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News & Views | 4/22/21

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Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg in a video released shortly before the Biden administration kicked off a two-day virtual summit of international leaders to address the climate crisis. "The gap between what needs to be done and what we are actually doing is widening by the minute," says Thunberg. "The gap between the urgency needed and the current level of awareness and attention is becoming more and more absurd." (Photo: Screenshot/NowThis News)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
The Swedish campaigner says insufficient goals and empty rhetoric represent the "biggest elephant there's even been in any room."

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An Indian farmer and his son walk across a parched former field near Agartala, Tipura state, where repeated droughts believed to be exacerbated by the climate emergency have devastated lives and livelihoods for decades. (Photo: Parthajit Datta/AFP via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The environmental justice collective says the focus on "promoting market-based approaches and unproven techno-fixes" will only cause more harm.


"Pfizer has spent the past year making billions of dollars in profits while people continue to die from Covid-19," tweeted Health GAP on April 22, 2021. "It's time to #FreeTheVaccine so the whole world has access to these life-saving vaccines!" (Photo: Twitter screengrab via Health GAP)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
The absence of a WTO patent waiver, say public health advocates, "means we won't end the pandemic, millions of people will die, and the global economy will suffer."


Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) speaks during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol to advocate for ending the Senate filibuster on April 22, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We cannot let a procedural tool that can be abolished stand in the way of justice, prosperity, and equity. We simply cannot afford such a catastrophic compromise."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
When the House voted on the issue in 1993, a majority of Democrats joined the Republicans in rejecting the bill.


Razor wire-topped fencing is seen surrounding the Supreme Court of the United States on Monday, February 22, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Sotomayor said the troubling majority opinion was "fooling no one" in a dissent characterized as "extremely powerful."


In this photo illustration, the Moderna logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen with the logo of Covax in the background.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Rich countries need to support an intellectual property waiver for Covid-19 vaccines and force Big Pharma to share their vaccine blueprints with the world."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"It's important for us as progressives to continue to push and continue to organize," said the New York congressman.


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

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Instead of creating new vaccine billionaires, we need to be vaccinating billions in developing countries."


A relative of a Covid-19 victim pays his respects before a cremation at Nigambodh Ghat Crematorium on the banks of the Yamuna river in New Delhi in the early hours of April 22, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Once the first wave subsided, the government almost declared victory over Covid-19. The country's been caught unprepared."


President Joe Biden delivering remarks at the opening of an international climate summit hosted virtually by the White House on Earth Day, April 22, 2011. (Photo: WhiteHouse.gov)

by Common Dreams staff
"Our clean energy plan will create millions of good-paying union jobs, ensure our economic competitiveness, and improve the health and security of communities across America," Biden said in a declaration ahead of the 40-nation online gathering.

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Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg speaks during a "Youth Strike 4 Climate" protest march on March 6, 2020 in Brussels. (Photo: JOHN THYS/AFP via Getty Images)

by Greta Thunberg
Why nobody should be fooled by the gaps between pledges and real action.


Biden with NATO’s Jens Stoltenberg. (Photo: haramjedder.blogspot.com)

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
For a president who promised a new era of American diplomacy, this has been a dreadful start.


No money for climate killers. That's what Greenpeace activists demanded earlier this year at the headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. Coming from the air, they unfurled a twelve by six metre banner from the roof of the entrance building with the slogan: "Stop funding Climate Killers!" (Photo: Felix Schmitt / Greenpeace)

by Joe Sanberg
"The only 'green' the big banks are interested in is your hard earned money," writes @JosephNSanberg on #EarthDay #StoptheMoneyPipeline


April 2, 2019, Interstate 40, Adrian, Texas. (Photo: Paul Harris/Getty Images)

by Frances Moore Lappé
We can act now with proven tools to cut greenhouse gas emissions and store vastly more carbon in plants and the earth.


Former Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, stands next to his portrait after its unveiling in Statuary Hall in the Capitol on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

by Mike Lofgren
Beneath his blustering pretense of candor, the former Republican House Speaker is as craven and self-serving as ever.


Under the circumstances, it's important that we not drop this pandemic from memory as we did the 1918 one. (Photo: Getty Images/Stock Photo/Tempura)

by Nina Burleigh
This is the first pandemic in which the Internet enabled us to bear witness not only to the panic, illness, and deaths around us, but to the suffering of our entire species in every part of the globe in real time.

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