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The injustice and racism pervading this country is gut wrenching. Hanging my last thread of hope on PA absentee voters.
The New York Times
@nytimes4 Nov 2020
Joe Biden has won absentee ballots counted in Pennsylvania by a significant margin so far, data from the Secretary of State showed early Wednesday. If he carried the remaining absentee ballots by a similar margin, he would win the state, Nate Cohn writes. nyti.ms/32aTZYn

The Remaining Vote in Pennsylvania Appears to Be Overwhelmingly for Biden (Published 2020)

The president leads by nearly 700,000 votes, but there are 1.4 million absentee votes outstanding.

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As soon as Pence started denying the existence of systemic racism, the fly got him! #VPDebate
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“Having a racist and violent police force in your neighborhood is a lot like having a coal-fired power plant in your neighborhood. And having both? ‘I Can’t Breathe’ is the daily condition of too many people in this country.” newyorker.com/news/annals-of…

Racism, Police Violence, and the Climate Are Not Separate Issues

People of color tend to be disproportionately exposed to the effects of global warming: working jobs that keep them outdoors, or on the move, on an increasingly hot planet, and living in densely...

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“In the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear?”
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Indigenous and local communities are acting as human shields of the world’s forests and paying a deadly price for it. It is time for the world to stand with the #GuardiansOfTheForest #NotASingleDropMore ✊🏽 – at Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Survival International@Survival2 Nov 2019
Prophetic video from Tainaky, who's just been shot & wounded by loggers, and his friend Kwahu killed. This was recorded for @Survival's #TribalVoice project recently. survivalinternational.org/tr… "They want to kill us all".... #StopBrazilsGenocide
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"These people think they can come here, into our home, and help themselves to our forest? No. We won’t allow it. We don’t break into their houses and rob them, do we?” - Paulo Paulino Guajajara, speaking this year before his murder #NotASingleDropMore theguardian.com/world/2019/n…

Brazilian 'forest guardian' killed by illegal loggers in ambush

Paulo Paulino Guajajara was killed by armed loggers in the Araribóia region in Maranhão

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"We are ignoring natural climate solutions" A short movie with @GeorgeMonbiot and me, by Tom Mustill, about restoring and rewilding nature to help repair the planets broken climate. #ClimateBreakdown #EcologicalBreakdown theguardian.com/environment/…

Greta Thunberg: ‘We are ignoring natural climate solutions’

Film by Swedish activist and Guardian journalist George Monbiot says nature must be used to repair broken climate

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JUST RELEASED: Five-year assessment report of the New York Declaration on Forests finds that despite high ambition in 2014, forests are falling - and burning - faster than ever. Priorities must shift to protect and restore natural forests. Report: forestdeclaration.org
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Highly recommend occupying your morning commute with @kathrynschulz ‘s subtly hilarious and fascinating piece on... stinkbugs! newyorker.com/magazine/2018/… – at San Francisco, CA
Firing those who are obliged to point out you got it wrong is the authoritarian, not democratic way, to run a government #ThankYouSallyYates
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What does a Transformative Climate Community look like? Read our report on building neighborhood led climate equity: bit.ly/TCC2017
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When It Comes to Job Creation, Renewable Energy Outshines Fossil Fuels bit.ly/2h5tGgt youtu.be/Fc_uKq3EmRI
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Important piece by @cejapower's Amy Vanderwarker: Who will lead fight 4 environmental & climate justice under Trump? bit.ly/2hhNH3L

Frontline communities will lead the fight for environmental and climate justice under Trump

If we want to succeed, it's more important than ever to invest in the leadership of people of color and indigenous communities.

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China will likely step into the leadership vacuum left by the United States. ow.ly/OB5B307osMO
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Our new report provides a snapshot of what's possible in CA with the Transformative Climate Communities Program: bit.ly/2hmYOqN
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"Elite liberalism, it turns out, cannot defeat right-wing populism." @jacobinmag goo.gl/w1MZhL
Repudiation of American power structure -- @RBReich goo.gl/URkUpf
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Donald Trump thinks climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese. Unbelievable. #DebateWithBernie xitter.cf/realDonaldTrump/status…
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump6 Nov 2012
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
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If Trump is concerned about companies going abroad maybe he should move his plants out of Bangladesh where workers are paid 30 cents an hour
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#climatechange is real and more urgent than you might think goo.gl/NLvxF5 via @nytimes #ClimateCrisis
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