At Rich Products Plant In L.A. Area. Since November 3, the group of well over 100 strikers has been on the picket line at the Rich Products-owned Jon Donaire Desserts plant, demanding better wages, improved retirement benefits, and changes to the company’s abusive, punitive point system, which provides workers with only three days of sick leave per year. Santa Fe Springs, California – In Santa Fe Springs, California, located in the Los Angeles area, a group of largely immigrant Latina factory workers is waging a high-stakes strike against the multibillion-dollar food manufacturing company Rich Products. Since November 3, the group of […]
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Above Photo: A Savannah Chatham County Public Schools bus climbs the ramp onto Veterans Parkway as drivers who called out sick on 3 September, hold a protest outside the operations center. Richard Burkhart/AP. Drivers are left ‘begging for better pay’ even as the school bus driver shortage is worsening in the new school year. Yellow school buses are part of the American streetscape, familiar to families across the US and an easily recognizable symbol the world over. But the drivers of the vehicles that shuttle America’s children to and from school are now caught up in the wave of labor unrest […]
Baltimore Museum of Art workers are unionizing for livable wages, staff advancement, health and safety. In 1930, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin became the Baltimore Museum of Art’s first appointed curator of prints—and the first paid staff curator in the fine arts. A recent BMA exhibition, Adelyn Breeskin: Curating a Legacy, commended her work at the museum, which included helping to secure the Cone Collection and establish the print department. According to curator Laura Albans, Breeskin was born into a wealthy Baltimore family, moved away for school, and later returned as a divorcee with three kids who needed a job. In 1942, when all the men […]
Above photo: Nicaragua Mountains at Dusk by Adam Cohn / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. To people in developing countries, it seems clear, the wealthy countries that caused most of the problem of climate change should pay the most to adapt to it and to solve the problem. But instead, countries like the United States lecture low low-emitting countries to do more while they extract their resources and destroy their forests. For example, Nicaragua was an outspoken critic of the Paris climate talks because they did not go far enough. It is one of the countries most impacted by climate change, yet its […]
Above Photo: A CIO cartoon about demand-side economics, from 1955. Many in the media are very upset that workers at the bottom end of the pay scale feel secure enough to demand higher pay and better working conditions. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of watching a television anchor, who earns $6 million a year, complain that 3 percent of the workforce quit their job in August. They seemed to find the idea of workers quitting unsatisfactory jobs appalling. For those of us who think that all workers should be able to get decent pay, have decent working conditions, and be treated with respect on […]
Above Photo: The Kaiser Permanente Antelope Valley Medical Offices in Lancaster, CA. Ted Eytan. Union members say a long-running partnership between Kaiser employees and management is under attack. For 13 years, registered nurse Kim Mullen has been part of a successful experiment: a collaborative partnership between the health care professionals at Kaiser Permanente and the executives who run the massive nonprofit. Decisions about the day to day delivery of care were shared among physicians, managers and employees. Workers’ input was actively and continuously solicited. Staffing ratios, wages and benefits, patient care — all were subject to group-based discussion and problem solving. “It’s […]
Above Photo: Elvert Barnes. New York City’s 65,000+ food delivery workers were celebrated as essential workers throughout the pandemic. But according to a damning new study, they aren’t actually being treated that way—instead, they routinely earn low wages well below New York’s minimum wage, lack basic labor and employment protections, and face dangerous working conditions on the streets of NYC. The report released this week, which was conducted by advocacy group Worker’s Justice Project in partnership with Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, is a four-month-long survey (December 2020-April 2021) of 500 app-based workers throughout the five boroughs, many of whom work […]
Above Photo: School buses at Dewar Elementary School, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia (Wikimedia Commons) On September 3, 54 school bus drivers in the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System SCCSS) in Georgia began a rolling sickout and staged a protest at the school district offices over pay structure and lack of adequate protections from COVID-19. The sickouts forced the school board to scramble for drivers to transport students. The school relies on about 218 drivers to ferry more than 18,700 students to and from school; the 54 drivers who are protesting represent about 22 percent of the district’s drivers. A school district […]
