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Reproductive Freedom for All: Six Storylines to Watch in 2026

Reproductive Freedom for All: “2025 affirmed critical truths that will be at the forefront of our fight in 2026—voters continue to reject abortion bans and support reproductive freedom champions at the ballot box; anti-abortion actors are escalating, not retreating, despite their proven unpopularity; and the human cost of abortion bans is mounting while the full damage is still untold.” © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

This fact sheet was provided by Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) which for 55 years has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, standing up to protect the rights of the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion:

2025 affirmed critical truths that will be at the forefront of our fight in 2026—voters continue to reject abortion bans and support reproductive freedom champions at the ballot box; anti-abortion actors are escalating, not retreating, despite their proven unpopularity; and the human cost of abortion bans is mounting while the full damage is still untold.

Here are the topics that shaped 2025—and how we’re expecting them to play out in 2026:

1: GOP Attacks on Medication Abortion as Proxy for a National Ban

Trump and his allies spent this year mounting coordinated attacks on mifepristone, making clear that restricting medication abortion is the most immediate path to a national abortion ban. By targeting mifepristone through courts, federal agencies, and obscure laws, anti-abortion extremists are attempting to override state protections, medical consensus, and public opinion—and we expect them to double down in 2026. But the reality remains: Medication abortion is safe, effective, and widely used. While abortion bans have devastated access in many states, care persists thanks to telehealth and shield laws, and medication abortion is on the rise. 

Key Moments in 2025:

●       This year marked 25 years since the FDA approved mifepristone, which has been rigorously studied and used by more than 7.5 million people.

●       Trump and his MAGA allies are using every branch and levelof government, including the courts, Congress, and administrative agencies like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to block access to mifepristone.

●       Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced a bill in the Senate to ban the mailing of mifepristone, and House Republicans have introduced similar legislation.

What We’re Watching in 2026:

●       The FDA’s baseless, politically motivated “review” of mifepristone—now delayed until after the 2026 midterms. (Coincidental timing, we’re sure.)

●       Renewed litigation as states like Florida, Texas, and Missouri aim to further restrict mifepristone.

●       Movement in Missouri v. FDA—GOP-led states’ attempt to revive a dismissed challenge and restrict mifepristone access. This comes after federal district Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk (in Texas) transferred the case to the Eastern District of Missouri, which is conveniently stacked with Trump-appointed, anti-abortion judges.

●       Continued reliance on junk science as anti-abortion groups ramp up their outlandish, unscientific claims to stigmatize and surveil medication abortion.

●       Quiet groundwork by the Trump administration to misuse the Comstock Act to ban the mailing of mifepristone.

2: “Leave It Up to the States”: Shield Laws vs. Criminalizing Abortion Care

2025 revealed a direct and growing clash between states protecting abortion care and states attempting to criminalize care within and beyond their borders. Shield laws protected patients and providers from extraterritorial legal actions by states that have banned abortion. This prompted aggressive backlash from anti-abortion extremists who have made it crystal clear that they never actually intended to leave abortion access up to individual states.

Key Moments in 2025:

●       Sixteen Republican attorneys general urged Congress to override state shield laws.

●       Texas enacted HB 7, yet another bounty-hunter abortion ban that encourages private individuals to sue manufacturers, distributors, and providers of medication abortion to receive a minimum of $100,000 in damages.

●       States like Texas and Louisiana attempted to bypass other states’ shield laws, while California, New York, Vermont and other blue states strengthened and expanded protections for abortion providers and patients.

●       New data from the Society of Family Planning showed an increase in telehealth-provided medication abortion care in the first half of 2025, including from legal shield-state providers.

What We’re Watching in 2026: 

●       Escalating interstate legal conflicts and congressional efforts to preempt shield laws as the GOP continues to pursue a national abortion ban.

●       Copy-cat legislation as anti-abortion lawmakers in state legislatures across the country  seek to replicate Texas’s HB 7, the new bounty-hunter ban targeting manufacturers, distributors, and providers of medication abortion. Some states will go even further and attempt to target people who help others access medication abortion care.

3: The GOP-Manufactured Health Care Crisis

Republicans used 2025 to advance a broader assault on health care access—gutting coverage, defunding providers, and driving up costs to push care even further out of reach. As we head into 2026, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits are set to expire, threatening coverage for more than 22 million people, and more health care clinics and rural hospitals across the country are at risk of closing.

Key Moments in 2025: 

●       In July, Trump and his allies in Congress passed a deeply unpopular budget bill that defunds Planned Parenthood, decimates Medicaid, and ultimately strips health coverage from 15 million people.

●       In September, Congressional Republicans shut down the federal government for 43 days—the longest in history. While ignoring calls for a bipartisan spending bill to mitigate their manufactured health care crisis, they did find plenty of time to keep attacking abortion.

●       Anti-abortion Republicans slashed funding for Title X, the nation’s only federal funding program dedicated to family planning.

 What We’re Watching in 2026:

●       An expected January vote on House Democrats’ clean three-year extension of the ACA enhanced premium tax credits. As the ACA fight continues, expect Republicans to keep pushing anti-abortion misinformation to distract from skyrocketing health care costs and their refusal to extend the tax credits.

●       The Supreme Court potentially taking up Planned Parenthood Federation of America v. Kennedy—yet another case that threatens Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood and other providers that offer abortion care.

●       Intensifying scrutiny of increased public funding for anti-abortion centers, especially as legitimate medical providers lose critical resources. 

●       More empty health care proposals from anti-abortion lawmakers that contain harmful abortion provisions.

4: So-Called “Personhood” and Expanding Attacks Beyond Abortion

Republicans accelerated efforts to codify harmful “personhood” ideology—granting legal rights to zygotes, embryos, or fetuses—confirming what reproductive freedom advocates have long warned: Anti-abortion extremists were never going to stop at abortion. “Personhood” ideology lays the groundwork to restrict in vitro fertilization (IVF), contraception, stem cell research, and pregnancy management. Trump and his allies want these threats to fly under the radar because they know just how extreme and unpopular they are. While these laws are often framed as technical changes or isolated incidents, the policies are part of an insidious strategy to launder these unpopular and unworkable ideas, assert even more control over our bodies, and redefine reproductive health care out of existence.

 Key Moments in 2025: 

●       Trump signed an executive order that targeted trans people and defined life as beginning at conception, inserting “personhood” ideology into official administrative policy.

●       The self-proclaimed “father of IVF,” Trump confirmed he does not plan to require health insurers to provide coverage for IVF—after campaigning on making these services free.

●       House Speaker Mike Johnson quietly worked to successfully remove IVF coverage for active duty military members from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

●       At least 38 bills attempting to codify “personhood” ideology were introduced across 24 states—a sharp increase from last year.

●       Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo vetoed SB 217, which would have expanded access to fertility care by lowering costs and protecting access amid GOP efforts to ban IVF.

●       The South Carolina Legislature seriously considered SB 323, a total abortion ban that would have treated abortion as homicide and set the foundation to restrict birth control, IVF, and emergency contraception.

●       The Trump administration destroyed $10 million worth of contraceptives, justifying it by falsely categorizing birth control as an “abortifacient.”

What We’re Watching in 2026:

●       Renewed domestic gag rule threats (Trump already revived the global gag rule from his first term) that extend anti-abortion ideology into broader domestic health systems.

●       The federal government’s continued attacks on birth control, including threats to falsely conflate IUDs and other forms of contraception as abortion care.

●       Expanded criminalization efforts as states use laws based on “personhood” ideology to prosecute miscarriage and other pregnancy outcomes.

●       Anti-abortion groups’ increased reliance on junk science to vilify IVF and providers who offer a full range of fertility care as part of their broader efforts to sow distrust in legitimate medical institutions and providers while pushing people toward the anti-abortion centers they fund. 

5. Rigging the System from the Courts to the Ballot Box

Knowing 8 in 10 Americans support the legal right to abortion care, anti-abortion extremists have doubled down on consolidating power—stacking courts, rewriting rules, and manipulating democratic systems—to impose an unpopular agenda voters repeatedly reject. This strategy targets reproductive freedom alongside voting rights and democracy itself, even as voters continue to push back and are poised to do so again in 2026.

 Key Moments in 2025:
 

●       Abortion was a galvanizing issue that drove turnout and victories from coast to coast during the 2025 elections.

●       After retaking office, Trump moved quickly to completely overhaul the federal government—stacking every level and branch with extremists ready to advance Project 2025’s priorities.

●       The Trump administration also confirmed dozens of judicial nominees to the federal bench—including 13 that have extreme anti-abortion records. These confirmations have set the stage for judges to rubber-stamp Trump’s anti-abortion agenda in the courts.

●       Californians overwhelmingly passed Prop 50 to push back against Trump’s redistricting in Texas and other attacks on democracy.

●       In response to successful state abortion ballot measures, including in his home state of Missouri, Sen. Josh Hawley and his wife, Erin Hawley—an attorney and key figure in overturning Roe v. Wade—launched a dark money group to promote anti-abortion ballot measures across the country. The move reportedly sparked backlash even within the White House, underscoring just how politically toxic these efforts are.

●       Anti-abortion lawmakers in Missouri passed legislation that puts a constitutional amendment on the ballot that, if approved by voters, would remove the abortion protections Missouri voters approved last year. Anti-abortion extremists in Arizona tried to do the same thing, but after advocacy led by Reproductive Freedom for All, this bill was defeated.

What We’re Watching in 2026:

●       The 2026 midterms as a referendum on abortion bans and government overreach.

●       Nevada’s Question 6, which aims to protect abortion rights in the state constitution, returning to the ballot for final voter approval after a decisive victory in 2024.

●       Massive spending by anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, which pledged millions to buy the Georgia and Michigan Senate seats.

●       High-stakes redistricting and voting rights cases, including Louisiana v. Callais before the Supreme Court, with major implications for representation and democracy.

6:  Maternal Mortality and the Human Cost of Abortion Bans

The consequences of abortion bans became even more visible in 2025 as investigative reporting documented more heartbreaking and preventable deaths of pregnant people denied care. Maternal mortality rates are on the rise in states with abortion bans, yet those same states are making it harder to investigate by obfuscating and suppressing data.

 Key Moments in 2025: 

●       Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old Black mother and nurse from Atlanta, was kept on life support for more than 90 days—against her family’s wishes, and long after being declared brain dead—because of Georgia’s extreme abortion ban and so-called fetal personhood ideology.

●       Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old Black mother from San Antonio, died from preeclampsia after being denied an abortion during a high-risk pregnancy—despite repeatedly asking for care—under Texas’ extreme abortion ban.

●       After Georgia dismissed all members of its Maternal Mortality Commission last year, the state is now keeping the new members secret.

●       The Trump administration rescinded the 2022 Biden-era guidance that affirmed federal law protects emergency abortion care—putting lives at risk and creating confusion for providers who still have a legal obligation to provide this care.

What we’re watching in 2026:

●       Continued erosion of emergency care protections.

