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Cal Turner

(She/Her)
Philadelphia
As seen in: Jacobin, Rebelion, The Real News, Reader Supported News, TRANSCEND, METRO Magazine, Portside, School Bus Fleet, ZNetwork, Fleet Maintenance
Covers:  Climate, politics, finance
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Medical Debt Collection Is a Vicious Multibillion-Dollar Industry in the US

Medical Debt Collection Is a Vicious Multibillion-Dollar Industry in the US

Jacobin — Medical debt has ballooned in the US in recent decades. Hospitals and collection agencies are making a killing on it, eroding trust in the health care system and leading countless patients into financial ruin in the process.
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US Health Care Sucks, Even If You Have Health Insurance

US Health Care Sucks, Even If You Have Health Insurance

Jacobin — It is a gross injustice that 30 million Americans lack health insurance - but the insured also face serious problems, paying through the nose for substandard care. We need a universal, automatic, free health care plan.
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Rich Countries Are Exporting Climate Breakdown to the Global South

Rich Countries Are Exporting Climate Breakdown to the Global South

Jacobin — From waste to deforestation to drastic flooding, wealthy countries of the Global North are outsourcing the impacts of their resource extraction to poorer countries in the Global South. Call it "carbon colonialism."
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Asset Managers Like BlackRock Are Controlling More and More of Our Lives

Asset Managers Like BlackRock Are Controlling More and More of Our Lives

Jacobin — Giant asset managers like BlackRock and Vanguard are increasingly but imperceptibly becoming owners of more and more aspects of our lives, from housing to roads to energy infrastructure. Apartment complexes, water pipes, schools, and toll roads; fossil fuels and clean energy infrastructure.
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Climate-Fueled Displacement Is Already Happening in the United States

Climate-Fueled Displacement Is Already Happening in the United States

Jacobin — Interview by Sara Van Horn Cal Turner Over the past few years, climate disasters have threatened and destroyed housing across the diverse landscapes of the United States. Wildfires have scorched through California, destroying more than fifteen thousand buildings since 2020. Hurricanes have battered Florida's vulnerable coastlines, with Hurricane Ian alone claiming five thousand homes and damaging thirty thousand more.
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Green Capitalism Is a Scam: A Conversation with Adrienne Buller

Green Capitalism Is a Scam: A Conversation with Adrienne Buller

Los Angeles Review of Books — DURING THE SUMMER of 2021, the Bootleg Fire destroyed homes and irreparably harmed ecosystems across Oregon and California. It also threw a wrench into the sustainability projects of several companies, among them Microsoft and BP, who had purchased carbon offsets in these areas.
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What the People Want

What the People Want

Bookforum — In his new book, Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century, scholar Kai Bosworth investigates the rise of environmental populism alongside the Indigenous-led protests of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.
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The Green Transition Must Be Union-Powered

The Green Transition Must Be Union-Powered

The Nation — As the hope for timely legislative action to address climate change has dwindled over the past year, high-profile union victories in coffee shops, warehouses, and outdoor recreation stores have catalyzed a renewed sense of worker power.
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Ankle Monitors Continue the Legacy of Mass Incarceration

Ankle Monitors Continue the Legacy of Mass Incarceration

The Real News — Pre-trial detention has shifted from brick and mortar prisons to ankle monitors for people that have yet to be charged with a crime. Advocates say that it's an alternative form of incarceration as they see an increasing number of people held without bond.
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Tenants Continue to Protest Deteriorating Living Conditions at Bolton House

Tenants Continue to Protest Deteriorating Living Conditions at Bolton House

The Real News — The Bolton House Tenants Coalition of Baltimore held a rally outside their apartment complex demanding safe and affordable housing. Activists argue that city officials and housing authorities are reluctant to renovate the building because they want to make way for a large-scale cityscape project across the street
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