Kings Bay Plowshares Activists Pay Heavy Price Resisting Nuclear Warfare By Jonathan Michels, Shadowproof. November 19, 2020 Kings Bay Plowshares Activists Pay Heavy Price Resisting Nuclear Warfare2020-11-192020-11-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/trident-omnicide-e1605830176566.jpg200px200px Above photo: (Left to right) Clare Grady, Liz McAlister, Patrick O’Neill, Carmen Trotta, Steve Kelley, Martha Hennessy and Mark Colville. Photo courtesy Kings Bay Plowshares. Patrick O’Neill gripped the hammer tightly in his hands. The police would soon surround him. O’Neill and six other Catholic peace activists had infiltrated the Kings Bay Naval Base in St. Mary’s, Georgia, with the goal of symbolically disarming the base’s six Trident submarines armed with first-strike missiles capable […]
Voters Pass A Tax On The Rich To Pay Teachers More November 9, 2020 Voters Pass A Tax On The Rich To Pay Teachers More2020-11-092020-11-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/signs1_1-e1604962431813.jpg200px200px Above photo: Christina Estes/KJZZ. Marana, AZ – Prop 208, Invest in Ed, passed. A 3.5 percent tax increase will be applied to any individual making more than $250,000 a year or if a household makes more than $500,000 a year. That money will go towards public education. Meagan Brown, a special education teacher at Twin Peaks School in Marana said this additional funding is needed for the state. “Long story short, I just don’t want teachers […]
Shipt Workers Demand Better Pay, Treatment By Connor Sheets, AL.com. October 20, 2020 Shipt Workers Demand Better Pay, Treatment2020-10-202020-10-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/shiptworkers-e1603237658229.jpg200px200px Above photo: Abby Hathcock, a Shipt Shopper and co-organizer of the Sunday demonstration outside the company’s headquarters in downtown Birmingham, addresses the gathering of protesters. Connor Sheets. Alabama – More than 20 Shipt workers demonstrated in front of the grocery delivery company’s headquarters in downtown Birmingham Sunday afternoon. They were there to protest Shipt policies that some of the company’s delivery people – known as Shipt Shoppers – say have led to decreased wages during a global pandemic and continue to leave […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107753/17/1077531746_0:84:2574:1532_1200x675_80_0_0_0d837d82ed8bde8362164c6f63a4d15d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/sport/202010181080804820-gareth-bale-only-real-madrid-player-to-refuse-pay-cut-during-season-suspension-media-reports/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Welsh football star Gareth Bale was the only Real Madrid player to refuse a salary cut due to the pandemic stoppage, media reported Saturday. According to Spanish national radio broadcaster Cadena SER, when competitions around the world were suspended earlier this year, Real Madrid was among the first clubs to propose a pay cut to players. The squad refused at first, but after players from Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and many other European clubs agreed the shrink their salaries, Real Madrid players agreed the pay cut, the radio station reported. Only Bale […]
Recently released data suggests there are fewer police officers per person in the United States that at any point in the last 25 years. The figures are from the Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll. According to recent federal data there were 214 officers per 100,000 Americans in 2019, which represents a nine percent fall since 2007 when police numbers were at their peak. The figures come as the United States wrestles with the consequences of the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter campaign. Steven Howard, a former federal agent and weapons expert, told Sputnik: […]
Shipt Workers Organize Targeted Protest Over Pay Model By Chris Mills Rodrigo, The Hill. October 16, 2020 Shipt Workers Organize Targeted Protest Over Pay Model2020-10-162020-10-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/shipt.png200px200px Above photo: Getty images. Shipt workers, frustrated with the delivery company’s shift to a new, less transparent pay model, are set to strike this weekend before staging protests at both Shipt and Target’s corporate headquarters on Monday. With the pay model now instituted in every market, organizers hope this direct action will send a clear signal to Shipt and Target, which acquired the delivery company in 2017, that workers are unsatisfied by what they say is […]
The Spanish government has passed decrees to tackle wage inequality between genders, and warned it will impose hefty fines on companies who fail to disclose the salaries of their employees. The new regulations are “historical,” Labor Minister Yolanda Diaz said, adding that they will help to “bring to the surface labor inequalities and give workers the tools to eliminate them.” A law on gender equality in the workplace was approved earlier this year, and Socialist and far-left ministers in the coalition government on Tuesday passed two decrees detailing the legislation. Companies will now have to disclose the system they use to […]