●       Ongoing suppression of maternal mortality data by anti-abortion extremists.

●       More dangerous miscarriage and pregnancy outcomes in ban states, where emergency interventions and complications are rising.

The storylines that unfolded in 2025 have set the stage for 2026, and the stakes are clear: An extremist minority is escalating authoritarian efforts through every level of power—and our rights and freedoms are at risk. This next year will test whether democracy and science prevail over coordinated and escalating attacks, with control of Congress and the future of reproductive freedom on the line.

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NYS Governor Kathy Hochul: ‘Why I’m Supporting Medical Aid in Dying’

NYS Governor Kathy Hochul, after explaining how she came to support medical aid in dying, said that after the Legislature agreed to amendments adding safeguards and guardrails to prevent abuse or coercion, it would be passed and she would sign the legislation in January. © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

Shortly after penning an op-ed in the Times Union explaining how New York State Governor Kathy Hochul came to support medical aid in dying, she announced an agreement with the Legislature to make medical aid in dying available to terminally ill New Yorkers with less than six months to live after amending the legislation with safeguards and guardrails to prevent abuse or coercion. This comes after careful reflection and deliberation with the bill’s sponsors, advocacy organizations, and most importantly, everyday New Yorkers who shared personal experiences with the Governor, who is a devout Catholic. The bill, with the agreed-upon amendments, will be passed and signed in January, and the law will go into effect six months later.

Announcing the agreement, Governor Hochul stated,

“Such as life and so is death — two forces in life that are inevitable. And so I was moved by their courage and I wanted to help them put an end to a decades long journey and say, ‘You can rest now. Your loved one has been honored in a way that is profound. And to the extent that you’re still wounded, suffering, questioning yourself, may you rest in peace yourself in this life, may you not have that trauma and that angst any longer.’ That’s what I wish for all my friends here….

“That there could be coercion, duress, and pressure put on people. And I was concerned about that and I said, “How can we get out from under that?” That everyone will know that someone who makes that decision did it of free will, not under pressure. And so, those are some of the constraints I put around this….

“So we have our safeguards, you can read them all, but this is one of the toughest decisions I’ve ever made as Governor. So I spent a lot of time on this, talked to a lot of people, but I want these people behind me to know, it was their stories that touched my heart the most. Because who am I to deny you or your loved one what they’re begging for at the end of their life?

“I couldn’t do that any longer, and that is why I’m here to announce that we have reached an agreement, and I thank the legislators for listening to me and my concerns and to reconfirm that New York will always continue to be a bastion of freedom to worship, to speak your mind, freedom of choice. It’s time we finally extend those freedoms to the terminally ill and their families.”

Here is the text of the op-ed that can be viewed online, explaining how she came to this most difficult decision:

Two and a half centuries ago, our founding fathers established a vision of a country based on limited government and broad individual rights that together protect rights of speech, worship, privacy and bodily autonomy. Proudly, New York has long led the fights championing the rights of individuals, from civil rights to labor rights, LGBTQ rights, women’s rights, and reproductive rights. In the true spirit of this country, government has a responsibility to protect, not interfere, with an individual’s deeply personal decisions.

This is the context in which I have considered the Medical Aid in Dying Act, a bill to allow suffering terminally ill individuals with less than six months left to live the right to medical aid to speed up the inevitable.

During this journey I listened to New Yorkers who are in the throes of pain and suffering. I heard from their children, who are watching a parent endure a slow, devastating decline. I heard stories of a parent or spouse pleading for an end to the suffering and how difficult it was to reply, “We can’t in New York.”

This was heartbreaking, and it hit close to home. I watched my own mom die from ALS. I watched that vicious disease steal away the strong woman who raised me as it took her ability to walk, to eat, to speak and, ultimately, to live. I am all too familiar with the pain of seeing someone you love suffer and feeling powerless to stop it.  

At the same time, there are individuals of many faiths who believe that deliberately shortening one’s life violates the sanctity of life. I understand and respect those views. But as I have spoken with people tormented by pain, I have come to see this as a matter of individual choice that does not have to be about shortening life but rather about shortening dying. And I do not believe that in every instance condemning someone to excruciating pain and suffering preserves the dignity and sanctity of life. 

I reflected on this during a Catholic funeral Mass for a family friend where the priest spoke of the welcome home to eternal life. I was taught that God is merciful and compassionate, and so must we be. This includes permitting a merciful option to those facing the unimaginable and searching for comfort in their final months in this life.

So after careful deliberation, I decided to support legalizing medical aid in dying in very specific circumstances and with significant protections included in the law to ensure it is not misused or broadly applied.

The bill passed by the Legislature already allowed individual doctors and religiously affiliated health facilities to decline to offer medical aid in dying. In my view, those protections were essential but not sufficient. I proposed additional guardrails that also protect family members, caregivers and doctors, and I am pleased that the bill’s sponsors and legislative leaders agreed to include them in the bill I will ultimately sign once the Legislature returns to Albany and approves the amended language. 

These guardrails address the concerns of some who fear that vulnerable populations, including those with disabilities or the elderly, will be pressured into a decision they would not have made on their own. Confirmation from a medical doctor that the individual truly had less than six months to live, and from a psychologist or psychiatrist that the patient is capable of making the decision and not under duress, will now be required. 

There will be a mandatory five-day waiting period to provide the patient the chance to change their mind, and both a written and recorded oral request to confirm free will is present, with anyone who may benefit financially disqualified from being a witness or interpreter. 

Outpatient facilities associated with religious hospitals may elect not to offer medical aid in dying, and the effective date of the bill has been extended to ensure time for regulations and training.

Finally, this is a right afforded to New Yorkers only.

These are fundamental protections to ensure vulnerable people aren’t pressured, misled or left without alternatives.

The Medical Aid in Dying Act will afford terminally ill New Yorkers the right to spend their final days not under sterile hospital lights but with sunlight streaming through their bedroom window. The right to spend their final days not hearing the droning hum of hospital machines but instead the laughter of their grandkids echoing in the next room. The right to tell their family they love them and be able to hear those precious words in return.  

I am grateful to the advocates, families and legislative supporters, especially bill sponsors Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Assemblymember Amy Paulin, who worked hard to make this happen in a thoughtful and responsible way. And I hope those who are disappointed by this outcome know this was a difficult decision for me personally. It was not made lightly. It was guided by a genuine and deeply held belief that government must respect the rights and will of the people it serves. I hope that those who oppose this legislation will be able to look with compassion on those who may make a choice they would not make for themselves. And isn’t that, at heart, what the choice and freedom our young nation promised its people 250 years ago is all about?

Kathy Hochul is the 57th governor of New York.

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Clinton Global Initiative Steps Up Commitment to Meet Unprecedented Challenges to Climate Action, Global Health, Humanitarian Aid, Democracy, Free Press

President Bill Clinton, President Vjosa Osmani of Kosovo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization and Jose Andres of World Central Kitchen discuss “We’re Next” at the 20th anniversary  Clinton Global Initiative, themed “What’s Next.” © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

By Karen Rubin, editor@news-photos-features.com, news-photos-features.com

Each year for the past 20, there has been a respite, an oasis of hope, positivity, possibility and promise: the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The invention of the Clinton Foundation, CGI devised a platform and mechanisms to actually solve the most intractable problems confronting the world, that politicians love to talk about but are too hamstrung to.  

Each year there were challenges to overcome, but this year, there was an unusual pall over the gathering as the reality of backsliding on all the progress that has been made in health care, clean air and water (which 3 billion people lack), democracy, free press, conflict resolution, education, poverty, women’s rights and empowerment, gender rights, climate change, global migration. In many ways, there were the same topics of 20 years ago, but instead of focusing on the crisis in democracy, free press, disease and health care in developing countries across oceans, there was equal focus on the USA.

Bill Clinton and California Governor Gavin Newsom discuss the urgent need for climate action © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

In the past, there have been American administrations which did not further the aims of a more just, equitable future in which each could fulfill their potential, but never in the past was an administration using the might and wealth its predecessors built to actively undermine and reverse the progress of 150 years.

They are up against huge forces – the US with just 5% of the world’s population, has amassed 35% of global wealth and generates 14% of the carbon emissions (down from 20% thanks to Obama and Biden) that so endanger public health, food and water supply, and created the disasters that forced millions to flee their homes, creating the migrant crisis that has destabilized liberal democratic governments.

The conference convened just a day after Donald Trump, who has made good on his fantasy to tear up the Constitution and become a “dictator on day 1”, who effectively made illegal DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion – foundational principles of CGI) and who clawed back billions in foreign aid and humanitarian aid, and withdrawn from agencies including the World Health Organization, addressed the United Nations (a “failed” organization).  Trump told the General Assembly that climate change was a “hoax” and a “green scam” and that as nations, they should do what the US has done: evict migrants and shut their borders to refugees in order to preserve their “heritage” and nationhood or else, “your countries are going to hell.”

In the final CGI panel discussion, “We’re Next,”  Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), recalled where he was on the day he heard (was not informed by Trump) that the USA, its largest donor, was withdrawing and taking with it  its funding, immediately – not in six months to give the WHO time to reorganize. He noted that where he was when he heard was in Sana’a, capital of Yemen, when Israel bombed it, killing someone close to him and wounding others.  It triggered memory as a child of war in his native country of Ethiopia –“the smell, image, even the sound” – when close relatives were killed, and reignited the PTSD.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization, describes the challenge of having to reprioritize, reorganize after Trump pulled all funding from theWHO © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

“In 2020, with the first US withdrawal, the first round of cuts came, and war in my country and Covid. it was difficult situation. but if there is one thing that But I try to see what is beyond my control and focus on what I can do. It encourages me encourages me to do more as an individual.” And so he will figure out a way for the World Health Organization to continue to function.

President Vjosa Osmani of Kosovo tells President Clinton that democracy, rule of law, freedom and peace are the keys to economic prosperity © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

Another child of war, President Vjosa Osmani of Kosovo told President Bill Clinton, that it is peace and democracy that brings economic prosperity and progress (not tariffs and authoritarianism). “When you never take your freedom, your freedoms for granted, when you focus on the rule of law, democracy, human rights, then economic empowerment and prosperity comes. What you stand for in the most difficult times matters.”

But in inimitable fashion, the Clintons set a tone of positivity and everyone set out with renewed resolve, determination and resilience to figure “workarounds” to the unprecedented challenge.

Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, discusses the crisis in food programs on a CGI panel with Tony Capuano of Marriott International and Janti Soeripto of Save the Children US © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

CGI, offered panels themed “A Critical Moment for Humanitarian Response,” “Protecting Progress, Prevention and Management of Infections and NonCommunicable Diseases,” “A New Blueprint for Global Health,” “New Approaches to Climate Finance,” “Bold Solutions for Effective Philanthropy,”  “Protecting Truth and Information in a Fractured World,” “Putting People First,” all asking the question, “What’s Next,”  and, finally, “We’re Next.” It went back to an earlier framework to focus on “working groups” – small groups focused around a particular issue to bring together NGOs, business entities, philanthropists, activists and experts who could form partnerships to fulfill innovative commitments.

