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News & Views | 11/15/21

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by Julia Conley
"If Biden is concerned at all about the future of our country, or at the very least voter turnout in 2022, he must pass Build Back Better immediately," said the Sunrise Movement.

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by Brett Wilkins
"We are most hopeful that this action is a turning point where the United States natural resource management planning philosophy focuses on the protection of all living beings."



by Andrea Germanos
"The pandemic has made abundantly clear that our most urgent threats can not be solved by pouring more money into weapons of war."



by Brett Wilkins
The grocery and food processing industries have "created an illusion of choice and efficiency to disguise their profiteering off of the American consumer, who is unwillingly asked to trade abundance for resilience."



by Andrea Germanos
"World leaders must be held accountable for the climate disaster playing out on their watch."



by Kenny Stancil
"Our community, our families, our children, cannot and should not take more chemical pollution."



by Jake Johnson
"This variant exemplifies that if you leave some of the world's population without access to vaccines, then the virus will continue to multiply and it will lead to more variants."



by Jake Johnson
"It is not some radical idea to suggest that Americans should not have to die because we are the only major country that allows drug companies to raise prices to whatever they want, whenever they want," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.



by Julia Conley
"Manchin thinks being pro-labor is un-American."



by Jake Johnson
"The government knew we wouldn't need them," said one vaccine equity campaigner. "But they've never had a plan to do anything except grab as many doses as they can, to hell with everyone else."


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by Michael Waldman
Proponents of the Big Lie are removing obstacles to stealing elections in states around the country.



by Mark Hertsgaard
The claim that the international climate summit has "kept 1.5 alive" is plausible, but only barely.



by Tom Valovic
We should not trust Mark Zuckerberg or any other members of the corporate elite with self-serving agendas to guide us through an increasingly precarious future. We should not be willing to accept Big Tech's and the WEF's dehumanizing vision of the future.



by Andrew Bacevich
Joe Biden may well be fated to bring down the curtain on progressivism as a force in national politics.



by Paul Rogers
Global cooperation is vital to tackle the security threats of climate change and Covid-19, yet leaders keep pumping funds into outdated militaries.



by Catherine Early
Climate vulnerable countries were bitterly disappointed with the watering down of language on coal and lack of finance to cover permanent losses from climate change they are already suffering.


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