Tag: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders introduce resolution declaring the climate crisis a national...
“Today we stand in solidarity with tens of millions of people from around the world in calling for a mass mobilization of our social and economic resources."
‘Spoiler: Because Australia has universal healthcare:’ Watch Ocasio-Cortez ask pharma CEO...
"Because every single developed country in the world guarantees healthcare as a right except us. Except the United States."
The Loan Shark Prevention Act
Bernie and AOC have joined together to pass the Loan Shark Prevention Act. Could this may become a big issue in 2020?
‘Solitary confinement is torture:’ Ocasio-Cortez calls for Chelsea Manning’s release
"Chelsea is being tortured for whistleblowing, she should be released on bail, and we should ban extended solitary in the U.S."
‘Tell that to the families in Flint:’ AOC demolishes GOP claim...
New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shot back with a passionate defense of the Green New Deal.
The ‘scarcity mindset’ and the growing risks of inequality
The only solution, both to alleviating the underlying problem of inequality and countering the energized far right it has produced in so many places appears to be for the left to counter it with a more positive populism of its own.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grills Michael Cohen, laying out plan to probe...
“In five minutes, this freshman congresswoman just laid out a whole investigative plan for three more topics into Donald Trump’s potentially criminal activities.”
Columnist Thiessen, in calling AOC ‘economically illiterate,’ displays own economic ignorance
After all, while the brief bio at the end of his column doesn’t mention it, the newspaper he writes for is owned by Bezos, Amazon’s founder, CEO and the world’s richest man.
Tread carefully, think big: Impressions on AOC and the Green New...
It will be up to the activist communities she came from to defend the Green New Deal and push for it to become a reality in 2020 and beyond.
Answering the attacks on the Green New Deal
But now it seems that someone in Congress is listening. The Green New Deal is America’s last best chance to get it right.
POPULAR
Trump quietly expands corporate tax breaks while threatening states over food aid
Treasury guidance weakens corporate minimum tax as the Agriculture Department warns states to “undo” full November SNAP payments amid shutdown confusion.
Bill Gates gave $3.5M to think tank run by climate crisis denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
Military moral injury, iolence, and the parable of the Guinea worm
An unexpected encounter with compassion.
Taxing the rich is key to challenging the far-right
There are many things that need to change in this world. But one thing is clear: anyone who claims to oppose the rise of the far right must, at the very least, support higher taxes on extreme wealth.
Different battles, same struggle: The US war on China, Venezuela, and the international left
We must remember that these are not separate crises, but different fronts of the same struggle. And to resist one is to resist them all.