Matt Damon, the acclaimed actor, relayed how Clinton Global Initiative 17 years ago helped him realize his goal of bringing safe water and sanitation to the millions upon millions of people who lacked such basic necessities. CGI introduced him to Gary White, an engineer, who also had no idea how to achieve that goal, and together they formed Water.org.

Matt Damon discusses how Clinton Global initiative was essential to the success of water.org beginning 17 years ago with a commitment to bring clean water and sanitation to 100,000, his success at delivering to 1 million and his new CGI commitment to reach 100 million © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

“It was like a first date – nervousness, awkwardness. But we realized that together could do a lot more than on own and really scale.” The first year’s CGI commitment was to build systems to serve 100,000. “Innovation-led, partners would follow. We got bigger and the numbers ran up. We hoped to reach 1 million a year. Today, we reach 1 million every six weeks.

“Our current commitment is already underway. In 2022, we pledged to help 100 million in Africa, Asia, and Latin America gain access to water, sanitation. We have already reached more than 30 million people who no longer have to take long walk for water.

“For Gary and me, CGI was the start. We thank President Clinton for introducing us, inspiring us to think better and doing all he can to help us reach those goals. There is more distance to go, with more than 2 billion people who lack access to safe water; 3 billion to sanitation.”

It was an invitation for others to join the partnership, or form their own, which is the essence of CGI.

Bulbul Gupta, CEO, Pacific Community Ventures; Hawaii Governor Josh Green; Jennifer Prayce, CEO of Calvert Impact Capital speak with Matthew Bishop, founder, social Progress Imperative on investing in community resilience © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

We saw it in real time when Hawaii Governor Josh Green, on the “Investing in Community Resilience” panel with Jennifer Pryce, CEO of Calvert Impact Capital, learned about new ways to multiply the benefit of Hawaii’s newly imposed climate fee on visitors through community development bond instruments such as issued by Calvert Impact. Hawaii hopes to use the fee (about $3 on a $400/night hotel stay) to bond out $2 billion which will go to sustainability, environmental protection, prevention, resiliency (helps with insurance costs), and to sustain tourism, replenish coral reefs and beaches.

4,200 Commitments, 500 Million People, 180 Countries, 10,000 Partners

Secretary Hillary Clinton marked the 30th anniversary of her remarks at the UN World Conference on Women, when her statement, “Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights,” became a clarion call. She announced a new commitment: a landmark report outlining policy priorities critical to advancing the full and equal participation of women and girls in the 21st century, including in areas of democracy, human rights, technology, economic participation, conflict and climate © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

This year President Bill Clinton, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Foundation Vice Chair Dr. Chelsea Clinton concluded the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) 2025 Annual Meeting with the launch of 106 new Commitments to Action.

Since President Clinton founded CGI in 2005, the convening has asked attendees to come with Commitments to Action — specific, measurable partnerships and projects that address an urgent global challenge (there are regular reports issued).

Stacy Abrams, of American Pride Rises Network, in discussion with Errin Haines of The 19th, Melanie Hul of Luminate and Amanda Litman of Run for Something, offers 10 ways to push back on Trump’s moves to authoritarianism on a panel promoting women’s empowerment and engagement in politics © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com  

Over the last 20 years, members of the CGI community across business, philanthropy, and government – more than 10,000 organizations and individuals – have partnered to launch more than 4,200 commitments that have improved the lives of more than 500 million people in over 180 countries. As a result of these partnerships:

  • Nearly 78 million people have improved access to financial services or capital.
    • More than $1.6 billion has been invested or loaned to small- and medium-sized enterprises.
    • Nearly 2.7 billion metric tons of CO2 were cut or abated.
    • More than 402 million acres of forest have been protected or restored.
    • Nearly 4 million clean jobs have been created.
    • More than 130 million people can more easily access maternal and child health and survival programs.
    • Nearly 38 million people can more easily access safe drinking water and sanitation.
    • More than 36 million people have received treatment for neglected tropical diseases.
    • More than $362 million in research and development funds has been spent on new vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics.

Highlights from this year’s program include:

The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), led by Dr. Chelsea Clinton, along with Unitaid, Wits RHI, and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, announced a groundbreaking agreement on HIV prevention to dramatically open access to lenacapavir, a revolutionary medicine that effectively prevents HIV transmission with two injections a year. Under the CHAI-negotiated deal, this will be affordable and available for just $40 per year in 120 low- and middle-income countries by 2027 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
  • A bold opening address by President Clinton, condemning political violence, defending free speech, the free press and democracy, and how to bring the divided country together.
    • The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), along with Unitaid, Wits RHI, and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, announced a groundbreaking agreement on HIV prevention to dramatically open access to lenacapavir, a revolutionary medicine that effectively prevents HIV transmission with two injections a year. Under the CHAI-negotiated deal, this will be affordable and available for just $40 per year in 120 low- and middle-income countries by 2027.
    • Secretary Clinton marked the 30th anniversary of her remarks at the UN World Conference on Women, and announced a new Commitment to Action – a landmark report by the Women’s Initiative at Columbia SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics (IGP) and GWL Voices: Beijing+30: A Roadmap for Women’s Rights for the Next Thirty Years. The report outlines policy priorities critical to advancing the full and equal participation of women and girls in the twenty-first century, including in the areas of democracy and human rights, technology, economic participation, and conflict and climate. 
    • The Clinton Presidential Center, along with the City of Little Rock and ENFRA, announced a partnership to build the Clinton Sustainable Energy District (CSED) to offset carbon emissions and reduce utility costs through a new district energy system and a 5-megawatt solar array.
Chelsea Clinton speaks with Audrey Tang, Cyber Ambassador, Taiwan, and Deepak Bhargava, President, Freedom Together Foundation about “Putting People First” in the digital space taking a quantum leap with A.I. © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

This year’s CGI Annual Meeting was reimagined to promote collaboration through Working Groups – facilitated, action-focused sessions where leaders will collaborate with mission-aligned organizations to drive real solutions in the areas that matter most and are under the greatest threat. Secretary Clinton announced progress from these Working Groups that CGI will build action on in the coming years and months:

  • Out of the Innovative Finance Working Group, Kiva Microfunds will launch a new social enterprise fund of at least $10 million in 2026, in partnership with corporate foundations.  
    • The Health Working Group focused on using AI to overcome systemic gaps in chronic care; one project that came out of this group will expand maternal telehealth in Zimbabwe. 
    • In the Education Working Group, the Clinton Foundation’s Too Small to Fail initiative and UNIDOS US led a conversation about expanding access to early learning. The group is exploring a pilot program in three U.S. cities in 2026 to provide immigrant families with early education resources.
    • The Human Rights and Democracy Working Group focused on issues including accelerating women’s democratic participation and defending LGBTQ+ rights, and developed ideas from civic education programs for at-risk youth in Northern Ireland to anti-authoritarian initiatives worldwide.
    • Members of the Climate Working Group dug into the tough realities of climate change and mapped out bold plans, including creating a water fund to unlock economic opportunities for millions; building climate adaptation hubs across the tropical belt, starting at COP30 in November; and opening new markets to support regenerative farmers. 
    • The Economy Working Group focused on challenges like the care economy and access to capital. Out of that discussion came a commitment to launch a Global Network for National Service that will strengthen, expand, and scale national service programs around the world. 
    • The Truth and Information Working Group discussed ways to cut through misinformation and focus on building community. In the next year, a top priority will be advocating for state and local leaders to enact responsible regulations on tech platforms and give users more ownership over their data. 
    • The Humanitarian Response Working Group emphasized the need for innovation, preparedness, and localized responses to humanitarian crises around the world; with action items including a shared information system among responding NGOs, new funding opportunities, and innovative research-based tools.
President Bill Clinton, Secretary Hillary Clinton and Dr. Chelsea Clinton award the Clinton Global Citizen Award to entrepreneur and philanthropist B. Thomas Golisano for his transformative philanthropic work, including contributing $900 million to disability services, education, animal welfare, healthcare and numerous other community focused non-profits. Golisano was also an early supporter of the Clinton Global Initiative.

President Clinton also awarded the Clinton Global Citizen Award to entrepreneur and philanthropist B. Thomas Golisano for his transformative philanthropic work. As Founder of Paychex, a human resources software and service provider for small to medium sized businesses, Golisano has invested in endeavors that advance entrepreneurship and drive the success of numerous businesses and start-ups; he has also made more than $900 million in philanthropic contributions to disability services, education, animal welfare, healthcare — including four children’s hospitals that bear his name; Rochester, Syracuse, Ft. Myers and Buffalo — and numerous other community focused non-profits. Past recipients of the Clinton Global Citizen Award include President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska, Nadia Murad, and Dr. Muhammad Yunus.

Find information on all 106Commitments to Action announced at CGI 2025 at clintonglobal.org.

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New Yorkers Take to Streets to Protest for Climate Action, Democracy & Against Trump’s Anti-Climate, Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Democratic Actions

Protesters took to New York City streets on Saturday, September 20, to call for climate, social, and economic justice, and specifically, making billionaires and polluters pay up.© Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

By Karen Rubin, editor@news-photos-features.com, news-photos-features.com

Protesters took to New York City streets on Saturday, September 20, to call for climate, social, and economic justice, and specifically, making billionaires and polluters pay up.

The “Make Billionaires Pay” march united climate activists, migrant rights defenders and women’s rights advocates in their demands for climate and social justice. Climate movement researchers say the coalition reflects a growing shift toward intersectional, grassroots mobilization as climate action stalls at the federal level. It is led by 350.org, Climate Defenders, Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), Target Majority NYC and Women’s March. 

Taking over NYC streets. Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

“I hope we can scare Trump and his billionaire allies,” said Renata Pumarol, deputy director of Climate Defenders, a multi-racial and multi-generational climate organizing hub. “We need to show them that we are organized, and that there are more of us than them.”

“Our Planet. Our Health. Climate Action Now.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

“The billionaire fascists are setting our world on fire,” Target Majority NYC stated. “They’re dismantling democracy, attacking immigrants, and fueling war. They profit off genocide and climate collapse. This moment demands mass mobilization. As world leaders gather in New York City for the UN General Assembly and Climate Week, it’s time to show them that we are revolting against Trump and the billionaire class. We’re calling on people across the US to join the nonviolent resistance by hosting a march in your community or joining the anchor march in NYC.”

Taking over New York City streets. Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

“Everything feels out of control. ICE raids tearing families apart. Genocide streamed live on our screens,” Womens March declared.” Free speech and our freedoms under direct attack from the Trump regime. And billionaires are pouring gasoline on every fire while families can’t make rent. They want us scattered. Silent. Afraid. Today, we gather in power. As the United Nations meets and Climate Week begins, we take the streets of New York City- lound, undeniable, impossible to ignore.”

