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Rest in peace, Dolores Huerta. 🕊
We will continue to be guided by her decades of pathbreaking labor organizing.
Scientific consensus states that we must stop building all fossil fuel infrastructure.
A group of senators — both Democrat and Republican — is pushing a bill to fast-track it.
No new fossil fuels. NO to "permitting reform."
U.S. Senators Capito (R-WV), Lee (R-UT), Whitehouse (D-RI), and Heinrich (D-NM) introduced this bill last month. It's nothing more than a giveaway to fossil fuels and data center developers. commondreams.org/opinion/per…
Whether it’s dismantling the International Criminal Court or any of the other global institutions the Trump administration has threatened, the goal is the same—shielding the U.S. from accountability by destroying international law.
Jordan Liz on @FPIF fpif.org/helping-the-powerfu…
In our integrated world, domestic workers provide the foundation that enables our economy to function. Despite this, these workers’ labor remains undervalued.
It’s time for international forums—like the upcoming G20 summit—to stand up for domestic workers.otherwords.org/domestic-work…
In a thinly-veiled act of profiteering, President Trump’s Transportation Secretary (and former corporate airline lobbyist) Sean Duffy is pushing to repeal the regulations meant to protect consumers from airlines’ junk fees, writes @JimHightower. otherwords.org/trumps-transp…
NEW: Making it easier to build data centers and fossil fuel infrastructure benefits no one except Big Tech and Big Oil. A bipartisan group of Senators wants to do it anyway.
IPS scholar @BasavIPS in @commondreams: commondreams.org/opinion/per…
"I wrote up a proposal for a moratorium on AI data centers. The ensuing public meeting drew more attendees than I had ever seen. They overwhelmingly supported it, and it passed easily."
Mayor Jamie Jeffery believes you can pass a data center moratorium: otherwords.org/my-town-passe…
NEW: Domestic work makes all other work possible.
The more we protect and invest in these critical workers, the more it will strengthen economies worldwide.
End the precarity for domestic workers.
The global economy already runs on care. Here's how our policies and our understanding of whose work has value can finally catch up. @aijenpoo in @inequalityorg: inequality.org/article/globa…
If poor and low-income Americans voted at the same rate as higher-income citizens, they could sway elections in every single state(!).
Low-income Americans must unleash this power — and politicians must give them a powerful, tangible enough vision to draw them to the polls.
In Lochbuie, Colorado, where water is already in short supply, mayor Jamie Jeffrey banded together with the residents of her town to enact a moratorium on AI data centers.
Now, she is sharing her experience and encouraging other towns to do the same. otherwords.org/my-town-passe…
