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Speaker Pelosi is on the verge of handing Donald Trump a big victory. On Tuesday, she announced House Democratic leadership's support for Trump's NAFTA 2.0 trade deal, also known as the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement.
While the renegotiated agreement includes some improvements over the original NAFTA, it falls far short of what's needed on environmental issues, and it doesn't even include the word climate. At the same time, it won't stop the continued outsources of manufacturing jobs to Mexico.
The House is expected to vote on NAFTA 2.0 this week. On Monday, join Sierra Club and CREDO for a webinar to discuss the current status of the trade agreement, the ways in which it falls short of what's needed and what you can do to fight back. Limited space is available, so please RSVP now if you can join us.
There's no question that NAFTA is a disaster and that it must be replaced. But we believe that the next Democratic administration can negotiate a new trade agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico that is better for both working people and the planet.
I hope you can join us on Monday's webinar to learn more and join the fight to stop Trump's NAFTA 2.0 trade deal.
Thanks for everything you do.
Josh Nelson, Co-Director
CREDO Action from Working Assets
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Sunday, December 15, 2019
Monday: Webinar on stopping Trump's NAFTA 2.0 trade deal
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Edward Snowden | Without Encryption, We Will Lose All Privacy. This Is Our New Battleground
16 October 19
Dear Marc,
It was my pleasure to contribute. In a world awash in lies, RSN is a lighthouse beacon in a hazardous and stormy sea.
Keep up the good work.
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15 October 19
Edward Snowden | Without Encryption, We Will Lose All Privacy. This Is Our New Battleground
Edward Snowden, Guardian UK
Snowden writes: "In every country of the world, the security of computers keeps the lights on, the shelves stocked, the dams closed, and transportation running."
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The White House's alleged effort to pressure Ukraine so alarmed former national security adviser John Bolton that he alerted a lawyer, his former aide said on Oct. 14, 2019, according to news reports. (photo: Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images)
Edward Snowden, Guardian UK
Snowden writes: "In every country of the world, the security of computers keeps the lights on, the shelves stocked, the dams closed, and transportation running."
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The White House's alleged effort to pressure Ukraine so alarmed former national security adviser John Bolton that he alerted a lawyer, his former aide said on Oct. 14, 2019, according to news reports. (photo: Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images)
Attention Turns to Bolton After Former Aide Told Impeachment Probe He Fought Giuliani's Shadow Operation in Ukraine
Karoun Demirjian and Rachael Bade, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The House's impeachment inquiry is turning attention toward former national security adviser John Bolton, after a former top aide delivered explosive testimony Monday describing how he was infuriated by a shadow operation being conducted by the president's allies and his lawyer in Ukraine to dig up dirt on the president's political rivals."
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Bernie Sanders speaks to a crowd of supporters at a campaign rally on July 18, 2015, in Phoenix, Arizona. (photo: Charlie Leight/Getty Images)
Karoun Demirjian and Rachael Bade, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The House's impeachment inquiry is turning attention toward former national security adviser John Bolton, after a former top aide delivered explosive testimony Monday describing how he was infuriated by a shadow operation being conducted by the president's allies and his lawyer in Ukraine to dig up dirt on the president's political rivals."
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Bernie Sanders speaks to a crowd of supporters at a campaign rally on July 18, 2015, in Phoenix, Arizona. (photo: Charlie Leight/Getty Images)
Bernie Wants You to Own More of the Means of Production
Matt Bruenig, Jacobin
Bruenig writes: "Bernie Sanders just released a landmark plan to shift ownership and control of the US economy away from the very affluent and towards workers and the public."
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Rudy Giuliani. (photo: Al Drago/Getty Images)
Matt Bruenig, Jacobin
Bruenig writes: "Bernie Sanders just released a landmark plan to shift ownership and control of the US economy away from the very affluent and towards workers and the public."
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Rudy Giuliani. (photo: Al Drago/Getty Images)
Trump Lawyer Giuliani Was Paid $500,000 to Consult on Indicted Associate's Firm
Karen Freifeld and Aram Roston, Reuters
Excerpt: "President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, was paid $500,000 for work he did for a company co-founded by the Ukrainian-American businessman arrested last week on campaign finance charges, Giuliani told Reuters on Monday."