The Capitol Hill Organised Protest group has confirmed the artists will be compensated for their creative work on the mural, without giving the overall sum, though, citing upcoming additional maintenance costs. As the Seattle authorities reportedly paid street artists to restore a Black Lives Matter mural near the former Capitol Hill Organised Protest zone after it appeared faded and chipped, they also inadvertently funded such controversial inscriptions such as “ACAB”, “f***police”, and “100% Antifa”. HAPPENING NOW: Newly minted #BlackLivesMatter mural on Pine St. in Capitol Hill is being “cleaned up.” Artist “Future Crystals” was commissioned by the city to make the […]
Out of all the universities with blockchain education programs, two stand out by offering students paid opportunities to learn by working. At MIT and Berkeley, students can take accessible and well-paid jobs at blockchain startups, often for part-time arrangements like 12 hours a week. This post is part of CoinDesk’s 2020 university package. See our exclusive ranking of blockchain universities here. MIT Bitcoin Club President Nate Foss said his student organization has a dedicated Slack channel for crypto-related job openings. Plus, the MIT Bitcoin Club’s alumni network includes local companies like Skynet Labs, which often hires undergraduates. “We don’t have any […]
Analysts say real estate tax breaks allowed President Trump to personally avoid high taxes. Above, Trump prepares to sign tax legislation into law in the Oval Office on Dec. 22, 2017. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Analysts say real estate tax breaks allowed President Trump to personally avoid high taxes. Above, Trump prepares to sign tax legislation into law in the Oval Office on Dec. 22, 2017. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A manager at McDonald’s likely paid more federal income tax than President Trump did the year he took office. The president’s tax returns show he paid […]
A federal court is ordering ex-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, seen here in November, to pay more than $5 million in profits and royalties from his 2019 memoir and speeches. Armando Franca/AP hide caption toggle caption Armando Franca/AP A federal court is ordering ex-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, seen here in November, to pay more than $5 million in profits and royalties from his 2019 memoir and speeches. Armando Franca/AP A federal court has ruled that former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden must pay more than $5 million in book royalties and speaking fees derived from his 2019 memoir, the […]
A Japanese appeals court has said that the state and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) could have taken steps to prevent the Fukushima nuclear disaster, ruling they must pay one billion yen ($9.5 million) to 3,550 plaintiffs. The Sendai High Court’s ruling on Wednesday upheld the earlier decision by a lower court in favor of the plaintiffs. They were forced to flee their homes after a 9-magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami that devastated the northeast region and crippled the Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011. Also on rt.com WATCH: Cameras go inside Fukushima nuclear power plant to show cleanup progress since 2011 […]
The pandemic’s financial pressures cause many Americans to struggle with rent. Demonstrators march in the Old Town neighborhood of Chicago this June to demand a lift on the Illinois rent control ban and a cancellation of rent and mortgage payments. Max Herman/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Max Herman/NurPhoto via Getty Images The pandemic’s financial pressures cause many Americans to struggle with rent. Demonstrators march in the Old Town neighborhood of Chicago this June to demand a lift on the Illinois rent control ban and a cancellation of rent and mortgage payments. Max Herman/NurPhoto via Getty Images Jean lost […]
One week after Election Day, the Supreme Court is set to hear the latest legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act—and a newly confirmed conservative justice could easily usher in a decision that overturns the sweeping health-care law once and for all. Democrats might not have the power to stop President Donald Trump’s nominee to the court from being seated before it hears that case on Nov. 10. But in the meantime, they’re working to make sure Republicans who vote for the president’s pick are tagged with the painful politics of health care. But if Republicans are at all concerned about […]
