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Denouncing Trump Plan as 'Unacceptable,' Sanders Declares It Is Time to 'End the Israeli Occupation'

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

New Program Set to Fight for 'Electricity Future That Works for People and the Planet'

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

March for a Clean Energy Revolution in Philadelphia

The new effort will focus on utilities' monopolies and reliance on fossil fuels.

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'Investing in Humanity': British Medical Journal Praised for New Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

The BMJ last week announced its fossil fuel divestment campaign.

The journal rolled out a "stellar set of ambitions," said climate group Divest...

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Ahead of Iowa Caucus, 2020 Candidates Urged to Back Moratorium on Factory Farms

Jon Queally, staff writer

A large coalition of residents and public interest groups lobbied the state legislature in Des Moines, Iowa to demand support for a moratorium on building new, and expanding existing, factory farms—also known as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). The coalition of factory farm opponents also presented a petition to all 2020 presidential candidates calling on them to support the state moratorium as well as federal legislation to curtail factory farms. (Photo: Citizens for Community Improvement A

"Any agricultural platform that does not adequately address the worsening...

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017.

Netanyahu to Join Trump Next Week to Announce 'Deal of the Century' Peace Plan Giving Israel 'Everything it Wants'

A new ad takes aim at former Vice President Joe Biden's history of working with Republicans to cut Social Security and other benefits.

New Ad Campaign Ties Biden to 'Heartless' GOP Efforts to Cut Social Security

Julian Assange supporters demonstrate outside of the Westminster Magistrates Court on November 18, 2019 in London.

Brazil's Greenwald Prosecution Evokes Assange's Continued Imprisonment in UK, Say Advocates

Journalist Glenn Greenwald, co-founder and editor of The Intercept, gestures during a hearing at the Lower House's Human Rights Commission in Brasilia, Brazil on June 25, 2019.

'An Absolute Red Alert': Snowden Joins Journalists and Rights Advocates Worldwide Rallying to the Side of Glenn Greenwald

parched crop field with pesticide sign

2020 Dems Called On to Follow Warren in Supporting 'No Big Ag Money Pledge'

More than two thousand physicians published an open letter to the American public, prescribing single-payer Medicare for All, in a full-page ad in The New York Times that will run in the print edition on Tuesday, January 21, 2020. On Monday, in a separate but related move, the American College of Physicians (ACP), a national organization representing 159,000 internists, officially endorsed single-payer Medicare for All reform. The ACP is the largest medical specialty society and second-largest physician gro

Second Largest Physicians Group in US Has a Prescription: It's Medicare for All

Former Vice President Joe Biden arrives in front of a Stop & Shop in support of striking union workers on April 18, 2019 in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Biden Accidentally Makes Case for Medicare for All by Admitting Employers Can Take Away Your Insurance—Even If You Like It

Shoes are left by people at the Tornillo Port of Entry near El Paso, Texas, June 21, 2018 during a protest rally by several American mayors against the US administration's family separation policy.

'Let Her In': Outrage Swirls After Six-Year-Old Girl With Downs Syndrome and Heart Condition Turned Away at US Border

Florida voters in November 2018 overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to restore voting rights to 1.4 million people with past felony convictions.

It's 2020 and Florida's Supreme Court Just Ruled in Favor of a Poll Tax

Harvard Law School students demonstrate against a recruitment dinner hosted by Paul Weiss, a law firm representing ExxonMobil.

Harvard Law School Students Disrupt Recruitment Event, Calling on Major Law Firm to #DropExxon

Threats of violence at a gun rally scheduled for Monday in Richmond, Virginia prompted Gov. Ralph Northam to declare a temporary state of emergency.

Citing Threat From Armed Groups, Virginia Gov. Declares Emergency and Bans Guns at State Capitol

Proponents of single-payer healthcare have another study to push back against cost concerns.

Analysis of 30 Years of Single-Payer Research Shows Medicare for All Would Absolutely Save US Money

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The Department of Life Except For, You Know, Brown Kids In Cages, Poor People, Mass Shooting Victims, Jews/Muslims/Atheists, Women Who Want Control Over Their Own Bodies and Other Malcontents

Because God knows he's under no pressure these unimpeachable days, Trump along with his unholy henchmen is big time doing up the "sanctity of life" thing - joining anti-abortion zealots, renaming Health and Human Services the gob-smacking "Department of Life," sending an official Space Force Bible into the cosmos and otherwise insisting he is “fighting for those who have no voice," as long as "those" are white, Christian and Trump-inclined. The irate consensus: " Good job doing fascism, guys."

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Friends of the Earth Scotland

Campaigners Welcome New Public Bank to Finance Action on Climate Crisis

Physicians for a National Health Program

Doctors Prescribe Medicare-for-All: Single Payer Reform Endorsed by America's Largest Medical Specialty Society and Recommended in Open Letter from Thousands of Physicians...

Center for Biological Diversity

Plan: Ending Extinction Crisis Requires $100 Billion, 500 New National Parks, Refuges, Ocean Sanctuaries

350.org

Mayors of New York and London Urge Every Major City in the World to Divest

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Court Affirms Presidential Power to Protect Marine Areas as National Monuments

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Northeast States Take Critical Step to Tackling Climate Change, Modernizing Transportation

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