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UK High Court: Ban On Extinction Rebellion Protests Illegal

November 7, 2019 Zoe Blackler, Rebellion.earth Resist! Courts, Extinction Rebellion, Protests, Reform, Repression, United Kingdom (UK)

The High Court today ruled that the Metropolitan Police’s blanket ban on Extinction Rebellion protest during the October Rebellion was unlawful, in a landmark judgment that reasserts the fundamental right to peaceful protest. The ruling follows a judicial review – brought on behalf of Extinction Rebellion by Baroness Jenny Jones, Caroline Lucas, Clive Lewis, David Drew, Ellie Chowns MEP, Adam Allnut and George Monbiot – into the legality of the Met’s attempt to shut down all Extinction Rebellion protests during most of the second week of the Autumn Rebellion.

Trump’s Paris Climate Accord Divorce: Why It Hasn’t Happened Yet And What To Expect

November 6, 2019 Marianne Lavelle, Insideclimatenews.org Educate! Climate Change, Environment, Reform, Trump Administration

When nations signed on to the Paris Agreement in 2015, agreeing to cut their greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep rising global temperatures in check, one of the provisions was that no nation would be permitted to exit the deal for three years. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo's announcement Monday of the formal U.S. retreat came on the first day that it was possible for the U.S. to make the move. The rules of the treaty also require an additional one-year waiting period for the withdrawal to be finalized—meaning it won't be official until Nov. 4, 2020, one day after the presidential election.

The Flawed Social Science Behind Extinction Rebellion’s Change Strategy

November 6, 2019 By Nafeez Ahmed, Medium.com Strategize! Climate Change, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, Reform

We face a planetary emergency. It is, simultaneously, a national emergency — not just for the UK, where I write this from, but for every country in the world. This emergency has been a core preoccupation of my work, increasingly so over the last decade — to the point that all my work now seeks to enhance our understanding of how the multiple crises we are experiencing intersect with one another as symptoms of a deeper, global civilisational crisis. From this vantage, I am a supporter of Extinction Rebellion, the School Strikes for Climate, the Sunrise Movement...

Largest Sentence Commutation In US History: Nearly 500 Inmates Walk Free After Oklahoma Voters Demand Reform

November 5, 2019 By Julia Conley, Commondreams.org Create! Electoral Politics, Mass Incarceration, Oklahoma, Reform

Oklahoma voters' approval of a referendum in 2016 allowed for nearly 500 inmates to walk free on Monday from the state's massive prison system—the largest single-day commutation in U.S. history. Four hundred and sixty-two people had their sentences commuted as a result of Question 780, which asked voters if they approved of recategorizing many felonies, including drug possession and minor property crimes, as misdemeanors. The referendum passed by a 16 percent margin.

UN Calls For Decriminalization Of All Drugs As Part Of Ending Healthcare Discrimination

November 1, 2019 Staff, Who.int Create! Decriminalization, Health Care, Reform, United Nations

Discrimination in health care settings is widespread across the world and takes many forms. It violates the most fundamental human rights protected in international treaties and in national laws and constitutions. Discrimination in health care settings is directed towards some of the most marginalized and stigmatized populations – the very populations that States promised to prioritize through the 2030 Agenda, and who are all too often excluded or left behind. Many individuals and groups face discrimination on the basis of their age, sex, race or ethnicity, health status, disability or vulnerability to ill health...

How To Approach Medicare For All Financing

October 31, 2019 Matt Bruenig, Peoplespolicyproject.org Educate! Health Care, Medicare, Reform

One of the big impediments to putting out a plan for financing Medicare for All is not so much that it is very difficult to come up with one, but rather that there are so many ways to do it that it is hard for any one particular idea to get consensus and therefore traction. I don’t have a solution to that problem unfortunately and, paradoxically, efforts to solve it by putting out my own ideas actually make the problem worse. But, nonetheless, I am going to lay out in this piece the way I would approach the M4A financing question.

Excluding Civic Community Warps Discussion Of Improved Medicare For All

October 29, 2019 Ralph Nader, Nader.org Educate! Health Care, Medicare, Reform

The lawmakers are doing it. The candidates are doing it. The mass media are doing it. All are excluding from their arenas the leading citizen groups as never before, since the early nineteen sixties. The nonprofit national advocacy/research organizations that led the way for social reforms are being shut out of the political process. These groups were pioneers in consumer rights, environmental protections, labor rights, and whistle-blower protections. These groups fought for freedom of information laws and practices and access to justice in ways that have made our country better in so many ways.

