Progressives Can’t Depend on the Congressional Progressive Caucus
by Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon
on April 27, 2022
Sometimes one decision speaks volumes. And so it was when the Congressional Progressive Caucus -- with 98 members in the House -- recently chose to have its PAC endorse a corporate “moderate” against the strong progressive candidate Nina Turner.
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68 Organizations Demand End to War on Yemen
by RootsAction
on April 21, 2022
Dear Members of Congress, We, the undersigned national organizations, welcome news that Yemen's warring parties have agreed to a two-month nationwide truce, to halt military operations, lift fuel restrictions, and open Sana’a airport to commercial traffic.
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Dozens of groups call on White House to alleviate crisis in Afghanistan and allow central bank to access reserves
by AFSC
on April 19, 2022
Forty-five humanitarian, human rights, peacebuilding, veterans’, faith-based, 9/11 victims’, working class, and diaspora community groups are calling for the Biden administration to allow the Afghan central bank access to the roughly $7 billion in reserve assets held in the United States in order to alleviate the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
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West Virginians Lead Blockade of Coal Plant That Made Manchin Rich
by Julia Conley, Common Dreams
on April 11, 2022
"This is what the fight for a habitable planet looks like in real time."
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The Idea of a Clean and Efficient War Is a Dangerous Lie
by Antonio De Lauri, Common Dreams
on April 11, 2022
There is dominant propaganda that seems to suggest war can be conducted according to a set of acceptable, standardized, and abstract rules. It can't.
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What Happens After Movement-Backed Politicians Take Office
by Mark Engler and Paul Engler, In These Times
on April 11, 2022
As the “co-governance” model gains traction, here’s a look into the promises and pitfalls—and how organizers are reimagining electoral politics.
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Dear President Biden
by RootsAction.org
on March 30, 2022
We, the undersigned thirteen organizations, are writing to urge you to maximize your efforts to achieve a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine. As Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky recently stated in an address to the people of Ukraine “Any war ends in an agreement.”
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Biden's Unhinged Call for Regime Change in Russia
by Norman Solomon
on March 28, 2022
Ever since Joe Biden ended his speech in Poland on Saturday night by making one of the most dangerous statements ever uttered by a U.S. president in the nuclear age, efforts to clean up after him have been profuse. Administration officials scurried to assert that Biden didn’t mean what he said. Yet no amount of trying to “walk back” his unhinged comment at the end of his speech in front of Warsaw’s Royal Castle can change the fact that Biden had called for regime change in Russia.
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Russian soldiers release Ukraine town’s mayor and agree to leave after protests
by Daniel Boffey in Lviv and Shaun Walker in Kyiv, The Guardian
on March 27, 2022
Russian forces agreed to leave town of Slavutych if those with arms handed them over to the mayor.
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From Moscow to Washington, the Barbarism and Hypocrisy Don’t Justify Each Other
by Norman Solomon
on March 23, 2022
Russia’s war in Ukraine -- like the USA’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- should be understood as barbaric mass slaughter.
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