Kenny Stancil

Kenny Stancil is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

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140+ Experts to Rich Nations: Redirect Trillions in Public Money to Curb Climate, Inequality Crises

More than 140 economists and policy experts on Monday published an open letter calling on the leaders of rich countries to combat the life-threatening crises of climate change and inequality through the downward redistribution of trillions of dollars in public money.

June 20, 2023

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Varoufakis Details Vision for Ending ‘Global Empire of Capital’ to Avert Catastrophe

With enough solidarity, progressives around the world can build an egalitarian, democratic, peaceful, and sustainable society.

December 16, 2022

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Indigenous Women Invite Deb Haaland to See Devastation of Line 3 for Herself

A group of Indigenous women opposed to the Line 3 pipeline on Thursday invited Interior Secretary Deb Haaland—the first Native American woman to hold her Cabinet position and a professed critic of fossil fuel infrastructure on public and tribal lands—to visit northern Minnesota and “learn more about the impacts” of the tar sands project first-hand.

June 22, 2021