“Make Billionaires Pay”

They gathered during Climate Week, as the United Nations General Assembly gets underway.

“No Kings. Impeach. Convict. Remove.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

They marched as the Trump administration is actively rescinding the historic climate actions of the Biden Administration to transition to a clean, renewable energy economy, cancelling regulations to protect the air and water from pollution, cancelling  tax credits for electric vehicles, actively shutting down the offshore windfarms that were already well under construction, his EPA Administrator, Long Islander Lee Zeldin who unsuccessfully ran for New York Governor, rescinding the Endangerment Finding that empowers the federal government to regulate carbon emissions contributing to climate change.

“No Kings. Dump Trump.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

“As soon as the second Trump administration took office in January 2025, he unleashed an immediate and unprecedented attack on our environment and public health,” writes the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). “This includes a rollback of crucial environmental safeguards, the repeal of bedrock environmental and health laws, the delay of critical protections for endangered species, and attacks on well-established science and scientists.” (https://www.nrdc.org/resources/white-house-watch-tracking-attacks-our-environment-health)

“People Over Profits. Protect Our Planet.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

The actions are not only hurting public health, exposing communities to more severe and deadly climate disasters, but affordability, as well. Ending the development and transition to clean, renewable energy makes American households dependent on ever-rising prices for fossil fuels.

“Make Billionaire Polluters Pay.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

“Clean energy has lowered Americans’ bills, created hundreds of thousands of jobs, and helped fight climate change. But it’s bad for the fossil fuel industry’s bottom line, and Trump seems willing to stop at nothing to slow it down – including breaking the law his own party just passed,” the Climate Action Campaign (CAC) writes. “We need to build as much clean energy as we can to help avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Thanks to Trump and his fossil fuel cronies, Americans are getting more pollution, higher bills, and more deadly extreme weather instead of the healthy, safe, and prosperous future we deserve.” (https://www.actonclimate.com/post/cacs-alt-on-trumps-latest-attack-on-wind-and-solar/)

“Trump isa Climate Disaster.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

It’s hard to keep track of all the aggressively, in-your face anti-climate, anti-environment, anti-public health actions trump has unleashed – this list was compiled with the help of AI:

  • Withdrew from the Paris Agreement again.
    • Prioritizes fossil fuel production while actively attacking clean renewable energy development: Trump’s “America First Energy Plan” prioritizes fossil fuel development, including oil, coal, and natural gas, aiming for energy dominance through deregulation.
    • Reviving oil pipeline projects that communities rejected. 
    •  Opened protected areas for drilling: Trump administration finalized decisions to open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and other federally protected lands and waters to drilling.
  • Declared a “national energy emergency” during his 2025 inauguration to justify further expansion of fossil fuel extraction and streamline the permitting process for new oil and gas projects.
  • Rolled back Clean Power Plan
  •  Weakened vehicle emissions standards: 
  • Targeted renewable energy: The second Trump administration has halted new offshore wind projects, even ones that were nearing completion, and limited tax credits for wind and solar projects as well as credits enabling homeowners to incorporate solar energy. 
  • Reduced Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) authority and budget, undermining its ability to enforce environmental regulations, while declaring it would not bother to regulate polluters.
  • Weakened the Clean Water Act: The administration repealed the 2015 Clean Water Rule, narrowing the scope of federal protection for wetlands and small streams and leaving more waterways vulnerable to pollution.
  • Scaled back national monuments: Trump dramatically reduced the size of several national monuments, including Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah, to open up land for resource extraction. In 2020, he opened the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. In the second term, he has gone back to reverse Biden’s re-designations.
  • Loosened methane regulations: The EPA weakened rules that limited methane emissions from oil and gas operations on public and tribal lands.
  • Targeted toxics and pollution standards: The administration rolled back standards for mercury and air toxics from power plants and loosened rules regulating coal ash disposal, and delayed or rescinded standards keeping “forever chemicals” out of drinking water.
  • Cut climate research funding  including those at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and The National Weather Service, stopped satellite monitoring showing impacts of climate change, and cancelled reports that measure climate change.
  • Dismissed climate change: Trump and his administration frequently expressed skepticism about the scientific consensus on climate change and dismantled interagency groups designed to coordinate climate action and continues to call climate change a “hoax” and a “scam.”
  • Limited the “social cost of carbon”: An executive order disbanded the interagency working group that calculated the “social cost of carbon”—a metric used to quantify the economic damages from greenhouse gas emissions—and directed agencies to consider eliminating the calculation. Companies are discouraged from calculating the risk of climate change in their investments and public reporting.
  • Reduced public health protections: A 2018 analysis by Harvard researchers estimated that the environmental rollbacks could lead to thousands of extra deaths and millions of additional respiratory problems per decade due to increased pollution. 
“Sue Big Oil.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

Meanwhile, a new study led by a Stony Brook University researcher projects that, due to climate change factors, there will be more wildfires in the coming decades, and their smoke could lead to tens of thousands of deaths by 2050.

“Stop CO2lonialism” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com“

Climate disasters have become more severe and more frequent and more costly even as Trump moves to shut down FEMA. The US spends $150 billion annually on climate-related disaster relief (as much as what Trump has allocated to militarize mass deportations), with recent years seeing even higher costs due to increased frequency of major events. The US experienced 27 billion-dollar disasters in 2024, totaling $182.7 billion – well above the 5-year average. 

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has proposed rolling back carbon pollution standards for existing coal and new gas-fired power plants and dismantling standards that limit dangerous Mercury and Air Toxics (MATS) pollution from coal plants. These rollbacks would worsen air quality, hurt public health, and exacerbate the climate crisis. 

“Only a moron would destroy the CDC.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

“Climate pollution is worsening health and living conditions for so many of our families  nationwide, which is why people across party lines strongly oppose their repeal,” stated Climate Action Campaign Director Margie Alt. “The EPA was created to protect people, not polluters. Eliminating these vital air pollution and climate protections will make our families sick, poison the air, and make extreme weather triggered by the climate crisis more deadly and destructive. The EPA should honor its mission to protect our health and environment, not advance an agenda that puts polluters first.”

Thousands of Americans are now dying each year from heat stroke, with global warming setting new records for temperature year after year.

See a list of the environmental and climate change horrors of Trump Administration at the National Resources Defense Council: https://www.nrdc.org/resources/white-house-watch-tracking-attacks-our-environment-health

Indigenous leader lead Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

“Clean energy has lowered Americans’ bills, created hundreds of thousands of jobs, and helped fight climate change. But it’s bad for the fossil fuel industry’s bottom line, and Trump seems willing to stop at nothing to slow it down – including breaking the law his own party just passed. 

“No More Fossil Fuels.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

Even as his administration works aggressively to harm the environment, unleash climate change rather than mitigate against it resulting in public health emergencies ranging from epidemics, to heat stroke, to asthma, to heart disease, trump is working to dismantle public health altogether.

A kind of catch-all for protest in what has become a rolling series of protests, other issues being voiced included democracy, rule of law, immigrant rights, human rights, Palestinian rights, ending war and conflict.

Here are more photo highlights:

Indigenous leaders at Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
“Workers Over Billionaires.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
“Respect Your Mother.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
“We Are Not Afraid.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
“No King. Impeach. Convict. Remove.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
“Seeking Refuge is a Human Right!” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
“Radical Elders” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
“Save Our Democracy.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
“Everyone is welcome here.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
“War. Climate change. Each one leads to the other.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
“Women ending the era of fossil fuels and building a just transition.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
“move the money from war to our communities.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
“Defend Earth. End War.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
“Go Solar.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
“Resist.” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
“MAGA” Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Climate marchers have sit down in front of Trump Hotel. Climate March, NYC, Sept. 20, 2025 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

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Top Global and Industry Leaders to Convene Next Week in NYC at Clinton Global Initiative

As CGI marks its 20th anniversary, the 2025 Annual Meeting has been reimagined to drive action on urgent global challenges, around the theme of “What’s Next”

Featured participants announced today include Noubar Afeyan, Founder and CEO, Flagship Pioneering; Co-Founder and Chairman, Moderna; Matt Damon, Co-Founder, Water.org and WaterEquity; Anthony Capuano, President and CEO, Marriott International; Cindy McCain, Executive Director, World Food Programme; Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO and Founder, Chobani; Abigail Disney, Filmmaker, Writer, Philanthropist, and Activist; Ryan Gellert, CEO, Patagonia; Audrey Tang, Cyber Ambassador, Taiwan; Wendy Abrams, Co-Founder and CEO, Eleven Eleven Foundation; Donna Karan, Founder, Urban Zen Foundation; Katherine Maher, President and CEO, NPR; Neil Buddy Shah, CEO, Clinton Health Access Initiative; and more. Learn more about this year’s full program and participants at https://clintonglobal.org/2025 

    Former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks with Matt Damon about his organization’s success in bringing clean drinking water to needy people around the world at the 2024 Clinton Global Initiative. Damon, Co-Founder, Water.org and WaterEquity, is returning to this year, the 20th anniversary of the Clinton Global Initiative being held in New York City, Sept. 24-25 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    NEW YORK, NY — The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) announced more leaders from across business, government, philanthropy, and civil society, convening at the CGI 2025 Annual Meeting September 24-25, uniting around this year’s theme of “What’s Next.” These leaders are poised to take action to confront new and worsening challenges on climate, health, the economy, humanitarian response, democracy and human rights, truth and information, education, and innovative finance. 

    This year marks the 20th anniversary of CGI. Since 2005, more than 500 million people in more than 180 countries have had their lives improved by more than 4,000 Commitments to Action launched through CGI.

    Last month, in a letter marking CGI’s 20th anniversary, President Clinton issued a stark call to action to the CGI community, outlining changes to this year’s meeting: “Given the scope of the challenges we face, this year’s CGI meeting will be different – by necessity. We need to redefine how we show up, how we work, and how we find ways to honor our common humanity.” Read President Clinton’s Call to Action here.

