All Views Articles for 2019-10-25

Friday, October 25, 2019
Jane Fonda was not just lending her celebrity status. She was taking a personal risk and challenging all of us to create the space for massive, diverse, cross-sector civic engagement to end our fossil fuel dependency now. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Wendy Fields
#FireDrillFridays—Vote. Speak. Act.
Fossil fuel pollution will affect all of us, regardless of where we are on the political spectrum, or our race, class, gender, or zip code.
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CNN showed a split-second glimpse of trans protesters at its LGBTQ town hall (10/10/19) before cutting back to candidate Pete Buttigieg. Julie Hollar
LGBTQ Issues Missing in Presidential Campaign Coverage
It’s time for journalists to step up and cover these issues with the urgency they deserve, both at the debates and in their daily election coverage.
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When the centrist neoliberals tell you that change is incremental, what they’re really saying is they don’t want that much change. And the reason they don’t is that they are beholden to corporations and rich folks. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) John Atcheson
Centrists—Or Neoliberals–Control the Party and the Media and They're Risking Losing to Trump Again in 2020
We either ignite a revolution built around values, and take back the country from the neoliberal centrists, or we risk another Trump victory.
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Activist outside the Congress demanding a vote to pass ' The Green New Deal'. The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday afternoon at 4:00 PM to begin debate on a sweeping resolution to combat climate change, the Green New Deal, which was introduced by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey. Washington, D.C. March 26, 2019. (Photo: Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images) James Haslam
Can the Next President Deliver a New Social Contract for Our Survival?
It's time for us to come together, and demand what our country needs to ensure our survival—including electing politicians who support a shared new vision of the future: one that’s rooted in community-based solutions and intersectional organizing.
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What happened in Los Angeles proves it is possible to create a society where the public as a whole determines its goals and sets its own financial strategies for achieving them. (Photo: Twitter/@publicbankla) Aaron Fernando
California Opens the Public Banking Floodgates
The move shifts power away from profit-motivated board members of corporate banks and into the hands of the people.
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For starters, the talking heads who are invited on news shows rarely, if ever, speak of the corporate crime wave, the corporate welfare scandals, or many preventable mass casualties that flow from corporate negligence and cover-ups.(Photo: Screenshot/Youtube) Ralph Nader
Corporate Power Wins When a Nation's Civic Leaders and Experts Are Locked Out
The foregoing case for a single-payer health insurance system is just one example of how corporate power prevails when there is media and political exclusion of the informed and experienced civic community.
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Trump goes back and forth between dismissing Syria as an unimportant desert and playing up its small oil reserves. (Photo: Screenshot) Juan Cole
New War for Oil? Trump to Occupy Oil-Rich Syrian Province with Tank Corps, Asks for Kurdish Displacement There
The notion of a US invasion and occupation of Deir al-Zor is entirely illegal in international law.
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The answer the threats facing the bees and other pollinators, writes filmmaker Peter Nelson "is not going to come from the top, but is going to come from our own citizen actions on a grassroots level." (Photo: Peter Nelson / 'The Pollinators') Peter Nelson
What's Wrong With the Bees? Our New Film, "The Pollinators," Seeks an Answer
If these beekeepers are worried, we all should be: our diet depends upon pollination for one of every three bites we eat.
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Former U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis visits FOX News Channel’s "The Story with Martha MacCallum" on September 03, 2019 in New York City. (Photo: Steven Ferdman/Getty Images) Danny Sjursen
Angered Over the Whiff of US Troop Withdrawals, Now the Generals Speak Up?
Let's review the boundless hypocrisy of just a few of the most prominent voices crowing against the Syria withdrawal.
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