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Karen Freifeld and Aram Roston, Reuters
Excerpt: "President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, was paid $500,000 for work he did for a company co-founded by the Ukrainian-American businessman arrested last week on campaign finance charges, Giuliani told Reuters on Monday."
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PAHCF is a dark-money organization created to erode public support for Medicare for All. (photo: Soohee Cho/The Intercept/Getty Images)
Documents Reveal Hospital Industry Is Leading Fight Against Medicare for All
Andrew Perez, The Intercept
Perez writes: "Investor-owned hospital are leading the fight against the creation of a comprehensive, universal health care system, according to corporate filings reviewed by MapLight and The Intercept."
Andrew Perez, The Intercept
Perez writes: "Investor-owned hospital are leading the fight against the creation of a comprehensive, universal health care system, according to corporate filings reviewed by MapLight and The Intercept."
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nvestor-owned hospitals are leading the fight against the creation of a comprehensive, universal health care system, according to corporate filings reviewed by MapLight and The Intercept.
Tenet Healthcare, the nation’s third-largest investor-owned operator of hospitals, has donated nearly $630,000 to the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, or PAHCF, a dark-money organization created last year to erode public support for Medicare for All, a government-run plan that would provide health care for all Americans.
PAHCF’s incorporation records list a lobbyist for the Federation of American Hospitals, a trade organization that represents Tenet and other investor-owned hospitals, as one of its authorized representatives.
While PAHCF’s membership roster includes dozens of health insurance, pharmaceutical, and hospital trade groups and companies, much of the criticism of the effort to block Medicare for All has centered around insurance and pharmaceutical interests. But corporate records highlight the integral role that the for-profit hospital industry has played in drumming up opposition to health care reforms.
In August, the liberal politics and public policy magazine American Prospect wrote that Democrats proposing health care reforms “lack the courage to name the one major obstacle to getting any meaningful reform done — the hospitals and medical providers who create the most costs in the system by a wide margin.”
Indeed, common hospital procedures, like knee replacement and childbirth deliveries, cost significantly more in the U.S. than in other countries. Hospitals are a big piece of a common nightmare for patients, obliquely known as “surprise billing,” that occurs when a person visits a facility that’s included in their insurance network and is treated by an out-of-network provider. The massive bill, of course, is only a surprise to the patient.
The hospital industry has warned that Medicare for All could affect their revenue and cause facilities to close. According to the American Hospital Association, Medicare currently only pays hospitals 87 percent of the costs of caring for patients.
By contrast, private health insurers often pay hospitals two or three times what Medicare does, according to a recent study by the nonprofit RAND Corporation. The study found that Tenet hospitals, on average, charge private insurers 210 percent of what Medicare pays.
In 2016, Tenet was fined $513 million as part of a non-prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice for allegedly paying illegal kickbacks to clinics in exchange for referrals of pregnant Medicaid patients. A decade earlier, the company entered into a $900 million settlement with federal regulators for overbilling Medicare.
Last month, 6,500 National Nurses United members at Tenet hospitals staged a one-day strike, demanding higher pay and additional hires to decrease the number of patients that nurses care for. Their union has been one of the most prominent national advocates for Medicare for All, spending almost $4.8 million to boost Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2016 Democratic presidential campaign.
In March, Bob Kerrey, a former Democratic governor and U.S. senator from Nebraska who now serves on Tenet’s board of directors, wrote an op-ed in the Omaha World-Herald describing Medicare for All as a “delusion” and casting doubt on the idea “that Americans long for a president who will ask us to pay more for the pleasure of increasing the role of the federal government in our lives.” The piece did not mention Kerrey’s seat on Tenet’s board.
Tenet CEO Ron Rittenmeyer, chair of the Federation of American Hospitals, recently said that a Medicare for All system would be too expensive and that Medicare reimbursement rates would be too low for hospitals.
