Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, October 2
Amazon adopts $15 minimum wage, California bans animal-tested cosmetics and becomes first state to require women on corporate boards, and more.
Challenges for resolving complex conflicts
If we do not dramatically and quickly improve our individual and collective capacity to resolve conflicts nonviolently, including when we are dealing with individuals who are insane, then one day relatively soon we will share the fate of those 200 species of life we drove to extinction today.
Progressive lawmakers demand nationwide moratorium on ‘cruel and dangerous’ evictions amid coronavirus pandemic
“Evicting families puts their health at risk, imposes trauma on and disrupts the education of their children, and exacerbates the risk of outbreak in their communities,” said Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and other lawmakers.
New federal guidelines for campus assault put heavy burden on victims
College administrators worry a more rigorous process for proving sexual assault could send the wrong message to students.
From Europe to China to India, uncertainty and fear over Trump’s climate rollback
The E.U., China and other leading economies must share the brunt of the responsibility to tackle climate change.
Medicare for All: As healthcare costs soar, momentum grows to guarantee healthcare for all...
Over the summer the groups formed a partnership to fight the growing support for expanding Medicare.
IRS targets basis shifting loophole to reclaim $50 billion from super rich
IRS crackdown on complex tax maneuvers is set to generate significant federal revenue by enforcing compliance among high-income taxpayers.
It’s Citizens Who Will Save Us From Citizens United
Constitutional amendment organizers are confident of an eventual victory. “The push toward justice has always started at the grassroots.”
Egalitarians gain ground in Washington
They have forced onto the nation’s political center stage initiatives for shearing the ultra rich down to democratic size that no major elected leader in America would have dared propose only a year ago.
Biden won. Now comes the hard part
Biden has pledged to be the president for all Americans, including the more than 74 million Trump supporters.