green new deal
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The Young Activist Fighting to ‘Change the Faces of Power’
For New York City-based organiser Ilona Duverge, housing justice isn’t just some theoretical concept. She knows what it’s like to be housing insecure firsthand.
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‘This Is a Simple Meme You Would Find on the Internet, but This Meme Is Very Real’
During a floor speech in the House on Wednesday night, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene used a Scooby-Doo meme to illustrate her claims that Democrats were secretly hiding portions of the Green New Deal in the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Which will, she claimed, bind the U.S. in servitude to China. Which… OK?
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Greta to U.S. Congress: ‘End Fossil Fuel Subsidies Now’
Between releasing new climate commitments under the Paris Agreement and organising an international Earth Day summit, it’s clear that U.S. President Joe Biden wants to reposition the country as an international climate leader. At a hearing on Thursday, 17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg offered him some advice on a way to do so: ending…
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79 Democrats Sign On to a Resolution to Tackle Our Overlapping Crises
On Thursday, congressional leaders introduced a resolution designed to tackle the overlapping crises of climate change, racial injustice, and the pandemic-induced economic collapse facing the U.S. It has the backing of 79 Democratic members of Congress and over 150 advocacy organisations, calling for millions of jobs in improving and decarbonising infrastructure, prioritising employment for marginalised…