Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"A very bad day for local news."
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Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"If Democrats learned anything from the past ten years, it has to be that negotiating against ourselves doesn't work," said one climate justice advocate.
Ben Price
"Christopher Stone may not have envisioned, in 1972, how his bold idea would change the way we think and talk about environmentalism." #RightsofNature
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Jake Johnson, staff writer
"By planning to supply hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons to Israel, the United States government stands to help carry out war crimes and kill or injure more people."
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Julia Conley, staff writer
"The death and destruction inflicted by Israel in Gaza, as well as the heightened violence by Israel across Palestine, cannot be washed away," said Jewish Canadian activists who poured red paint on the steps of Toronto's Israeli consulate to symbolize the bloodshed in Palestine.
Cynthia Kaufman
"As we tried to connect the dots between the murder of George Floyd and our work to end the burning of fossil fuels, the connecting thread, without our naming it explicitly, was clearly capitalism."
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Humanity must forge "a new relationship with the natural world," says Jane Goodall.
Bonnie Rice
"With our very existence at stake, biodiversity loss must be a national priority on the same level as climate change."
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Keystone XL was the first pipeline that President Biden rejected, but it should not be the last."
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Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Reducing the Pentagon budget to reflect the savings from ending the Afghan War is just common sense," said Public Citizen president Robert Weissman.
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Julia Conley, staff writer
"Today in nonsensical media news, Chris Cuomo faces no discipline and Emily Wilder has no job," said one critic after an AP journalist was fired for criticizing media coverage of Israel and Palestine.
Hyun Lee
"Unless they reorient their policies now," writes Hyung Lee of the anti-war group Women Cross DMZ, "the United States and South Korea may squander a crucial opportunity to end Cold War divisions and prevent a nuclear escalation in Asia."
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
"Palestinian grandmothers living under Israeli occupation don't need Biden’s prayers; they need his intervention."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is under fire for claiming it is powerless to prevent states from ending the $300 weekly unemployment boost.
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We're doubtful that there might not be a future in store for the generations after us, and even our own generation."