Two Leading Economists Say Medicare For All Would Give Workers ‘Biggest Take-Home Pay Raise In A Generation’

October 28, 2019 By Jake Johnson, Commondreams.org Create! Health Care, Medicare, Reform, Workers

Medicare for All would give most U.S. workers "the biggest take-home pay raise in a generation," two economists from the University of California, Berkeley said Friday, countering one of the main insurance industry talking points against single-payer. In an op-ed for The Guardian, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman directly challenged the claim that Medicare for All would "involve massive tax increases for the middle class," an attack line centrist Democratic presidential candidates like former Vice President Joe Biden and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg have recently deployed against the popular proposal.

We Deserve A Better Medicare-For-All Debate

October 26, 2019 By Dylan Scott, Vox.com Strategize! Health Care, Medicare, Reform

The narrow debate over Medicare-for-all’s financing has become totally disconnected from the status quo aspiring reformers want to fix (the high costs of health care in America), and it totally ignores the toll of the Trump administration’s reckless agenda to pare back health coverage in this country. But the debate rolls on. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Sunday she would put out a plan to finance single-payer Medicare-for-all in the next few weeks. She had little choice. At last week’s debate, debate moderators and centrist candidates used the issue as a cudgel against the senator, who has risen to the top of the 2020 field.

The Democrats’ Medicare Debate Overlooks The Elder Care Crisis

October 23, 2019 By Steve Quick, Inequality.org Create! 2020 Elections, Electoral Politics, Health Care, Reform

Once again, the Democratic primary debate on October 15 devoted considerable time to candidates’ competing proposals for expanding access to Medicare. But once again, the debate failed to address one of Medicare’s biggest flaws — the lack of long-term care coverage for our country’s rapidly growing elderly population. Some of the candidates’ Medicare proposals would go a long way towards fixing this problem, while others would not. But since this critical issue didn’t come up, the debate did nothing to dispel widespread public misconceptions about Medicare and long-term care.

U.N. Day: Strengthening And Reforming

October 23, 2019 René Wadlow, Transcend.org Create! Reform, United Nations

24 October is U.N. Day, marking the day when there were enough ratifications including those of the five permanent members of the proposed Security Council for the U.N. Charter to come into force. It is a day not only of celebration, but also a day for looking at how the U.N. system can be strengthened, and when necessary, reformed. There have been a number of periods when proposals for new or different United Nations structures were proposed and discussed. The first was in the 1944-1945 period when the Charter was being drafted.

Jane Fonda, Sam Waterston Arrested On Capitol Hill Protesting For Green New Deal

October 22, 2019 By Olivia Rosane, Ecowatch.com Resist! Green New Deal, Protests, Reform, Washington DC

It appears Jane Fonda is good for her word. The actress and political activist said she would hold demonstrations on Capitol Hill every Friday through January to demand action on the climate crisis. Sure enough, Fonda was arrested for demonstrating a second Friday in a row Oct. 18, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Only this time, her Grace and Frankie co-star Sam Waterston joined her. The two actors were arrested with 15 other people demanding a Green New Deal, a plan to transition the U.S. to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030 while promoting green jobs and greater equality.

A UN Treaty Guarantees Youth Rights Everywhere On Earth – Except The United States

October 21, 2019 By Jessica Taft, Theconversation.com Create! Reform, Treaty, United Nations, Youth

Fifteen kids from a dozen countries, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, recently brought a formal complaint to the United Nations. They’re arguing that climate change violates children’s rights as guaranteed by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a global agreement. By petitioning the U.N. on behalf of the world’s children, their action made history. But it’s not the first time that kids have turned to this international accord in pursuit of social change. As I explain in my book, “The Kids Are in Charge,” the Convention on the Rights of the Child isn’t just a legal document.

Extinction Rebellion Targets Arms Industry: Disarm To Decarbonise

October 21, 2019 Julia, Rebellion.earth Resist! Environment, Extinction Rebellion, Reform

Militaries around the world are major polluters and are often exempt from international climate agreements on reducing carbon emissions. The US military by many measurements is the world’s biggest institutional consumer of petroleum and emitter of greenhouse gas and other pollutants. A spokesperson for XR Peace said: “The existing geopolitical tensions – that climate breakdown will only increase – are lucrative opportunities for the arms trade, and ones it seeks to capitalise on.

‘We Must Grow This Movement’: Youth Climate Activists Ramp Up the Pressure

October 19, 2019 Kristoffer Tigue, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Reform

A new wave of climate protests hit cities around the world this week—this time aimed at shocking people with civil disobedience, fake blood on the pavement and bodies lying in the streets under signs that read: "Stop funding climate death." The Extinction Rebellion demonstrations have a harder edge than the student-led climate strikes that have brought millions to their feet around the world demanding leaders do more to slow climate change. While the school climate strikes end with students returning to class, these protests have often led to arrests.

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