Earlier this year, the federation’s CEO, Chip Kahn, publicly took credit for the idea of forming PAHCF, according to Modern Healthcare. Kahn is best known for creating the health insurance industry’s “Harry and Louise” advertising campaign against the Clinton administration’s health care reform plan in the ’90s, and he was reportedly involved in negotiating a backroom deal with the Obama White House to remove a public health insurance option from the Affordable Care Act. The federation paid Kahn almost $2.6 million last year.
A July filing by PAHCF in Washington, D.C., lists the federation’s former senior vice president, Jeff Cohen, as a PAHCF board member. The filing doesn’t name any additional members. A PAHCF spokesperson said that Cohen is no longer part of their board.
Cohen recently left the federation to become the top lobbyist at HCA Healthcare, another member of both the federation and the PAHCF campaign against Medicare for All. HCA, which dealt with fraud accusations while under the stewardship of then-chief executive Rick Scott (who is now a U.S. senator), owns 185 hospitals.
Protests in Haiti. (photo: Lee Celano/Getty Images)
Haiti Enters Its 5th Week of Protests Against President
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Haiti's President Jovenel Moise is facing the fifth week of protests calling for his resignation as several roads were blocked Monday across the country, after leaders from the opposition announced they will not give up until the president's departure."
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Haiti's President Jovenel Moise is facing the fifth week of protests calling for his resignation as several roads were blocked Monday across the country, after leaders from the opposition announced they will not give up until the president's departure."
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When the country was already dealing with a tense economic crisis and high inflation, a report was published accusing President Moise and dozens of officials of having embezzled US$2 billion from Petrocaribe, the cut-price-oil aid program that Venezuela offered to several Caribbean countries, among them Haiti.
The funds were meant to finance infrastructure development along with health, education and social programs across the impoverished nation. The president has since refused to step down and Congress has been three-times unable to push forward his resignation.
The Carribean country of 11 million people has been struggling for decades to overcome extreme poverty along with widespread corruption.
These last ten years were particularly harsh for Haiti, which went through one of the world's deadliest earthquakes in 2010, an epidemic of cholera, brought in accidentally by United Nations peacekeepers, and Hurricane Matthew in October 2016.
Andrew Wheeler. (photo: Stefani Reynolds/Reuters)
Sierra Club Sues EPA Over Claim That Climate Change 'Is 50 to 75 Years Out'
Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill
Beitsch writes: "The Sierra Club sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday after the agency refused to turn over any documents to back up Administrator Andrew Wheeler's claim that climate change 'is 50 to 75 years out.'"
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Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill
Beitsch writes: "The Sierra Club sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday after the agency refused to turn over any documents to back up Administrator Andrew Wheeler's claim that climate change 'is 50 to 75 years out.'"
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Saturday, July 27, 2019
Robert Reich | The Real Reason for Impeachment
26 July 19
The July fundraiser is not doing very well overall so far, but people are starting to respond at this point and help out. Thank you sincerely for that.
We’re still pretty far off the pace we need to be on. If you haven’t made a contribution recently now would be a great time.
Thank you!
Marc Ash
Founder, Reader Supported News
Founder, Reader Supported News
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27 July 19
Robert Reich | The Real Reason for Impeachment
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "In today's political climate, the question of whether or not to impeach the President of the United States is often thought of in political terms."
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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "In today's political climate, the question of whether or not to impeach the President of the United States is often thought of in political terms."
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U.S. citizen Francisco Galicia, 18, chats with his attorney, Claudia Galan, after his release from the South Texas Detention Facility in Pearsall, Texas. (photo: Kin Man Hui/LMT)
A US-Born Teen Was in Border Custody for 23 Days. Now He's Suing the Government
Christine Bolanos, Guardian UK
Bolanos writes: "A mother and her American-born teenage son are suing two US government agencies and speaking out over the inhumane conditions they said he endured while taken into border custody for more than three weeks."
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Christine Bolanos, Guardian UK
Bolanos writes: "A mother and her American-born teenage son are suing two US government agencies and speaking out over the inhumane conditions they said he endured while taken into border custody for more than three weeks."
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Raising Prospect of Impeaching Trump, House Seeks Mueller's Grand Jury Secrets
John Wagner, Kayla Epstein and Rachael Bade, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The House Judiciary Committee on Friday asked a federal judge to enforce congressional subpoenas seeking grand jury information related to the special counsel's investigation, taking steps in the direction of possible impeachment of President Trump."
