The Branch We All Live On | Your Week In Review

A weekly roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Browser View](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) | 6/8/19 [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) [] [] Your Week in Review [] ['Class of 0000' Campaign Denounces 'Cowardly' Censorship of Student Call for Climate Action](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) 1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW by Julia Conley, staff writer More than 350 students across the U.S. have signed up to use their graduation speeches as a call to action directed at lawmakers and older generations, demanding they do everything in their power to solve the climate crisis and protect the planet—but many students are facing censorship as they try to get their message out. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Does Biden Have Wrong Position on Anti-Choice Hyde Amendment? Warren: 'Yes... It's Been Wrong for a Long Time'](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) 1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW by Jake Johnson, staff writer "Under the Hyde Amendment and every one of these efforts to try to chip away or to get rid of Roe v. Wade , understand this: Women of means will still have access to abortions. Who won't will be poor women." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['This Is an Emergency. We Need the Democrats to Act Like It': Outrage as DNC Announces It Will Not Host 2020 Debate on Climate Crisis](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) 1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW by Jake Johnson, staff writer "The DNC is silencing the voices of Democratic activists, many of our progressive partner organizations, and nearly half of the Democratic presidential field, who want to debate the existential crisis of our time." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Not 'Freedom Gas' But 'Failure Gas': First-of-Its-Kind Report Details Planetary Perils of US Fracking Infrastructure Boom](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) [endgame report](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer A first-of-its-kind report released Wednesday by Food & Water Watch details the more than 700 new U.S. facilities that have been recently built or proposed for development "to capitalize off of a glut of cheap fracked gas," and the consequences for the planet and its inhabitants if these projects are allowed to continue. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Single Most Important Stat on the Planet': Alarm as Atmospheric CO2 Soars to 'Legit Scary' Record High](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) 1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW by Jake Johnson, staff writer "We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['We Are Literally Sawing Off the Branch We All Live On': Amazon Deforestation Increasing Under Bolsonaro](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) [Forest and topsoil must first be removed before ore can be accessed at Brazil’s Norsk Hydro ASA Paragominas open pit mine. ](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) by Eoin Higgins, staff writer "People who destroy forests feel safe and those who protect forests feel threatened." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Accused of Plagiarism, Biden Campaign Admits Lifting 'Carbon Capture' Section of Climate Plan From Fossil Fuel-Backed Group](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) 1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW by Jake Johnson, staff writer Sections of the former vice president's plan, noted an observant climate campaigner, "looked like the type of thing the coal industry, trade groups, and coal companies themselves say." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Warren's New $2 Trillion Green Manufacturing Plan Welcomed as 'Win-Win' for Climate and Workers](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) [Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer As new polling showed Tuesday that public support for Sen. Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign has continued to rise as she's introduced a series of ambitious policy proposals, the Democratic candidate unveiled a $2 trillion renewable energy and green manufacturing plan welcomed by climate campaigners as a boon for both the planet and U.S. workers. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['This Stuff Freaks Me Out': Rep. Rashida Tlaib Raises Alarm Over Use of Facial Recognition as Groups Demand Federal Moratorium](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) 1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW by Jake Johnson, staff writer "You should be freaked out too. The inaccuracy and threat to our privacy is real." --------------------------------------------------------------- [#NoMiddleGround Goes Viral as Sanders Backers Say Democrats Can't Afford to Compromise on Medicare for All, Reproductive Rights, and Bold Climate Agenda](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) 1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW by Jake Johnson, staff writer "We cannot go back to the old ways, we have got to go forward with a new and progressive agenda," Sen. Bernie Sanders said at the California Democratic Party convention --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [Share this newsletter with a friend](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) [] [Donate](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rate us on Google](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) | [Follow us on Facebook](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) | [Follow us on Twitter](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW) Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community. An independent, non-profit newscenter since 1997. Our Mission: To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good. [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_1/1?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW), PO Box 443, Portland, ME 04112, USA | 207.775.0488 Common Dreams is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your contribution is tax deductible. EIN: 20-3368194 | [Unsubscribe](1f9d0/q-003c/zout?sid=TV2%3A2ip9dxejW)