Starbucks Workers Have Now Filed to Unionize at Over 150 Locations
Starbucks Workers United announced Friday that 150 stores had filed unionization petitions in the last few months. This is a significant milestone in the campaign’s rapid growth. The 150th location to file unionization was in Westmoreland, Portland, Oregon. “The Westmoreland partners are standing with their fellow Starbucks workers coast to coast,” the union wrote. “Together […]
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Scotland Yard detectives interviewing ‘partygate’ witnesses
Scotland Yard detectives are interviewing key witnesses as part of an investigation into alleged lockdown-breaching gatherings at Downing Street and Whitehall. More than 100 questionnaires were sent to those who were suspected to be attending the gatherings. Scotland Yard announced that it has not yet issued any penalties. At the time of the investigation’s launch […]
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Neither the state nor the market are tackling poverty
The last two decades have been a brutal time for people living in poverty and for billions more who live on the edge of it. COVID was the most severe economic shock in 75 year, destroying lives and livelihoods. The pandemic’s impacts didn’t only play back global inequalities: it widened them. In 2021 the world’s […]
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North Carolina Newspaper Editorial Board Decries Madison Cawthorn as “Abhorrent”
A North Carolina newspaper issued a scathing editorial this weekend, condemning the state’s Republican Party for the “despicable rhetoric” pushed by far right lawmakers, including Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R). The Durham Herald Sun editorial board denounced Cawthorn’s comments and conspiracy theories, noting that, in his less than two years in Congress, Cawthorn has “frequently ma[de] […]
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Hundreds of Chevron Workers Begin Strike as Company Refuses Further Bargaining
On Monday, hundreds of Chevron workers in the San Francisco Bay Area went on strike after voting down the company’s latest contract offer, which workers say contained insufficient wage raises. The contract covers over 500 workers was struck downUnited Steelworkers (USW), Local 5, members on Sunday. Workers were forced to go on strike after the […]
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80 Percent of Voters Support Taxing Big Oil’s Windfall Profits, Poll Finds
Recent polling has shown that a majority of voters support crackingdown on Big Oil as the gas prices have reached an all-time high record highsLegislators are pursuing legislation to tax their profit. The pollHart Research Associates conducted a poll earlier this month for Climate Power and League of Conservation Voters. The results showed that 87 […]
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Trump Aides & Organizers Wanted Mob March to Capitol, Jan. 6 Witness Says
A former aide to one of the groups that helped organize the “Stop the Steal” rally that took place outside of the White House on January 6, 2021, says that aides to the former president wanted to use the rally to encourage Trump loyalists to march to the Capitol building. As the aides had hoped […]
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Putin Has Sacrificed Russia’s Economy for This War on Ukraine’s People
After invading Ukraine, the Russian army failed to seize a single major city. Instead, it has been besieging and bombing civilians and terrorizing those in its control. This ruthless, anti-popular character of the Russian war is the key to understanding what motivated the Kremlin to launch it in the first place, turning upside down its […]
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Unease About Possible New COVID Surge Grows With Rise of BA.2 Variant
Looking at the headlines this morning, you’d think COVID was all over. Sure, The New York TimesThey have almost 30,000 new infections and over a thousand deaths yesterday. But they do this every day. The infection number is 33 percent lower than last week’s, a number with dual meanings: Be cheered by the decrease, and […]
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Pro-Trump Group Sent Armed Members to Colorado Voters’ Doors, Lawsuit Alleges
Voting rights organizations filed a lawsuit against a pro-Trump group to stop them from going door-todoor in Colorado looking for evidence to back voter fraud allegations. already been debunkedAnd rejected by courts. The lawsuit alleges that the U.S. Election Integrity Plan — led by Shawn Smith, an ally of former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and […]
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