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Climate Crisis

World’s richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam

The wealthiest 1% of the world’s population were responsible for the emission of more than twice as much carbon dioxide as the poorer half of the world from 1990 to 2015, according to new research.


World’s richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam

The richest 10% of the global population, comprising about 630 million people, were responsible for about 52% of global emissions over the 25-year period, the study showed.

Environmentalism Without Class Struggle is Just Gardening

The report, compiled by Oxfam and the Stockholm Environment Institute, warned that rampant overconsumption and the rich world’s addiction to high-carbon transport are exhausting the world’s “carbon budget”.

 

Such a concentration of carbon emissions in the hands of the rich means that despite taking the world to the brink of climate catastrophe, through burning fossil fuels, we have still failed to improve the lives of billions, said Tim Gore, head of policy, advocacy and research at Oxfam International.

 

“The global carbon budget has been squandered to expand the consumption of the already rich, rather than to improve humanity,” he told the Guardian. “A finite amount of carbon can be added to the atmosphere if we want to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis. We need to ensure that carbon is used for the best.”

 

 

 

 

Read the article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/21/worlds-richest-1-cause-double-co2-emissions-of-poorest-50-says-oxfam

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Healthcare

Single Payer in CA Would Have Reduced COVID-19 Deaths

If we are to take a simple projection of COVID-19 death comparisons between the U.S.A. and countries with Single Payer, if CA had already implemented a Single-Payer healthcare system prior to the pandemic, we could have potentially reduced COVID-19 deaths by over 60K!

We cannot afford to NOT pass AB 1400. Support the Cal Care Act and the fight to win Healthcare Equality!

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https://nhchc.org/…/Comparative-Analysis_International

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

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Climate Crisis

Climate change is becoming less a battle of nations than rich vs poor

The top 1 per cent by income of the world’s population account for about 15 per cent of emissions, according to UN data. That is more than double the share of the bottom 50 per cent.

https://www.ft.com/content/4788beae-9035-4449-b5cd-200dc7b6ea9d

Rich are the Biggest Polluters


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Healthcare

Win Healthcare for All: Send a Letter to Your CA Assemblymember


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Take 2 minutes to send this PREWRITTEN letter to your assemblymember:
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The historic CA healthcare reform bill,
AB 1400 will be reintroduced in January!
AB 1400 will deliver healthcare to ALL Californians. AB 1400, for the first time in history, will address INEQUALITY in healthcare services.

Let’s get this grassroots people lobby effort going NOW! Send a message to your Assemblymember NOW, urging them to pledge to vote YES on AB 1400!

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Healthcare

Newsom Endangers Lives of CA Seniors: Vetoes AB 279

Siding with the corporate-operator-serving California Department of Public Health, California Governor Gavin Newsom parroted CDPH falsehoods to justify his support for corporate evictions of seniors from nursing homes during the ongoing pandemic as well as condoning degradation of services at such facilities.

From Save Our Seniors Network, read about how Newsom completely disregarded the legislative process with the veto of this straightforward bill, which intended to protect senior lives during the pandemic:

https://bit.ly/RebuttalToNewsomVeto

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Anti-Asian Violence

Volunteers strive to make Koreatown residents feel safe during rise in hate crimes against Asians

LOS ANGELES (KCAL, KCBS) — In an effort to curb a rise in hate crimes against Asians and Asian-Americans, volunteers offered safety and companionship to residents of Koreatown Thursday.

The Koreatown Neighborhood Safety Companions group, along with the Progressive Asian Network For Action and community volunteers gathered at Kenmore Avenue and 6th Street in Koreatown, the same site where a Korean American air force veteran was allegedly attacked a few weeks ago.

https://www.kctv5.com/volunteers-strive-to-make-koreatown-residents-feel-safe-during-rise-in-hate-crimes-against-asians/article_8484f474-0374-5f4e-bc48-e8b13ab5a1ae.html

 

Join Neighborhood Safety Companions (NSC):

Visit the NSC website: NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY COMPANIONS (NSC)
Follow NSC on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neighborhoodsafetycompanions/

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Anti-Asian Violence Economic Justice

Atlanta shootings expose outdated Asian American stereotypes — and largest U.S. income gap

LA Times
Don Lee
Fri, April 2, 2021, 7:42 AM

PANA welcomes fact-based journalism that helps to debunk the “Model Minority Myth, which fosters Anti-Asian Violence and is an attack on Working-Class Asians

Some data points in the article:

Among all ethnic and racial groups in the United States, including Black and Latino Americans, it’s Asians who today have the biggest income gap between the top 10% and the bottom 10%, according to a 2018 report by the Pew Research Center.

Similarly, government surveys indicate that, compared with white people, Asians in America are more likely to have lost earnings and fallen behind on rents or mortgage payments since the outbreak of COVID-19.

…Asian Americans also are three times more likely than white people to have less than a ninth-grade education, according to census data compiled by Brookings Institution demographer William Frey.

The Pew study noted that poverty rates were as high as 35% among Burmese, 33% among Bhutanese, and 28% among Hmong and Malaysians, about double or more than for the U.S. as a whole.

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Anti-Asian Violence

ABC 7: Koreatown residents escorted by volunteers to help keep them safe amid spike in anti-Asian attacks

https://abc7.com/koreatown-escort-volunteers-safe/10477162/

Friday, April 2, 2021 KOREATOWN, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — In light of numerous recent attacks on Asian Americans across the nation, a group of local volunteers is helping Koreatown residents by offering safety and companionship if they need to go out.

Organizers call them Neighborhood Safety Companions, keeping a watchful eye on the community while doing their part to prevent anti-Asian violence.

Join Neighborhood Safety Companions to fight Anti-Asian Violence

Visit the NSC website HERE

Follow NSC on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/neighborhoodsafetycompanions/

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