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News & Views | 9/24/21
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Hundreds of Thousands Take to Streets Worldwide for 'Uproot the System' Climate Strikes
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by Jake Johnson
"The climate crisis has not disappeared," said Swedish activist Greta
Thunberg. "It's the opposite—it's even more urgent now than it was
before."
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Water Protectors Challenge Minnesota AG Keith Ellison's Silence on Line 3 Pipeline
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by Brett Wilkins
"What is your plan?" one demonstrator asked while interrupting a speech
by Ellison. "Are you going to take a stand?"
Coalition Sues Biden EPA Over Approval of 'Highly Toxic' Pesticide Linked to Parkinson's
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by Andrea Germanos
"This paraquat registration puts EPA on the wrong side of science,
history, and the law."
Here Are the 22 Democrats Who Voted Against Limiting Transfer of Military Gear to Cops
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by Kenny Stancil
"This is absolutely unacceptable and these Democrats... should be held
accountable."
'Coal Is Dead': New Global Pact Announced After China's Bold Step
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by Julia Conley
"Consigning coal to history is crucial to avoiding catastrophic climate
change."
African Leaders Condemn Vaccine Apartheid as an 'Indictment on Humanity'
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by Jake Johnson
"We tend to forget that no one is safe until everyone is safe."
Probe of Secret Vaccine Talks Finds 'Access for All Was Never a Priority'
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by Jake Johnson
Public health campaigners said the investigation confirms "what we
suspected all along. Vaccine nationalism and pharma profits trumped
Covid solidarity."
Dems Who Opposed Pentagon Cuts Received Nearly 4x More Donations From Weapons Makers
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by Kenny Stancil
The latest passage of the NDAA "is particularly strong evidence that
Pentagon contractors' interests easily take precedence over national
security and the public interest for too many members of Congress," said
one critic.
Senate Filibuster Final Obstacle After House Dems Pass 'Historic' Abortion Rights Bill
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by Jessica Corbett
"This is a moment of crisis," said one activist. "We cannot allow the
filibuster, or anything else, to stand in the way of safeguarding our
fundamental freedoms."
Covid-19 Cases, Deaths Rising Among Children Across US
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by Julia Conley
"Is there an acceptable pediatric body count?" asked a top pediatrician
in New Orleans this week. "I think not."
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To Build Back Better, Congress Must (Finally) Invest in Black Caregivers Like Us
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by Charlene Dickerson, Shantonia Jackson
We cannot confront or disband the links between structural racism and
poor job quality in long-term care and create an equitable caregiving
system for all without intentionally investing in a critical workforce
that is majority women-of-color.
It's Been Two-Hundred Years, Not Twenty: Targeted Repression in the US Started Long Before 9/11
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by Asifa Quraishi-Landes, Farah Brelvi
There is a terrible theme that runs throughout the story of the United
States: when a group of people are seen as a threat, state power has
been used to oppress them.
Echoes of the Past Are Present in Texas' Latest Racist Attack on Education
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by Chuck Idelson
The racist underpinnings of Texas' crusade to hold back the tide of
social and demographic change that threatens to upend the far right's
hold on power should not be a surprise in a state that was founded by
white slave owners.
Imagine US Border Agents on Horses Whipping Swedish Immigrants
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by Tony Norman
Maybe we should 'replace' Haitians with Swedes in our immigration
imagination.
EU's Undying Fealty to the Imperial US Leads to Latest Humiliation
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by Yanis Varoufakis
Donald Trump humiliated the European Union by annulling the Iran nuclear
deal, and now Joe Biden has done so by announcing the new AUKUS
agreement with Australia and the UK. But as much as Europe's leaders may
protest, the EU's subordination to the US reflects a conscious choice
that they have made.
A More Just Biodiversity Framework Must Build Better Bridge Between the Global North and South
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by Subhankar Banerjee
What makes biodiversity conservation so beautiful is that it is a
pluriverse—so many ideas, so many practices, and so many forms of
human-nonhuman kinship that exist around the world.
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Newswire...
Veterans Group Urges President Biden to Adopt No First Use Policy
Veterans for Peace
Sunrise Movement’s Statement Ahead of Reconciliation Package and Bipartisan Bill Votes: We’re Not Grading on a Curve, and Neither is the Climate Crisis
Sunrise Movement
U.S. House of Representatives Must Pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
Environment America
U.S. House Passes Bill to Protect Abortion Access Nationwide
Center for Reproductive Rights
New Poll: Voters are More Likely to Support Clean Energy Investments if Materials Are Made in America
Data for Progress
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