The FDA Is Forcing the CDC to Waste Time Double Testing Some Coronavirus Cases
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-13
A federal directive that's supposed to speed up the response to a pandemic is actually slowing down the government's rollout of coronavirus tests. | The directive, issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, requires that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a sister agency, retest every positive coronavirus test run by a public health lab to confirm its accuracy. The result, experts say, is wasting limited resources at a time when thousands of Americans are waiting in line…
truthout.org/articles/the-fda-is-forcing-the-cdc-to-waste-time-double-testing-some-coronavirus-cases/

Bill de Blasio, Climate Troll
Charles Komanoff | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Bike ticket sting at 59th and 1st Avenue. Two cops ticketing, I think, when folks turn right on red coming south/off the Queensboro Bridge. Good lord, how do you schedule the spring ticket traps at the same time as you tell people to bike to work? Those tweets, from a bicycle commuter and local journalist,…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/bill-de-blasio-climate-troll/

Climate Victims Violent? Klare's Paean to the American Military
Judith Deutsch | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Michael Klare's new book, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change, is an uncritical paean to the American military. He credits the Pentagon with taking climate science seriously. But he does not question, bring contradictory evidence, or analyze the military's self-appointed role as global manager of climate-related human disorder. Klare's work is…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/climate-victims-violent-klares-paean-to-the-american-military/

Earth Day 2020: 50th Anniversary of Earth Day Activism 1970-2020 (Global)
Earth Day Network | indybay.org | 2020-03-13
Worldwide climate strikes, actions, and environmental events…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/11/18831441.php

People's World can't exist without you
John Bachtell | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-13
Dear People's World readers, We live in uncertain and frightening times. In addition to the global peril posed by the climate crisis, humanity faces an immediate coronavirus pandemic and what looks like a global economic crisis. As a People's World reader, you value the truth and a radical, working-class perspective to get you through the …
peoplesworld.org/article/peoples-world-cant-exist-without-you/

Bernie Sanders: We Are Winning "Ideological" & "Generational" Debate, Now Need to Win "Electability"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-12
After a disappointing showing in Tuesday night's Democratic presidential primaries, Senator Bernie Sanders said Wednesday he will stay in the race. In his address from Burlington, Vermont, Sanders challenged his rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, to address key issues like economic inequality, healthcare access and the climate crisis. Sanders is set to debate Biden this Sunday in Arizona. "It is not just the ideological debate that our progressive movement is winning. We are winning the generational debate," Sanders said. "While Joe Biden continues to do very well with older Americans, especially those peopl…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/12/bernie_sanders

As HS2 plans 'despicable' woodland destruction, opponents unite to 'Stand for the Trees'
John Ranson | thecanary.co | 2020-03-12
Critics of the controversial HS2 high speed rail link will gather on Sunday 15 March in woodland threatened by the scheme. | A press release for the event says local campaigners will join with supporters from StopHS2, the RSPB, the Woodland Trust, Extinction Rebellion, Save Cubbington Woods, and Wildlife Rebellion "to defend ancient woodlands in Warwickshire, the first of over 100 set to be destroyed or damaged by HS2". The "Resistance Rally" will oppose "HS2's imminent felling of ancient woodlands i…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/03/12/as-hs2-plans-despicable-woodland-destruction-opponents-unite-to-stand-for-the-trees/

Increased coverage on climate change last year
Marlee Kokotovic | nationofchange.org | 2020-03-12
Hopefully, with more media coverage, we will all be able to join together and change the topic from a climate change armageddon to having solutions we can work towards.
nationofchange.org/2020/03/12/increased-coverage-on-climate-change-last-year/

Joe Biden Pays Lip Service to Climate But Has Fallen Short on Action
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-12
As Joe Biden's chances of clinching the Democratic nomination continue to rise, environmentalists are absorbing the possibility that they may eventually be faced with the challenge of trying to exert pressure on a nominee with deep ties to the fossil fuel industry. | Though awareness of the climate crisis among the public has reached a high, voters have failed to notice the meaningful differ…
truthout.org/articles/joe-biden-pays-lip-service-to-climate-but-has-fallen-short-on-action/

