2020-04-26: Social Media Postees

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How to use Social Media to Drive Environmental Change: Climate Change
Ecology Center in Berkeley | indybay.org | 2020-04-26
Online via Livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/24/18832609.php

Empowering Women: The Climate Solution We Don't Talk About (Climate One)
Climate One | indybay.org | 2020-04-26
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/24/18832614.php

WATCH Russian paratroopers in world's FIRST-EVER 10km group jump… in the ARCTIC
rt.com | 2020-04-26
Russian Airborne Troops practiced their high-altitude parachuting skills in one of Earth's most extreme environments

New Poll Shows Nearly 90 Percent of Democrat Voters Support Medicare for All
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-26
A new poll showing nearly 90 percent approval among Democratic voters for Medicare for All has stirred fresh calls for Joe Biden, the party's presumptive nominee, to end his outdated opposition to the healthcare solution that would cover all Americans at less overall cost than the current, more wasteful for-profit system. | Arriving amid the coronavir…
truthout.org/articles/new-poll-shows-nearly-90-percent-of-democrat-voters-support-medicare-for-all/

New Poll Shows Nearly 90 Percent of Democratic Voters Support Medicare for All
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-26
A new poll showing nearly 90 percent approval among Democratic voters for Medicare for All has stirred fresh calls for Joe Biden, the party's presumptive nominee, to end his outdated opposition to the healthcare solution that would cover all Americans at less overall cost than the current, more wasteful for-profit system. | Arriving amid the coronavir…
truthout.org/articles/new-poll-shows-nearly-90-percent-of-democrat-voters-support-medicare-for-all/

'I never said it was a hoax!' Trump unloads on media in fiery rant, says coronavirus briefings 'not worth the time and effort'
rt.com | 2020-04-26
US President Donald Trump fired off a scathing broadside at the mainstream media, accusing them of peddling the false claim that he called the coronavirus a hoax, and suggesting the Covid-19 briefings are a waste of time. | "What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, & then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately," the president tweeted on Saturday evening. | What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, & then refuses to report the truth or facts accu…
rt.com/usa/486904-trump-hoax-coronaviurus-briefing/

The Solutions to the Climate Crisis No One is Talking About
Robert Reich | commondreams.org | 2020-04-25
"We deserve a world without fossil fuels," writes Reich. "A world in which workers and communities thrive and our shared climate comes before industry profits." (Image: Inequality Media) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/climate_crisis_solutions_reich.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/04/25/solutions-climate-crisis-no-one-talking-about?cd-origin=rss

This Appalachian Collective Has Launched Its Own "Green Stimulus"
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-25
This story is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. | On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day this week, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres urged world leaders to ensure economic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic include measures that tackle what he called the…
truthout.org/articles/this-appalachian-collective-has-launched-its-own-green-stimulus/

The Boston Marathon Bombing as Trial Run for a Global Lockdown
Bill Willers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-25
You never want to let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that, it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

Why the Democratic Party Must Support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Jeffrey C. Isaac | commondreams.org | 2020-04-24
AOC symbolizes integrity, the courage of her political convictions, and the kind of passionate egalitarianism that the Democratic party must nourish if it is to have a future. (Photo: Senate Democrats/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/10th-debate-climate-aoc.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/04/24/why-democratic-party-must-support-alexandria-ocasio-cortez?cd-origin=rss

World Penguin Day: penguins are helping to map Antarctic regions in greatest need of protection
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-04-24
In a rapidly changing climate, penguins have helped scientists map areas of the Antarctic in greatest need of protection from the threat of over-exploitation. A cohort of scientists compiled tracking data from five different species of penguin, and 12 other marine predators, to find the regions most densely populated with prey.To mark World Penguin Day on Saturday 25 April, the scientists involved are highlighting their role in the new research and its importance to conservation efforts. Tracking data from adelie, emperor, king, royal and macaroni penguin species was used, as well as data from two species of petr…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/04/24/world-penguin-day-penguins-are-helping-to-map-antarctic-regions-in-greatest-need-of-protection/

Trump, coronavirus, and climate change: using a pandemic to gut the EPA
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-24
Under the guise of protecting workers and the public from the coronavirus, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced two weeks ago that it will not issue fines against companies that violate certain water, air, and hazardous-waste-reporting requirements.
mronline.org/2020/04/24/trump-coronavirus-and-climate-change-using-a-pandemic-to-gut-the-epa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trump-coronavirus-and-climate-change-using-a-pandemic-to-gut-the-epa

Now is the Perfect Time to Fight Climate Change
Sonali Kolhatkar | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-24
While the whole world is consumed with the disastrous coronavirus pandemic, little attention is being paid to that sector of our economy whose existence had heretofore represented humanity's greatest threat: the fossil fuel industry. But now may be the best time to pay heed. Oil and gas prices recently fell so low that they bizarrely…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/24/now-is-the-perfect-time-to-fight-climate-change/

Want to Slow the Climate Crisis? Don't Use Single-Use Plastics
Annie Leonard | thenation.com | 2020-04-23
Want to Slow the Climate Crisis? Don't Use Single-Use Plastics.
thenation.com/article/environment/plastic-recycling-climate-change/

Greta Thunberg: Climate Activists Have Not Lost Hope Amid Pandemic. We're Changing How We Organize
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-22
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke in an Earth Day live stream hosted by the Nobel Prize Museum about how the Fridays for Future school strikes movement she launched is responding to the coronavirus pandemic. "Within the Fridays for Future movement, there's still this sort of big sense of resistance, and people are thinking, 'We will get out of this. And when we do, we will continue, and we will do everything we can that is possible in that situation to continue to push even harder,'" says Thunberg. "I feel like many people have not lost their sense of hope. We have just changed the way we do things. W…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/22/greta_thunberg_earth_day_2020

Chileans Who Took to Streets Against Inequality & Climate Crisis Say Virus Lockdowns Won't Stop Them
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-22
Months ago, the streets of Santiago and other Chilean cities were alive with a vibrant mass protest movement that drew hundreds of thousands and even led the U.N. climate summit to be relocated to Madrid, Spain, last December. Now the public spaces of Santiago are largely empty as citizens shelter in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But the protest movement against austerity and right-wing President Sebastián Piñera lives on as activists find new ways to organize online. We go to Santiago, Chile, to speak with Angela Valenzuela, a 350.org organizer who has been active both in the country's uprising and in…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/22/angela_valenzuela_chile

Zooming Newport's Climate Awareness Earth Day 2020
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-22
Fifty years ago, the first Earth Day brought out 20 million Americans across the land

Fall in COVID-linked carbon emissions won't halt climate change – UN weather agency chief
news.un.org | 2020-04-22
An expected drop in greenhouse gas emissions linked to the global economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is only "short-term good news", the head of the UN weather agency said on Wednesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/04/1062332

Guterres vows support for island States in twin fight against COVID-19, climate crisis
news.un.org | 2020-04-21
In an era of new challenges wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, Secretary-General António Guterres is pledging the UN's continued support to small island States

First U.S. Union-Authorized Climate Strike?
Jeremy Brecher | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
If Local 26 is forced to strike again, one thing is clear: It will do so not only as the representative of its own members, but as the champion of everyone who knows they are threatened by climate change…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/first-u-s-union-authorized-climate-strike/

Civil Disobedience in the Time of Climate Crisis
H. Patricia Hynes | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
What we–citizens, corporations, courts and government–do about the climate crisis will determine life on earth within the next few decades…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/civil-disobedience-in-the-time-of-climate-crisis/

Last Process: 26 Postees: 2020-04-26 22:58 GMT (18:58 EST)

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