“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary—including suspending the filibuster—in order to pass national voting and election administration standards.”
Jessica Corbett
“By ensuring equity and social justice in our cannabis legalization, we are saying ‘enough’ to the devastating ‘war on drugs’ that over-incarcerated and over-penalized thousands of New Mexicans.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to social media Tuesday night with a detailed reminder of the root causes of Central Americans and other migrants seeking asylum at the United States’ southern border
“People who spend their careers studying our economy are in widespread agreement that climate change will be expensive, potentially devastatingly so.”
“This disastrous project is an affront to environmental justice and contrary to your goals to reduce pollution in frontline communities.”
“a tremendous win for Indigenous communities, the waters, parks, and lands across our country, and the climate”
“Pennsylvania’s children should not be used as laboratory rats,” said biologist Sandra Steingraber, who called fracking “an uncontrolled human experiment” that involves “toxic exposures.”
17 scientists called for a World War II-type mobilization to prevent a future of mass extinction, declining health, climate-disruption upheavals and resource conflicts
UN Chief at Climate Summit: “If we don’t change course, we may be headed for a catastrophic temperature rise of more than 3 degrees this century.”
“It is time to invite each other into difficult conversations, so we can reduce our complicity in the harm, and be creative to make the best of a turbulent future.”