Starbucks Must Recognize Union in Store After Violating Law Over 200 Times
In a rare decision, a labor official has filed an order to force Starbucks to recognize a union in the first store to lose its union election, potentially undoing one of the company’s only wins in the roughly nine months of its workers’ union campaign. Linda Leslie (Buffalo-based regional director for the National Labor Relations […]
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Climate-Conscious Voters Have Toppled Australia’s Right-Wing Prime Minister
In what is being described as a “greenslide,” voters in Australia toppled the prime minister, ending nearly a decade of conservative rule. The main issue is? Climate change. Voters elected Anthony Albanese of the center-left Labor Party as their new prime minister on Saturday, ousting the right-wing, pro-coal Scott Morrison, who had served as Australia’s […]
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Ginni Thomas Told Arizona Republican Lawmakers to Overturn 2020 Election Outcome
New emails indicate that Virginia “Ginni” Thomas — a far right conservative activist, Trump loyalist and wife to conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas — was more involved in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election than previously understood. According to a Washington Post report that was published late last week, the […]
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Electric Cars and Lithium Extraction Threaten to Drive Even More Climate Harm
Nation after nation considers the climate emergency a threat for their future survival. But approaches to mitigate it that are promoted by policy makers in the Global North focus on so-called “net-zero” emissions based on dubious carbon trading schemes to maintain current lifestyles and business as usual. But, in the Global South, popular environmentalism relates […]
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Pennsylvania’s Nightmare Election Reveals What Needs to Change
The nation is still waiting for Pennsylvania to count the votes in close elections. Roughly 1,100 votes separate GOP senate candidates Mehmet Oz and Dave McCormick, with fewer than 10,000 mail-in votes remaining as of Friday. Like 2020, Pennsylvania’s notoriously slow counters are leaving two candidates and millions of voters in limbo. One reason is that Pennsylvania, unlike Florida […]
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The Drug War Drives Exploitation. We Need Drug Regulation, Not Criminalization.
With more than a million lives lostIn the United States over the past two decades since the drug-overdose crisis began, more than 103,500 in 2021, some would have us believe that we are at a crossroads — where we either double down on prohibition or institute a purely profit-driven commercial infrastructure that treats drugs like […]
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One Billionaire Has Been Created Every 30 Hours During Pandemic, Oxfam Says
In the shadow ofThe Davos summit of global elites will take place this week. A new report from Oxfam International reveals how inequality has skyrocketed during the two-year global Covid-19 pandemic, to the point that a new billionaire was created almost every day, while nearly one million people are being forced into poverty at almost […]
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New Laws Make It Hard for Some Educators to Discuss Buffalo Shooting in Class
Original publication by The 19th Ruyvette Townsend and her colleagues spent the past week comforting students at Leonardo da Vinci High School in Buffalo, New York, after last weekend’s mass shooting at Tops Friendly Supermarket. The young people at her high school were encouraged to take part in “circle time” where they share their feelings […]
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School Board Considers Reverting School Names Back to Confederate Generals
A school district in Virginia is considering reverting two of its schools’ names back to their previous monikers, which honored Confederate Civil War generals and enslavers Stonewall Jackson, Turner Ashby and Robert E. Lee. Shenandoah County, which is located approximately 100 miles west of Washington D.C. changed the names of its high school and elementary […]
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No 10 admits it suggested Sue Gray meeting
The prime minister’s official spokesperson has said No 10 officials initiated the meeting between the PM and Sue Gray on last week. Earlier today chief secretary to the Treasury, Simon Clarke, suggested Gray has “instigated” the meeting. The spokesman told this afternoon’s lobby briefing that the meeting itself was “not at the request of the […]
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