"This verdict is still not justice. True justice doesn't come one verdict at a time. Real justice means that these situations do not happen in the first place."
"Every senator should have to go on the record and decide whether to stand with the Jim Crow filibuster or our freedom to vote."
Global health experts and activists have been warning for more than a year that aggressive variants of the virus are essentially guaranteed as long as much of the world’s population remains unvaccinated.
"We cannot be clearer: You must act now to protect every American's freedom to vote without interference and with confidence that their ballot will be counted and honored."
A year of illness, death, mourning, and ever-increasing political chaos on a striking, if not unparalleled, scale threatens the American system as we've known it. Meanwhile, a new kind of weather threatens the world as we've known it.
"This program is Social Security for our children, and Democrats must keep it going over the long-term," said Sen. Ron Wyden.
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As Congress passed a $778 billion war and military budget, about half of which will go to corporate contractors, they failed to pass the Build Back Better plan that costs less than a quarter of that annually, and would have delivered help to millions of people.
How long will we tolerate the corporate executive 'risk taking' that puts only workers at real risk?
The first reason to be hopeful is—us. We the people.
Order seemingly is something hierarchical and imposed, rather than a collective agreement. The prevailing consciousness is dominance vs. submission.
"It's frankly difficult to understand how a year since the first vaccines were administered, three in four health workers in Africa remain unvaccinated."
"Polar bears shouldn't have to suffer from yet more noisy, harmful oil drilling. Letting the oil industry ramp up drilling is also fundamentally inconsistent with addressing the climate crisis."
"Amazon is literally working people to death, and expects us to ignore it."
The Covid-19 threat will not simply go away—especially when addressed with half measures. The administration must use its authority under the Defense Production Act much more wisely and aggressively.
"The only real way to bring permanent relief to those impacted is to #CancelStudentDebt."
"This money belongs to the people and should be freed," one demonstrator insisted.
"Have we learned anything?" asked one advocate for public health equity, following the development of new variants amid vaccine apartheid.
