“The public wants a Green New Deal. The public wants green stimulus. The public wants to address inequality.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Amid persistent calls for a green and just recovery from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and ...
“Hoyer does not actually have a problem with primary challengers, he has a problem with progressives.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Progressives and climate activists expressed frustration with Democratic Party leadership after Politico reported Tuesday that House ...
“We are excited to be joining the movement to make Bernie Sanders the Democratic nominee for president. We believe he can win the nomination, defeat Donald Trump in November, and usher in down-ballot victories that ...
“Agricultural choices must be made by these inescapable standards: the ecological health of the farm and the economic health of the farmer.” —Wendell Berry For almost five decades, organic farming associations like the Northeast Organic ...
Neoliberal free-trade policies that favor aggregated seed, food and chemical corporations prevent family-scale farms that use regenerative practices from profiting. We need a fair Green New Deal now. In February, a dairy farmer friend sent ...
“The fate of coal has been sealed, the market has spoken.” This April, the United States generated more power from renewable resources than coal for the first time in U.S. history, according to a new ...
“It makes no sense to continue handing out massive tax breaks to dangerous refineries like the Philadelphia Energy Solutions facility.” Philadelphia Energy Solutions, the largest oil refinery on the East Coast, suffered a massive explosion ...
Increasing export capacity from the Freeport LNG [Liquified Natural Gas] project is critical to spreading ‘freedom gas’ throughout the world… The Department of Energy has begun using peculiar phrasing in regards to fossil fuels. A ...
Monday’s rally in D.C. gave Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and the Sunrise Movement a platform to promote the Green New Deal. “I’ll be damned,” Ocasio-Cortez said at the Green New Deal rally, “if the same politicians who ...
The donations highlight the existential stakes for the fossil fuel industry in the debate over the Green New Deal. (Maplight) The average congressional opponent of the Green New Deal has received 24 times more campaign ...
“We’re here to warn him and all senators: if you refuse to back the Green New Deal, young people will remember next time you ask for our votes.” (By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Hundreds of ...
Neither Jim Lakely nor Tim Huelskamp responded to an email asking them to provide ‘their’ definition of Socialism and how the Green New Deal would lead to an authoritarian state. House Resolution 109 [H.Res.109] – ...
Members of both houses set out non-binding legislation defining the Green New Deal. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey introduced legislation Feb. 7 they think should be the final solution to carbon emissions and ...
The reason the US has taken little action on climate change is the same reason one percent of the population has gained 85 percent of post-recession GDP growth. The global economy is set up to serve the ...
While the capital is locked in a game of cat and mouse, over 800,000 federal workers will have their lives hanging in the balance as they wait for a solution to the government shutdown. The ...
“Sunrise is a movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process,” – Sunrise Movement. Citizen Truth’s Peter Castagno interviewed Sunrise Movement Activist Georgette Sordellini to hear how thousands of ...
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