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WEBSep 13, 2024 · Majority of US voters back legal action against plastics industry over recycling deception. The survey, conducted by the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) and Data for Progress, shows that 70 percent of likely U.S. voters would support legal action to hold the plastics and fossil fuel industries accountable for alleged deception.
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WEBOct 30, 2016 · LeeAnn Hall. LeeAnn Hall is co-executive director of People's Action and People's Action Institute. A leader in social and racial justice organizing for more than 30 years, Hall has influenced and effected national reforms in health care, immigration policy, and fair pay. She has guided and inspired hundreds of young organizers into careers in ...
Climate deniers are using these four major scare tactics to stop ...
WEBNov 17, 2021 · This means that these tactics overlap within the tweets themselves — one tweet may contain elements from more than one scare tactic. Climate change, socialism, Covid-19, a new world order, and meat bans are all different sides of the same denial coin. And the message is a simple one: climate change is a dangerous plot to limit individual ...
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WEBSep 13, 2024 · 60 years after Lyndon Johnson’s ‘daisy ad,’ the silence on nuclear war is dangerous. Politics Norman Solomon - September 10, 2024. Today, a campaign ad akin to the daisy spot is hard to imagine from the Democratic or Republican nominee to be commander in chief, who seem content to bypass the subject of nuclear-war dangers.
20 ways you can help immigrants now - NationofChange
WEBJun 27, 2019 · Community bail funds can reuse the money paid if the person shows up for their court appearance. 4. Help pay for immigration counsel. Find organizations by Googling “indigent immigration defense” along with your state’s name. 5. Host an asylum-seeker or refugee in your home, with a group like Room for Refugees. 6.
Oil pipeline on Native lands ramps up as Canada honors its …
WEBSep 30, 2021 · The new “substantially complete” pipeline runs 1,765 kilometers (1,097 miles) and continues to face protests and criticism on both sides of the border, as appeals and lawsuits from Indigenous, environmental and climate action groups were heard and declined over the years. “Line 3 is a crime against the environment and Indigenous rights ...
The scary rise of private intelligence companies
WEBNov 19, 2021 · While private military security companies (PMSCs) have been subject to some press scrutiny, most infamously after contractors for the company then called Blackwater massacred 17 people and wounded dozens of others in Iraq’s Nissour Square in 2007, rather than making governments wary about privatizing war, the industry has only grown in the years since.
Former Mississippi cop pleads guilty after tasing handcuffed man …
WEBJul 29, 2021 · Caught on police dash cam video assaulting a handcuffed man before firing his Taser at him without legal justification, a former Mississippi police officer recently pleaded guilty to use of excessive force in federal court. On July 14, 2018, Meridian Police Officer Daniel Starks reportedly chased a shoplifting suspect out of a Walmart on foot ...
Political storytelling: How it impacts our brains - NationofChange
WEBMar 15, 2021 · Political storytelling is an established tactic to influencer voters that prominent politicians have been using for decades. Stories have a powerful effect on many people, and scholars have proven their effectiveness to influence our minds. It’s perfectly reasonable to suggest that stories will continue to be a tool for effective campaigning ...
What America can learn from China—Lessons from the pandemic
WEBMay 11, 2021 · While the China model cannot be transplanted to the West, there’s a lot that America can learn from China, which I detail in my new book. Unfortunately, some vociferous Cold War zealots and proponents of American exceptionalism have damaged U.S.-China relations in the last few years. However, analyzing China objectively is …