    To tackle these challenges, the CGI 2025 Annual Meeting is bringing together leaders of major charitable foundations, nonprofits, businesses, governments, unions, and more to chart solutions. Featured participants announced today include:

    • Global advocates and activists including Stacey Abrams, Founder, American Pride Rises Network; Wendy Abrams, Co-Founder & CEO, Eleven Eleven Foundation; Vedika Bhandarkar, President and Chief Operating Officer, Water.org; Deepak Bhargava, President, Freedom Together Foundation; Matt Damon, Co-Founder, Water.org & WaterEquity; Abigail Disney, Filmmaker, Writer, Philanthropist, and Activist; Lindsay Ell, Artist, Songwriter, and Philanthropist; Dr. David C. Fajgenbaum, Co-Founder, Every Cure; Donna Karan, Founder, Urban Zen Foundation; and Audrey Tang, Cyber Ambassador, Taiwan; 
      • Journalists and leaders across media including Errin Haines, Editor at Large, The 19th; Margaret Hoover, Host, Firing Line with Margaret Hoover, PBS; Andrew Jack, Global Education Editor, Financial Times; Raj Kumar, Founding President and Editor-in-Chief, Devex; Nishant Lalwani, CEO, International Fund for Public Interest Media; Katherine Maher, President and CEO, NPR; Alan Murray, Founding President, The Wall Street Journal Leadership Institute; Matthew Segal, Co-Founder, ATTN; Jessica Sibley, CEO, TIME; Vitus Spehar, Creator, Under The Desk News; and Michael Vito Valentino, Editor-in-Chief, NowThis;
      • Business leaders including Noubar Afeyan, Founder and CEO, Flagship Pioneering; Co-Founder and Chairman, Moderna; Rima Al Mokarrab, Chair, Tamkeen; Anthony Capuano, President and CEO, Marriott International; Michael Dowling, CEO, Northwell Health; Ryan Gellert, CEO, Patagonia; Lutz Hegemann, President Global Health, Novartis International AG; Joe Kiani, Founder and Executive Chairman, Willow Labs; and Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO and Founder, Chobani;
      • Philanthropic leaders including Tonya Allen, President, the McKnight Foundation; DeAngela Burns-Wallace, President and CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; Marla Blow, CEO, Skoll Foundation; Somachi Chris-Asoluka, CEO, The Tony Elumelu Foundation; Kellea Miller, Executive Director, Human Rights Funders Network; Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO, Acumen; Carmen Rojas, President and CEO, Marguerite Casey Foundation; John-Arne Røttingen, CEO, Wellcome Trust; and Mark Suzman, CEO and Board Member, Gates Foundation;
      • Civil society and NGO leaders including Manish Bapna, President and CEO, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC); Kathy Higgins, CEO, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation; Lisha McCormick, CEO, Last Mile Health; Sania Nishtar, CEO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; Kelley Robinson, President, Human Rights Campaign; Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund; Neil Buddy Shah, CEO, Clinton Health Access Initiative; and Janti Soeripto, President and CEO, Save the Children US;
      • Government and multi-lateral leaders including U.S. Senator Chris Coons of Delaware; St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Terrance Drew; Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; Michelle Lujan Grisham, Governor, New Mexico; Cindy McCain, Executive Director, World Food Programme; and more.

    As part of President Clinton’s call to action last month, this year’s CGI Annual Meeting will be reimagined to promote collaboration through Working Groups – facilitated, action-focused sessions where leaders will collaborate with mission-aligned organizations to drive real solutions in the areas that matter most and are under the greatest threat. These Working Groups include cross-sector collaborations on Climate, Democracy and Human Rights, The Economy, Education, Health, Humanitarian Response, Innovative Finance, and Truth and Information.

    Sponsors for the CGI 2025 Annual Meeting include AFT, All Hands & Hearts, Amalgamated Bank, APCO, Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, Bob and Jane Harrison, Cure, Doha Forum, Equity Group Holdings Plc, Flagship Pioneering, Former Congressman David Trone, Gilead Sciences, Inc., Integra Capital, Interenergy Group, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Kokoro, MEBO International, Northwell Health, Pfizer, Pinterest, Sino-European Manufacturing Club, Strauss Media Strategies, Inc., Tarsadia Foundation, The EKTA Foundation, The Nima Taghavi Foundation, The John D. Evans Foundation, The Kiani Foundation, The Marc Haas Foundation, Ukraine Children’s Action Project, Varkey Foundation, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Postcode Lottery Group is serving as a partner for the CGI 2025 Annual Meeting. Devex and Grist are media partners for the CGI 2025 Annual Meeting. 

    To mark the Clinton Global Initiative’s 20th Anniversary, Social Goods — a purpose-driven small business — and the Clinton Foundation are partnering to unveil a new, limited-edition collection where every item sold supports Foundation programs that advance solutions on economic opportunity, climate, public health, gender equality, and more.

    Previously announced participants include Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda; Prime Minister Philip Davis of The Bahamas; Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados; President Vjosa Osmani of Kosovo; Nazanin Ash, CEO, Welcome.US; Suyen Barahona Cuan, Executive Director, Colmena Fund; Priscilla Sims Brown, President and CEO, Amalgamated Bank; Rolando Gonzalez Bunster, Chairman and CEO, InterEnergy Group; Brendan Carr, CEO, Mount Sinai Health System; Tim Cadogan, CEO, GoFundMe; John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Operation HOPE, Inc.; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Founder and Chair Emeritus, The Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development; John King, Chancellor, State University of New York; Ann Lee, Co-Founder and CEO, Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE); Nancy Lindborg, President and CEO, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation; Lisha McCormick, CEO, Last Mile Health; Patricia McIlreavy, President and CEO, Center for Disaster Philanthropy; Denis Mukwege, President and Founder, Panzi Hospital; James Mwangi, Group CEO, Equity Group Holdings; Reema Nanavaty, Director, Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA); Binaifer Nowrojee, President, Open Society Foundations; Michelle Nunn, President and CEO, CARE USA; Daniel O’Day, Chairman and CEO, Gilead Sciences; Kennedy Odede. Co-Founder and CEO, Shining Hope for Communities; Maribel Pérez Wadsworth, President and CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Ai-jen Poo, President and Executive Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and Caring Across Generations; Bill Ready, CEO, Pinterest; Maria Ressa, Co-Founder and CEO, Rappler; Liz Shuler, President, AFL–CIO; Karlee Silver, CEO, Grand Challenges Canada; Charlotte Slente, Secretary General, Danish Refugee Council; Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation; Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers; and more.

    You can follow updates and get more details about the CGI 2025 Meeting at https://clintonglobal.org/2025 

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    Labor Day ‘Workers over Billionaires’ Rallies:  Nassau County, Long Island Activists Come out in Force to Stand Up for Workers

    Nassau County leaders stand up for workers at the Labor Day 2025 “Workers Over Billionaires” rally at Nassau County Executive/Legislature offices © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    By Karen Rubin, editor@news-photos-features.com, news-photos-features.com

    On Labor Day, Trump boasted of having fired 84,000 “bureaucrats” – you know, those dedicated public servants and experts who actually deliver government services to We the People. He didn’t mention the tens of thousands fired from the Veterans Administration or the Social Security Administration, or the 318,000 black women who were purged from their jobs because of Trump’s Executive Order declaring DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) illegal. He didn’t mention signing a new Executive Order firing people from Patent Office, NASA and the National Weather Service, or the tens of thousands already fired with the lie “for cause” by Musk’s DOGE bros, or the $2.1 billion he spent paying people not to work.

    In effect, besides effectively shutting government down, Trump has violated existing labor law, Civil Service Act – but he doesn’t care.

    Hundreds of Nassau County activists turned out for the Labor Day 2025 “Workers Over Billionaires” rally at Nassau County Executive/Legislature offices © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    But what hundreds of thousands of Democrats and anti-Trumper “No Kings”/”Hands-Off” activists who gathered at hundreds of “Workers Against Billionaires” rallies across the country on Labor Day, including hundreds at Nassau County’s Executive Building,  wondered was how in hell Trump and the MAGA Republicans con workers to believe Trump or MAGA are “populists” who give a crap about them.

    Nassau County activists turned out for the Labor Day 2025 “Workers Over Billionaires” rally at Nassau County Executive/Legislature offices © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    “A vote for a Republican is a vote against labor,” declared Claudia Borecky, President Bellmore-Merrick Democratic Club, principal organizer of the rally.  “Trump fired 149,000 government workers, which wound up costing us $2.1 billion because he wound up paying people not to come into work. Are Republicans fighting to save jobs?

    “A vote for a Republican is a vote against small business. The illegal tariffs impact small businesses most of all. The Walmarts can absorb some of Trump’s import tax. Small businesses cannot.  Nearly one quarter of small businesses say the tariffs will put them out of business. Millions of people will lose their jobs. Are Republicans fighting to help small businesses?

    “A vote for a Republican is a vote against labor,” declared Claudia Borecky, President Bellmore-Merrick Democratic Club, principal organizer of the Nassau County “Workers Over Billionaires” Labor Day rally.  © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    “A vote for a Republican is a vote for billionaires. The Republican Big Bad Bill should be called the ‘Billionaire Benefit Bill’. It takes healthcare away from 10 million Americans. It literally takes food out of the mouths of millions of children so that it could give billionaires an even bigger tax cut. Are Republicans helping working families put food on their tables?

    “A vote for a Republican is a vote to raise our taxes. To give a tax break to billionaires, Trump is taxing us for everything we buy.  The tariffs are the largest tax hike in U.S. history. Who’s paying for these tariffs?

    “A vote for a Republican is a vote to raise our taxes right here at home. Does anyone think Governor Hochul is going to let New Yorkers die in the street? Does anyone think Governor Hochul is going to let New York children go hungry? Of course, not. The loss of federal funds for Medicaid will cause state taxes to go up.  The loss of federal funds for Medicaid will cause our county taxes to go up. The loss of federal funds for Medicaid will cause Nassau’s only public hospital to close its doors.

    “Crickets from Blakeman. Does anyone see Republicans fighting for us?

    “Resist. Defend Democracy. Fight Fascism.” © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    “A vote for a Republican is a vote for corruption. And where better to find the most corrupt Republicans, but right here on Long Island,” she said, reminding the gathered that Congressman Anthony D’Esposito lost his reelection to Democrat Laura Gillen after he was accused of labor violations for hiring his lover and his fiancée’s daughter and had been sued for civil rights violations when he was a cop. But what does Trump – ever on the lookout for the most incompetent, corrupt people he can find to install in government –  made D’Esposito Inspector General of the Department of Labor. No surprise that D’Esposito says nothing about Trump firing people he’s not allowed to fire and ignores all civil rights violations that come against this administration.

    “Trump – the man who made his reputation from saying ‘You’re Fired’, now has a dictator-like banner with his face on it hanging in the front of the Dept. of Labor building. Trump’s expression basically says, ‘If  you don’t do as I say, you’re fired.’ Well, it’s time we tell Trump, ‘You’re Fired!’”

    She pointed to another Long Island Republican, Lee Zeldin, who Trump appointed to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. “He kisses the ring and cancels all wind and solar incentives. They just cancelled a wind project off Rhode Island that was 80% complete. Now thousands of people will lose their jobs. And how many solar panel businesses on Long Island will go under? How many Long Islanders in that industry will lose their jobs?”

    “Blakeman is Trump’s Waterboy.” © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    She attacked County Executive Bruce Blakeman for forming his own private militia, noting that Trump followed suit. Then Trump created his own militia, spending $170 billion to hire an army of ICE officers.   To appease Trump, Blakeman federalized Nassau County detectives and made them ICE officers.

