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ancianita's JournalSheldon Whitehouse On Climate Costs, and What Our Executive Can Do To Get Us To Zero Emissions
The latest from the MVP of the Senate, Sheldon Whitehouse, on the political negligence and inertia we face by suffering climate cascading catastrophes, and what those catastrophes' huge costs are to Americans nationwide for subsidizing fossil fuel pollution with $660,000,000,000 per year.
DeLoitte estimates at current costs of inaction on climate catastrophes will cost the world $220 TRILLION BY 2070.
https://twitter.com/senwhitehouse/status/1542938585120346119
THIS IS NOT RIGHT -- A Review by Sen. Whitehouse, MVP of the Senate, on why it is not.
Amy Coney-Barrett to rule on LGBTQ case whose anti-LGBTQ attorneys paid her 5 times for speaking engagements.Clear conflict of interest.
Coney-Barrett needs to recuse herself. But then, having a fellow justice, Clarence Thomas, who has himself refused to recuse, she'll not likely recuse from this case, either.
Our Third Branch is a captured political entity, and if that political entity rules in favor of the 'independent state legislature doctrine in Moore v Harper, they will make sure the federal government will be captured, too.
Exploring The U.S. and the Holocaust, Sept 18 -- Ken Burns calls it his most important documentary
President Joe Biden delivers Labor Day speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Labor Day 2022, badass pro-union President Biden speaks about unions being key to the country's optimistic future of building back better.
Not a single Republican has voted for anything unions provide -- airports, plumbing for clean water, food service, education, roads, infrastructure materials and building standards, -- to this country.
Go, Joe! 
Solidarity forever.
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) was founded in Chicago; John Dewey and Margaret Haley were among the founders.
About 60 percent of AFT's membership works directly in education, with the remainder of the union's members composed of paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; local, state and federal employees; higher education faculty and staff, and nurses and other healthcare professionals.
The AFT has, since its founding, affiliated with trade union federations; until 1955 the American Federation of Labor, and now the AFL–CIO.
Chartered in 1937, Local #1 of the AFT is the Chicago Teachers Union -- I joined it back in 1974. It formed in the late 1800's as the Chicago Teachers Federation, than played a founding role in the AFT. It was the largest and most active AFT local until the 1960s.The CTU won collective bargaining rights in 1966 and conducted several strikes during the 1970s and 1980s. I participated in every strike.
In September 2012, the union began its first strike in 25 years. I'd retired but was on the picket lines in Hyde Park and La Salle Street, directing our "chop the top" signs at Mayor Rahm as much as to his Bd. of Ed.
In 1981 (before computers), I researched and wrote a three-part series for Substance, the teachers' paper, on our pension's funds being invested in companies doing business in South Africa, listing names, amounts invested, totals, etc. (getting that info was not like on the Internet, believe me).
The short version is that citywide, teachers were enraged and demanded we disinvest. I, my ANC friend, and his father ( long time teacher at Phillips High School Academy) appeared before the pension board's investment group, and made our case. In two months, the news hit that the pension had divested $12 million, which in today's dollars is near $35 million. It was a BFD -- not just the money, but because Mandela was still on Robbin Island and we were in the fight to release him and end corporate minority white rule in SA.
Overall, 40 years later, I feel that my pension (teachers with pensions don't get Social Security in Illinois) is now less tainted. (Doesn't mean they don't invest in hedge funds, tho'. )
Solidarity forever.
Elizabeth Warren addresses the 2022 AFT Convention -- start 25:20
President Biden's address at Independence Hall on the 'extremist threat to democracy'
From the United Nations Satellite Center (UNOSAT)
22 million people possibly or potentially displaced5 days ago
4 hours ago
Both photos are available on Google Images.
The headline and link for the second photo:
"Satellite detected water extents between 01 and 29 August 2022 over Pakistan -
Imagery Analysis: 01 to 29/08/2022 Published 31/08/2022 V1"
https://reliefweb.int/map/pakistan/satellite-detected-water-extents-between-01-and-29-august-2022-over-pakistan-imagery-analysis-01-29082022-published-31082022-v1
I fear for humanity.
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