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News & Views | 12/10/19

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
As rights groups around the world marked Human Rights Day on Tuesday, Amnesty International released the results of a survey of 10,000 young adults regarding their top global concerns heading into a new decade, reporting that the climate crisis is what a majority of young people see as a major...

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The 2020 Democratic candidate, says Princeton professor of African-American Studies, "has tapped into the anger and bitterness coursing through the lives of regular people."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"These two have most of the grassroots energy, most of the enthusiasm, and most of the ideas that are critical for winning in 2020."


flint demonstration

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Internal emails reported on Tuesday by The Guardian and MLive reveal that executives at a water company contracted to assess the water system in Flint, Michigan privately expressed concerns that residents "might be at risk of being poisoned by lead in their tap water months before the city publicly admitted the problem in 2015."


Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) is leading House Democratic progressives against a moderate drug pricing bill that caucus members say is insufficient.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Drug prices are crushing American families," Sen. Elizabeth Warren said, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her moderate allies appear insistent on keeping legislation to fix the issue contained to only 31 drugs.


Students of Presidency University staged a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in front of Presidency University at College Street on December 10, 2019 in Kolkata, India.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Dark times in Modi's far-right India."


Supporters of the New York Attorney General's case against ExxonMobil gathered outside the New York County Supreme Court on Oct. 22. (Photo: Lindsay Meiman/Twitter)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Despite this ruling, the crucial work to hold the likes of Exxon accountable for climate crimes goes on," said 350.org. "This is just the tip of the accountability iceberg."



by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Naval Air Force veteran John Weigel, who considered suicide because of $139,000 in medical debt, offered Sen. Bernie Sanders his brown leather flight jacket on Monday to thank the Democratic presidential candidate for his help regaining health insurance and raising funds to cover medical bills.


Doctors protest at the gates of the Chula Vista Border Patrol Station in San Ysidro, San Diego on Monday.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The agency is willingly putting lives at risk of death."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
At a standing-room-only meeting on Monday evening, residents of Burleigh Country, North Dakota, rejected a proposal that would have made the county the first in the nation to refuse entry to refugees.


cop 25 protest

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
While representatives from governments across the globe gathered in Madrid Tuesday for the ongoing COP 25 climate summit, dozens of activists demonstrated outside the U.S. Embassy in the Spanish capital to demand justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirits, as they highlighted the fossil fuel industry's connection to violence against them.

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Only concessions obtained through tough negotiations by labor, environment, and consumer activists made it any better than the status quo. (Photo: Kevin Dietsch—Pool/Getty Images)

by Thea M. Lee, Robert E. Scott
The USMCA will in no way offset or reverse the massive devastation caused by the original NAFTA agreement.


This law and this ruling are indefensible. (Photo: Mikasi/cc/flickr)

by Hayley Farless
Kentucky’s anti-abortion legislators are nothing short of hateful for forcing physicians to torture their patients, and the Supreme Court’s conservatives are callous for allowing this injustice to continue.


Democratic presidential hopefuls Mayor of South Bend Pete Buttigieg, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders participate in the fifth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia on November 20, 2019. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

by Jeff Cohen
A fighter for the most vulnerable Americans his whole life, Sanders' history is undisputed.


Large majorities of Americans want serious governmental action on climate change that incorporates social justice and workers’ rights, all paid for by progressive taxation. (Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images)

by Basav Sen
The Washington Post downplayed the most hopeful findings of their own poll on climate action, so we highlighted those findings for them.


The Department of Defense will similarly have to step up its efforts to harden its own domestic and foreign bases against severe storms and flooding, while beginning to develop plans to relocate those that will be inundated as sea levels rise. (Photo: DoD photo via AFP)

by Michael T. Klare
Insignia, badges, and medals for a climate-wracked era.


I can’t help but surmise that the original sin of America’s Afghan war, particularly after the initial 2001 invasion, was the reflexive assumption that within this landlocked Central Asian country, an imposed, Western-style representative democracy could take root. (Photo: Scott Nelson/Getty Images)

by Danny Sjursen
Nineteen years into America’s longest war, Afghanistan is in a worse state than at any time since the U.S. military invasion.

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