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Widescale power shutdown reveals the depth of California’s infrastructure problems amid a growing climate crisis.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Speaks at Global Climate Summit. Joker | Movie. Why Do Prime Numbers Make These Spirals? Elizabeth Warren's Simple Response to a Marriage Equality Question. Giuliani Associates Arrested as Support for Impeachment Rises.

Reader Comments: Impeachment; Turkey, Kurds, Rojava; Climate Change and Militarism; Red Meat Safe - readers take issue; Abolish Columbus Day; Vietnam War; Knights of Labor resource; Announcements - Chicago, Berkeley, New York, Washington, DC; more...

War and militarism are destroying the planet. But if we de-fund the Pentagon, we can save it.

Throughout the 20th century, US corporations have staked out Central America for fruit and coffee growing, metal mining and logging, and water for beverage processing – all at the expense of indigenous land and environmental rights.

People are hitting the streets to protest government inaction, repression, and corruption. Youth have "unbounded energy and optimism coupled with idealism." That energy, however, can't be sustained without organization, activists warn.

Reader Comments: Impeachment; Global Climate Strike; Peggy Lipschutz Remembered; Science Education; Venceremos Brigade; Holocaust Partisans; China at 70; Mexico; Women's Work; Resources; Announcements - New York, Brooklyn, New Haven, and lots more..

Greta Thunberg Rips World Leaders at UN Over Climate. The Weight | Featuring Robbie Robertson. Trump Off the Rails. Elizabeth Warren's Anti-Corruption Plan. Don't Waste an Impeachment.