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The Push To Overturn Felony Disenfranchisement In Southern States

December 17, 2019 By Benjamin Barber, Facingsouth.org Strategize! Electoral Politics, Reform, Voting

In the last U.S. presidential election in 2016, 6.1 million Americans could not vote because of laws that disenfranchise people with past felony convictions. In all, 32 states permanently disfranchise at least some people with felony convictions, while Kentucky and Iowa permanently disenfranchise everyone who's committed a felony. In six Southern states — Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia — more than 7 percent of the adult population is disenfranchised because of such laws, which have disproportionate impacts on minorities and the poor.

COP25 Climate Summit Ends In ‘Staggering Failure Of Leadership’

December 16, 2019 By Adam Vaughan, Newscientist.com Educate! Climate Change, COP25, Reform

The UK faces the task of breaking the deadlock on international climate negotiations next year, after the COP25 talks ended in Madrid yesterday with no new ambition and little progress. The meeting overran to become the longest climate summit yet as delegates from nearly 200 countries struggled to reach agreement on key issues on the framework underpinning the Paris climate deal. Drawing up rules on a carbon market between countries has been deferred until next year, when the UK hosts a landmark climate summit in Glasgow.

The U.S. And Other Rich Countries Stonewalled $300 Billion Climate Relief Fund

December 14, 2019 By Christine MacDonald, Inthesetimes.com Resist! Climate Change, Reform

MADRID—With climate-related disasters happening “at the rate of one a week,” according to the United Nations, more than 150 civil society organizations around the world are using the UN climate negotiations this week to stand with the Global South. They are pushing for demands set out in an open letter to negotiators in November, including a new global climate fund to aid poor countries in the midst of climate catastrophes. The organizations say it’s about time for a rethink of climate financing as climate-related disasters like extreme storms...

‘Atrocious’: 188 Democrats Join GOP To Hand Trump $738 Billion Military Budget That Includes ‘Space Force’

December 14, 2019 By Jake Johnson, Commondreams.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Military Budget, Reform

"It is Orwellian for Congress to hand over billions of dollars worth of weapons and bombs to a president waging a horrific, unconstitutional war in Yemen—and call that progressive." More than 180 House Democrats joined a nearly united Republican caucus Wednesday night to pass a sweeping $738 billion military spending bill that gives President Donald Trump his long-sought "Space Force," free rein to wage endless wars, and a green light to continue fueling the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen.

French Strike Wave Keeps Going, Government Is Wavering

December 13, 2019 Staff, Socialistorganizer.org Resist! Class Struggle, France, Reform, Strikes

In the hours following the Prime Minister’s presentation of the “final version” of his counter-reform, the workers’ reaction has been unanimous: complete rejection! Nobody is being fooled by the attempts to create division between the generations, between public sector and private sector, between the “general scheme” and “special schemes”. Nobody is being fooled by the so-called concessions either. “Points-based pensions, we don’t want them! Public sector, private sector, on strike, united for withdrawal” – this was shouted by thousands of protestors demonstrating in Lyon this morning, 12 December.

“Our Biggest Enemy Is PG&E”: Inside The Fight To Put Utilities Under Public Control

December 12, 2019 By Nuala Bishari, Inthesetimes.com Create! Public Services, Reform, Utilities

SANTA ROSA, Calif.—“We’ve been evacuated twice in the past five years,” J.D. Opperman tells a small crowd of around 30 who had gathered to protest Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) in downtown Santa Rosa on Nov. 16, 2019. Among the protesters were members of the Marin, North Bay and East Bay chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). They held handmade signs reading “PG&E: The ultimate homewrecker” and “PG&E: Poster child for the corporate death penalty.”

The #ClimatePresident Action Plan: 10 Steps For The Next Administration’s First 10 Days

December 10, 2019 Staff, Climatepresident.org Create! Climate Change, Electoral Politics, Reform

This step will communicate the urgency of the climate crisis and unlock specific statutory powers to help accomplish the necessary response. Reinstate the crude oil export ban and promote rapid clean energy development per emergency powers; all other actions in this plan can be accomplished under the President's regular executive powers. Direct relevant federal agencies to reverse all Trump administration executive climate rollbacks and replace with sufficiently strong action as described below.

