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Your Week in Review


A nurse prepares an injection of a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine during the launch of the vaccination campaign for 5000 frontline workers in the tourism and hospitality sector in Nairobi county at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 21, 2021. (Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Millions continue to die because pharma monopolies have created vaccine scarcity in the global south," said one public health campaigner.


People hold portraits of Armenian intellectuals—who were detained and deported in 1915—during a rally on Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul on April 24, 2018, held to commemorate the 103nd anniversary of the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. Armenians say up to 1.5 million people were killed during World War I as the Ottoman Empire was falling apart, a claim supported by many other countries. Turkey fiercely rejects the genocide label. (Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"This principled stand represents a powerful setback to Turkey's century-long obstruction of justice for this crime, and its ongoing hostility and aggression against the Armenian people."


Pump jacks operate at the Belridge Oil Field and hydraulic fracturing site in Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California. (Photo: Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil and Jessica Corbett, staff writers
"The challenge now is to speed up the timeline so that it meets the urgency that science and justice demand."

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by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"The fastest, most direct path to Medicare for All has always gone through the governor," said one single-payer campaigner.


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."



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.


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."


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.


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."


People react after the verdict was read in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin on April 20, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Common Dreams staff
"This verdict is not a substitute for policy change."

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