Green New Deal

To Critics Who Say Climate Action Is 'Too Expensive,' Greta Thunberg Responds: 'If We Can Save the Banks, We Can Save the World'

WATCH: Naomi Klein Hosts and Greta Thunberg Headlines 'Right to a Future' Event in NYC

Common Dreams staff

A livestreamed and in-depth conversation with youth and indigenous leaders to discuss "our best hope for a sustainable planet."

'If Environment Were a Bank,' Says Bernie Sanders, 'It Would Have Been Saved Already'

Jake Johnson, staff writer

Sanders has introduced a $16.3 trillion Green New Deal plan to avert climate...

United Electrical Becomes First US Industrial Union to Endorse Green New Deal and Global Climate Strike

Jake Johnson, staff writer

The 35,000-member union called the transformative proposal "our best hope to...

'Game-Changer': Sanders Unveils Green New Deal Plan Detailing 10-Year Mobilization to Avert Climate Catastrophe, Create 20 Million Jobs

As Inslee Drops Out of 2020 Race, Applause and Gratitude for Elevating Climate Crisis to 'Forefront of the National Conversation'

A 'Timely and Needed' Proposal: Harris and AOC Introduce Bill to Keep Frontline Communities at the Center of All Climate Legislation

Progressive Straw Poll Shows Sanders Leading 2020 Democrats, With Green New Deal and Medicare for All Top Priorities

With Petition to Congress, 100,000+ People Demand Green New Deal 'That Fixes Our Food System'

Backing Just Transition for Workers, International Union Leader Says, 'No Jobs on a Dead Planet'

'Class of 0000' Campaign Denounces 'Cowardly' Censorship of Student Call for Climate Action

'Fantastic...Who's Next?' SEIU First Major Union to Endorse Green New Deal

New Greenpeace Report Breaks Down Why Next US President Has No Choice But to Prioritize Total 'Fossil Fuel Phase Out'

Warren's New $2 Trillion Green Manufacturing Plan Welcomed as 'Win-Win' for Climate and Workers

Sunrise Movement Vows to "Turn Up the Heat on Biden" as New Survey Details 2020 Dems' Climate Policies

Decrying Policies That Serve the Powerful, Ocasio-Cortez Demands Housing Be 'Legislated as a Human Right'

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This Country Belongs To The People

Needing a reprieve from El Paso's lunacy - journos attacked, babies executed, a Green New Deal that will ban cows and air travel - let us honor Abraham Lincoln, born on this day in 1809. (So was Charles Darwin, but Trump's never cited him, likely 'cause he's never heard of him.) Today, Lincoln resonates more than ever, from "If you want to test a man's character, give him power" to the power of we the people: "If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."