New Report Takes Aim at Five Banking Institutions Backing Amazon Rainforest Exploitation
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-03-12
"Five of the world's most powerful financial institutions are actively contributing to climate change by providing debt and equity financing for crude oil extraction projects in the Amazon." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/amazon-rainforest.jpeg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/03/12/new-report-takes-aim-five-banking-institutions-backing-amazon-rainforest?cd-origin=rss

Charter School Oversight Remains Weak
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-11
In 2016, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) called for a moratorium on new charter schools, citing many problems with these privatized schools, including poor performance, extensive waste, widespread segregation, and inadequate accountability. Oversight, transparency, accountability, and good governance have never been the strong suits of charter schools or charter school …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/charter-school-oversight-remains-weak/

Climate change: educating students to fight the crisis
news.un.org | 2020-03-11
With the latest UN climate report containing worrying evidence that climate change is having a major effect on all aspects of the environment, how can teachers help children and adults to sort through the growing mass of information, avoid being overwhelmed, and come to an understanding of the challenges, and potential solutions, to what the UN Secretary-General has called "an existential crisis"?>…
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/03/1059151

Budget 2020: chancellor pledging to invest 'historic amounts' in infrastructure
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-03-11
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has promised to invest "historic amounts" on infrastructure and innovation in the Budget he will deliver against a backdrop of coronavirus instability.The Treasury said hundreds of billions of pounds will be pledged on Wednesday to invest in infrastructure including roads, railways, broadband and housing.It was understood this figure could be more than £600bn over the five-year parliament. | However, the government has faced criticism for delaying its key National Infrastructure Strategy to tackle the climate crisis and boost transport connectivity.Meanwhile, analysts were keeping a w…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/03/11/budget-2020-chancellor-pledging-to-invest-historic-amounts-in-infrastructure/

'Missing the mark': Ex-Warren staffers face outrage over campaign tattoos eerily similar to Holocaust concentration camp numbers
rt.com | 2020-03-10
Former staffers for Elizabeth Warren have been taken to the woodshed over tattoos meant to memorialize her ill-fated campaign

Rebels continue disruptions
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-03-05
Climate crisis Zebedee ParkesIssue 1256 Australia Extinction Rebellion climate emergencyMarch 5, 2020Extinction Rebellion activists are continuing to cause disruption around Australia.
greenleft.org.au/content/rebels-continue-disruptions

The case for ecosocialism
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-03-05
Socialism Peter Boyle Pip HinmanIssue 1256 Australia ecosocialism climate crisisMarch 5, 2020If there is one thing the recent unprec…
greenleft.org.au/content/the-case-for-ecosocialism

'Quiet Australians' organise for climate action
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-03-04
Climate crisis Susan PriceIssue 1256 Australia Extinction Rebellion Blacktown City Council ParramattaMarch 4, 2020…
greenleft.org.au/content/quiet-australians-organise-climate-action

Could the climate crisis be "The Good News of Damnation"?
Lawrence Wittner | zcomm.org | 2020-03-02
There really is no other solution to the onrushing climate catastrophe than for people and nations to forget their tribal animosities and start behaving as part of a world society…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/could-the-climate-crisis-be-the-good-news-of-damnation/

Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-02-21
There will only be an increasing number of frontline struggles between extractive, climate-disrupting industry and those willing to stand up to it. Corporate media's inadequate attention, and unwillingness to truly call out the moneyed interests causing present and future harms, make them more often part of the problem than the solution.
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Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-02-21
There will only be an increasing number of frontline struggles between extractive, climate-disrupting industry and those willing to stand up to it. Corporate media's inadequate attention, and unwillingness to truly call out the moneyed interests causing present and future harms, make them more often part of the problem than the solution.
fair.org/home/paul-paz-y-mino-saqib-bhatti-beverly-bell-on-environmental-justice-cross-national-solidarity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=paul-paz-y-mino-saqib-bhatti-beverly-bell-on-environmental-justice-cross-national-solidarity