Above photo: Peg Hunter. 19 Arrested Locked to Historic Stagecoach at World’s #2 Fossil Fuel Banker Ahead of Shareholders‘ Meeting. San Francisco — On the eve of Wells Fargo Bank’s annual shareholders’ meeting, 19 climate activists were arrested inside the bank’s headquarters demanding that it stop lending billions annually to the oil and gas industry, whose products are propelling the planet towards disaster. Wells is the world’s second largest fossil fuel banker—second only to JPMorgan Chase—financing $46 billion last year out of a total $742 billion in financing made to the energy sector. The bank far outstripped its rivals by raising […]
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Workers At Fargo Warehouse Strike Over Virus Safety Concerns By Alex Derosier, Inforum. November 19, 2020 Workers At Fargo Warehouse Strike Over Virus Safety Concerns2020-11-192020-11-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/strike-e1605832126735.jpg200px200px Above photo: Teamsters and workers of Cash-Wa Distributing in Fargo go on strike Wednesday, Nov. 18, citing unsafe conditions. C.S. Hagen / The Forum. Fargo – About 70 employees of a Fargo food distribution business went on strike Wednesday, Nov. 18, calling for resumption of union contract talks and drawing attention to what a union spokesman described as “lackadaisical” COVID-19 precautions at the site. About 20 warehouse workers and truck drivers set up picket lines outside […]
Chris Rock’s greatest performances are as Chris Rock. There’s his stand-up comedy, and the many times he’s played himself, or versions of himself, Woody Allen-style, on TV and in movies: Louie, Top Five, I Think I Love My Wife… Don’t be fooled. Those are great performances, deftly allowing the indelible, too-large-to-stifle “Chris Rock-ness” to breathe through the characters. But they’re also a testament to how hard it is to forget that you’re watching Chris Rock, no matter how great an acting turn he’s giving. That adds another layer to the intrigue in the fact that he’s starring in the new season […]
The CEO of Wells Fargo offered a groveling apology for his “unconscious bias” and promised more diversity at one of the largest US banks, after a quote from an internal memo caused outrage even some members of Congress joined in. “I apologize for making an insensitive comment reflecting my own unconscious bias,” Charlie Scharf said in a statement released on Wednesday. “There are many talented diverse individuals working at Wells Fargo and throughout the financial services industry and I never meant to imply otherwise.” The San Francisco-based Wells Fargo is now “requiring diverse candidate slates for key roles with compensation of […]
Robinhood announced on Thursday it hired Norm Ashkenas and Kelly Zigatis as chief compliance officers of its Financial and Securities teams. Source link
No one laughed harder at the 69 joke than Cristin Milioti. The actress, the mother from How I Met Your Mother and your favorite part of so many projects since, plays the lead in Palm Springs, the mind-melting existential romantic comedy co-starring Andy Samberg and produced by his Lonely Island crew. Manifesting all the energy from the gasps in the audience after a shocking out-of-the-gate plot twist, the film launched a competitive bidding war after its premiere screening in January at the Sundance Film Festival. The Daily Beast’s Obsessed Everything we can’t stop loving, hating, and thinking about this week in […]