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News & Views | 11/14/19
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'Mother Nature Does a Mic Drop': Venice City Council Chamber Floods Minutes After Members Vote Down Climate Crisis Amendment
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"From the 'you can't make this stuff up' department."
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New Global Health and Climate Crisis Report Warns of Future 'Where a Child Has to Fight Simply to Survive'
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A report published Wednesday in medical journal The Lancet warns that
the human-caused climate crisis is already disproportionately affecting
children worldwide and "will define the health profile of current and
future generations" if left unabated.
To Save 'Democracy in Peril,' 150 Civil Rights Groups Release Visionary Blueprint to Restore and Protect Voting Rights
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
To protect and strengthen a "democracy in peril, more than 150 civil
rights organizations on Thursday released a policy platform aimed at
pressuring policymakers and 2020 candidates to prioritize voting rights.
'Beginning of the End of Climate-Wrecking Fossil Fuel Finance': World's Largest Public Bank Ditches Oil and Coal
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Environmentalist Bill McKibben called the decision a "truly amazing
win."
Analysis of Primetime MSNBC Programs Finds Sanders Received 'Least' and 'Most Negative' Coverage of Top 2020 Democrats
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"MSNBC has close ties to a Democratic establishment that finds the
politics of Biden (and even Warren) more palatable than Sanders'
'political revolution.'"
As Superbugs Infect Millions and Kill Tens of Thousands Each Year, CDC Chief Warns Post-Antibiotic Era 'Already Here'
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Bolstering concerns about the "continuing threat" that so-called
superbugs pose to human health, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention released a report Wednesday that found antibiotic-resistant
bacteria and fungi cause more than 2.8 million infections and 35,000
deaths in the United States alone each year.
'Shame on Facebook': Ad Campaign Condemns Company's Sponsorship of Federalist Society Dinner Honoring Brett Kavanaugh
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
The progressive advocacy group Demand Justice launched an ad campaign on
Thursday targeting Facebook employees and decrying the company's
sponsorship of the Federalist Society's planned dinner honoring U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Confirmation of Steven Menashi to Federal Appeals Court 'Should Send Shockwaves Across America'
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Civil rights advocates were among those who condemned on Thursday the
Senate's confirmation of Steven Menashi to the 2nd Circuit Court of
Appeals.
Senate Democrats Join GOP to Back 'Automatic Austerity' Bill That Would Gut Social Programs, Hamstring Bold Policies
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"One priority of a Sanders or Warren White House absolutely must be
politically crushing the deficit scolds within the Democratic Party."
To Solve Multiple Crises at Once, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Unveil 'Green New Deal for Public Housing'
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This bill shows that we can address our climate and affordable housing
crises by making public housing a model of efficiency, sustainability,
and resiliency."
'We Don't Want Any Dictators': Bolivians Flood Streets to Protest Right-Wing, Anti-Indigenous Coup
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Anti-Indigenous racism is at the heart of what's happening in Bolivia."
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Why Aren't People in the US Rising Up Like Those Elsewhere in the World?
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by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies
Without a mass movement continually pushing and prodding for real change
and holding politicians accountable—for their policies as well as their
words—our neoliberal rulers assume that they can safely ignore the
concerns and interests of ordinary people.
Welcome to a World in Which All Hell Is Breaking Loose
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by Michael T. Klare
What the U.S. military will be doing in a climate crisis future
The Right-Wing Coup in Bolivia Is Exactly the Opposite of What Democracy Looks Like
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by Angela Marino
While emboldening the right wing at home, the face of U.S. foreign
affairs once again masks evil with indefensible hypocrisy for people all
around the world to see.
Sanders, Lee, and Tlaib Lead Effort to Tax Huge CEO-Worker Pay Gaps
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by Sarah Anderson
The House-Senate companion bill address corporate America's extreme
disparities, giving firms an incentive to lift up the bottom and bring
down the top of their pay scales.
Dreamers Tell Trump and SCOTUS They Are Here to Stay
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by Sonali Kolhatkar
NYT Recycles Polling to Tell Democrats Once More: Move to the Right
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by Julie Hollar
Hmmm... this was a very slippery question to hang an article on.
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Newswire...
Amnesty International USA Stands With Santa Clarita Community in School Shooting, Calls for Meaningful Gun Violence Prevention
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EIB Moves to Stop Funding Most Fossil Fuel Projects
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Demand Justice Statement on Confirmation of Controversial Judicial Nominee Menashi
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Civil Society Organizations Demand US Promote Agroecology
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World’s Largest Public Bank Cuts Finance for Coal and Oil
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