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News & Views | 8/6/21
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Top Scientists to Biden and Congress: 'Go Big on Climate... Do So Now'
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by Jessica Corbett
"We must take immediate action to sharply reduce heat-trapping emissions
to limit the worst climate change impacts, protect public health and
lives, and limit economic harms."
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460+ Groups Demand Biden Pick a Climate Champion for Key Energy Position
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by Jessica Corbett
"Choosing a FERC nominee that will reject new fossil fuel development
would be a strong sign that Biden intends to take our climate crisis
seriously."
New CDC Data Shows Covid-19 Reinfection Risk Double for Unvaccinated People
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by Brett Wilkins
"Getting the vaccine is the best way to protect yourself and others
around you, especially as the more contagious Delta variant spreads
around the country," said CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky.
Vaccine Regrets Proliferate as Delta Surges 'Like a Tsunami' Among Unvaccinated
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by Julia Conley
"I'm not trying to talk down to you," said Travis Campbell from his
hospital bed. "I'm trying to talk to you so you understand that I
don't want to go to your funeral and I don't want you to come to mine."
'This Ain't Right!': Top US Insurers Made $11 Billion in 2nd Quarter
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by Kenny Stancil
"It's time to break up Big Pharma," said Our Revolution. "It's time for
Medicare for All."
'Inexcusably Cruel': 7.5 Million Set to Lose Jobless Benefits on Labor Day
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by Jake Johnson
"Benefits expiring on Labor Day is a cruel joke that only wealthy
politicians could come up with."
Release Details of Saudi Involvement or Stay Away From Memorials, 9/11 Families Tell Biden
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by Julia Conley
"If President Biden reneges on his commitment and sides with the Saudi
government, we would be compelled to publicly stand in objection to any
participation by his administration in any memorial ceremony of 9/11."
As Fascist GOP Threat Grows, Dems Verge on Historic Failure to Secure Voting Rights
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by Jake Johnson
"Mark my words," warned former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. "If we
don't pass the For the People Act, the GOP is going to gerrymander their
way to a House majority—and they may never give it up."
76 Years After Hiroshima Bombing, Fresh Call for End to All Nuclear Weapons
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by Brett Wilkins
"Nuclear weapons are the ultimate human violence," said Hiroshima Mayor
Kazumi Matsui. "If civil society decides to live without them, the door
to a nuclear-weapon-free world will open wide."
IPCC to Say Drastic Methane Cuts Necessary to Avert Climate Hell
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by Kenny Stancil
"Cutting methane is the biggest opportunity to slow warming between now
and 2040," says one leading scientist. "We need to face this emergency."
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Nuclear Weapons Still a Clear and Present Danger 76 Years After Hiroshima
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by Robert Dodge
These weapons do not make us safer and benefit no one except the
multibillion dollar arms production corporations who build these immoral
instruments of death.
We Showed This Week What Grassroots Movements Are Capable of
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by Cori Bush
No one thought this would work. But it did.
No Senate Recess Until Voting Rights Protected
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by Fred Wertheimer
There is an urgent need for action to protect the vote and our
democracy, and it's time that our leaders started acting like they
understand this.
Any Delay to Save Democracy Is a Loser's Game
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by Jesse Jackson
It is time for Democrats to act, and for Sens. Manchin and Sinema to
face reality—and get in line.
Is Humanity's Return to Barbarism Unavoidable?
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by C.J. Polychroniou
Unless we can tame our irrational economic system and, above all else,
do away with capitalism's addiction to fossil fuels, the collapse of
civilized social order is a near certainty.
Is a United World Possible?
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by Robert C. Koehler
Let us put an end to nationalism once and for all.
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Newswire...
466 Groups Urge Biden to Fill FERC Seat With Environmental, Energy Justice Champion
Center for Biological Diversity
Fifty-Sixth Anniversary of President Johnson Signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Common Cause
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