    “The only difference is that no one knows how much Blakeman’s militia is costing us. No one knows whether taking trained detectives off our streets is keeping us safe. Trump and Blakeman are following the Republican playbook. A book written by Long Island Republicans. Both are spending working families’ dollars on policies that make us less safe. And of course, both Trump and Blakeman are trying to normalize pay-to-play governments that line the pockets of family and friends,” Borecky stated.

    “I need to be able to tell my grandchildren I did not stay silent.” © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    Trump appointed Lee Zeldin, former long Island Congressman, to head the Environmental Protection Agency, who is repealing the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, removing greenhouse gases from requiring regulation, and cancelling wind and solar projects funded under Biden’s Inflation Reduction and Infrastructure acts – he cancelled Rhode Island’s  offshore wind farm though it was 80% complete, causing thousands to lose jobs, and is cancelling Long Island’s wind projects, which will cost tens of thousands of jobs.

    On that point, Governor Kathy Hochul, with Governors Maura Healey, Ned Lamont, Dan McKee and Phil Murphy  issued a joint statement:  

    “We are looking for the Trump Administration to uphold all offshore wind permits already granted and allow these projects to be constructed. Efforts to walk back these commitments jeopardize hardworking families, wasting years of progress and ceding leadership to foreign competitors. Workers, businesses, and communities need certainty, not reversals that would cost tens of thousands of American jobs and critical investment. Sudden reversals would also impact countless other workers and taxpayers on scores of non-energy public projects. The U.S. markets operate on certainty. Canceling projects that have already been fully permitted–including some near completion—sends the worrisome message to investors that the work can be stopped on a whim, which could lead them to decide to either not finance different projects or impose higher interest rates that would ultimately place a bigger burden on taxpayers.”

    “Tens of thousands will die of preventable deaths,” declared Michael Hellman of SEIU 1199. © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    The $1 trillion cut from Medicaid that Trump and the Republicans made are not only disastrous for the health care system, causing hospitals and clinics to close and tens of thousands of jobs lost, but “tens of thousands will die of preventable deaths,” declared Michael Hellman of SEIU 1199. “It is cruelty over compassion to pay for more tax breaks for the billionaires…We must hold  responsible the morally irresponsible leaders who are promoting this corruption.”

    Nadia Marin-Molina of the National Organization of Daily Laborers attacked Trump’s mass deportation crusade, snatching people off the street based on racial profiling. “[Nassau County Executive Bruce] Blakeman said he was going after criminals, but most who are deported never get a trial, no evidence is presented. Every person has a constitutional right to due process. These people are being deported with no due process. The real criminals are in the White House. The real criminals are those getting rich by stealing workers’ wages.

    Nadia Marin-Molina of the National Organization of Daily Laborers: “Immigrant rights and rights of all working people regardless of status are linked.” © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    “Immigrant rights and rights of all working people regardless of status are linked. If employers think they  can have workers deported, and can exploit workers without consequence, will lower standards for all. Immigrant workers are afraid of standing up for wages if fear employers will call ICE and have them deported.”

    She pointed to some communities who are creating day laborer “corners” to protect workers. “The Long Island community needs to stand up…Stop local governments like Nassau County from facilitating ICE and campaign of terrorism. Fight for the right of all workers to come home without fear of being kidnapped off the street.”

    Dave Denenberg said Trump “believes that if tell a lie often enough, people will believe. But we must combat the lie that Trump is ‘on top of inflation’ – we are paying more for clothing, groceries, everything, while local taxes are up 12%. Mailers attack Hochul, but she’s fighting for us.

    Dave Denenberg: Trump “believes that if tell a lie often enough, people will believe. But we must combat the lie that Trump is ‘on top of inflation’ – we are paying more for clothing, groceries, everything, while local taxes are up 12%.© Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    Denenberg pointed to Blakeman’s faux attack on New York City’s congestion pricing, long advocated by city environmentalists to reduce pollution while raising funds for public transportation improvements. Blakeman is fighting to take away congestion pricing (as is the Trump administration which threatens to cut back funds), while fighting to protect the illegal surcharges on red light tickets.

    Joe Scianablo, candidate for Hempstead Town Supervisor, moaned, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” He described himself as a “career public servant” – a marine vet, former police officer, former Queens prosecutor – who is standing with labor, the backbone of our town, our county, our country.

    He accused Hempstead government of corruption in doing the bait-and-switch to name a new, unelected supervisor.

    Joe Scianablo, candidate for Hempstead Town Supervisor, “Corruption has no end. It happens in back room where we’re locked out. Political insiders take care of themselves before anyone else… “Vote in November for change.” © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    “Corruption has no end. It happens in back room where we’re locked out. Political insiders take care of themselves before anyone else. They broke the law and shouldn’t even be in their positions.” The former supervisor resigned (so the party could appoint a replacement wyho would run as an incumbent), and got a no-show job. “They use us as an ATM machine.

    “Vote in November for change. This is not Right and Left, this is about right and wrong. This campaign is about people, labor, standing with residents not insiders who raised taxes 12 percent and gave themselves raises. When [ ‘Fibbin Freddie’] says he is a tax cutter, he is lying.”

    New York State Assemblyman Chuck Lavine said, “We’re here for labor rights, human rights, women’s rights.” He attacked Trump for “what they have done to American labor – unilaterally stripped collective bargaining rights from hundreds of thousands. From the Veterans Administration alone, 400,000 workers lost their rights to collective bargaining because of an Executive Order that could affect 1 million federal workers.

    New York State Assemblyman Chuck Lavine said, “We’re here for labor rights, human rights, women’s rights… Make good trouble.” © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    Trump “has attacked workers, gutted the Department of Labor with DOGE cuts. He rolled back Labor Department rules issued under Obama and Biden allowing workers to campaign for working conditions; hampered the National Labor Relations Board,  firing the head and nominating two corporate-friendlies to steer NLRB away from its mission to support workers.

    “Make good trouble,” Lavine said.

    Wayne Wink, former town clerk, legislator, councilman and now running for Nassau Comptroller, attacked Blakeman and Comptroller Elaine Phillips who met with the Heritage Foundation (authors of Project 2025), giving their implicit support to the blueprint to cut millions off of health care, women of their reproductive rights, and bust unions from federal workers on down.

    “It’s not just Blakeman but the entire ticket. They have all drunk the MAGA Kool-aid.”

    Wayne Wink, candidate for County comptroller, with other local candidates, blasted the current comptroller, Elaine Phillips, for not conducting a single audit of her Republican-led agencies – not the scandal-ridden and bankrupt Nassau University Medical Center, not the spending for Blakeman’s private militia. © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    He noted that Phillips has not conducted one audit of her Republican-led agencies – not the scandal-ridden and bankrupt Nassau University Medical Center, not the spending for Blakeman’s private militia. “They are spending county money fighting Hochul and fighting ‘We the People’.”

    “Complacency has gotten us to where we are today,”Claudia Borecky later commented. “ But a growing number of people are saying ‘No Bleeping Way’. And it will be up to us to literally save democracy.”

    Reminder: Election day for county and town officials is in 64 days.

    Here are more photo highlights:

    Nassau County activists turned out for the Labor Day 2025 “Workers Over Billionaires” rally at Nassau County Executive/Legislature offices © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    Nassau County activists turned out for the Labor Day 2025 “Workers Over Billionaires” rally at Nassau County Executive/Legislature offices © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    Nina Gordon and Patty and Andrea Katz sing Woody Guthrie’s workers’ anthem, “Union Maid,: “I’m sticking with the union, till the day I die.” © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    “Trump is destroying our democracy.” © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    “Workers Over Billionaires.” © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    “Support Workers Not Billionaires.” © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    “Remember, Only You Can Prevent Fascism” © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

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    Clinton Global Initiative at 20: World Leaders Join an ‘Agenda for Action’ at Critical Juncture

    Twenty years after the launch of the Clinton Global Initiative, President Clinton has issued a stark Call to Action: “Given the scope of the challenges we face, this year’s CGI meeting will be different – by necessity. We need to redefine how we show up, how we work, and how we find ways to honor our common humanity.” Read President Clinton’s Call to Action here.

    President Clinton, Secretary Hillary Clinton, and Dr. Chelsea Clinton will convene global leaders for the 2025 CGI Meeting September 24-25 in New York City to chart out “What’s Next.”

    Learn more about this year’s meeting, including working group topics and early participants, at https://clintonglobal.org/2025 

    President Bill Clinton with Nobel laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus, who had just become leader of Bangladesh, takes to the Leaders Stage at the 2024 Clinton Global Initiative. President Clinton has issued a stark Call to Action for this year’s CGI, taking place Sept. 24-25: “Given the scope of the challenges we face, this year’s CGI meeting will be different – by necessity. We need to redefine how we show up, how we work, and how we find ways to honor our common humanity.”© Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    If you want to be reminded that there is good in the world, that progress to solve the most intransient problems and existential crises of our time is possible, to hear and learn from the smartest, most successful, most accomplished people on the planet, the place to be is the Clinton Global Initiative. Since its founding in 2005, each session has been like an alternate universe to the dystopia contrived by evil forces digging deeper into society and eroding civilization. –Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    NEW YORK, NY — President Bill Clinton issued a Call to Action to the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) community to come together at a re-imagined Annual Meeting this September 24-25 designed to promote collaboration and take action to confront new and worsening challenges on climate, health, the economy, and more.

    President Clinton outlined that this year’s meeting will look different than previous years to most effectively confront the challenges of 2025 and lay the groundwork for what’s next:

    “The global development community is at an unprecedented crossroads, with growing humanitarian needs, fewer resources, and the landscape changing every day. Given the scope of the challenges we face, this year’s CGI meeting will be different – by necessity. We need to redefine how we show up, how we work, and how we find ways to honor our common humanity. This September, our goal will be to connect dots across issues, expose the consequences, and confront the complicated issues in front of us.”

    Read President Clinton’s Call to Action here.

    To tackle these challenges, President Clinton, Secretary Clinton, and Dr. Chelsea Clinton have called together leaders of major charitable foundations, nonprofits, businesses, governments, unions, and more to chart solutions in 2025. More speakers will be announced in the coming weeks; today, CGI announced initial featured participants at the CGI 2025 Annual Meeting:

    • Heads of State and government leaders including Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda; Prime Minister Philip Davis of The Bahamas; Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados, President Vjosa Osmani of Kosovo, and Amy Pope, Director General, International Organization for Migration (IOM);
      • Business leaders including Priscilla Sims Brown, President and CEO, Amalgamated Bank, Rolando Gonzalez Bunster, Chairman and CEO, InterEnergy Group; Tim Cadogan, CEO, GoFundMe; James Mwangi, Group CEO, Equity Group Holdings; Daniel O’Day, Chairman and CEO, Gilead Sciences; and Bill Ready, CEO, Pinterest;
      • Philanthropic leaders including Nancy Lindborg, President and CEO, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation; Patricia McIlreavy, President and CEO, Center for Disaster Philanthropy; Binaifer Nowrojee, President, Open Society Foundations; Maribel Pérez Wadsworth, President and CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Karlee Silver, CEO, Grand Challenges Canada; and Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation;
      • Nobel Laureates including Denis Mukwege, President and Founder, Panzi Hospital; Maria Ressa, Co-Founder and CEO, Rappler; and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Founder and Chair Emeritus, The Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development;
      • Civil society and multi-lateral organization leaders including Nazanin Ash, CEO, Welcome.US; Ann Lee, Co-Founder and CEO, Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE); Lisha McCormick, CEO, Last Mile Health; Michelle Nunn, President and CEO, CARE USA; and Kennedy Odede, Co-Founder and CEO, Shining Hope for Communities;
      • Global Activists and Advocates including Suyen Barahona Cuan, Executive Director, Colmena Fund; Ai-jen Poo, President and Executive Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and Caring Across Generations; Liz Shuler, President, AFL–CIO; Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers; and more.

