Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Sen. Bernie Sanders will rally with potential 2022 U.S. Senate candidate Charles Booker on Sunday at 2:30 pm at PARC Plaza in Louisville.
People’s Vaccine Alliance
"Support the majority of people who believe that vaccine monopolies are at odds with our universal right to health."
Julia Conley, staff writer
"WE will be the ones to define what the 'priorities' on immigration are—not Biden," said Movimiento Cosecha.
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Senate Majority Leader Schumer says "Bernie Sanders and I agree" on lowering Medicare age and drug prices.
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
"In Oklahoma, Republican Governor Kevin Stitt has just signed an anti-protest bill into law that protects drivers who injure or kill protesters by running into them with their cars from both civil and criminal prosecution."
Rebekah Entralgo
"Many women farmworkers do not even have access to their own income. Employers will often officially enroll a male employee while his wife and children work off the books."
Ben Manski, Peter Knowlton
"By 2030 we will be on our way to a global economy that provides a good life for all on a living planet. Or we will be on an irreversible path to global misery through ecological collapse."
Max B. Sawicky
"When it comes to economic issues, the Biden administration has shown some surprising progressivism. On foreign policy, not so much."
Johnisha Levi
"Moral and ethical obligations aside, child poverty is expensive: an estimated $800 billion to $1.1 trillion annually in health expenditures, lost productivity, and higher crime."
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
A new report from USAID's inspector general shows Trump-era U.S. aid to Venzuela was at least partially motivated by a desire for regime change.
Dean Schafer, Andrés Besserer
"Framing immigration as a 'crisis' makes an open immigration policy appear radioactive, despite it being equally popular and more economically beneficial."
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Experts at the Guttmacher Institute warn 2021 is on track to be "the most damaging anti-abortion state legislative session in a decade—and perhaps ever."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Simply put, S.B. 90 is undemocratic to its core," said the ACLU of Florida.
Medea Benjamin
"On the foreign policy front, many progressives are surprised and disappointed at how little has changed."
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The Hawaii State Legislature just made history by declaring a climate emergency.
Sam Pizzigati
"The new Biden tax plans ends the most basic of our tax code's breaks for the ultra rich: the preferential treatment they get on the income from their wheeling and dealing. And the ending of this preferential treatment would be a big deal indeed."
Jesse Jackson
"Making D.C. a state finally would end the denial of voting representation to more than 700,000 Americans, a majority of whom are Black or Brown," says Jesse Jackson.
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Millions of lives around the world are at stake."
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Jake Johnson, staff writer
"A project which can only be insured secretly has lost its social license to operate," said one Trans Mountain pipeline opponent.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Nurses' vote to unionize at Maine's largest hospital ushers in "a new day for nurses and patients," said Cokie Giles, president of the Maine State Nurses Association.
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Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"We call on Secretary Vilsack and Trade Representative Tai, as key leaders in the new administration, to respect Mexico's decision to protect both public health and the integrity of Mexican farming."
