'We Can Change It All If We Want It All, and We Do.' | Your Week in Review

A weekly roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Browser View](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) | 4/13/19 [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) [] [] Your Week in Review [] [With Youth Climate Actions Backed by Leading Experts, Latest Round of Protests Highlights Call for Bold and Urgent Action](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) [Protesters hold signs at the YouthStrike4Climate student march on April 12, 2019 in London.](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer "We can change it all if we want it all, and we do." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Rest](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) 1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb by Robert Reich While the weathly and powerful are coddled with public largesse, the rest of us are thrown into the jaws of an unforgiving economic system --------------------------------------------------------------- [Glaciers and Arctic Ice Are Vanishing. Time to Get Radical Before It's Too Late](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) [ From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Greta Thunberg, they are what’s left of our fighting chance.(Photograph: UPI/Barcroft Images) ](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) by Bill McKibben No one should be annoyed when schoolkids start leaving class en masse or surprised that Green New Deal advocates call for dramatic overhaul of American society. We should be grateful. --------------------------------------------------------------- [While Much of US Media Plays Along, Critics Warn Assange Indictment an 'Obvious' Ploy With Deeper Dangers](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) 1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb by Jake Johnson, staff writer "This precedent means that any journalist can be extradited for prosecution in the United States for having published truthful information about the U.S." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['How Will You Pay for It?' Bernie Sanders Tackles Key Question on Medicare for All](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) 1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb by Jake Johnson, staff writer "Under every single one of these options the average American family will save thousands of dollars a year because it will no longer be writing large checks to private health insurance companies." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Watch: Ocasio-Cortez Calls Out GOP for Attacking Green New Deal as 'Socialism' While Supporting Billions in Big Oil Subsidies](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) 1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb by Jake Johnson, staff writer "The fact that subsidies for fossil fuel corporations are somehow smart but subsidies for solar panels is 'socialist' is just bad faith," said the New York congresswoman --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Victory!' Digital Rights Groups Celebrate As House Approves Save the Internet Act to Restore Net Neutrality](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) 1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb by Julia Conley, staff writer Digital rights activists were undeterred Wednesday by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's dismissal of the widespread support of the Save the Internet Act, as millions tuned in to watch the U.S. House vote over the bill. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Radical Agents of Physical and Social Chaos': Campaigners Target Big Banks Over Destructive Fossil Fuel Projects](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) [shutdown chase](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Environmental campaigners this week are pressuring a pair of big banks to stop pouring billions of dollars per year into destructive fossil fuel projects that drive the global climate crisis. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Researchers Warn Arctic Has Entered 'Unprecedented State' That Threatens Global Climate Stability](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) [The Yukon River winds through western interior Alaska in early April. (Photo: UAF/Todd Paris)](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) by Jon Queally, staff writer A new research paper by American and European climate scientists focused on Arctic warming published Monday reveals that the "smoking gun" when it comes to changes in the world's northern polar region is rapidly warming air temperatures that are having—and will continue to have—massive and negative impacts across the globe. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [Share this newsletter with a friend](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) [] [Donate](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rate us on Google](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) | [Follow us on Facebook](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) | [Follow us on Twitter](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3A7QAnto5Hb) Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community. An independent, non-profit newscenter since 1997. Our Mission: To inform. To inspire. 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