Progressive Briefing for Monday, September 3
Labor Day: When workers are recognized as human, $30 trillion to the richest white Americans, Los Angeles educators vote to strike, and more.
New bill aims to reverse the GOP’s giveaway of ANWR lands to fossil fuel...
“This bill calls a halt to the Administration’s headlong rush to sell off this special wilderness to corporate polluters."
Native American voters get boost in North Dakota
After a lengthy legal fight, state and tribal officials reach settlement over ID law
As Biden backslides, a bigger, better-organized climate movement prepares to seize this ‘now or...
“We’re not just marching in the streets, although we’re doing that. We’re lobbying and advocating for meaningful climate actions on the Hill."
Why women’s climate leadership is vital
Women’s leadership won’t be a panacea for the overwhelming whiteness of climate leadership, but it’s a starting place.
Humanity’s survival on earth starts with having smaller families
A human rights-based approach to family planning will help reduce the ecological impact of population growth.
The Donald also rises?
For all practical purposes, right-wing populists will have taken over the world.
Sanders crafts amendment to close ‘holes’ in Medicare that ‘are harming seniors’
"Adding dental, vision, and hearing benefits to Medicare is supported by 84% of the American people," said an aide to the senator, who plans to propose including the expansion in Democrats' reconciliation package.
Trump and the end of antitrust
America used to have antitrust laws that permanently stopped corporations from monopolizing markets, and often broke up the biggest culprits.
Emergency protests planned to stop Scott Walker and Wisconsin GOP’s ‘shocking and naked power...
"Warning to our friends across the country: what happens in Wisconsin doesn't stay in Wisconsin. The GOP (and Kochs) use the state as a petri dish for terrible hard-right ideas. If this works, it'll spread elsewhere."