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This Is What Happens When Workers Don’t Control Their Own Lives

Jamelle Bouie New York Times
For a vast majority of Americans democracy ends when work hours begin. Most people in this country are subject, as workers, to the nearly unmediated authority of their employers, which can discipline, sanction or fire them for nearly any reason

Thanksgiving Offers a Way Forward

Mary Annette Pember Indian Country Today
Indigenous connections to the earth provide blueprint for halting climate change. After COP26, the great climate change summit and its lack of hard action in addressing climate change, I was reminded of the human relationship to the earth.

This Is the Decade to Reduce Emissions

Tina Gerhardt The Nation
At this week’s climate negotiations in Glasgow, countries must get serious about detailing their plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Friday Nite Videos | October 8, 2021

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These Nobel Winners Laid the Basis of Modern Climate Science

David Randall The Conversation
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to pioneers in climate modeling. Their names are not known to the general public, but their work made predictions of global warming and modern weather forecasting possible.

There’s Hope in the Latest Climate Report

An important update from the IPCC, the definitive source on the climate crisis, doesn't have a ton of good news, but there are some bits of hope if we can ramp up our actions now.

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