    CGI 2025 will have a sharper focus on CGI Working Groups – facilitated, action-focused sessions where leaders will collaborate with mission-aligned organizations to drive real solutions in the areas that matter most and are under the greatest threat. CGI Working Groups at this year’s meeting include:

    • Climate: scaling investment in transformative climate solutions; group leaders and select participants include Sarah Chandler, Vice President, Environment and Supply Chain Innovation, Apple; Reema Nanavaty, Director, Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA); and Sophia Kianni, Founder, Climate Cardinals;
      • Democracy and Human Rights: protecting democratic principles and upholding equality and justice; group leaders and select participants include Suyen Barahona Cuan, Executive Director, Colmena Fund; Gary Barker, Founder and CEO, Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice; Mona Sinha, Global Executive Director, Equality Now; and Melanne Verveer, Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace & Security; 
      • Economy: building resilient and inclusive global economic development amid widening inequalities; group leaders and select participants include Chetna Sinha, Founder, Mann Deshi Bank; Priscilla Sims Brown, President and CEO, Amalgamated Bank; John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Operation HOPE, Inc.; and Ai-jen Poo, President and Executive Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and Caring Across Generations;
      • Education: advancing equitable and quality education for all; group leaders and select participants include Marci Alboher, Chief Engagement Officer, CoGenerate; John MacFee, CEO, JED Foundation; and Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers;
      • Health: safeguarding public health gains and increasing global health equity; group leaders and select participants include Brendan Carr, CEO, Mount Sinai Health System; Tabinda Sarosh, CEO, Pathfinder International; Jeff Sturchio, Chair, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and Lisha McCormick, CEO, Last Mile Health;
      • Humanitarian Response: building response models to be more resilient, collaborative, and adequately resourced; group leaders and select participants include Rez Gardi, Co-Managing Director, R-SEAT; Patricia McIlreavy, President and CEO, Center for Disaster Philanthropy; Ann Lee, Co-Founder and CEO, Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE); Denis Mukwege, President and Founder, Panzi Hospital; and Charlotte Slente, Secretary General, Danish Refugee Council;
      • Innovative Finance: building investment opportunities for more flexible, impact-driven funding; group leaders and select participants include Vishal Ghotge, CEO, Kiva; Joan M. Larrea, CEO, Convergence; and Karlee Silver, CEO, Grand Challenges Canada;
      • Truth and Information: revitalizing information ecosystems to uphold trust, truth, and transparency; group leaders and select participants include Dan Foy, Principal, Gallup; Wame Jallow, Executive Director, MTV Staying Alive Foundation; and Maria Ressa, Co-Founder and CEO, Rappler.

    The sessions are designed for strategic collaboration, problem-solving, and the development of new CGI Commitments to Action.

    This year marks the 20th anniversary of CGI. At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2005, President Clinton announced that he would be convening the first CGI meeting that September, timed to the U.N. General Assembly, with the requirement that attendees make a commitment to act on a pressing global challenge. Since then, more than 500 million people in more than 180 countries have had their lives improved by more than 4,000 Commitments to Action launched through CGI.

    In his letter to the CGI Community, President Clinton wrote:

    “The CGI community is built for moments like this. This year marks two decades of our community convening and responding directly to global crises — from the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti; to the U.S. economic downturn in 2009 with the launch of CGI America; to the Ebola outbreaks in 2014, 2015, and 2016; to the Caribbean hurricanes in 2017; to the COVID-19 pandemic; and more. We’ve launched more than 4,100 Commitments that have improved the lives of over 500 million people worldwide. 

    “We’re drawing on 20 years of lessons, momentum, and partnerships to meet this moment and build what’s next. 

    “Our programming and our physical space will be designed for action. Our time together will be focused on new working group convenings — sessions where project plans are drafted, commitments are accelerated, and coalitions begin to take root. Every participant will be urged to ask the hard questions, contribute their expertise, and identify paths forward. 

    “Now is the time to stand up and roll up our sleeves — and do our part to reverse the trend lines and begin charting a brighter future.”

    Learn more about this year’s meeting, including working group topics and early participants, at https://clintonglobal.org/2025 

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    NEW REPORT: Mothers Face Double the Risk of Dying During Pregnancy and Childbirth in States that Ban Abortion

    Women’s March NYC, Jan. 20, 2018. The White Christo Fascist nationalist agenda being forced upon women from federal and state governments is designed to realize the dystopia of “Handmaiden’s Tale” © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    By Karen Rubin, editor@news-photos-features.com, news-photos-features.com

    A new report by Gender Equity Policy Institute (GEPI)  released a new report, Maternal Mortality in the United States After Abortion Bans, which analyzes trends in maternal mortality, reveals that women living in states with abortion bans are twice as likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or shortly after giving birth, compared to those in states where abortion is legal and accessible. Currently, 62.7 million women and girls live in states with abortion bans. 

    Key Findings: 

    Mothers living in states that banned abortion are nearly 2x as likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or soon after giving birth, compared to mothers living in supportive states where abortion was legal and accessible. 

    Maternal mortality fell 21% in supportive states post Dobbs 

    Maternal mortality rose 56% in Texas in the first full year of the state’s abortion ban; up 95% among White women

    Black mothers living in banned states were 3.3x as likely to die as White mothers in those states.

    Women’s risk of maternal death in Texas was 155% higher than in California

    Latina mothers in Texas faced nearly triple the risk of maternal mortality as those in California.

    A stark example of the disparity between banned and supportive states is Texas, where mothers face significantly higher risks of maternal mortality compared to those in supportive states. In Texas, mothers are 1.7 times as likely to experience maternal mortality, with Latina and White mothers facing double the risk compared to their counterparts in states that provide abortion access. Additionally, Black women in Texas were 2.5 times as likely as White women in the state to suffer maternal death. 

    “Abortion bans are putting the lives of women—particularly Black and Latina mothers—at serious risk,” said Dr. Nancy L. Cohen, President of Gender Equity Policy Institute. “This data is a wake-up call: maternal mortality is preventable, yet we are failing to protect those most vulnerable. If we don’t change course, I fear more and more women could die.”

    This report is the fourth publication in Gender Equity Policy Institute’s series on Reproductive Health in the United States, and presents GEPI’s analysis of 2019-2023 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data on maternal mortality to compare maternal health outcomes in the banned states, the supportive states, and the U.S. overall. 

    Read the full report: https://thegepi.org/maternal-mortality-abortion-bans/

    Cash Awards, Medals for Motherhood

    Meanwhile, Women’s March is sounding the alarm that” the Trump administration is floating a plan to reward women with cash and medals for having more children. Nazi Germany awarded the ‘Motherhood Cross’ to women who birthed for the regime. Mussolini paid women to have six or more kids—while banning abortion and birth control. This was never about supporting parents. It’s about controlling our bodies and turning us into tools of the state. “

    Seems ironic since these same WhiteChristoFascists “reformed” welfare to force new mothers to immediately return to the workforce in order to get welfare, without the benefit of available, affordable childcare.

    But if you think those two things contradict each other – sitting back as women die while forcing women to give birth – this how it all fits: the birthrate is falling, and despite having an actual worker shortage, they are deporting every immigrant they can get their hands on. So they will need more workers, but they want an overflow of cheap, ignorant labor for the new factories and mines and drilling rigs – people who will be too much under The Man’s thumb to complain about working conditions, just like in that Gilded Age that Trump loves so much.

    So they will force women to give birth – even making contraception illegal – without having adequate health care, child care or whatever care, without providing vaccinations. Because at this point, people are mere cogs, expendable.  They don’t want the sickly, the disabled, the special needs children or their mothers to survive. If they die – along with the elderly who will die waiting to get their Social Security and Medicare benefits and for lack of vaccinations for diseases that were largely eradicated – that’s okay – less burden on the nation’s tits (treasury); and they don’t vote. It’s survival of the fittest, baby. 

    See also:
    Casualties Mount in Trump’s WhiteChristoFascist MAGA Crusade to Reduce Women to Baby-Making Machines

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    AOC Fires Up Crowd of 6,000 at May Day Protest in NYC-See Photo Highlights

    Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fires up the 6,000 May Day protesters in Foley Square, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    By Karen Rubin, editor@news-photos-features.com, news-photos-features.com

    The 6,000 May Day protesters gathered at Foley Square in front of the Federal Courthouse and surrounded by federal buildings, were fired up by the surprise appearance of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who had raced from an airport to give her energy to the labor movement amidst the unprecedented crackdown of civil and workers rights by the Trump Administration.

    Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fires up the 6,000 May Day protesters in Foley Square, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    AOC called on them to keep the pressure on the MAGA Republican lawmakers, who have ceded their co-equal power to the dictator wannabe rather than face his ire or a primary challenge. The protests – collectively the largest in history -through the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency, have not been futile exercises. Just that day, Republicans pulled a vote to slash Medicaid by an unprecedented $888 billion. “They have stopped and suspended next week’s Medicaid cuts because they’re getting too scared,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “They see you, New York, they see the gathering.”

    This is what Democracy Looks Like. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    She urged continued vigilance, warning that they will vote again in the dead of night when they think no one is watching.

    She energized the crowd, declaring that the Trump administration is much more prepared and planned this time around in terms of the kinds of chaos that they’re trying to unleash. More than legal programs, more than policy, they are trying to invoke fear.

    Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fires up the 6,000 May Day protesters in Foley Square, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    “That is how authoritarianism works. These are the tools to get us to sacrifice and surrender our civil liberties, more than they take them.” Indeed, Trump pardoned virtually all the January 6th insurrectionists, including those who had threatened her life. “I’m not going to give them my fear,” she has told supporters. “They’re relying on us giving up. Hell no.”

    We’re going to keep standing with trans people.
    We’re going to keep standing with the LGBT community.
    We’re going to keep standing for the working class.
    We’re going to keep fighting for a better minimum wage.
    We’re going to keep fighting to guarantee healthcare.

    Please Save Me. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    The issues that have dominated the anti-Trump protests that have been virtually constant were present here too – Hands Off public education with huge contingents of protesters from colleges and teachers unions and immigrant rights. 

