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For March On for Voting Rights, civil rights leaders Martin Luther King III, Arndrea Waters King and Reverend Al Sharpton will lead marches Aug. 28.

For March On for Voting Rights, civil rights leaders Martin Luther King III, Arndrea Waters King and Reverend Al Sharpton will lead marches Aug. 28.

Fifty-eight years after the first March on Washington, demonstrators are gathering to demand the protection of voting rights across the country.

Wyden, Merkley, Democrat colleagues reintroduce ‘Green New Deal’ resolution WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., said Thursday they joined colleagues to reintroduce the Green New Deal Resolution, legislation that they said would address the existential challenge of climate change and create millions of good, high-wage jobs in the process. “Oregonians enduring longer wildfire seasons along with prolonged droughts know full well how the climate crisis is already ravaging  communities throughout our state,” Wyden said. “The need to act is now, and the Green...

As part of what they are calling "Green New Deal Week," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey on Tuesday led the reintroduction of their landmark resolution envisioning a 10-year mobilization that would employ millions of people with well-paying, union jobs repairing U.S. infrastructure, while reducing pollution and tackling the country's intersecting climate, economic, health, and racial justice crises. "The Green New Deal isn't just a resolution, it is a revolution," said Markey (D-Mass.), who first unveiled the measure with Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in February 2019. "In the past t...