In September 2023, President Biden announced the creation of the first explicitly Green New Deal program: the American Climate Corps (ACC), a government jobs training program that will create new positions in local communities to take on the climate crisis. The creation of the ACC and the White House’s recent… Continue reading
by YUJIE ZHOU APRIL 24, 2024, 5:41 PM (MissionLocal.org) Between now and the November election, Mission Local is asking each District 3 candidate one question per week, and candidates will get 100 words to respond. We will compile all responses to the 40-odd questions on a “Meet the candidates” page, so… Continue reading
Adam Serwer/The Atlantic ‘Tom Cotton has never seen a left-wing protest he didn’t want crushed at gunpoint.’ (photo: Elijah Nouvelage/Getty) 25 april 24 (RSN.org) Calls for the National Guard to stop campus protests are not about safety. Tom Cotton has never seen a left-wing protest he didn’t want crushed at… Continue reading
Pro-Palestinian students and activists gather at a protest encampment on the campus of Columbia University in New York City on April 25, 2024. (Photo: Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images) “The violent repression we’re facing as peaceful anti-war protesters is appalling.” JULIA CONLEY Apr 25, 2024 (CommonDreams.org) A day after Columbia… Continue reading
Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad speaks at the Planalto Palace in Brasília on April 22, 2024. (Photo: Ton Molina/NurPhoto via Getty Images) “It is time that the international community gets serious about tackling inequality and financing global public goods.” JESSICA CORBETT Apr 25, 2024 (CommonDreams.org) Ministers from four major economies… Continue reading
Charles M. Blom/The New York Times The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago where anti-Vietnam War protesters clashed with police officers. (photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty) 25 april 24 (RSN.org) At the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, anti-Vietnam War protesters clashed with police officers — whose brutal role in the confrontation… Continue reading
University students across the country, facing mass arrests, suspensions, evictions and explusions are our last, best hope to halt the genocide in Gaza. CHRIS HEDGES APR 25, 2024 Where Have All the Flowers Gone – by Mr. Fish PRINCETON, N.J — Achinthya Sivalingam, a graduate student in Public Affairs at… Continue reading
By Laura Waxmann April 25, 2024 (SFChroncile.com) With the slow death of San Francisco’s once prominent downtown shopping center, ideas to reimagine the former Westfield Centre’s future uses have included turning the 6-acre property into a soccer stadium, a university campus and even a life-sized Legoland. On Wednesday, government officials tasked with reactivating the… Continue reading
Column APRIL 25, 2024 (DemocracyNow.org) Image Credit: Left image: X/@RyanChandlerTV // Right image: X / shoebyron By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan “What starts here changes the world. It starts with you and what you do each day.” So reads an encouraging sign that greets students at the University of… Continue reading
FRI, 4/19/2024 – BY STEVE RUSHTON (Occupy.com) This is the 23rd installment in a series about extending the Green New Deal to confront multiple global crises. Read Part I (Deconstructing environmental racism), II (Rural renewal), III (Upcycle the war machine), IV (GND manifestos), V (No oil bailouts), VI (No corporate ecocide), VII (Defund the police), VIII (Zero Covid approach: NZ), IX (Finnish equality lessons), X (Denmark stops drilling), XI (Costa Rica rewilding), XII (Indigenous justice), XIII (Free… Continue reading
