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April 29, 2022
Top News



Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a student debt cancellation rally
'No Means Testing. Do It for Everyone': Biden Urged to Go Big on Student Debt Cancellation
"Student loan debt is already means-tested by design: the rich have no student debt," said the Debt Collective. "We need to cancel all student loan debt."
by Jake Johnson



Activists with Greenpeace USA joined United Steelworkers (USW) Local 5 union members on April 29, 2022 to expand the picket line onto the waters of San Francisco Bay. Nearly 500 workers from Chevron's Richmond refinery have been on strike for weeks as they fight for a new labor contract.
In Act of Solidarity, Greenpeace Joins Striking Refinery Workers to 'Stop Chevron Greed'
"Fossil fuel executives and their lobbyists have maintained their dominance by pretending to have the best interest of workers and communities at heart," said one organizer. "That's why we're out here floating with fossil fuel workers."
by Kenny Stancil



A Chevron gas station is seen in Oregon
'This Is Robbery': Chevron Profits Quadruple and Exxon's Double Amid Ukraine Crisis
"Big Oil is intentionally profiteering off the war in Ukraine," said one campaigner. "We need a Big Oil windfall profits tax."
by Jake Johnson
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• New Climate Doc Premieres on Netflix as Youth Await Major Court Decision
• California Praised for Probe Into Plastics Industry's 50-Year Misinformation Campaign
• Study Warns Only 'Rapid Action' Can Prevent Worst Marine Extinction in 250 Million Years
Opinion



Ukrainians evacuating during war
Ukraine, Existential Threats, and Moving Back From the Brink
We can no longer continue to wage war over finite resources and survive in a nuclear-armed world.
by Robert Dodge



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Biden Democrats Are Deer in the Headlights Against Dishonest GOP Onslaught
With its record-setting campaign fundraising, the Party can’t seem to figure out how to go on the offensive against the overtly lying, cruel, corrupt, law-breaking, Wall Street over Main Street, Trumpian Republican Party.
by Ralph Nader



Nothing Spells 'Big Government' Better Than GOP 'Big Lie' Embrace of Martial Law
The Big Lie isn't just that Trump had an election stolen from him: the Republicans have been running a longer con for three generations. Let's call it what it is: the road to fascism.
by Thom Hartmann
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