Daily Archives: November 25, 2020

2020-11-25: News Headlines

Prof. Marjorie Cohn (2020-11-25). Biden's Victory Does Not Guarantee a Progressive Agenda. We Must Fight for It. globalresearch.ca Joe Biden's victory over Donald Trump is monumental. After four years of nonstop cruelty against workers, the poor, people of color, women, LBGTQ folks, immigrants, Muslims, the environment, the climate, and the foreign victims of Trump's bombs, we can …

Not My Dirty Money Coalition (2020-11-25). Sunday 12/6: Not My Dirty Money: Youth Power in Divestment to Fight the Climate Emergency. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

commondreams (2020-11-24). American Sustainable Business Council and Social Venture Circle Look Forward to Working with John Kerry, Climate Envoy to the Biden Administration. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Bill Kitchen (2020-11-24). Will a Tar Sands Pipeline Become a Covid Super Spreader? commondreams.org From a climate perspective, a clean water perspective and a Covid perspective, Line 3 is nuts. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/stoptheline.jpg

Center For Biological Diversity (2020-11-24). Trump Administration Recycles Slashing of Sage-grouse Protections, Opening Habitat to Drilling, Fracking Across Seven Western States. globalresearch.ca The Trump administration unveiled its final analysis today to justify its 2019 land-management plans that slashed protections for the imperiled greater sage grouse across 51 million acres of the western United States. | Today's final "supplemental environmental impact statements" covering Bureau …

commondreams (2020-11-24). People's Action Statement on John Kerry Appointment as Climate Czar. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Zack Graham (2020-11-24). Diane Cook's Morality Tales for Our Climate Future. thenation.com Diane Cook's Morality Tales for Our Climate Future…

Andrea Germanos, staff writer (2020-11-23). From 'Alarming Red Flag' to 'Something We Can Work With,' Campaigners Respond to Kerry as Biden Climate Envoy. commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/biden-kerry-climate-envoy.jpg

teleSUR (2020-11-23). Climate Change: Industrial Slowdown Has Not Curbed CO2 Rise. telesurenglish.net The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Monday that greenhouse gas emissions spiked in 2019 and continue to rise in 2020. | RELATED: | The WMO latest report explains that contrary to expectations, "the industrial slowdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic has not curbed record levels of greenhouse gases which are trapping heat in the atmosphere, increasing temperatures and driving more extreme weather, ice melt,…

Kenny Stancil, staff writer (2020-11-23). 'No Time to Lose for Climate Action': Atmospheric CO2 Continued to Rise in 2020 Despite Covid-19 Lockdowns. commondreams.org The World Meteorological Organization called for "more sustained and ambitious climate action to reduce emissions to net zero through a compete transformation of our industrial, energy, and transport systems." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/coal_7.jpg

commondreams (2020-11-23). U.S. Set To Retake Global Leadership on Climate With Choice of John Kerry as Biden's "Climate Czar". commondreams.org ______________________________…

commondreams (2020-11-23). Biden's Appointment of John Kerry as Climate Czar Is Alarming Red Flag. commondreams.org ______________________________…

commondreams (2020-11-23). Greenpeace Response To John Kerry's Appointment as Special Presidential Envoy on Climate. commondreams.org ______________________________…

commondreams (2020-11-23). 350.Org on Biden Appointing John Kerry as International Climate Envoy. commondreams.org ______________________________…

news.un (2020-11-23). No time to waste, as Yemen inches towards famine: UN Children's Fund. news.un.org Raising alarm over "an imminent catastrophe" in war-ravaged Yemen, the head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has reiterated the urgent need for combatants to stop the fighting.

Julia Conley, staff writer (2020-11-22). Climate Action Nonprofit Launches 'Clean Creatives' Campaign Aimed at Pressuring PR and Ad Firms to Cut Ties With Fossil Fuel Clients. commondreams.org A new campaign unveiled this weekend by the nonprofit organization Fossil Free Media aims to expand on the goals of the fossil fuel divestment movement, cutting into oil and gas companies' profit margins through their public relations and ad campaigns. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1228992115.jpg

Peoples Dispatch (2020-11-22). Climate change: How fast are sea levels actually rising? peoplesdispatch.org According to earlier research, the rate at which sea levels were rising globally was 3.2 millimeters per year. Recent studies point to an accelerating rise in sea levels…

Staff (2020-11-22). Tyson Exploits Consumers Just Like Its Animals and the Workers Who Raise Them. truthout.org The actions of the U.S. meat industry throughout the pandemic have brought to light the true corruption and waste that are inherent within our food system. Despite a new wave of rising COVID-19 cases, the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently submitted a proposal to further

_____ (2020-11-21). Destabilized By US Imperialism, Central America Faces Climate Catastrophes. popularresistance.org At the moment, Central America is suffering from the acceleration of climate change fueled natural disasters. On the heels of the recent Hurricane Eta and a raging pandemic, Hurricane Iota has hit the region, predominantly impacting Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and black communities. The situation has been made worse by violent and corrupt governments supported by the United States. | Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Central America have long warned against climate change and environmental destruction caused by foreign-owned and operated extractivist projects.