Yearly Archives: 2021
Don’t believe corporate America’s ‘labor shortage’ bullshit. This is an unofficial general strike.
What’s really happening is more accurately described as a living-wage shortage, a hazard pay shortage, a childcare shortage, a paid sick leave shortage, and a health care shortage.
Plastics set to overtake coal plants on GHG emissions, new study shows
Experts say that policymakers do not currently account for the impact plastics currently have on climate change and that the issue is flying under the radar.
The path to a livable future
For the past several decades, Noam Chomsky has been one of the most forceful and persuasive voices confronting injustice, inequity, and the threat posed by human-caused climate chaos to civilization and the Earth.
‘It’s not coming out’: Bernie Sanders stands firm on Medicare expansion
Sanders and other progressives have spent months defending the provisions in the $3.5 trillion, 10-year investment in climate action and social supports for lower- and middle-income families.
Corporate giants promote climate action, but work with oil lobbyists in state capitols
The overlap raises questions about the sincerity of corporate climate commitments.
Plastic pollution in waterways likely to more than double by 2030, poses dire threat...
"This assessment provides the strongest scientific argument to date for the urgency to act, and for collective action to protect and restore our oceans from source to sea."
10 years after Occupy Wall Street, its legacy remains strong
Occupy rewrote the book on protests. It’s time to turn the page.
US billionaires are now $2.1 trillion richer than before the pandemic
Not only did the wealth of U.S. billionaires grow, but so did their numbers: in March of last year, there were 614 Americans with 10-figure bank accounts. Today there are 745.
Fossil fuel plant run by William Koch at heart of EPA investigation into racism...
“My hope is that they will thoroughly investigate their emissions and their impact on the community and draw what we believe to be an inescapable conclusion that Oxbow is an eminent danger to the life and health of people in Port Arthur and southeast Texas.”
Why America’s health care workers are escalating their fight for fair treatment and patient...
“People are sick and tired, and they’ve had enough, and they’re ready to stand up and fight back.”