All News Articles for 2020-11-30
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Amnesty International Reveals Extent of Facebook, YouTube Complicity in Vietnamese State Repression "For millions of Vietnamese netizens, Facebook was the great hope for helping to build a free and open society—and it still has the power to be," said Amnesty's lead regional campaigner. Read more |
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'A Moral and Legal Obligation': 80+ Groups Urge Biden to End US Complicity in Saudi-Led Assault on Yemen "American involvement in this brutal catastrophe is shameful and must come to an end." Read more |
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Calls for Diplomacy—Not War—as Scientist's Assassination, Trump Impede Biden's Path to Iran Engagement "We cannot let anyone drag us into a new war." Read more |
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Trump Failures Highlighted in GAO's Devastating Report on Pandemic, Calling for 'Urgent Action' to Preserve Public Health "More than 10 months into this pandemic, the Trump administration still refuses to learn from its repeated failures, leading to more disease, more deaths, and more economic devastation across this country." Read more |
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'Good Riddance': Progressives Welcome Ajit Pai's Departure From FCC as Great News The current chair, said one critic, "will go down in history as one of the most corrupt government officials of the century." Read more |
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33 Groups Urge Biden to Hold Big Tech Accountable and Keep Industry Allies Out of His Administration "We believe that eliminating the decades-old revolving door between Silicon Valley and your administration will only help your cause." Read more |
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'Housing Is Healthcare': Evictions Have Exacerbated Covid-19 Pandemic, Research Shows "This is a time where it's not an overstatement to say that for many people, eviction can lead to death." Read more |
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Six Environmental Heroes Awarded Goldman Prize for 'Taking a Stand, Risking Their Lives and Livelihoods, and Inspiring Us' This year's recipients of the annual honor hail from the Bahamas, Ecuador, France, Ghana, Mexico, and Myanmar. Read more |
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'Looking at You, Senate Majority Leader': 87 Million Could Lose Paid Leave Without Urgent Action From Congress "It's very America for us to finally require paid sick leave and family leave during the pandemic only to let it lapse before the pandemic is over." Read more |
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'A Kind of Terrorism': Israeli Human Rights Groups Offer Harrowing Look at IDF Night Raids on Palestinian Homes "You feel your privacy is being invaded," said one Palestinian victim. "The aim is to control and humiliate." Read more |
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'Another World Is Possible': Ocasio-Cortez Uses Video Gaming Platform to Raise $200,000 for Fight Against Hunger, Evictions The congresswoman was joined by Canadian progressive leader Jagmeet Singh, who spoke about bold, far-reaching policies in Canada. Read more |
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To End Impunity for 'Deliberate Destruction' of Planet, International Lawyers Drafting Plan to Criminalize Ecocide The effort aims to hold governments and corporations accountable for the "mass, systematic, or widespread destruction" of the world's ecosystems. Read more |
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'Highly Significant' Victory as European Human Rights Court Green-Lights Youth Climate Lawsuit "It gives me lots of hope to know that the judges in the European Court of Human Rights recognize the urgency of our case," said 12-year-old plaintiff André Oliveira. Read more |
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Rejecting Michèle Flournoy, Progressives Demand Biden Pick Pentagon Chief 'Untethered' From Military-Industrial Complex "We urge President-elect Joe Biden and U.S. senators to choose a secretary of defense who is unencumbered by a history of advocating for bellicose military policies and is free of financial ties to the weapons industry." Read more |
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'Reckless, Provocative, and Illegal': Sanders Warns Assassination of Iranian Scientist Designed to Kill Diplomacy "We must not allow that to happen. Diplomacy, not murder, is the best path forward." Read more |
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Citing Past Calls for Social Security Cuts, Progressives Not Pleased With Biden Pick of Neera Tanden for OMB "Everything toxic about the corporate Democratic Party is embodied in Neera Tanden." Read more |