Central to Rawls’ philosophy is a defense of inequality... A rising tide is just, as long as it lifts all boats. First, she zeroed in on Trump Links, a golf course in Ocasio-Cortez’s district that was constructed with $127 million in city taxpayer funds. Our odds were dismal + I was dismissed, but we felt that fighting hard for what’s right - even uphill - was worth it. In addition, there are so many passionate activists involved in the movement and thoughtful reflections on the legislation that it would not do the topic justice to merely summarize it. It could be part of a larger solution, but no one has actually scoped out what that larger solution would entail. And you kind of like leave the conversation but very often that person will sit on what you said and they will sit on the fact that you respected them and gave them space and then very often I've had interactions like that and I'll run into that person again a week later a month later and they said you know what? That is where the public needs to call their member of Congress and say, 'This is something that I care about,'...Where I do have trust is in my colleagues' capacity to change and evolve and be adaptable and listen to their constituents.". No child should ever taken from their family. Tough times never last, but tough people do. What I DID say was that I had to go back to my district & share the MTR vote to explain why a pro-ICE amendment was slipped into a gun safety law. The last time I was pissed was the president’s bullshit border address, watching this guy just be racist from the Oval Office. GOP has refused to increase budgets in years to give hard-working staff a raise, which means people helping to run the country are getting paid $30k/year. Donald Trump Wants a Fight on the Green New Deal.

This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and ‘fact check’ it. to stop the transfer of jobs and pollution overseas; and (ii) to grow domestic manufacturing in the United States; ensuring that public lands, waters, and oceans are protected and that eminent domain is not abused; obtaining the free, prior, and informed consent of indigenous peoples for all decisions that affect indigenous peoples and their traditional territories, honoring all treaties and agreements with indigenous peoples, and protecting and enforcing the sovereignty and land rights of indigenous peoples; ensuring a commercial environment where every businessperson is free from unfair competition and domination by domestic or international monopolies... “Ecotopian” aspirations are already in full view in community networks attempting to create more conscious ways of living such as... bold policy proposals such as the USA’s “Green New Deal.” What’s more, many of the ideas put forth by these projects were long since imagined in prominent ecotopian literary works. It’s worth marking the moment. Congresswoman Madeleine Dean: We were met with hostility from the guards, but this is nothing compared to their treatment of the people being held. It’s likely one of the highest entry-level salaries on the Hill. And it was predicated on white supremacy and racial superiority, but we have to understand that white supremacy exists for a reason, and they exist for a very specific cultural and economic reasons. I guess WSJ Editorial Page takes pride in their ignorance of our nation’s history of slavery, Jim Crow, & mass incarceration; willful doubt on the decades of science on climate change; targeting of indigenous peoples, and the classist, punitive agenda targeting working families. Even if they let you in, these women told us CBP did a lot of “cleaning up” before we arrived. Its that I have a conversation with someone, I asked them some critical questions and I calmly explained to them: well, this is where I'm coming from and this is why I believe what I believe why do you believe what you believe? Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes. AOC to: @tedcruz if you’re serious about a clean bill, then I’m down.Let’s make a deal. Because those could be the famous last words of a one-term president, having wildly underestimated the public appetite for transformative action on the triple crises of our time: imminent ecological unraveling, gaping economic inequality (including the racial and gender wealth divide), and surging white supremacy. To catch up, check out these two articles: We’re publishing this limited series not only because the proposed legislation is timely and newsworthy but also because it’s been close to 10 years since we’ve seen such demand for serious legislative action against climate change. The Trump administration’s relentless push for so-called “energy dominance” includes plans to massively expand offshore oil and gas drilling.
It’s pretty sad that people think low Congressional staff pay is a good thing. Mind you, the same small splinter group of Dems that tried to deny Pelosi the speakership, fund the wall during the shutdown when the public didn’t want it, & are now voting in surprise ICE amendments... are being called the “moderate wing” of the party. You don’t have a plan to grow food for 8 billion people without fossil fuels, or get the food into the cities. You’re getting sexually harassed. “No, I don’t support the Green New Deal,” Biden insisted.

We must again invest in the development, manufacturing, deployment, and distribution of energy, but this time green energy. On Feb. 11, 2020, Bustatroll.org published an article positing that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New … Let’s not waste our second chance. 'Cause you're not. If fossil fuels were banned every tree in the world would be cut down for fuel for cooking and heating. The age difference between myself (29) + oldest House members is ~60yrs. Her examples ranged from taking "special interest dark money" from corporate PACs to fund a campaign to using hush money payments to make potential scandals disappear and writing laws that benefit donors and then buying stocks in their companies for personal financial gain. Horses? Nor the fact that a 29-year-old socialist and her legions of followers think this would be neat. It's only pleasant because it isn't here. Done effectively, both of these approaches may succeed in generating the kinds of incremental wins that could cascade into a national wave of climate and progressive victories.”.