France: Strikes Urging The Withdrawal Of The Pension ‘Reform’ Draft Law Continue

December 10, 2019 Staff, Socialistorganizer.org Resist! Class Struggle, France, Pensions, Reform, Strikes

This morning, 9 December, the record for traffic jams on the Île-de-France [1] road network was broken. The images of those 600-plus kilometres of roads blocked with traffic, and of travellers crammed together on train platforms or not even able to push their way into Metro stations demonstrate the depth of the rejection, the depth of the strike action that began on 5 December. The governing power is destabilised. [Prime Minister] Edouard Philippe’s speech last Friday evening can be summarised as follows: reconsidering a points-based pension system is out of the question...

Insurance Companies Are Spending Millions On Attack Ads Against Medicare For All

December 7, 2019 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Health Care, Insurance, Medicare for all, Reform

The privatized, for-profit healthcare industry is close to panicking over the prospect of a nationalized system along the lines of other advanced countries. Healthcare corporations are spending millions of dollars on astroturfed attack ads against Medicare for All. The Partnership for America’s Healthcare Future, for example, a coalition of hospitals and insurance companies, has spent $1 million on a television campaign against changes to the current healthcare system they profit from.

Wealthy Countries’ Approach To Climate Change Condemns Hundreds Of Millions Of People To Suffer

December 6, 2019 Vijay Prashad, Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Educate! Climate Change, Environment, Reform

In Madrid, Spain, the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference—known as COP25—began on December 2. Representatives of the world’s countries gathered to discuss what is decidedly a serious problem for the planet; no one, except dangerous political forces in the neofascist right, denies the reality of climate change. What prevents a transfer from carbon-based fuel to other fuels is not the stubbornness of this or that country. The main problems are three...

Dying Too Young

December 5, 2019 David F. Ruccio, Anticap.wordpress.com Educate! Health Care, Medicare for all, Reform

If there ever was an argument in support of Medicare for All it’s this: despite spending more on health care than any other country, the United States has seen increasing mortality and falling life expectancy for people ages 25 to 64, who should be in the prime of their lives. A new report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association paints a bleak picture: overall life expectancy in the United States, which had increased for most of the past 60 years, has actually fallen for three consecutive years. But this is not just a recent trend. U.S. life expectancy began to lose pace with other countries in the 1980s, and...

Why Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Have Become So Open About Attacking ‘Roe’

November 30, 2019 Casey Quinlan, Rewire.news Educate! Abortion, Reform

Since Trump entered the presidential race in 2015, anti-abortion advocates and lawmakers "have been emboldened with horrific rhetoric that supports a climate of violence against abortion providers," said Erin Matson, co-founder and co-director of Reproaction. "They’re just going for the jugular." In late October, Pennsylvania state Rep. Stephanie Borowicz (R-Clinton County) and state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R-Franklin County) introduced a bill banning abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. During the press conference, Borowicz said the bill could be the “dagger in Roe v. Wade.”

New Laws Require All New Roofs To Contain Solar Panels Or Green Space

November 29, 2019 By Rose Adams, Brooklynpaper.com Create! Brooklyn, Infrastructure, New York (NY), Reform, Solar Energy

Two laws requiring new property owners to build solar panels or green spaces on their roofs went into effect on Nov. 15 — marking a major step towards Brooklyn’s environmental sustainability, according to local green thumbs. “It’s important and very valuable,” said environmental activist Pete Sikora from the New York Community for Change, a local nonprofit. “It’s a critical step for New York City to meet the Green New Deal goals.” The legislation — which Councilman Rafael Espinal (D-Bedford Stuyvesant) first introduced to the City Council in July of 2018...

Wisconsin Governor Signs Bill Punishing Pipeline And Other Fossil Fuel Protests

November 29, 2019 Jacob Crosse, Wsws.org Resist! Fossil Fuels, Pipelines, Protests, Reform, Wisconsin

Wisconsin’s Democratic governor Tony Evers, ignoring opposition from environmental groups, the American Civil Liberties Union and multiple Tribal Nations, last week signed into law Assembly Bill 426. The legislation makes it a felony, punishable with a $10,000 fine and up to six years in prison, to protest, trespass or cause damage to “critical infrastructure,” including transmission lines, fencing, posts and oil pipelines.

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