https://grist.org/article/courage-and-bolt-cutters-meet-the-next-generation-of-climate-activists/ Eric Holthaus on Aug 22, 2018, at Grist.com My generation, the millennials, will never know a time when climate change wasn’t a grave threat. Back in 1988, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere crossed the 350 parts per million level when I was still watching Sesame Street and digging up worms in the backyard. Scientists consider that mark the maximum threshold …
‘Incredible’: New Poll That Shows 70% of Americans Support Medicare for All Includes 84% of Democrats and 52% of Republicans
By Julia Conley, Thursday, August 23, 2018 by Common Dreams Protesters at a Medicare for All rally in Los Angeles in 2017. (Photo: Molly Adams/Flickr/cc) As its progressive wing and a groundswell of new and energetic candidates continues to move the Democratic Party to the left, a new Reuters poll out Thursday shows that support for a key plank of this insurgency—Medicare for All—has hit an all-time …
Most Republicans now support a policy of Medicare for All too
‘Medicare for All’ vs. the European way By SUSAN CORNWELL in Washington, MICHAEL NIENABER in Berlin, COSTAS PITAS in London and RICHARD LOUGH in Paris A movement among left-wing Democrats in the United States has pushed the party toward wider support of a universal government healthcare program, similar to systems in several European countries. What left-wing Democrats want: “Medicare for …
Ron Dellums: “if democracy means anything, it should mean a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people.”
Our politics are based on four things: a value base, a perceptual frame of reference, a set of goals and objectives and a strategy by which to seek these. First, we operate from the humanistic value that life is the most precious thing on earth. Not bullets and bombs, or property and money, or prestige status. But life. If you accept …
Socialism on the Rise as Americans Seek Out Bold, Humane Alternatives to the Brutality of Trump and Capitalism
Published on Tuesday, July 31, 2018 by Common Dreams by Jake Johnson, staff writer Bernie Sanders supporters prepare for a march at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last year. Socialist groups are experiencing a surge in popularity, underscoring divisions within the Democratic Party. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) The thousands of democratic socialists in the United States who have been organizing and fighting for justice in …