Sunrise Movement;Voter Registration; Power Differentials; and a Bailout

#The Sunrise Movement
Leanna First-Arais, "Sunrise in Nashville," Sierra, May/June 2020.
"The Sunrise Movement was founded in 2017 by a group of 1`2 recent college graduates who were seeing signs of climate breakdown -- devastating hurricanes, floods,fires, and droughts -- and were frustrated by the widespread failure of elected officials to enact policies to aggressively curb climate  change. And they played a role in getting scientists with the United Nations to call for carbon neutrality around 2050,which must be well underway by 2030.

#Voter Registration
Sophia Demlding, "Are You Registered to Vote?" Sierra, May/June 2020.
"Thirty-eight states make it possible to register online. Eleven states automatically register eligible    voters  when they are of voting age. Twenty-one states allow voters to register on the same day as an election. Then there's Texas, which has honed voter suppression to an art." "A voter registration system this inefficient is a waste of money. It is also one of the reasons -- along with harsh ID laws -- that the state has such a dismal voter turnout."

"It was recently reported that for the first time in its history, Texas has more that 16 million voters. The ranks of the registered are growing  faster than the population."

#Google Workers Walk Out
Clio Chang, "Company Culture," The Nation, April 20/27, 2020.
"In 2018, more than 20,000 Google workers walked out on their jobs for a few hours to protest, among other issues, the way companies paid off top executives accused of sexual harassment." "In many workplaces, obscuring power differentials is management's favorite tool to keep those who don't have its [power] from agitating for it." "No matter the determining of any one particular person, their  people in charge are still more likely than not to be able to subject their workers to any sort of mistreatment, and get away with it."

#The Bailout Bill
"A Bigger Bailout," The Nation, April 20/27, 2020.
The bailout bill provides $500 billion as a backstop for the Federal Reserve to pump trillions of dollars into banks and corporations. With that, the latter will pocket over 80 percent of the total package, while workers and families will get about 8 percent. States, localities, hospitals, and schools will be left with even less." "The Fed will flood banks with money -- which corporations can than use to finance mergers, take over distressed rivals, and  lard-up on debt. Wall Street can use the crisis to increase concentration, not competition, adding to the country's already obscene inequality."

"Far greater support for states and localities -- all now headed into crippling budget crises -- is imperative. Extending paid sick leave and funding voting by mail to secure elections are both vital, as are further payments to individuals and continued protections against foreclosures and evictions." "Medicare should cover all coronavirus testing and treatment costs -- an obvious step for Medicare for All."