A sign indicating that a store is closed due to an ongoing heatwave is seen in London on July 19, 2022. (Photo: Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images) “The climate crisis will continue to escalate and get worse as long as we stick our heads in the sand and prioritize… Continue reading
Police in Grant Town, West Virginia arrested demonstrators who blockaded a coal plant that contracts with Enersystems, a company owned by Sen. Joe Manchin’s family, from which the senator earns $500,000 per year. (Photo: @WV_Rising/Twitter) We need to ensure that the richest people in the country can no longer subvert… Continue reading
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Jul 19, 2022 James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a scholar, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The… Continue reading
Christians are splitting with the religious right over Trump, COVID and Black Lives Matter, creating opportunities for those interested in social justice. Paul Engler July 19, 2022 (wagingnonviolence.org) A potentially historic political shift is currently taking place within an unexpected group of Americans: evangelical Christians. In the wake of Donald Trump’s… Continue reading
POSTED IN ECONOMY AND INEQUALITY Workers at “progressive” companies like Starbucks and Heine Brothers’ Coffee exercised their right to form a union. Now the companies are closing their stores. BY MAXIMILLIAN ALVAREZ JULY 15, 2022 (therealnews.com) Gami Ray, barista and worker-organizer with Heine Brothers’ Workers Union Gami Ray (left); TRNN Editor… Continue reading
A climate activist holds a sign near the area where Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) yacht is docked on October 18, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) “He’s taken campaign contributions from 25 Republican billionaires. Is he interested in representing the interests of working class people in this country?… Continue reading
Tactical firefighters work to prevent a wildfire from spreading further as the winds change in Louchats, France on July 17, 2022. (Photo: Thibaud Moritz/AFP via Getty Images) “We need a concrete global response that addresses the needs of the world’s most vulnerable people, communities, and nations,” said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres…. Continue reading
Stephen Schwarzman, co-founder and CEO of Blackstone, speaks at a summit on November 5, 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo: Horacio Villalobos/Corbis via Getty Images) “They’re counting on that ‘small’ investment in anti-tax Republicans to save them billions in taxes,” said Americans for Tax Fairness, which conducted the analysis. KENNY STANCIL… Continue reading
You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting: “Current Events in the World and in Your World.” “People do not know and need to be instructed in how – what is happening all over the world is a picture, in exaggerated degree, of what is happening inside themselves to a varying… Continue reading
Roland Li July 15, 2022Updated: July 15, 2022 2:49 p.m. (SFChronicle.com) Earlier this week, I wrote about Salesforce cutting back on its office space in downtown San Francisco, another sign of tech companies downsizing as workers stay remote during the pandemic. South of Market resident Abraham Woodliff read the headline and saw it… Continue reading
