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House, we need to pass it in the senate. and the hyde amendment really is so cruel, because it takes away the funding and support for abortion for poor people. and we need to have abortion rights for everyone. so, those are two very important issues and were fighting back. i was there this week at the demonstration at the supreme court, i really listened to the arguments, i was stunned at the hypocrisy of the conservative justices that imply that they would respect precedent, theyd respect law a...

60% the size of wells cut down and we have seen over the last year devastating legislation being rolled back by the brazilian government, rolling back environmental rights, rolling back environmental rights, rolling back environmental rights, rolling back indigenous people�*s rights, so really the rhetoric, signing big deals, at the moment we have not seen any of that come to reality. we have reports from our partners in brazil and in other parts of the amazon that they are seeing devastation ...

In this collection. but its a theme that people return to because policing is so central to this think. issue. >> the vice president talked about voting rights today with a latino voting group. this comes as a judiciary committee held another hearing on the john lewis voting rights act. this is some of what we heard and then we will talk. >> the state legislators and others are going to defame and diminish our democracy. we have a duty to defend it. >> this bill is a disaster. why change what ha...

Diminish our democracy. we have a duty to defend it. >> this bill is a disaster. why change what has worked for 240 years? >> we knew the john lewis bill will stop with racial discrimination from rolling back voting rights in the future. >> this bill is an assault on democracy. this is a power grab. its cynical and wrong. >> you may not want to respond to ted cruz. a power grab and assault on our democracy, what do you say to that? >> i just say that the math is off. if you say this has worked f...

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What’s new? In 2019, Nigerian authorities launched a ten-year National Livestock Transformation Plan to curtail the movement of cattle, boost livestock production and quell the country’s lethal herder-farmer conflict. But inadequate political leadership, delays, funding uncertainties and a lack of expertise could derail the project. COVID-19 has exacerbated the challenges. Why did it happen? Violence fuelled by environmental degradation and competition over land has aggravated long-runn...

In south-western Niger, organised banditry could reinforce mistrust between ethnic groups and foster insurgencies that jihadists could exploit. The Nigerien authorities should take action to remedy the injustices experienced by communities living off livestock, initiate intercommunal dialogues and better supervise fledgling self-defence groups.

A handful of Democrats want to hold up a $2 trillion infrastructure bill to save a choice tax deduction for the wealthy, not that youll hear it described that way... Josh Gottheimer, Democrat of New Jersey, made an inspired plea recently. The Harvard man and Alpha Epsilon Pi brother is a member of the so-called “SALT caucus,” a group of congressfolk threatening to hold up Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill if it doesn’t include a full repeal of a Donald Trump-imposed $10,000 cap on deducti...

Ercot Still Short $1.3 Billion in Energy Payments: Texas Update Bloomberg 2/26/2021 Mark Chediak, David Wethe, Joe Carroll and Naureen S. Malik (Bloomberg) -- A second day of marathon hearings on Texas’s unprecedented energy crisis raised concerns about the liquidity of the state’s power market, and who will ultimately pay for the disaster as some companies face bankruptcy. Several utilities told Texas lawmakers Friday that they were still awaiting payment from the grid op...