Lethal Robotic Weapons Systems Are on the Rise, But So Is the Fight to Stop Them
Here’s a scenario to consider: a military force has purchased a million cheap, disposable flying drones each the size of a deck of cards, each capable of carrying three grams of explosives — enough to kill a single person or, in a “shaped charge,” pierce a steel wall. They’ve been programmed to seek out and […]
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Starbucks Workers in Chicago, Ohio and Oregon Join Unionization Efforts
Starbucks workers in Chicago, Cleveland, and Eugene, Oregon filed to form a union. They join a wave organizing efforts at Starbucks locations across America, just a month after workers from Buffalo united. According to Starbucks Workers United, workers are in 29th or Willamette according to Starbucks Workers United in Eugene, Logan and California in ChicagoAnd […]
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Omicron Spike Is Straining Hospitals as Health Care Workers Leave the Profession
The Omicron variant’s transmission rate is exponentially higher than Delta, leaving healthcare workers across the U.S. in dire straits. Waves are being organized by nurses, doctors, and other health professionals. Some have even quit the profession because of exploitative conditions. In addition to the increasing hospitalizations, the staffing shortage has also added to the problem. […]
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Immigration Reform Is Still Possible — With a Strong Social Movement
A year ago, it seemed possible that the country might get its first truly positive immigration reform since the 1986 “Reagan amnesty.” The incoming Biden administration was proposing legislation that would allow most of the country’s 10 to 11 million undocumented immigrants to apply for legal status. The outline was later included in Build Back […]
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Prominent ‘Fact Checker’ Gets Fact-Checked by Reality
Sometimes life happens quickly. Such was the case this week for Glenn Kessler, the so-called “fact checker” for Jeff Bezos’ publication, The Washington Post. Kessler was himself fact-checked inadvertently by the U.S. Department of Justice. However, this reporter who has spent his entire career seeking out the truth and correcting other people was unwilling to […]
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We Need the Fossil Free Finance Act Now to Combat Wall Street’s Greenwashing
In the lead-up to recent climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, some were calling COP26 the “Finance COP.” This was, in part, because Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, had been working tirelessly to secure new climate commitments from financial institutions across the globe. Carney finally had his big moment in Glasgow […]
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Two Lawyers Arguing Remotely Against Vaccine Mandates at Supreme Court Had COVID
At least two of the state officials arguing against the Biden Administration’s federal vaccine mandates Friday were forced to appear in front of the Supreme Court remotely because they had contracted COVID over the last few days, reports said. Ohio Solicitor General Benjamin Flowers and Louisiana Secretary General Liz Murrill argued over the telephone for […]
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CDC’s Revised Quarantine Guidelines Worry Overburdened Health Care Workers
This story was first published at Prism. When Cherriese Thompson heard the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s decision last week to cut quarantine time down from 10 days to five days, she was upset. Thompson, a Northern California third-year medical resident, was upset that the Centers for Disease Prevention had reduced quarantine time from […]
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Columbia University Student Workers Triumph in Campaign for First Union Contract
After more than two months, it was the late hours on January 6. on strike, the Student Workers of Columbia (SWC-UAW) reached a tentative agreement for their union’s first contract with Columbia University. Contract wins result in significant increases for workers. They bring annual compensation for those who are on 9-month contracts to just over […]
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Ongoing Backlash Against CRT Ignores Black Children’s Experience of Racism
Note: Parents.com has a shorter version. It happened on the yellow school bus. I was 9 years old, in 5th grade. I was the only Black girl to ride to North Side Elementary School. As far as I know, I was the only Black person — child or adult — in the whole school. I […]
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