“Green New Deal” – Page 2

California’s Green New Deal Act: A ‘How-Do-You-Change-the-Entire Economy Thing’

January 6, 2020 5:12 pmJanuary 6, 2020 5:18 pm

“We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.” ~Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury and close friend to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and architect of the New...

California Assemblyman Bonta Announces the California Green New Deal Act

January 6, 2020 9:28 am

Assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) will hold a press conference Monday at noon to announce the California Green New Deal Act. Bonta’s press announcement said the Act is needed “to boldly address the impacts of climate change and issues of equity...

Kamala Harris Calls for ‘Mental Health Justice’

December 1, 2019 10:03 amDecember 2, 2019 2:58 pm

“Our country is in a mental health crisis,” proclaims California Sen. Kamala Harris, and “over 45 million adults – nearly 20 percent of all U.S. adults – experience mental illness in 2017.” In 25 states, Harris explains, the suicide rate...

Shahid Buttar’s Campaign to Unseat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

September 11, 2019 3:26 pmSeptember 12, 2019 2:29 pm

Shahid Buttar’s campaign to unseat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) seems at first glance a quixotic endeavor. In attempting to successfully primary an incumbent speaker of the house, Buttar, a Democrat, seeks to achieve a historic first. He also is...

Presidential Hopeful Bernie Sanders Holds Large Rally In Downtown Sacramento

August 22, 2019 10:19 pmAugust 24, 2019 7:30 am

“I’m here this evening to ask for your help to win the Democratic primary in California,” said Bernie Sanders, the U.S. Senator from Vermont, to a wildly cheering crowd Thursday evening. “This is about defeating the most dangerous President in...