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Alison Rose Levy

Alison Rose Levy

Alison Rose Levy is a New York-based journalist who covers the nexus of health, science, the environment, and public policy. She has reported on fracking, pipelines, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, chemical pollution, and the health impacts of industrial activity for the Huffington Post, Alternet, Truthdig, and EcoWatch. 

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In erasing both the Green New Deal, and the Sunrise Movement and its diverse group of energized young people across American, Moore and company vilify climate leaders and remedies, boosting population control, and chooses consumerism over systemic change. (Photo: Screenshot)

What’s Michael Moore’s Actual Agenda?

In place of highlighting the Green New Deal as the Mother Lode option, the film offers no options to the climate deadlock.

Alison Rose Levy ·

Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) (L) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) interact during a break at the Democratic presidential primary debate at the Charleston Gaillard Center on February 25, 2020 in Charleston, South Carolina. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

A Final, Super Tuesday Appeal to Warren Voters

Please realize what is happening and don't subvert the passionate democracy of the #NotMeUs generation.

Alison Rose Levy ·

Clinton’s combination of entitlement, arrogance and low self-esteem have prevented her from taking stock. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

End of Blame Game: Sanders (and His Supporters) Helped Hillary Win Popular Vote in 2016

Sanders voters were an indispensable contribution to her popular vote tallies.

Alison Rose Levy ·

A firefighter attempts to residential areas from encroaching bushfires in the Central Coast around 90-110 kilometres north of Sydney, Australia on December 10, 2019.

Australia’s Tragedy Is a Cautionary Tale for the US Presidential Election

There is no substitute for a systemic reorientation on climate – or a movement that unequivocally supports it.

Alison Rose Levy ·

When citizens blind themselves to a news organization’s corporate entanglements, and trust the outlet to be truthful anyway, it is, to put it mildly, extraordinarily naïve. (Photo: CBInsights)

The Incredible Belief That Corporate Ownership Does Not Influence Media Content

Given that "90% of the United States' media is controlled by five media conglomerates," the top executive at many news outfits is likely the CEO of a multinational corporation. 

Alison Rose Levy ·

As part of a New Food Deal, we could erase these inequities by shifting land use, investment, and subsidy patterns away from corporate giants and towards regenerative agriculture’s local networks of farmers and food growers. (Photo: Public domain)

How Regenerative Agriculture Could Be Key to the Green New Deal

Both the Green New Deal and the New Food Deal can reorient the basics— and put Americans, our democracy, and the earth on the path to health

Alison Rose Levy ·

Believing in Activism Is How We Win

Enlisting more people to step up to participate and support activism—even at long odds—is the only way to win.

Alison Rose Levy ·

A Fukushima on the Hudson?

The growing dangers of Indian Point

Ellen Cantarow ·

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