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While the Amazon Burns, Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples Rise Up
Indigenous communities and organizations are mobilizing in self-defense and securing their constitutional rights.
Trump to Snub Climate Summit for Religious Freedom Meeting at UN
The White House booked a room so Trump could attend a gathering in the same building as the UN climate summit.
Corporate Agribusiness Is Blocking Important Action on the Climate
Agribusiness and Wall Street are preventing farmers from adopting more regenerative farming practices.
US Will Stage Its Largest Ever Climate Strike
Young people are outraged that they are being left a world with an increasingly punishing climate and social insecurity.
Wisconsin Lawmakers Seek to Criminalize Environmental Protests
Senate Bill 386 echoes similar “critical infrastructure protection” model bills drafted by ALEC.
Pelosi’s Plan Is Not Enough. Lower Drug Prices Now Through a Public Option.
Pelosi released the “Lower Drug Costs Now Act” on September 19.
Today Is Far From the End. A Climate “General Strike” Is Coming.
On September 27, activists will walk out of school and work, suspend commercial activity and boycott banks.
Democrats Should Be Talking About How Republicans Have Rigged the Maps
If we don't fix our rigged electoral system, their ideas won't matter.
Iraqi Kids Test Positive for Depleted Uranium Remnants Near Former US Air Base
Iraqi doctors observed high rates of congenital disabilities in babies born after the U.S.-led invasion.
Trump’s Promise to Foreign Leader Sparked Whistleblower Complaint
Trump reportedly spoke or met with at least five foreign leaders in the weeks preceding the complaint.