activists Archives - Flux https://flux.community/tag/activists/ A platform for change Thu, 21 Jul 2022 03:55:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Disappointed by climate speech, activists say people are dying ‘while Biden dithers’ https://flux.community/jessica-corbett/2022/07/disappointed-by-climate-speech-activists-say-people-are-dying-while-biden-dithers/ Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:00:17 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=11789 Climate campaigners expressed frustration Wednesday after U.S. President Joe Biden announced new climate actions but refused to declare a national emergency, despite mounting public and political pressure. “Biden’s failure to declare a state of emergency today is an insult to the millions of working people and frontline communities living the devastating reality of global heating, environmental racism, and climate breakdown,” said People’s […]

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]]> White House ‘some activists’ comment roils progressive abortion rights champions https://flux.community/jon-queally/2022/07/white-house-some-activists-comment-roils-progressive-abortion-rights-champions/ Mon, 11 Jul 2022 20:00:22 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=11638 Comments by White House communications director Kate Bedingfield over the weekend have touched a fresh nerve among progressives already frustrated by the Biden administration’s tepid response to the right-wing attack on abortion rights including the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade last month. Quoted in a detailed piece of reporting by the Washington Post, Bedingfield referred dismissively to […]

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