Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Jessica Corbett is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow her on Twitter: @corbett_jessica.
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News Monday, March 15, 2021 Study Finds Redlined Areas Face Greater Flood Risk From Climate Crisis Amid inadequate plans to reduce planet-heating emissions and climate scientists' repeated warnings about rising seas and more devastating extreme weather, Redfin revealed Monday that formerly redlined areas across the United States face a higher flood risk than regions that weren't deemed... Read more |
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News Monday, March 15, 2021 FEMA Ordered to Help as Border Patrol Holds 3,000 Migrant Children Over Legal Limit Amid rising concerns about the "staggering" surge of unaccompanied migrant children entering U.S. custody and recent reports that raised alarm about the conditions in which they are being held, the Biden administration over the weekend ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to aid in the... Read more |
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News Friday, March 12, 2021 'We're Destroying Our Life-Support Systems': Study Suggests the Amazon Now Contributes to Warming While recent research has raised alarm that tropical forests including the Amazon could soon stop serving as carbon sinks, a first-of-its-kind study from 30 experts that takes into account other greenhouse gases suggests the world's largest rainforest may already be contributing to the warming of... Read more |
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News Friday, March 12, 2021 Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Argues Internet Access Must Be a 'Basic Right' World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee on Friday marked the 32nd birthday his digital innovation by arguing that "we must recognize internet access as a basic right and we must work to make sure all young people can connect to a web that gives them the power to shape their world." Noting that the... Read more |
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News Friday, March 12, 2021 Ocasio-Cortez, Bowman Say Cuomo 'Can No Longer Effectively Lead' In light of multiple allegations of sexual harassment and assault against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as well as lingering outrage over how he handled the coronavirus pandemic in the state's nursing homes, several members of Congress on Friday called for the Democrat to immediately resign. More than... Read more |
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News Thursday, March 11, 2021 'Unjust and Discriminatory': Mississippi Bans Trans Students From Sports Teams Matching Their Identity Sparking a swift flood of condemnation, Mississippi's Republican governor on Thursday signed into a law a bill requiring schools statewide to bar transgender student athletes from participating in sports consistent with their gender identity— the first of what critics warn could soon be a... Read more |
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News Thursday, March 11, 2021 People of Faith Worldwide Rise Up for 'Strong, Principled Climate Action' "We envision a world transformed, in which humanity in all its diversity has developed a shared reverence for life on Earth." So declares a new joint statement —entitled "Sacred People, Sacred Earth"—supported by religious groups and leaders across the globe who planned more than 400 events in over... Read more |
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News Wednesday, March 10, 2021 Journalist Andrea Sahouri, Arrested at Black Lives Matter Protest in Iowa, Found Not Guilty of 'Bogus Charges' Supporters of press freedom celebrated Wednesday after a six-member jury in Iowa acquitted Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri in a three-day trial resulting from her arrest while covering a Black Lives Matter protest last year. "Reporting is not a crime, and journalists should not be... Read more |
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News Wednesday, March 10, 2021 Youth Climate Activists Seek Court Ruling That US Fossil Fuel-Based System Is Unconstitutional While still preparing for a potential U.S. Supreme Court battle, lawyers representing youth climate activists are shifting to a new strategy for the landmark Juliana v. United States case against the federal government with a motion to amend the complaint to seek a ruling that the nation's fossil... Read more |
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News Wednesday, March 10, 2021 Doses Hoarded by US, UK, and EU Could Vaccinate Adults in 20 Countries Facing Worst Humanitarian Crises On the eve of the world marking one year since the coronavirus outbreak was officially declared a pandemic, humanitarians and global justice campaigners are calling out rich countries for hoarding vaccines—including with a new analysis revealing that excess doses secured by the United States,... Read more |