Jessica Flores, Michael Cabanatuan March 21, 2022 (SFChronicle.com) More than 500 workers at the Chevron refinery in Richmond went on strike Monday after their union rejected a recent company contract proposal and demanding a “Bay Area pay bump,” union officials said. Several dozen workers, waving picket signs reading “Strike Against Chevron”… Continue reading
CNNWireSunday, March 20, 2022 4:08PM (abc7.com) Three of the country’s largest credit reporting agencies are removing nearly 70% of medical debt from consumer credit reports, the companies announced in a joint statement.Three of the country’s largest credit reporting agencies are removing nearly 70% of medical debt from consumer credit reports,… Continue reading
Scientists expressed alarm as temperatures near both poles soared to 50°-90°F above normal in recent days. (Image: Climate Reanalyzer) “With everything going on in the world right now, the dual polar climate disasters of 2022 should be the top story” BRETT WILKINS March 20, 2022 (CommonDreams.org) Scientists expressed shock and alarm… Continue reading
Marianne Williamson The ascension of far right politics in this country didn’t happen overnight – it was manufactured over decades. Marianne Williamson talks to author Nancy MacLean about her book “Democracy in Chains,” chronicling how proponents of property rights absolutism thought they could only succeed by putting “democracy in chains.”… Continue reading
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Conseil de l’Europe Logo Flag ABBREVIATION CoE FORMATION Treaty of London TYPE Regional intergovernmental organisation HEADQUARTERS Palace of Europe, Strasbourg, France LOCATION Europe[b] MEMBERSHIP 46 member states5 Council observers3 Assembly observers OFFICIAL LANGUAGES English, FrenchOther working languages: German, Italian[1][2] SECRETARY GENERAL Marija Pejčinović Burić DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni PRESIDENT OF… Continue reading
FRI, 3/18/2022 – BY GABRIELLE PICKARD-WHITEHEAD (Occupy.com) Londongrad, Moscow-on-Thames, butler to the Kremlin’s cronies – they’re all well-warranted nicknames that describe the British capital as a well-run magnet for sheltering Russian money. But how Londongrad’s fortunes have literally changed overnight. The lavish private residences owned by oligarchs in the capital are now… Continue reading
NewsNation Ukrainian forces are battling Russian troops on the ground but a different war is being waged online. NewsNation’s Brian Entin spoke with a woman who claims to be a member of “Anonymous,” an international hacker collective. The woman said the group is successfully battling Vladimir Putin’s propaganda online. #AnonymousHackers#CyberWar… Continue reading
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) participates in a news conference in the Capitol on June 16, 2021. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images) “Taken together, these actions will have an immediate and meaningful impact on people’s lives,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. JAKE JOHNSON… Continue reading
Clapboard Tales Harlan County, USA is a 1976 Oscar-winning documentary film covering the “Brookside Strike”, an effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company’s Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in 1973. Directed and produced by Barbara Kopple…. Continue reading
