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A coalition of healthcare advocacy organizations rallied outside Pfizer Worldwide Headquarters in Manhattan on March 11, 2021. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Richard Eskow
Demonstrators weren't just protesting vaccine patents. They were defying a neoliberal order that uses the luminous products of human intelligence for private exploitation.

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Workers handle a shipment of Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines at Ivato International Airport in Antananarivo, Madagascar on May 8, 2021. The doses were sent from the United Kingdom as part of the COVAX vaccine equity program. (Photo: Mamyrael/AFP via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Those of us who gave our all during the Ebola outbreak and survived it know that we cannot let our guard down. No one is safe until everyone is safe."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
" This is what we need to be prepared to do again and again as the Tories bring in their new immigration proposals and demonize asylum seekers and refugees," said MP Kim Johnson.



Lamar Jackson of the Baltimore Ravens waits for the snap in front a sign that reads "Black Lives Matter" while playing against the Kansas City Chiefs at M&T Bank Stadium on September 28, 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo: Todd Olszewski via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"They come out with all these slogans like 'We care' and 'Black Lives Matter,'" said former NFL player Kevin Henry. "And I'm sitting there, like, you're lying."



Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) speaks to reporters as she leaves the Capitol after the last vote of the week on Friday, May 14, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If the shoe were on the other foot, the GOP would be calling for my expulsion," said the New York Democrat.



Reproductive rights activists hold placards and chant outside of the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of a ruling on abortion clinic restrictions on June 27, 2016 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"There's no low these legislators won't sink to in their efforts to gut Roe v. Wade and push abortion care as far out of reach as possible," said one rights advocate.



Palestinians search for their belongings while rescue efforts continue to evacuate Palestinians from the rubble of the buildings destroyed by ongoing Israeli airstrikes on Gaza on May 14, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I encourage him to choose someone who can represent our country in an even-handed way, and who can engage not only with Israel but with the Palestinians as well."



Smoke and flames rise after Israeli forces launched air attacks on the Gaza Strip on May 14, 2021. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Julia Conley, staff writer
The Israeli military spokesperson's office communicated directly with reporters just after midnight Friday, claiming a ground invasion was underway.



Missouri Gov. Mike Parson addresses the media on the last day of legislative session at the Missouri State Capitol Building on May 17, 2019 in Jefferson City, Missouri.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Gov. Parson is openly adversarial to the people in our communities who have the least," said Rep. Cori Bush.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"With its unconditional financial, military, and diplomatic support of the Israeli apartheid regime, the U.S. bears responsibility for the everyday violence of Israeli oppression."


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A protester holds a banner at the rally outside JP Morgan Headquarters in Manhattan, New York. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Cynthia Kaufman
For fossil fuel companies, what drives their profit is ownership of carbon in the ground. That's why they have spent billions of dollars stoking the climate denial industry and fighting regulations.



An injured Palestinian kid is being brought to Al-Shifa hospital to receive treatment after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. In response to days of violent confrontations between Israeli security forces and Palestinians in Jerusalem, various Palestinian militants factions in Gaza launched rocket attacks since 10th May that killed at least seven Israelis to date. Gaza Strip's health ministry said that at least 109 Palestinians, including 28 children, were killed in the recent retaliatory Israeli airstrike

by Maureen Clare Murphy
Israeli bombing has destroyed or severely damaged more than 18 buildings and 350 housing units in Gaza since Monday, displacing some 500 families.



If we are to stabilize the climate system, we will need a global Green New Deal. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Tom Athanasiou
A fair-shares approach to global climate justice could help save the "net zero 2050" strategy.



A wounded Palestinian girl is being brought to Indonesian Hospital to receive medical treatment after Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, on May 10, 2021 in Beit Lahia, Gaza. (Photo: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Chris Hedges
Israel is not exercising "the right to defend itself" in the occupied Palestinian territories. It is carrying out mass murder. It is a war crime.



Poll worker talks to a voter on April 7, 2020 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Photo: Andy Manis/Getty Images)

by Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
Across the country, voter suppression bills are being rushed through Republican-controlled state legislatures.



Smoke and flames rise from a tower building destroyed by Israeli air strikes amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence in Gaza City. Israel carried out hundreds of air strikes in Gaza on Wednesday and Palestinian militants fired multiple rocket barrages at Tel Aviv and the southern city of Beersheba in the regions most intense hostilities in years. (Photo: Ahmed Zakot/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Juan Cole
There is no equivalence between Israel and Gaza.


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