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News & Views | 9/28/21
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'We Aren't Bluffing': Progressives Hold the Line as Pelosi Moves Ahead With Bipartisan Bill
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by Jake Johnson
"If we don't pass our agenda together—that's infrastructure AND paid
leave, child care, climate action, and more—then we're leaving millions
of working people behind."
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Progressive Groups Warn Congress Against Including Carbon Tax in Reconciliation Package
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by Jessica Corbett
"If lawmakers are really concerned about holding the costs of this
spending bill, they should get rid of the billions of dollars we waste
every year on subsidies to polluters."
California Wildfire Victims Lead Calls for Tougher PG&E Criminal Penalties
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by Brett Wilkins
"The power company is the biggest serial killer in state history, and
all it gets is fines?"
Progressives Warn Democrats Against Means-Testing Reconciliation Bill to Death
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by Kenny Stancil
"Raising taxes on the rich is much more efficient than means-testing
benefits and accomplishes exactly what the spending hawks claim to be
concerned about!"
Flotilla Protest at Manchin's Yacht Tells Right-Wing Democrat: 'Don't Sink Our Bill'
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by Jake Johnson
"He's not listening to us, he's listening to Big Money. That's why we're
here at his yacht in D.C."
Sanders Demands House Dems Vote Down Bipartisan Bill if Reconciliation Package Not Secured
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by Kenny Stancil
"Physical infrastructure is important," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, "but
the needs of working families and combating climate change is more
important."
Senate Urged to 'Finish the Job' After House Votes to End Cocaine Sentencing Disparity
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by Julia Conley
"For 35 years, the sentencing disparity between crack and powder
cocaine, based on neither evidence nor science, has resulted in higher
sentences that are disproportionately borne by Black families and
communities," said an ACLU attorney.
Sunrise Movement Warns of 'Betrayal' as Pelosi Bends Toward Corporate Democrats
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by Jake Johnson
"We need Dems to hold the line for a $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill,
full stop."
Greta Thunberg, Vanessa Nakate Excoriate World Leaders for 'Blah, Blah, Blah' Climate Failures
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by Andrea Germanos
While Uganda's Nakate said humanity "cannot adapt to extinction,"
Thunberg from Sweden said lack of action is "a betrayal of all present
and future generations."
Press Freedom Groups to Convene People's Tribunal on Murders of Journalists
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by Julia Conley
"We're taking killers of journalists to The Hague because states won't
do it."
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Three Lessons to Chart a Path Forward in Solidarity With Afghan Women
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by Yifat Susskind
This time we can stand with Afghan women on their own terms, by asking
them what they want and working hand-in-hand with them to support their
leadership and meet their communities' needs.
Despite Our Despair, There's a Reality Worth Fighting For
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by Zoe Weil
Those who are enduring injustice, exploitation, and oppression—whether
people, animals, or ecosystems—need us to believe that wrongs can be
righted and to take action accordingly.
Insuring Heaven or Hell on Earth?
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by Peter Bosshard, Rev. Fletcher Harper
A group of religious leaders told an insurance firm, "climate change is
a sin against God and fossil fuels are its cause."
Congress Needs to End This $20 Billion Year Giveaway to Big Oil
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by Ro Khanna, Earl Blumenauer
The U.S. gives the fossil fuel industry a special deduction to help make
the planet hotter.
Democrat's Inept Messaging: It's Not a $3.5 Trillion Bill But $350 Billion a Year
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by Miles Mogulescu
Democrats are misrepresenting the size of their own reconciliation
package to their own detriment.
Droning on in This Hellfire World
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by Tom Engelhardt
Assassins-in-Chief and their brood.
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Newswire...
Sanders Statement on Thursday Infrastructure Bill Vote
Senator Bernie Sanders
Environmentalists and Aliso Canyon Blowout Survivors Demand Governor Newsom Shut Down the SoCalGas Facility
Food & Water Watch
Sunrise Movement Responds to Pelosi Reversal: This is a Betrayal
Sunrise Movement
Groups Urge Congress to Reject Carbon Tax in Reconciliation Bill
Food & Water Watch
Indivisible: “No Reconciliation, No BIF” Is Still The Deal.
Indivisible
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