All Views Articles for 2019-12-18

Wednesday, December 18, 2019
To further protect immigrants from ICE’s abuses, we urge other agencies that maintain databases accessible through CLETS to disable ICE ERO accounts from using those databases. (Photo: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Saira Hussain
California DOJ Cuts Off ICE Deportation Officers from State Law Enforcement Database
The Trump administration relentlessly targets immigrant communities and ICE continues to exploit state and local resources, including databases, to act as force multipliers for immigration enforcement.
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Progressive campaigns must reach the working class everywhere it lives—in deindustrialized smaller towns as well as the biggest cities—and they must do more than make promises or show up at election time. (Photo: Owen Humphreys/PA Images/Getty Images) Sarah Jaffe
Even in Defeat, Labour Mobilized the New Working Class
The U.K. election demonstrated the urgent need for grassroots organizing.
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Memorials outside the Tree of Life synagogue, Pittsburgh. (Photo: Shutterstock) Sarah Gertler
Trump’s Judaism Order Has Nothing to Do With Fighting Anti-Semitism
The man who called neo-Nazis "very fine people" has no business defining anti-Semitism for the rest of us.
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Global evidence now shows environmental projects are more effective when gender considerations are taken into account. (Photo: COP25/EPA/Chema Moya) Maria Tanyag , Jacqui True
Climate Conferences Are Male, Pale and Stale—It’s Time to Bring in Women
By supporting women at all levels, from the village to the global stage, this vital perspective can inform the creation of robust, sustainable and effective solutions to our climate crisis.
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The question of ownership—private or public—cannot be answered without accounting for the structural safety and potential liabilities of the two decrepit megaliths at San Luis Obispo. (Photo: Wikimedia) Mimi Kennedy, Harvey Wasserman
Final Showdown: PG&E at the Brink of Nuclear Bankruptcy
The same pattern of lethal neglect and deferred maintenance that made PG&E the proven culprit in murderous wildfires is being repeated at Diablo Canyon.
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Spurred by journalism and grassroots action, elected officials at the local, state and federal levels have started asking questions about the dangers associated with Amazon’s surveillance-driven business model. (Photo: Stephen Brashear/Getty Images) Evan Greer
Google Nest or Amazon Ring? Just Reject These Corporations' Surveillance and a Dystopic Future
Purchasing devices that constantly monitor, track and record us for convenience or a sense of safety is laying the foundation for an oppressive future.
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Romanian and U.S. protesters outside the World Bank, December 11, 2019. (Photo: CIEL) Stephanie Danielle Roth
People Power in Romania Stopped a Mining Project. Now the Corporation Is Suing for Billions of Dollars.
Romanian and U.S. environmental justice activists demonstrated in Washington, DC, outside a World Bank tribunal hearing on a case brought by Canadian-based Gabriel Resources.
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Wilson, the indefatigable local shrimper, had been trying for some 30 years to get state and national officials to stop Formosa from dumping poisonous plastic chemicals into the Lavaca Bay ecosystem. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Jim Hightower
Can 'Powerless Nobodies' Fight the Corporate Powers?
The Formosa settlement victory sets a major legal precedent to advance other citizen lawsuits against polluters, requiring that the polluters (not taxpayers) pay for their messes.
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