Today at Ms. | November 5, 2021


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Big Oil Is Blocking Build Back Better—With Help From Manchin and Sinema [[link removed]]

BY MARTHA BURK | While news outlets have been obsessed with much-touted infighting between factions of the Democratic party while negotiating President Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) plan, they’ve completely missed the real villains.
Big surprise: It’s big business—specifically big oil—and their single-minded focus: Kill the climate change provisions.
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The Anti-CRT Movement: El Paso and Our Communities Deserve Better [[link removed]]
BY REP. MARY GONZÁLEZ | The El Paso shooting wasn’t an accident. A young person fell down a rabbit hole of racial hate and violence on the internet and, without having the tools to navigate these dynamics, his actions were catastrophic.
We need young people to have the tools to understand race and racism. We need young people to understand the ties between history and current events. We need young people to be the leaders to create a fair, compassionate, and socially just society. This reality will only happen if our curriculum reflects these values.

Women of Color Won Big in This Week’s Elections: Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation [[link removed]]
BY CYNTHIA RICHIE TERRELL | Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: Women now make up 61 percent of NYC’s city council, thanks to ranked-choice voting; Winsome Sears is the first Black woman to be elected lieutenant governor of Virginia; Boston elected the first woman and the first woman of color as mayor; Apalachicola, Florida now has an all-women city commission; Elaine O’Neal, elected mayor of Durham, N.C., is the first woman of color to hold the office; the persistent leadership of Senator Elizabeth Warren; and more.

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