Thursday, September 12, 2024

Tag: climate debate

Victory for activists as DNC considers hosting a climate-specific debate

Youth and climate activists had relentlessly expressed their desire for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to host a climate change presidential debate....

‘This exchange cuts to the heart of our crisis:’ Watch DNC...

"Humans can change human-made rules, we can't change the laws of nature."

‘We are facing an existential crisis:’ Gov. Inslee slams DNC for...

“This is our last chance to defeat climate change. We will not have another chance after the next administration. We will either act now, or it will be cataclysm.”

DNC will not host climate-specific presidential primary debate and plans to...

"The DNC is silencing the voices of Democratic activists, many of our progressive partner organizations, and nearly half of the Democratic presidential field, who want to debate the existential crisis of our time."

‘We need a climate debate:’ Youth petition pressures 2020 presidential democratic...

We want all the candidates to commit to participating in a debate or forum on environmental issues and policies so we can hear detailed ideas and plans.

POPULAR

Undebatable: What Harris and Trump could not say about Israel and Gaza

Silence is a blanket that smothers genuine democratic discourse and the outcries of moral voices. Making those voices inaudible is a key goal for the functioning of the warfare state.

How corporate news has tried to numb Americans to the horrors in Gaza

The process has become so routine that we might not recognize how omission and distortion have constantly shaped views of events since the war began in October.

What’s Trump’s escape valve when (or if) he realizes he’s losing? Bluster ...

There could be greater disruption than Jan. 6, but the enormous, co-ordinated might of law and order won’t get ambushed again.

USDA to distribute $2.2 billion in funding to Black farmers who experienced discrimination

The Biden administration announced it will distribute $2.2 billion in financial assistance to 43,000 farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners who were discriminated against in the agency's farm lending programs.

Nearly 200 environmental defenders killed in 2023, marking another deadly year

Nearly 200 environmental defenders were killed for protecting their lands and communities from ecological devastation in 2023 alone, bringing the total number of killings since 2012 to 2,106.