All News Articles for 2020-02-18
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Abuse Survivors Face Time Limit to Come Forward as Boy Scouts of America Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy "When you fight transparency, protect reputations that don't deserve protection, and create practices that protect abusers, you put your entire organization at risk." Read more |
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Trudeau Calls for 'Dialogue' as Indigenous Rights Protesters Declare, 'When Justice Fails, Block the Rails' Demonstrations in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en land defenders fighting against a proposed fracked gas pipeline have been held across Canada. Read more |
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After Granting Blagojevich and Others Clemency, Trump Calls Himself the 'Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the Country' "NARRATOR: He is not the chief law enforcement officer in the country." Read more |
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'The World Must Act Boldly': 23 Former Diplomats Urge Global Leaders to Adopt Paris-Style Agreement to Protect Biodiversity "Humanity sits on the precipice of irreversible loss of biodiversity and a climate crisis that imperils the future for our grandchildren and generations to come." Read more |
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"Huge Win" for Tech Workers' Rights as Kickstarter Employees Vote to Unionize "To all tech and creative workers looking to fight for your rights, this is only just the beginning!" Read more |
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Millionaires Stop Paying Into Social Security for the Year Tomorrow, Highlighting Need to Scrap Payroll Tax Cap "The burden of Social Security taxes falls more heavily on those who make less." Read more |
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"You Tell Me You Can't Vote for Him?": Eddie Glaude Calls Out GOP Strategist for Never Bernie Hypocrisy "If Donald Trump is the emergency that you say he is, and the Democratic Party puts forward Bernie Sanders, and you tell me you can't vote for him, then it seems to me that Donald Trump isn't the emergency that you say he is." Read more |
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Walmart Workers Demand Fair Pay and Hours at Protest Outside Alice Walton's Penthouse as Retail Giant Cuts Jobs "Winning good jobs at Walmart, the country's largest corporate employer, is the gateway to changing the service economy as a whole." Read more |
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'One Hand Cannot Give What the Other Is Taking Away': Critics Skeptical of Bezos Pledge of $10 Billion to Fight Climate Crisis "Will Jeff Bezos show us true leadership or will he continue to be complicit in the acceleration of the climate crisis, while supposedly trying to help?" Read more |
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Greenpeace Finds Labels on Plastic Products 'Mislead the Public and Harm America's Recycling Systems' "Instead of getting serious about moving away from single-use plastic, corporations are hiding behind the pretense that their throwaway packaging is recyclable." Read more |
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Extreme Weather Could Spark Economic Recession 'Likes of Which We've Never Seen Before,' Research Warns "Unpriced risk was the main cause of the Great Recession in 2007-2008." Read more |
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Latinx Group Mijente's First-Ever Presidential Endorsement: Bernie Sanders "Sen. Bernie Sanders has a long history of progressive stances and consistently remains on the side of working people." Read more |
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'Our Institutions Are Sounding Alarms': Federal Judges Call Emergency Meeting Over Trump Interference With DOJ "This is mind-blowing. I've never heard of anything like it. We are in full on crisis mode." Read more |
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'You Are Not Going to Buy This Election,' Sanders Tells Bloomberg at Rally of 17,000 in Washington "You're not going to win an election when you oppose raising the minimum wage. You're not going to win an election when you call for cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid." Read more |