"When will our government act like the global leaders they claim to be and let these youth be heard?"
"Indigenous people are in the frontline of the climate emergency, and we must be at the center of the decisions happening here. We have ideas to postpone the end of the world."
"A Billionaires Income Tax is not only an overdue tax reform, but also... smart politics."
"We need both legislation to protect our rights and legislation to expand the Court so six hyper-partisan conservative justices can't undo that progress," said one advocate. "This is the urgent response the Court's onslaught on our rights demands.”
"Climate change is here, it is not a problem for the future; it has destroyed whole towns and communities at an ever increasing rate. We need Joe Biden and world leaders to act ahead of COP26 in Glasgow. We need top assets managers like Black Rock to divest. Time is up."
"The only way to avoid climate catastrophe is to undertake… deep, systemic, and just transformations of our energy, food, transport, and industrial systems."
"It is humiliating and fails to meet the moment that we're in," one climate leader said of the U.S. president's speech in Glasgow.
To create a safer, more sustainable world, the United States needs to divert border money toward climate action.
By the time the U.S. abandoned the country in 1992 after the Soviet Union had collapsed, the U.N. reported that nearly two million more Afghans had been killed and another 600,000 to two million maimed.
"There is still time to avoid the worst consequences if we are prepared to change. It will take determined, visionary leadership. And it will take immense courage—but know that when you rise, billions will be right behind you."
Have we just about decided that the further accumulation of billionaire fortunes makes for good public policy?
A letter urging clemency for Majid Khan calls treatment of the detainee "a stain on the moral fiber of America."
"I think that we really have to take them seriously as a threat to democracy," a pollster said of the survey's findings regarding Americans who believe violence may be needed "to save the country."
"The U.S. is running backwards," said one critic.
"Giving Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices will save the government billions. But most importantly, it will save lives."
The cruelty and greed of the super-rich shows just how detached these corporations and people are from the notion of shared prosperity.
"The bottom line is that this summit failed to deliver much of anything for people, planet, or prosperity."