Make Corporate Landlords Pay The Bills During The Pandemic By Sofia Lopez and Sara Mycklebust, Inequality.org. September 22, 2020 Make Corporate Landlords Pay The Bills During The Pandemic2020-09-222020-09-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/cancelrent-e1600783330253.jpg200px200px Above photo: Getty Images. With fortunes inflated by corporate welfare, wealthy real estate owners can afford to cancel housing-related expenses and debts for millions of struggling American families. The Covid-19 crisis has both exposed and exacerbated racial and wealth inequality in the United States. As unemployment skyrockets and tens of millions of Americans struggle with a sudden loss of income, many are unable to pay rents or mortgages and are facing eviction, foreclosure, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107404/34/1074043400_0:213:4737:2878_1200x675_80_0_0_7ac1c9a93a942afca4b31088ee4234a6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009221080531774-snowden-reportedly-agrees-to-pay-united-states-5-million-from-book-speeches/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked intelligence secrets in 2013, has agreed to pay the US government more than $5 million earned from his book “Permanent Record” and speeches, CNN reported citing court records. In September 2019, the US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the whistleblower over claims that he violated non-disclosure obligations by not submitting his original autobiography to the government for review before publishing. A federal judge ruled in December that the US government was entitled to all the profits from the original […]
There’s a Jewish tradition that someone who dies on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, must have been a tzaddik, a righteous person. After all, God waited all year to carry out the decree. Perhaps that offers some comfort to those mourning the loss of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Hebrew name, Yita Ruchel bat Tzirel Leah), who finally succumbed to cancer at the age of 87, after convincing many of us that she was immortal. But the themes of Rosh Hashanah offer another lesson as well: a warning to those Republican senators pondering whether or not to support Senate Majority Leader […]
The payments processor facilitated millions of dollars of PlexCoin investments before shuttering accounts in September 2017. Source link
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) settled unregistered securities offering charges against online gaming and gambling platform Unikrn for conducting an initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017. Commissioner Hester M. Peirce, an outspoken advocate for cryptocurrencies, dissented. According to a press release Tuesday, the SEC alleged that between June and October 2017, Unikrn Inc. raised approximately $31 million through the UnikoinGold (UKG) token sale in violation of registration requirements. The SEC’s press release said that while the firm promised to use its funds to add more features to the platform and develop additional applications, it failed to register the sale […]
Nym now allows bitcoin transactions and has an incentive program for people running its nodes. It is also enabling plugins that will allow users to plug in wallets and applications to run their traffic through its mixnet. What is a mixnet? Nym is a start-up software project working to obscure metadata tracking at a network level via the mixnet it enables. The mixnet itself is hosted by a decentralized network of volunteers. On a normal internet network, most traffic can be tracked. Browsers like Tor offer a degree of protection against network surveillance by running traffic through a number of relays […]
Guardian: The US justice department is seeking to take over Donald Trump’s defense in a defamation lawsuit from a writer who accused him of rape, and federal lawyers asked a court on Tuesday to allow a move that could put the American people on the hook for any money she might be awarded. Breaking: The Justice Dept just moved to take over Trump’s defense in the E. Jean Carroll rape lawsuit, even though the alleged incident occurred in the 1990’s and had nothing to do with the presidency.https://t.co/uodKzPQ6Vw — Cliff Levy (@cliffordlevy) September 8, 2020 This is outrageous! Bill Barr is […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107918/35/1079183598_0:0:2919:1642_1200x675_80_0_0_09f7d31fda9f2802530946ab285593d8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Oleg Burunov. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/uk/202009061080382446-tory-mp-wants-prince-harry-meghan-markle-to-pay-back-for-their-uk-home-renovation-with-netflix-cash/ Earlier this week, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced that they had clinched a deal with Netflix to create content for making documentaries, feature films, scripted shows, and children’s programming. Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, deputy chair of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, has urged Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to use a hefty sum from their deal with Netflix to pay back the money they received to renovate Frogmore Cottage, the couple’s former home on the Windsor Castle estate in the UK. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now in the process of […]
