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A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) to view this message in a browser window. [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) [] [] News & Views | 12/3/18 [] Feature... [] [WATCH TONIGHT: As Corporate Media Ignores Climate Crisis, Sanders Town Hall to Deliver Discussion of Bold Green Solutions Straight to the People](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) 1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS by Jake Johnson, staff writer As momentum for a Green New Deal continues to grow at the grassroots and in Congress amid dire scientific warnings that immediate and ambitious action is necessary to avert climate catastrophe, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are hosting a town hall... [] [] News... [] [US Labor Leader Says Case for Bernie Sanders 2020 Is Simple: His 'Life and Heart and Soul'](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) 1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS by Jon Queally, staff writer "We need a leader that is going to unify the world. We need someone who gives their life and heart and soul to making us secure on our planet, in our workplace, in our homes, in our lives, after we retire, when our children are born — and that's Bernie Sanders. And there is no one who comes near him on the political scene." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Emergency Protests Planned to Stop Scott Walker and Wisconsin GOP's "Shocking and Naked Power Grab"](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) 1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS by Jake Johnson, staff writer As Wisconsin's GOP-controlled legislature and outgoing Republican Gov. Scott Walker seek to thwart the will of voters by ramming through a sweeping slate of legislation that would drastically curtail Democratic governor-elect Tony Evers' authority and ability to implement his agenda, progressive advocacy groups announced emergency rallies on Monday to fight back against the GOP's latest "shocking and naked power grab." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Act Urgently Now, David Attenborough Declares, Because 'Collapse of Our Civilizations and Extinction of Much of the Natural World on the Horizon'](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) 1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS by Jon Queally, staff writer The message from 'The People's Seat' at the United Nation's COP24 climate summit in Katowice, Poland on Monday—presented by the octogenarian British naturalist Sir David Attenborough—was as succinct and simple as it was profound and terrifying: "If we don't take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon." --------------------------------------------------------------- [To Protect Asylum-Seeking Family From Deportation, Dutch Church Holds Round-the-Clock Services for 900 Hours and Counting](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) 1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS by Julia Conley, staff writer A church in The Hague hopes to force global governments to give greater consideration to the rights of children, as it enters its 38th day holding continuous services in order to protect an asylum-seeking Armenian family from deportation. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Making It Look Easy, Ocasio-Cortez Shuts Down Huckabee Family of Liars and Promotes Green New Deal in 54-Word Tweet](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) 1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS by Jake Johnson, staff writer Once again demonstrating her ability to use social media to simultaneously expose the lies of right-wing critics and clearly articulate a bold progressive agenda, Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) quickly disposed of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's false claim that she compared her election victory to the moon landing, noting that she was actually referring to the "level of ambition" and "innovation" that will be necessary to implement a Green New Deal and confront the global climate crisis. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Challenge to Trump's Environmentally Disastrous Plan to 'Wreak Havoc Along the Border' Blocked by Supreme Court](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) [An ocelot](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer 'A human-made barrier on the scale of the proposed border wall would have a serious impact on animals,' conservation group had argued --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [] [More News](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) [] [] Views... [] [The Opposite of Evil Is No Longer Goodness](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) 1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS by Frances Moore Lappé My point is simple. It's now time to focus on courage. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump's Enablers—An Appalling Parallel](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) 1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS by Barry Lando At a commemoration in London this week marking the 80th anniversary of Krystallnacht, what I found most appalling–because of its relevance to today’s headlines --was not the description of those horrific events, but the motivation of a top Nazi official responsible for carrying out Hitler’s genocidal commands. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why We Need to Go Back to Fascism 101](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) 1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS by Kirk Freudenburg Donald Trump is getting things done with these lies that no amount of 'exposure' can frustrate. He pays no price for having them exposed, and he rather seems to enjoy watching responsible journalists scramble to expose them. --------------------------------------------------------------- [5 Reasons Trump Won’t Fire Mueller](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) 1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS by Bill Blum For those who fear that Donald Trump is about to lower the boom on special counsel Robert Mueller, take a deep breath and slowly exhale. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Who Are the Extremists? Who Are the Rational Ones?](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) 1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS by Jack Esler What do you do when the political/economic consensus in no way reflects the scientific consensus and all its policy implications? Well, people have a choice: to resist the political consensus and try to create a new one, or to ignore the policy implications of the IPCC reports findings and to distract themselves with other things. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Emptying the Cages](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) [chickens at a factory farm](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) by Jacy Reese A new book envisions the end of animal factory farming and all the suffering it causes. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3APo8Wgk3kS) [] [] Newswire... 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