Tag: Amazon
Amazon employees threatened to be fired if they speak out on...
AECJ says they will continue to take climate action despite the HR threats and Bezos’ promises to conduct a cleaner business.
Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon
At the cost of over $2,000 per acre—and that is the cheapest I could find—it isn’t cheap, totaling over $30 billion to replace what the Amazon lost this decade.
Indigenous protectors are defending the Amazon and ‘paying with their lives’
Human rights groups warned in an open letter that the Amazon’s last uncontacted indigenous people face “genocide,” amid raging fires and mounting incursions into their territories.
‘Seattle is not for sale:’ Voters rebuke Amazon, re-electing Socialist Kshama...
The re-election victory “has been a major repudiation, not only of Amazon and of Jeff Bezos himself, as the richest man in the world, but also it has been a referendum on the vision for Seattle.”
30+ civil rights organizations call on elected officials to stop Amazon’s...
"Our elected officials must demand answers from their law enforcement officials, and must put a stop to these dangerous practices.”
California polluters may soon buy carbon “offsets” from the Amazon —...
Fires in the Brazilian Amazon have outraged the world. But what can people living far from the world’s largest rainforest do to save...
‘The future of Earth is at risk’: New drone footage of...
"Global demand for meat is destroying the Amazon rainforest."
Indigenous organization demand action to halt the destruction of the Amazon
Devastating wild fires have destroyed nearly 1 million hectares in Bolivia.
Brazil announces 60-Day ban on clearing land with fire
"What we are experiencing is a genuine crisis which could become a tragedy foretold with much larger fires than the ones we are now seeing if they are not immediately halted."
Reporting on global crises like Amazon fires, media need to focus...
It doesn’t matter so much how many reports corporate media write; if the same people stay at the center of them, the story won’t change.
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Sander’s monumental mistake: failing to explain exactly what a democratic socialist government is
It’s time that Sanders speaks out, explains what democratic socialism is and reminds Americans that it is a central part of this country, and that’s why he espouses that political ideology.
Factchecking NPR’s attempted takedown of Bernie Sanders
Their ignorance is willful, and finds its roots in a profoundly ideological position, an ideology adopted by journalists who favor and are rewarded by corporate arguments promoted by corporate Democrats.
Yale study says Medicare for All would save US $450 billion, prevent nearly 70,000...
The study in The Lancet found that Medicare for All, supported by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, will save money and is more cost-effective than “Medicare for All Who Want It."
New study shows Medicare for All will save Americans billions and prevent thousands of...
This study helps quiet several attacks made on Medicare for All from the private healthcare industry.
Jeff Bezos pledges $10 billion to fight the climate crisis
"We applaud Jeff Bezos' philanthropy, but one hand cannot give what the other is taking away."