All News Articles for 2021-03-01
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'The Time Is Now': Survey Finds Overwhelming International Support for Greater Environmental Protection Ahead of UN Climate Conference "We face huge challenges protecting the environment, but global public opinion may no longer be chief among them." Read more |
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As White House Backs For the People Act, New Calls to Get Rid of Filibuster "The For the People Act could be the last best chance to fix our broken democracy," Common Cause told lawmakers. Read more |
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Investigation Into Chemical Exposure From Fracking in Pennsylvania Provokes Call for Rapid Phaseout "Pennsylvania's children should not be used as laboratory rats," said biologist Sandra Steingraber, who called fracking "an uncontrolled human experiment" that involves "toxic exposures." Read more |
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Biden Criticized for Lack of Transparency After Refusing to Publicize Virtual Visitor Logs "We're in a pandemic. People meet by video conference instead of in person. Why offer to release visitor logs and then keep virtual meetings secret?" asked one watchdog. Read more |
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'Fight Is Not Over,' Say Rights Groups as Biden Admin Lets Separated Families Remain in US "We will not stop fighting until we end family detention everywhere. President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Secretary Mayorkas must immediately end family detention." Read more |
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To 'Ensure Justice and Accountability for Police Brutality,' Pressley Leads New Bill to End Qualified Immunity "There can be no justice without healing and accountability, and there can be no true accountability with qualified immunity." Read more |
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Report Finds Biden Can Potentially Freeze Dozens of Trump's Last-Minute 'Egregious and Damaging' Rollbacks "Trump's sloppiness and incompetence has created an opening to undo some of the damage caused by his destructive anti-regulatory agenda." Read more |
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UN Leaders Demand Myanmar Coup Regime 'Stop the Repression' as Military and Police Kill 18 "The international community must stand in solidarity with the protestors and all those seeking a return to democracy in Myanmar." Read more |
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150 Former Aides, Surrogates Urge Sanders to Help Secure Citizenship Pathway for Undocumented Immigrants "Undocumented workers and their families continue to face the possibility of deportation and family separation. This is unacceptable." Read more |
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To Help Fund Covid Recovery and Redress Inequality, Warren Unveils Wealth Tax on 'Ultra-Millionaires' and Billionaires "A wealth tax is popular among voters on both sides for good reason: because they understand the system is rigged to benefit the wealthy and large corporations," said the Massachusetts Democrat. Read more |
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'Failure to Deliver Is Not an Option': Khanna, Omar, AOC, and 20 Other House Dems Push VP to Overrule Parliamentarian on $15 Wage "If we don't overrule the Senate parliamentarian, we are condoning poverty wages for millions of Americans." Read more |
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'A Huge, Huge Deal': Biden Issues Public Statement of Support for Alabama Amazon Workers Fighting for Union "We haven't had this aggressive and positive of a statement from a president of the United States on behalf of workers in decades." Read more |