Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben and Others | We're Stepping Up - Join Us for a Day to Halt This Climate Crisis

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25 May 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News ONE HUNDRED DONORS LIKE THIS IS ALL IT WOULD TAKE - (Routine donor support inquiry): << I am signed up for a regular $30 contribution using my credit card. Because of your April fund raising problems, I sent you an additional $50 on May 20. I may be paranoid but just wanted to check that you actually got these contributions. / John, RSN-Reader/Supporter >> If we had just one hundred more donors like that our fundraising would be cut in half. We can do this. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben and Others | We're Stepping Up - Join Us for a Day to Halt This Climate Crisis  Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben, Guardian UK Excerpt: "On 20 September, at the request of the young people who have been staging school strikes around the world, we're walking out of our workplaces and homes to spend the day demanding action on the climate crisis." READ MORE Protesters for women's rights hold a rally on the Alabama Capitol steps to protest a law passed last week making abortion a felony in nearly all cases with no exceptions for cases of rape or incest, Sunday, May 19, 2019, in Montgomery, Alabama. The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood filed the lawsuit to overturn the near total Alabama abortion ban. (photo: Butch Dill/AP) ACLU and Planned Parenthood File Lawsuit Against Alabama Abortion Ban Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Stracqualursi writes: "The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit Friday against Alabama's abortion law, the latest in legal challenges to state legislation that place restrictions on abortions." READ MORE William Barr. (photo: Tom Williams/Getty Images) ALSO SEE: Trump Gives Attorney General Sweeping Power in Review of 2016 Campaign Inquiry Barr Could Expose Secrets, Politicize Intelligence With Review of Russia Probe, Current and Former Officials Fear Shane Harris, The Washington Post Harris writes: "President Trump's new executive order giving the attorney general broad authority to declassify government secrets threatens to expose U.S. intelligence sources and could distort the FBI and CIA's roles in investigating Russian interference in the 2016 elections, current and former U.S. officials said." READ MORE Migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, climb down a steep hill near the border wall into the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico. (photo: Leah Millis/Reuters) Trump Blocked From Using Emergency Funds to Build Mexico Border Wall Sections by Federal Judge Colin Drury, The Independent Drury writes: "A billion dollars earmarked for Donald Trump's long-promised wall on the US border with Mexico must not be spent on the project, a federal judge has ruled." READ MORE Clayton Fackler, 72, works at the check out at the new 2,000 square foot Wal-Mart Supercenter store, May 17, 2006, in Bowling Green, Ohio. (photo: J.D. Pooley/Getty Images) Twenty Percent of Those Age 65 and Up Haven't Retired. Many Can't Afford To. Suzanne Woolley, Bloomberg Woolley writes: "Just as single-income families began to vanish in the last century, many of America's elderly are now forgoing retirement for the same reason: They don't have enough money." READ MORE Doctors treat patients in Bolivia. (photo: MMI) UN: Bolivia's Universal Healthcare Is 'Model for the World' teleSUR Excerpt: "The U.N.'s World Health Organization (WHO) praised Bolivia's newly implemented universal health care system, known in the country as the Single Health System (SUS)." READ MORE A protest march against the Line 3 pipeline in St. Paul, Minnesota, May 18, 2018. (photo: Fibonacci Blue/CC 2.0) People Power Can Stop the Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline in Minnesota Collin Rees, Oil Change International Rees writes: "We know that people power can stop dangerous fossil fuel projects like the proposed Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline in Minnesota, because we've proved it over and over again - and recently we've had two more big wins." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation