All News Articles for 2019-09-19
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'Huge Win' But 'Not Enough': Amazon Workers Claim Credit for Pushing Bezos on Climate, Vow to Intensify Campaign "Today, we celebrate. Tomorrow, we'll be in the streets." Read more |
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'Bird Emergency' as Study Shows North American Bird Population Has Fallen by Nearly One-Third in Less Than 50 Years "We have to act now to protect the places we know birds rely on." Read more |
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Teachers and Walmart Workers Top List as Sanders Campaign Hits 1 Million Individual Donors With 99.95 percent of those who gave still able to do so again, 2020 candidate says record milestone—reached faster than any other campaign in history—"is astonishing." Read more |
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'Secretary of Corporate Interests' More Like It, Say Critics of Trump's Anti-Worker Labor Nominee "With Scalia in charge, Trump's Department of Labor would go even further down the path of siding with big corporations over workers and the American people." Read more |
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'Students Have Led and We Must Follow': Thousands of Scientists From 40 Nations Join Global Climate Strike "Students have led and we must follow—in defense of the scientific truths our colleagues have discovered over the decades, and of the planet we love." Read more |
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After Mayor of Small Village Bans Glyphosate, Dozens of Others Join Rebellion Against French Law Tests on the people of Langouët showed levels of glyphosate—one of the most widely used herbicides and the active ingredient in RoundUp—in their urine up to 30 times the recommended limit. It was especially high in children. Read more |
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To Avoid Repeat of 2016 Disenfranchisement, Sanders Urges Gov. Cuomo to Sign Bill That Would Extend NY Voter Registration Deadline "In 2016, countless voters across the state of New York were disenfranchised by the state's arcane and inexcusable early party affiliation deadline," said Faiz Shakir, campaign manager for Sen. Bernie Sanders. Read more |
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Video Featuring Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot Details Magical Solution to Climate Crisis: Nature "We need to stop funding things that destroy nature and pay for things that help it." Read more |
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'Total Massacre' as U.S. Drone Strike Kills 30 Farmers in Afghanistan Amnesty International said the bombing "suggests a shocking disregard for civilian life." Read more |
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'Perfectly Legal' Levels of Contaminants in US Tap Water Could Result in 100,000 Cancer Cases: New Study "The vast majority of community water systems meet legal standards. Yet the latest research shows that contaminants present in the water at those concentrations can still harm human health." Read more |
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'What Corporate Impunity Looks Like': Court Acquits Tepco Executives for Role in Fukushima Nuclear Disaster "I had braced myself that we might not get a clean victory, but this is too awful." Read more |
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On Climate Strike Eve, 450+ Activists and Groups Urge United Nations to Back Global Fracking Ban "Our planet is on fire, but fracking is not an evacuation bridge nor a fire extinguisher. Fracking is an arsonist that needs to be stopped." Read more |
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Iran Doesn't Want Conflict, Says Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, But Any US-Saudi Attack Would Spark 'All-Out War' "We don't want war. We don't want to engage in a military confrontation. But we won't blink to defend our territory." Read more |
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Condemning Pompeo Warmongering, Sanders Says 'Attack on Saudi Oil Is Not an Attack on America' "We will not let you drag the American people into another catastrophe in the Middle East." Read more |
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Applause as Federal Court Blocks 'Unconstitutional' South Dakota Law That Would Hit Pipeline Protesters With Up to 25 Years in Prison "The so-called 'Riot Boosting' Act was clearly intended to suppress constitutionally-protected, peaceful protests of the Keystone XL pipeline." Read more |
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Alarming Trump 'Promise' to Foreign Leader Reportedly Sparked Whistleblower Complaint Intel Chief Is Hiding From Congress "This may take impeachment in a totally new direction," said John Dean, who served as White House counsel to President Richard Nixon Read more |