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Yes! Magazine When Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida in October 2018, June Barrett, a Black Jamaican home care worker, rushed to take care of their elderly patients in Miami. Barrett, had worked...
By Em Nguyen
Spectrum News 1 WASHINGTON D.C. — Senate Democrats made a breakthrough Tuesday night on an infrastructure deal, agreeing on a $3.5 trillion figure to invest in climate, education and family programs. Read more…...
By Jessica Corbett
Common Dreams The bill aims to ensure “an intersectional response” to the climate crisis, coronavirus pandemic, economic inequity, and racial injustice “that is proportionate to the scope of the problems we face.” On the heels of President...
By Rishika Pardikar
Eos According to a new report, net zero targets many governments are pursuing are distractions from the urgent need to drastically reduce carbon emissions. In the past few months, many governments have announced net zero carbon emission ...
The Tribune Signatories, however, concerned by several additional factors not included in this statement Eighty-seven farmer organisations and allied agroecology, farm and food justice groups in the United States delivered a solidarity statement in support of Indian farmers’ historic protests...
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KPFA Our Political Director, Sunyoung Yang, chats with David Rosenberg of The KPFA Evening News about how a feminist, anti-racist, regenerative economy centers care and ends harm in our communities. Listen to the segment from 24:57-27:48....
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By Jihan Gearon
Stanford Social Innovation Review A call to bring back matriarchy in Indigenous communities to rebuild and decolonize the foundation of Native community life. The words “Indigenous feminism” can be triggering in Indigenous communities. I’ve read op-eds in the...
By Sarah Lazare
In These Times Why anti-war feminists don’t want hawkish women like Michèle Flournoy in positions of power. As the incoming administration of Joe Biden is celebrated for advancing women’s rights through the likely appointment of hawkish women...
By Christine Ahn, Yifat Susskind, and Cindy Wiesner
Newsweek In the 2020 presidential election, Black women, Indigenous women and people of color across the country delivered the votes to throw Donald Trump out of office. These voters want a new...
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Civic and business leaders convened at California Governor Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit, but protestors decried their “false solutions” to the climate crisis Real News Network »
DHARNA NOOR: I’m here in San Francisco at the Global Climate Action...
SAN FRANCISCO — They erected a mini oil rig, locked arms through oil drums and sat down on the street. “Keep it in the ground,” their banners read. “No more fossil fuels,” they chanted. Protesters gathered at the Global Climate...
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Hundreds of activists snarled commute-heavy traffic, picketed or simply sat in yoga poses outside the Parc 55 hotel in San Francisco’s clogged downtown Market Street area Monday morning, the first weekday leg of what promises to be a rocky series...
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By Kate Aronoff for In These Times In the wake of Donald Trump’s upset victory over Hillary Clinton, In These Times asked organizers who have worked in the climate, racial justice, immigrant rights and other movements for their reactions and...
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The Laura Flanders Show This week, American voters come to end of a long national “nightmare,” as Laura has called it. This electoral seasons has left many of us battered and jaded, resigned to hit the polls for a less...
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By Sarah Lazare on AlterNet On October 18, human rights defenders José Ángel Flores and Silmer Dionisio were murdered after they left a meeting of peasant farmers in the Bajo Aguán region of Honduras. Both were organizers with the Unified...
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