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Olivia Alperstein

Olivia Alperstein is the Media Relations Manager for Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). www.psr.org

Feminism
Nothing Is More Personal Than the Right to Control Your Own Body

Nothing Is More Personal Than the Right to Control Your Own Body

Olivia Alperstein

( Otherwords.org ) – The personal, as they say, is political. And there’s nothing more personal than the right to control your own body. So as a human with reproductive organs, the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion overruling Roe v. Wade — and the constitutional right to abortion — is obviously personal to […]

censorship
Banned Books Should Be Required Reading

Banned Books Should Be Required Reading

Olivia Alperstein

( Otherwords.org ) The people who want to ban Maus or The 1619 Project are the ones who need to read them. By Olivia Alperstein | February 2, 2022 In January, a Tennessee county school board voted unanimously to ban Maus, a graphic novel by Art Spiegelamn about his parents’ experience in Auschwitz, from school […]

Pollution
Trump's EPA to Kill 11,000 a Year with Mercury Nerve Poison

Trump’s EPA to Kill 11,000 a Year with Mercury Nerve Poison

Olivia Alperstein

Younger generations deserve to grow up protected from these harmful and deadly substances.

Climate Change
Methane is a Monster Global Heating Gas: Trump just ordered EPA to Kill Limits on its Emissions

Methane is a Monster Global Heating Gas: Trump just ordered EPA to Kill Limits on its Emissions

Olivia Alperstein

The White House wants to clear the way for frackers to release more methane, which poisons communities and torches the climate.

Supreme Court
Are your Personal Liberties at Stake if Brett Kavanaugh Joins the Court?

Are your Personal Liberties at Stake if Brett Kavanaugh Joins the Court?

Olivia Alperstein

If Americans lose the right to privacy enshrined in Roe, they’ll lose a lot more than abortion access

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