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News & Views | 11/14/19

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The Venice city council chambers flooded Wednesday evening after a vote on the climate crisis.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"From the 'you can't make this stuff up' department."

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Fridays for Future demonstration

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.



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.


Striking high school students march to protest for more effective government climate change policy on January 25, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Environmentalist Bill McKibben called the decision a "truly amazing win."



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.'"


Clostridioides difficile

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.



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.



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.



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."



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."


A supporter of Bolivian ex-President Evo Morales waves white flags during clashes with riot police following a protest in La Paz on November 13, 2019.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Anti-Indigenous racism is at the heart of what's happening in Bolivia."

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Demonstrators wave flags as they take part during the day of cultural activities 'El Derecho a Vivir en Paz' called by 'Movimiento Unidad Social' at Plaza O'Higgins on October 27, 2019 in Santiago, Chile. Unidad Social, an organization conformed by various social groups, has called society to be part of cultural activities in defence of human rights and against abuses, under the slogan #NoMasAbusos (No more abuses) people demand Sebastian Piñera's Government attention to issues such as health care, pension

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.


U.S. Army personnel drive through flood waters in Fort Ransom, ND. (Photo: US Army)

by Michael T. Klare
What the U.S. military will be doing in a climate crisis future


UTOP policemen are driving away demonstrators who support former President Morales and demand the resignation of current interim president Jianine Añiez. (Photo: Gaston Brito/picture alliance via Getty Images)

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.


A recent IPS report finds that 80 percent of S&P 500 firms last year paid their CEO over 100 times their median employee pay. At 50 publicly held firms, workers would have to toil at least 1,000 years to make as much as their boss made in just one. (Photo collage: Getty Images)

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.


Immigration rights activists take part in a rally in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on November 12, 2019. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

by Sonali Kolhatkar



by Julie Hollar
Hmmm... this was a very slippery question to hang an article on.

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