Enbridge To Construct Next Pipeline As Biden, Leaders Do Little At COP26

Take Action Now As leaders at COP26 decry the devastations brought on by climate change, they continue to allow new oil pipelines to be built at home. By Ryan Black Enbridge recently completed the Line 3 pipeline, which will carry up to 760,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day. Now, the company is looking to build a pipeline from Houston to Corpus Christi, TX to meet the ramped-up…

To Help Democrats Survive 2022, Biden Should Legalize Marijuana Right Now

Take Action NowLegalizing marijuana allows President Joe Biden to address important issues without Congressional approval and could help Democrats stave off major losses in 2022. By Ryan Black Medical marijuana is already available in 36 states. Recreational marijuana is legal in 18, while 27 states have decriminalized its use. In states where…

Rahm Emanuel Opposition Comes to DC

Take Action Now By Ryan Black Led by longtime Chicago political consultant and activist Delmarie Cobb, progressives spoke to the media on Monday in front of the Senate steps. They were there to make the case for why Rahm Emanuel must not be confirmed for a high profile ambassadorship to Japan. The news conference focused particularly on Emanuel’s role in covering up the murder of…

Rahm Emanuel’s 30-Year History of Being Wrong — and Why It Matters

By Ryan Black Rahm Emanuel, an avowed Third Way centrist, has been on the wrong side of the Democratic Party’s worst decisions for the past 30 years. Now, he has been nominated to be Joe Biden’s Ambassador to Japan — a country with constant military tension and pressure from the West to stand in opposition to China. Emanuel is uniquely unfit to handle the responsibilities of navigating…

Why Pipelines Are Bad, Actually

By Ryan Black Despite a global climate emergency that worsens year after year, multinational corporations continue to invest in fossil fuels and build risky oil pipelines across the country — all for private profit and at the expense of vulnerable communities and tribal lands. Right now, as with Keystone XL and DAPL before, resisters of the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota are facing the…

Indigenous Line 3 Activists Link Militarism and Climate Crisis

By Olivia DiNucci and Ryan Black In what’s known as northern Minnesota, environmental activists, under Indigenous leadership, are taking action to stop the Line 3 pipeline. But the protests aren’t exclusively about pipelines and tar sands; Line 3 resistors also focus on the link between militarism and the climate crisis. Line 3 is a tar sands pipeline -- currently under construction…

‘The World Is At Stake’: Defuse Nuclear War Kicks Off Nationwide Week Of Action

Take Action Now "The need for action to curtail the possibility of nuclear conflict could not be more urgent," said the campaign's organizer. By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams Activists from the Defuse Nuclear War coalition on Sunday launched a week of action to demand the U.S. government take steps to reduce the existential threat of thermonuclear annihilation, including by…

Nina Turner and Cori Bush Reveal Democrats’ Compromised Dynamic

By Sam Rosenthal & Ryan Black, Progressive Hub It was a night of contrasts. While in Ohio’s 11th Congressional District, Nina Turner was conceding to Shontel Brown — whose campaign was propped up by millions of dollars from Republican donors and pro-Israel PACs, first term representative Cori Bush succeeded in saving millions of families from being thrown out onto the streets.…

For Trump and Rubio, Colonizing Cuba Is Not About Freedom—It’s About Their Own Egos

Take Action Now For Trump, regime change in Cuba will cement his legacy. For Rubio, it will mark the culmination of his childhood dream. In their equation, they win and Cuba—like Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, Guam, and so many nations before it—loses its independence and freedom. By Jordan Liz, Common Dreams The Trump administration’s total blockade on oil imports to Cuba is…