Major League Baseball Desegregated 75 Years Ago, But It’s Still Rife With Racism
April 15, 2022 marked the 75th anniversary the desegregation in Major League Baseball with the entry of Jackie Robinson, who wore the uniform of Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson has been a legend for his courage, discipline, and on-field performance since that April 1947. He also worked tirelessly after his retirement to promote civil rights in baseball, […]
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Starbucks CEO Pushed Managers to Thwart Unionization Efforts, Leaked Video Shows
Leaked footage of a video call in which Starbucks’ billionaire CEO urges managers to step up their efforts to thwart worker unionization is yet another sign of the company’s growing desperation, labor advocates saidThursday In the undated video publishedPro-worker Media Organization More Perfect Union, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz — who earlier this month became the […]
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Lessons From 100 Years of American Conservatism
Matthew Continetti, a journalist and historian of American conservatism, is presently a fellow on the American Enterprise Institute. He joins this Saturday version of “The Each day Sign Podcast” to debate his new guide “The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism.” Continetti’s guide covers the historical past of American conservatism stretching again to the […]
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Biden’s Failures Highlight How Federal Government Is Too Big
Joe Biden, the candidate, promised to solve our problems as well as restore faith in America’s government. He is today one of the least popular presidents. And CNN’s John Harwood, perhaps the most sycophantic flunky of the Democratic Party not on the company payroll, says that Biden is a victim of circumstances, facing problems that […]
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Just 2.5 Miles From Corporate Headquarters, Starbucks Roastery Votes to Unionize
Starbucks workers at a flagship roastery in the company’s hometown of Seattle voted to form a union with Starbucks Workers United on Thursday, joining 25 other Starbucks stores that are currently unionized. The roastery, which the union says is only 2.5 miles as the crow flies from the company’s corporate headquarters in downtown Seattle, is […]
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Bernie Sanders Urges Congress to Reject Bailout for Bezos Space Company
Sen. Bernie Sanders took to pages of The Guardian on Friday to inveigh against legislation currently before Congress that, if approved, could provide billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space flight company with a lucrative NASA contract to build a moon lander. “At a time when over half of the people in this country live paycheck to paycheck, […]
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Vets Push “No War, No Warming” Climate Campaign Amid Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Antiwar and progressive veterans organizations across the country are marking the first Earth Day after the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan and Russia’s subsequent invasion of Ukraine by highlighting the ways in which militarism fuels the global climate emergency, and how the planetary crisis, in turn, impacts service members. The U.S.’s role as the world’s […]
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What’s Needed to Fight Climate Crisis Is Clear. The Powerful Are Preventing It.
This may be the most frustrating Earth Day celebration in the 50-year history. We have never faced such severe peril from anthropogenic global climate disruption at any other time. There has never been a greater number of people who have invested their time and effort in creating a sustainable future. Making those changes in power […]
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Indigenous Communities Worldwide Are Rising Up Against Big Coal and Big Oil
Amy Goodman is the executive producer and host of Democracy Now!The award-winning news program, which airs on more than 1,100 public TV and radio stations around the world, is a daily, national, independent news program. Time MagazineName Democracy Now! its “Pick of the Podcasts,” along with NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
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Is Boris Johnson a liar?
Boris Johnson’s questionable relationship with the truth has been under intense scrutiny in recent days, as he faces three separate investigations into his conduct over Partygate. Alongside Sue Gray and the Metropolitan Police’s ongoing investigation, the privileges committee will now look into whether Johnson knowingly misled the House regarding lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street and […]
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