clear message: If you live in the community, you should be able to vote."


In this photo illustration, the WhatsApp application is displayed on an iPhone on April 6, 2016 in San Anselmo, California. (Photo: Justin Sullivan via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Intelligence and law enforcement agencies must come to understand that the American people are off limits to warrantless mass surveillance, no matter how it is done."

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Yemeni children from families who were affected by the war and blockade, receive a lunch meal from a charitable center on April 12, 2021 in Sana'a, Yemen. (Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

by Amanda Catanzano
Amanda Catanzano, International Rescue Committee's Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy, testified at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Yemen.


Kenneth Davis, left, an activist from Los Angeles, joins a gathering of demonstrators celebrating the news of the Chauvin verdict at corner of Florence and Normandy Avenues in South Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (Photo: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by LZ Granderson
This distrust that stems from generations of mistreatment goes beyond the action of a single officer and indicts the entire policing and criminal justice system.


Public opinion supports rapid change. (Photo: Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP via Getty Images)

by Frank Sesno
With momentum finally heading in the right direction, we must seize this last, best opportunity to protect our future.


A woman walks past a protest banner demanding US President Trump stop denying the science behind the COVID pandemic and Climate change set up in front of the Republican National Convention Headquarters on August 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Climate Power 2020)

by Tim Whitehouse
From COVID-19 to climate change, and toxic chemicals to endangered species, the health of this nation and our ecosystem depends on scientists being able to "think, research, and speak freely" in both Democratic and Republican administrations.


The point of philanthropic funds is to support charities, not to save the funds for the next generation or to provide management fees to companies that manage the warehouses where some $1.2 trillion of charitable donations are sitting today. (Photo: Getty/Stock Photo/Guido Mieth)

by Chuck Collins, Dan Petegorsky
Make no mistake: this pandemic is the "rainy day" DAFs and foundations have been saving for.


A Haitian migrant climbs the Mexico-US border fence near the El Paso border crossing, in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico on April 15, 2021. (Photo: HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

by Belén Fernández
The U.S. government’s solution to the migrant crisis is militarization…again.

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