by Jake Johnson "The climate emergency—which threatens every person on the planet into the foreseeable future—is at least as serious a threat as a global pandemic and similarly requires urgent international action."
by Julia Conley The Republican donor praised Manchin, who refused to back the inclusion of a clean energy program in the Build Back Better Act despite a wealth of evidence that the U.S. must transition away from fossil fuels, for his so-called "leadership."
by Jenna McGuire "All of that wildlife taken out of the ocean not only affects biodiversity and fosters extinctions at an accelerated rate. It breaks the carbon cycle—the nutrient chain that maintains the fabric of life on Earth."
by Andrea Germanos "The era of injustice is over. We will uproot these systems of oppression with our global Green New Deal to guarantee everyone the right to live with dignity and in harmony with our planet."
by Andrea Germanos The accused nations have rejected global solidarity and instead chosen "the service of profit and the corporate capture of power," according to a new appeal.
by Julia Conley "I get all excited about a new bill....The debate gets all hot and heated.... And right when we're about to achieve a joint resolution... bam."
by Jessica Corbett Other prominent Democrats also oppose further arming the country, arguing that "the only way to truly protect people in the region is to bring the war in Yemen to an end."
by Brett Wilkins The proposed lease sale, said over 250 groups in a joint letter, "shockingly offers more area than the Trump administration initially proposed."
by Scott Goodstein For Democrats, the problem is larger than just finding the next social media trend. It's about finding better ways to engage consistently with base voters.
by Léonce Ndikumana It is infuriating to see that the world—in the midst of this existential climate emergency—has just deprived itself of precious financial resources by adopting a cheap global agreement on the taxation of multinationals.
by Norman Solomon, Jeff Cohen The powerful newspaper's editorial board makes clear it likes to editorialize about social justice, but certainly doesn't want any structural changes or substantial new government policies that could bring it much closer.
by Russell Weaver India Walton might have lost an election. But she also ostensibly helped Buffalo progress more than halfway through the stages of a winning social movement.
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