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News & Views | 12/6/19

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An estimated 500,000 activists took part in a climate justice protest in Madrid on Friday, December 6, 2019. (Photo: @GretaThunberg)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We cannot afford more days going by without real action being taken."

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Demonstrators from several environmental groups including Extinction Rebellion and Sunrise Movement demand broad action at a youth-led climate strike near City Hall on December 6, 2019 in New York City. Hundreds attended the strike, the latest in a series of school walk-outs dubbed "Fridays For Future." (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
As sit-ins targeted establishment Democrats nationwide to demand the Green New Deal, Sanders stood with climate campaigners in Iowa on Friday and applauded striking youth worldwide who are saying: "Hey, we want a planet that we can grow up in and have kids in that is healthy and inhabitable."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Lawmakers in Kansas City, Missouri took a "visionary step" on Thursday, unanimously voting to make public transportation in the city free of charge, becoming the first major U.S. city to do so.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Brings us one step closer to restoring the Voting Rights Act."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Access to the internet is a necessity in today's economy, and it should be available for all."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Days after reports surfaced about the global consulting firm McKinsey's work advising the Trump administration on immigration policy, calls grew on Thursday for South Bend, Indiana mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg to disclose details about the work he did for the company.


Young climate activists staged a silent sit-in Friday at the United Nations climate conference in Madrid

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We need climate action and we need change right now. And the time to act is now."


Asked specifically about Medicare for All, Biden says that while his more progressive rivals Sanders and Warren support it, "The party's not there. The party's not there at all." (Photo: Axios/Screenshot)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"OK boomer," progressives responded.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
World leaders working to promote peace, justice, and human rights warned that their mission and the joint goals of people around the world have been seriously impeded by a shift away from multilateralism in recent years, especially since President Donald Trump took office.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Without a meaningful plan for court reform any presidential attempts to make needed change will simply be blocked by the courts."


President Donald Trump chats with Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they attend the the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on Nov. 11, 2017. (Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Losing New START would set the United States and Russia on a path to nuclear anarchy: a state of affairs where legal constraints of nuclear arsenals has ended and norms of voluntary restraint are weak or nonexistent. We'd all be flying blind into a nuclear arms race."

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Amazon relies on taxpayers subsidizing its workers’ livelihoods, but it also refuses to pay its fair share of taxes. (Photo: Tony Webster / Flickr/ CC BY-SA 2.0)

by Sonali Kolhatkar
Far more effective than individuals walking away from the company (although that doesn’t hurt), is collective action to change the laws that Amazon benefits from.


Senate Democrats John Kerry, Carl Levin, Majority Leader Harry Reid and Joseph Biden take part in a news conference on Capitol Hill14 March, 2007 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC following a procedural vote on Iraq. The US Senate will reopened a debate on a Democratic push to restrict the Iraq war effort after weeks of procedural delays by Republican allies of the White House, Senate leaders said. (Photo: Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images)

by Norman Solomon
The spectacle of Kerry praising Biden as a seasoned leader amounts to one supporter of the Iraq catastrophe attesting to the character and experience of another supporter of the same catastrophe.


From off-grid solar home systems to utility-scale solar and wind, the potential for major advances in the use of renewable energy is also growing rapidly on the African continent. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by William Minter
With a thriving off-grid solar market and hundreds of millions of people waiting for electricity, the continent offers huge potential for renewables.


A new contingent of 14,000 troops would double the extra total sent in 2019 alone and bring the over-all number to 74,000. (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images)

by Juan Cole
It's not clear how another 14,000 US troops would effectively do anything to block Iran.


Riot police pepper spray nonviolent demonstrators at the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization protests. (Photo: Steve Kaiser / Flickr)

by Walden Bello
Twenty years ago, experts refused to see the truth about the dark side of globalization. Then Seattle happened.

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