    And typical of May Day protests were the demands by workers, but the Tax the Rich and Down with Billionaires themes more vitriolic and urgent. You get the feeling that if Trump is not stopped in his march toward authoritarianism, there will be an equally strong backlash. One cannot but think that Trump is hoping for these protests to get even more animated and violent, so he can declare martial law under the Insurrection Act and snuff out the last vestige of opposition, after decimating the judicial system, the Congress, a free press (he just signed an order canceling federal spending for NPR and PBS).

    S.O.S. May Day. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    The May Day protest, an annual rite in New York City, featured the city’s labor unions, students and educators, a huge contingent of pro-Palestinian protesters, and were joined by those standing against encroachment of power, rise of autocracy and Fascism, and standing up for due process, democracy, public education, healthcare, immigrant rights, social security and Medicaid and healthcare.

    Resist. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    Many protesters exclaimed support for immigrants, for students whose visas were cancelled and arrested for exercising free speech, and for Khalil Abrego Garcia specifically, wrongly deported to an El Salvador gulag without due process, as the face of a victim of a tyranny.

    No American Auschwitz. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    Veronica Salama, the New York Civil Liberties Union staff attorney who is part of the legal team representing Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, condemned Trump for separating Khalil from his family and said Khalil’s arrest violated the first amendment.

    Health Care is a Human Right. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    The protesters marched down Broadway, ending at the Charging Bull, the iconic image of Wall Street, to emphasize the message on many of the signs: Send Billionaires to Mars, Tax the Rich, Fight Fascism.

    Stop the Mass Kidnappings. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    New York City’s May Day protest was one of more than 1000 in more than 800 cities and towns across the country, and the second that day at Foley Square (some 3,000 lawyers came out in front of the federal court during Law Day, an annual affirmation of the Rule of Law), plus several others around the city, organized and promoted by multiple organizations. They have realized that only through solidarity can they fulfill their individual goals. The overarching message: “Together we win.”

    We are the Many. They are the Few. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    Hallie Brenner Perles, co-leader of Show Up Long Island and an organizer of the Long Island protest, stated, “Authoritarians like Trump and Musk want to divide us and to appeal to the smallest, cruelest, and most selfish impulses of humanity. That’s the only way they can win. But we still live in a democracy. And right now we can choose to care, to stand up for each other, to seek truth and facts over lies, to know that an attack on any groups’ human rights is an attack on all. We can choose empathy and the courage to acknowledge these are not normal times so we won’t pretend that they are. We will continue to nonviolently protest all that is wrong with this administration as heroes have done before us. Then some day books will be written that tell our story: that when our country, our children and the world needed us, so many Americans in all 50 states stood together on the right side of history. “

    We are the Suns of Liberty. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    “This was by far the largest, most widespread May Day action in the history of our country,” MayDayStrong.org reported. “The billionaires are waging a war on working people—and on May Day, international workers’ day, hundreds of thousands of us stood together and stood strong, fighting for public schools over private profits, healthcare over hedge funds, shared prosperity over free market politics. Working people built this nation and we know how to take care of each other. We won’t back down—we will never stop fighting for our families and the rights and freedoms that ensure access to opportunity and a better life for all Americans. Their time is up.”

    No Detentions. No Deportations. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    Numerous protests are upcoming with another national day of protest slated for June 14th organized by 50501.org: They are looking to “amass in spectacular numbers for the “Anti-Regime Day of Protest”  and counter the massive (6600 soldiers! 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters! 2,000 civilians!) and massively expensive ($92 million!) military parade Trump, in true dictator fashion, is organizing for his 79th birthday, even as he orders cuts to Medicaid resulting in hospitals laying off healthcare workers.

    Hands Off. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    At its protest in suburban Long Island, Hallie Brenner Perles, co-leader Show Up Long Island, declared, “Authoritarians like Trump and Musk want to divide us and to appeal to the smallest, cruelest, and most selfish impulses of humanity. That’s the only way they can win. But we still live in a democracy. And right now we can choose to care, to stand up for each other, to seek truth and facts over lies, to know that an attack on any groups’ human rights is an attack on all. We can choose empathy and the courage to acknowledge these are not normal times so we won’t pretend that they are. We will continue to nonviolently protest all that is wrong with this administration as heroes have done before us. Then some day books will be written that tell our story: that when our country, our children and the world needed us , so many Americans in all 50 states stood together on the right side of history.”

    Let the protesters speak for themselves. Here are highlights from the New York City May Day protest:

    TWU’s Civil & Human Rights Committee. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    Democracies Don’t Kidnap and Torture Refugees. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    Make the Road. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    Defeat Trump/MAGA Fascism. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    Downtown Nasty Women Social Group. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    Trump is NOT my Commander. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    Save Medicare. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    I Love Immigrant NY. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    Defying Depravity. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    We the People Stand United. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    Stop Repression. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    Vets Against Trump. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    NYC Teacherse: You Won’t Take Our Kids Away! May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    Labor Committee to Defend Immigrants. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    Laborers International Union. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    Cuts to Health Care Kill! May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    No Kings in America! May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    Communist Party USA. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
    For Sale. May Day Protest, NYC © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    See also:

    Tens of Thousands of Protesters Flood NYC Streets to Tell Trump, Musk, DOGE ‘Hands Off’

    Photo Highlights: Thousands March in NYC to Protest for Immigrants, the Planet & Against Autocracy, Fascism

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    Clinton Foundation Report Shows 500 Million People Globally Benefited Since 2001 Through 4,100 Clinton Global Initiative Projects

    At the Clinton Global Initiative 2024 Annual Meeting, President Joe Biden received the Clinton Global Citizen Award for his “uncommon decency and goodness” over a lifetime of public service. Chosen by President Clinton, Secretary Clinton, and Chelsea, the award recognizes individuals who embody global citizenship through their vision and leadership © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

    Across the globe, the lives of 500 million people in more than 190 countries have benefited from the more than 4,100 projects and partnerships made through the Clinton Global Initiative’s programs and initiatives since 2001. This is just one of the impacts reported in its annual Impact Report. The report details a continued legacy that brings diverse and unlikely partners together to take action. In 2024, the Foundation focused on what worked around the world and how to keep moving forward in unprecedented times. 

    Some of the other key milestones reached in 2024 include:

     

    • 891,000 doses of lifesaving Naloxone distributed to recovery residences, high schools, universities, and community organizations in 20 states through the Overdose Response Network. 

    • 517,000 students and educators have participated in enriching educational and cultural programming free-of-charge at the Clinton Presidential Center. 

    • 21 million people worldwide have access to lifesaving HIV/ AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria medications through the Clinton Health Access Initiative, an independent, associated organization.

    • 1.4 million children’s books donated and provided to families in communities that are under-resourced through Too Small to Fail, the Foundation’s early childhood initiative. 

    • 31 million U.S. children leading healthier lives through the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, an initiative jointly founded by the Foundation and the American Heart Association.

    (Read the full Impact Report here – clintonfoundation.org/2024impactreport)

    In a joint letter to the Foundation’s community, President Bill Clinton, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton wrote, “For more than two decades, the Clinton Foundation has aspired to build a world where everyone has the opportunity to create better tomorrows for themselves, their families, and their communities. As we share in this report, in 2024 we saw how bringing together diverse and often unlikely partners from business, government, and civil society can be a practical strategy for delivering outsized impact across the United States and around the world.”

    “The gaps between what the public sector can provide and what the private sector can produce seem to be growing bigger each and every day. The work we do here will continue to help fill those gaps. Whether we’re launching targeted initiatives that test new solutions or expanding proven programs that have transformed millions of lives, we must work together to keep putting people first and building a better future,” the family shared.

    Some of the key moments that inspired action in 2024:

    • Using Media to Educate on Early Childhood: Too Small to Fail partnered with the FrameWorks Institute and Rockefeller Foundation to create a playbook for storytellers on how to frame the impact of climate change on children’s health. Secretary Clinton and Chelsea expanded on this work by hosting “Media that Motivates,” encouraging popular media to share stories that explore this topic
      • Protecting Children from Social Media: At the CGI 2024 Annual Meeting, Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, launched a new CGI Commitment to Action through The Archewell Foundation’s Parents’ Network to help protect children from the harmful effects of social media.
      • A Critical NATO Milestone: President Clinton traveled to Prague to mark the 25th anniversary of the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary joining NATO, which helped create a more peaceful, democratic Europe. In his keynote, he reflected upon his early support for NATO’s expansion at the time, as well as the continued importance of NATO and maintaining our global alliances.
      • Profiling Moments in American History: The Clinton Center’s permanent exhibitions chronicle American history and culture at the turn of the 21st century. Visitors experience full-scale replicas of the Oval Office and Cabinet Room and original works of art, such as the Crystal Tree of Light crafted by American artist Dale Chihuly. This dazzling glass sculpture was created for the Millennium Celebration and is part of the permanent collection at the Clinton Presidential Center.
      • Reflecting on Decades of Impact: In November, President Clinton released his memoir, “CITIZEN: My Life After the White House,” providing a detailed and moving account of his post-presidential years, including stories of the Clinton Foundation’s impact, the origin of the Clinton Global Initiative, key events of the 21st century, and the people who’ve inspired him to keep going
      • A Moment of Unity: At the CGI 2024 Annual Meeting, Yael Admi, co-founder of Women Wage Peace, and Reem Hajajreh, founder of Women of the Sun, discussed the historic partnership between their movements to promote a nonviolent resolution to conflict across the Middle East.
      • Marking Two Decades of Work in Little Rock: Former colleagues and friends from the Clinton Administration and Foundation community reunited at the Clinton Center’s 20th anniversary celebration. Administration alumni joined “The West Wing” stars Dulé Hill, Richard Schiff, and Melissa Fitzgerald for a conversation about Hollywood moments and the real-world leadership that inspired the iconic show.

    Honoring a Lifetime of Leadership: At the CGI 2024 Annual Meeting, President Joe Biden received the Clinton Global Citizen Award for his “uncommon decency and goodness.” Chosen by President Clinton, Secretary Clinton, and Chelsea, the award recognizes individuals who embody global citizenship through their vision and leadership.

    Founded by President Bill Clinton in 2005, the Clinton Global Initiative is a community of doers representing a broad cross section of society and dedicated to the idea that we can accomplish more together than we can apart.  Through CGI’s unique model, more than 10,000 organizations have launched more than 4,000 Commitments to Action — new, specific, and measurable projects and programs – that are making a difference in the lives of more than 500 million people in 180 countries.

    Read the full annual Impact Report – including highlights from Foundation programs and initiatives around the world – at clintonfoundation.org/2024impactreport.

    See also:

    AT CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE, FIRST LADY ANNOUNCES $500 MILLION MORE FUNDING FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH RESEARCH; PRESIDENT BIDEN RECEIVES GLOBAL CITIZEN AWARD