Just before heading home for the 2020 holidays, the U.S. House and Senate passed a massive omnibus package. The package, which includes COVID relief and government funding, is also “the most significant energy legislation in more than a dozen years,” Politico reports. President Trump signed it Sunday night. By Flannery Winchester Citizens’ Climate Lobby “The agreement […]
President-elect Joe Biden’s nomination of Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland to be secretary of the interior—the successful culmination of a campaign waged by a broad coalition of social and environmental justice advocates—was met with applause on Thursday. By Kenny Stancil Common Dreams Climate justice and Indigenous rights advocates commended the decision to put the progressive Native American congresswoman […]
Ho ho ho, wait till you hear about the gifts I gave to some of America’s power elites for Christmas. By Jim Hightower Otherwords To each of our Congress critters, I sent my fondest wish that from now on they receive the exact same income, health care, and pensions that we average citizens get. If […]
The Center for Biological Diversity on Thursday called on President-election Joe Biden to make good on his pledge to not “just tinker around the edges” of solutions to the climate and planetary crisis, releasing a report detailing 50 steps Biden can take without relying on Congress to address biological diversity, pollution, environmental injustice, and the […]
Trump may have lost his bid for reelection, but many will still wonder: How has America turned so right-wing that a narcissistic, wannabe-dictator like Trump was even in the running? A vocal of minority of the president’s supporters may be racist, xenophobic, and misogynistic. And a bunch of uber-wealthy corporate profiteers are making a killing from […]
“We, the COP26 Coalition, have come together united under the common cause of climate justice. We are a collaboration of civil society organisations including trade unions, direct action networks, climate justice groups, environment and development NGOs, faith groups ,students and youth, migrant and racial justice networks. Join us as we kickstart a year of climate […]
After months of predicting a landslide, the Democrats at best appear to have barely won a contested presidency, lost seats in the House and failed to decisively take back the Senate. Even if Trump loses, his brand of Far Right populist politics has won. November 3rd was a rebuke to the idea that a vast swath […]
Let’s say you’re a millionaire. That’s a lot of money, right? Now let’s say you’re a billionaire. That’s a lot more money! But how much more? Think of all those dollars as seconds on a clock. A million seconds would total 11 days – but a billion seconds equals nearly 32 years. Rich is nice, but […]
Since winning the vote a century ago, only four American women have captured the major parties’ nominations for president and vice president. Blasting open the road leading them to the top were the women who marched into national politics before them. Pamela S. Nadell, American University The Conversation One, “born yelling” in the Bronx a […]
With our national election looming, someone should put up “lost dog” signs in every neighborhood saying, “Missing: Republican Party Platform.” Voters won’t find one though, for this so-called major political party has decided not to produce a specific statement of what it stands for this year, nor will it offer to voters an itemized set of […]
A coalition of grassroots groups, labor unions, Black, Brown and Indigenous leaders from across the nation, and members of Congress today announced the introduction of a bold plan for economic renewal known as the THRIVE Agenda. THRIVE — Transform, Heal, and Renew by Investing in Vibrant Economy — will be introduced tomorrow in Congress by […]
Bolstered by an energized climate movement, small-dollar donors, and support from prominent progressive lawmakers like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Green New Deal champion Sen. Ed Markey on Tuesday fended off a Democratic primary challenge from Rep. Joe Kennedy III, whose name recognition and late endorsement from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were ultimately insufficient to topple the popular Massachusetts […]
Does everyone know that that lying, hypocritical [BLEEEEEP] Jerry Falwell, Jr. is out of Liberty University on his, let’s say, ear, for years of three-ways with the pool boy? What a fitting metaphor for all of the corrupt Christianists who have been polluting our public discourse since the Curse of Ham was brought forth as the theological justification […]
On the heels of a convention that featured prominent Republicans urging voters to support Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, centrist political operative Rahm Emanuel suggested two of the most popular progressive policies of this election cycle ought to be ignored by the party and its nominee. By Lisa Newcomb Common Dreams “Two things I would […]
Clearly the big political and social shift of this year is Black Lives Matter, after centuries of systemic racism: enslavement, Jim Crow with ceremonial Klan lynchings, and lately community-sanctioned police lynchings. And Law and Order demonization, and multiple Wars on Drugs since opium in the 19th century, and all the rest, including the associated bigotry, […]