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John Wagner, Kayla Epstein and Rachael Bade, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The House Judiciary Committee on Friday asked a federal judge to enforce congressional subpoenas seeking grand jury information related to the special counsel's investigation, taking steps in the direction of possible impeachment of President Trump."
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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)
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Use $2.5 Billion in Pentagon Funds for Border Wall
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "The Supreme Court handed down a Friday evening order effectively permitting President Trump to reappropriate $2.5 billion dollars from a pool of money intended to support anti-drug activities to construction of a Mexican border wall. The case is Trump v. Sierra Club."
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Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "The Supreme Court handed down a Friday evening order effectively permitting President Trump to reappropriate $2.5 billion dollars from a pool of money intended to support anti-drug activities to construction of a Mexican border wall. The case is Trump v. Sierra Club."
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This picture was posted on one of the students' private Instagram account in March, prompting a bias complaint to be filed with the university shortly after. (photo: Instagram)
Three White Ole Miss Frat Brothers Posed With Guns in Front of Bullet-Riddled Emmett Till Memorial
Elliot Hannon, Slate
Hannon writes: "Three white fraternity brothers at the University of Mississippi are the subject of a Justice Department civil rights investigation after one of the students posted a picture of the trio posing with guns in front a bullet-riddled roadside memorial to Emmett Till, a black teenager whose 1955 torture and murder galvanized the civil rights movement."
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Elliot Hannon, Slate
Hannon writes: "Three white fraternity brothers at the University of Mississippi are the subject of a Justice Department civil rights investigation after one of the students posted a picture of the trio posing with guns in front a bullet-riddled roadside memorial to Emmett Till, a black teenager whose 1955 torture and murder galvanized the civil rights movement."
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Two ethnic Uyghur women pass Chinese paramilitary policemen. (photo: Peter Parks/Getty Images)
Child Separation and Prison Camps: China's Campaign Against Uyghur Muslims Is "Cultural Genocide"
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Chinese authorities have been accused of systematically separating Muslim children from their families in the far western region of Xinjiang."
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Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Chinese authorities have been accused of systematically separating Muslim children from their families in the far western region of Xinjiang."
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A boy attempting to cool off under a public water spray in Paris. (photo: Philippe Lopez/Getty Images)
July Is on Track to Become Earth's Hottest Month on Record, Climate Scientists Say
Denise Chow, NBC News
Chow writes: "July is on track to become the hottest month in recorded history, climate scientists say, after heat waves blanketed North America and the Arctic saw warmer than usual temperatures."
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Denise Chow, NBC News
Chow writes: "July is on track to become the hottest month in recorded history, climate scientists say, after heat waves blanketed North America and the Arctic saw warmer than usual temperatures."
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Monday, March 11, 2019
Adam Gopnik | The Pros and Cons of Impeaching Trump
10 March 19
Saturday we served 21,820 readers. 18 of those people said “yes I will help.” Though their numbers were small, their impact was huge.
We are working as hard as we can to close the March funding gap.
Who can help?
Marc Ash
Founder, Reader Supported News
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10 March 19 PM
Adam Gopnik | The Pros and Cons of Impeaching Trump
Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
Gopnik writes: "A point common to all the anti-impeachment arguments, though, comes right out of an old Western; as the lawmen used to say about the cattle-rustling varmint after he was caught, 'Hanging's too good for him.' In this case, impeachment is seen as too rarefied, too technical a proceeding to end Trumpism."
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
Gopnik writes: "A point common to all the anti-impeachment arguments, though, comes right out of an old Western; as the lawmen used to say about the cattle-rustling varmint after he was caught, 'Hanging's too good for him.' In this case, impeachment is seen as too rarefied, too technical a proceeding to end Trumpism."
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Elliott Abrams. (photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
Elliott Abrams Threatens Still More Sanctions Against Venezuela
Lesley Wroughton and Patricia Zengerle, Reuters
Excerpt: "U.S. President Donald Trump's special representative for Venezuela pledged on Thursday that Washington would 'expand the net' of sanctions on the South American nation, including more on banks supporting President Nicolas Maduro's government."
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Lesley Wroughton and Patricia Zengerle, Reuters
Excerpt: "U.S. President Donald Trump's special representative for Venezuela pledged on Thursday that Washington would 'expand the net' of sanctions on the South American nation, including more on banks supporting President Nicolas Maduro's government."
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Paul Manafort. (photo: Getty Images)
I'm a Public Defender. My Clients Get None of the Sympathy Manafort Did.
Rachel Marshall, The Washington Post
Marshall writes: "When I heard Paul Manafort had been sentenced to a mere 47 months in prison for eight criminal charges involving extensive tax and bank fraud, I thought back to my first client, a man I represented in 2010 through a Stanford Law School clinic that challenged life sentences imposed for minor offenses."
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Rachel Marshall, The Washington Post
Marshall writes: "When I heard Paul Manafort had been sentenced to a mere 47 months in prison for eight criminal charges involving extensive tax and bank fraud, I thought back to my first client, a man I represented in 2010 through a Stanford Law School clinic that challenged life sentences imposed for minor offenses."
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A detention center. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)
More Than 2,000 Migrants Quarantined in US Detention Centers Due to Disease Outbreaks
Mica Rosenberg and Kristina Cooke, Reuters
Excerpt: "In early January, a mumps outbreak at the privately-run Pine Prairie U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center put Mejia and hundreds of other detainees on lockdown. 'When there is just one person who is sick, everybody pays,' Mejia, 19, said in a phone interview from the Pine Prairie center describing weeks without visits and access to the library and dining hall."
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Mica Rosenberg and Kristina Cooke, Reuters
Excerpt: "In early January, a mumps outbreak at the privately-run Pine Prairie U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center put Mejia and hundreds of other detainees on lockdown. 'When there is just one person who is sick, everybody pays,' Mejia, 19, said in a phone interview from the Pine Prairie center describing weeks without visits and access to the library and dining hall."
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Governor Gary Herbert of Utah. (photo: Fred Hayes/Getty Images)
After Gutting Conversion Therapy Bill, Utah Governor Apologizes to LGBTQ Youth
Zack Ford, ThinkProgress
Ford writes: "A group of young LGBTQ activists in Utah staged a sit-in outside the governor's office on Thursday evening to demand an apology, after a bill prohibiting conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth died in the state legislature."
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Zack Ford, ThinkProgress
Ford writes: "A group of young LGBTQ activists in Utah staged a sit-in outside the governor's office on Thursday evening to demand an apology, after a bill prohibiting conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth died in the state legislature."
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Opposition protesters confronted police in Caracas ahead of the march. (photo: Reuters)
Electric Power Returns to Part, but Not All, of Venezuela as Protests Loom
BBC
Excerpt: "President Nicolás Maduro and the US-backed opposition trying to oust him have blamed each other for the outage."
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BBC
Excerpt: "President Nicolás Maduro and the US-backed opposition trying to oust him have blamed each other for the outage."
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'To the mature Thoreau, wildness was an entanglement of different realities and more of an attitude than an attribute.' (photo: Matteo Colombo/DigitalVision/Getty Images)
Thoreau's Great Insight for the Anthropocene: Wildness Is an Attitude, Not a Place
Robert M. Thorson, The Conversation
Thorson writes: "When Americans quote writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, they often reach for his assertion that 'In Wildness is the preservation of the world.' This phrase elicited little response when Thoreau first read it during a lecture in 1851. A century later, however, it had become a guiding mantra for the American environmental movement, adopted by the Sierra Club as its motto and launched into the cultural stratosphere via bumper stickers, T-shirts and posters."
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Robert M. Thorson, The Conversation
Thorson writes: "When Americans quote writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, they often reach for his assertion that 'In Wildness is the preservation of the world.' This phrase elicited little response when Thoreau first read it during a lecture in 1851. A century later, however, it had become a guiding mantra for the American environmental movement, adopted by the Sierra Club as its motto and launched into the cultural stratosphere via bumper stickers, T-shirts and posters."
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