US Determined To Make Assange Pay For Exposing The Cruelty Of Its War By Vijay Prashad, Globetrotter. September 3, 2020 US Determined To Make Assange Pay For Exposing The Cruelty Of Its War2020-09-032020-09-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/assange-e1595101693166.jpeg200px200px September 7, 2020, Julian Assange will leave his cell in Belmarsh Prison in London and attend a hearing that will determine his fate. After a long period of isolation, he was finally able to meet his partner—Stella Moris—and see their two sons—Gabriel (age three) and Max (age one)—on August 25. After the visit, Moris said that he looked to be in “a lot of pain.”The hearing that Assange will face has nothing […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/0e/1080169593_0:295:2761:1849_1200x675_80_0_0_46bbf3582a9b84794b135e68fb22af14.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008301080322346-erdogan-warns-greece-france-may-pay-price-for-actions-of-incompetent-rulers-in-mediterranean/ Tensions between Turkey and Greece rapidly escalated over the last month after Ankara announced the continuation of its fossil fuel extraction survey in disputed eastern Mediterranean waters. Its attempts to find energy resources in the region are vehemently opposed by Athens, with many EU countries also condemning Turkish actions in the sphere. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cautioned Athens and Paris against trying to stop Turkey from continuing its seismic survey activities to locate and identify sources of oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean, stressing that Ankara is “determined to […]
Earlier on Sunday, British business leaders berated Health Secretary Matt Hancock for “scaremongering” talk about a possible second national lockdown that they said risks “untold damage” to businesses trying to recover from the first one. UK Treasury officials are considering a £30 billion ($40 billion) tax raid on the wealthy to fill a gap in the country’s finances caused by the COVID-19 crisis, The Sunday Times reports. The newspaper cited Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak as saying that “the political reality is that the only place you can get the money is from the better-off; the polling shows this would […]
Kuwait is running out of money for the salaries of public servants and will have no money to cover these after November, the country’s finance minister told parliament. Unless oil prices rise, the money being used now, withdrawals from the General Reserve Fund, will simply be depleted, Middle East Monitor reports, citing the official, Barak Al-Sheeran. Kuwait’s budget deficit hit $18.44 billion in fiscal 2019-2020, which ended in March. The deficit will widen this fiscal year on the back of the oil price collapse and the pandemic, potentially reaching $45.78 billion (14 billion dinars). This is up from a previous deficit […]
(Google ‘trump, jane doe’) Guardian: A California judge has ordered Donald Trump to pay the adult film actor and director Stormy Daniels $44,100, to cover legal fees in the battle over her non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with the president. He fucked a porn star while his new bride was home with their baby. And then he illegally paid her off. And lied about it. That’s who @JoeBiden is running against. Remember that Nov3… #trump #Biden #Election2020 @StormyDaniels #StormyDaniels https://t.co/M1cQAnrZh8 — Andy Ostroy (@AndyOstroy) August 22, 2020 And then they said he has to pay Stormy Daniels court fees. pic.twitter.com/Y2UgY5O9J3 — Dycadon (@Dyann057) […]
Make Corporate Landlords Pay For Housing Crisis By Sofia Lopez and Sara Myklebust, Inequality. August 18, 2020 Make Corporate Landlords Pay For Housing Crisis2020-08-182020-08-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/right-to-housing-e1596131418813.jpeg200px200px The Covid-19 crisis has both exposed and exacerbated racial and wealth inequality in the United States. As unemployment skyrockets and tens of millions of Americans struggle with a sudden loss of income, many are unable to pay rents or mortgages and are facing eviction, foreclosure, and possible homelessness. We’ve seen this eviction crisis brewing for months, and despite platitudes about racial justice, our elected officials and corporate landlords haven’t taken any meaningful action to prevent it from hitting poor people […]
A lot of Liberals wish the Second Amendment had never been written. They wish the words would just go away. They don’t understand how important the Second Amendment is to America. Without the Second Amendment, we’d have lost the First Amendment long ago! To remind Liberals how important the words of the Second Amendment are to us, here’s something special: a Second Amendment American flag with the words printed on the stripes (ordering through this link and the links below supports Gateway Pundit)! The best part: It’s free – just pay shipping and handling! TRENDING: Garbage DC Website Known for Promoting Conspiracies […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008141080173063–hezbollah-leader-israel-will-pay-the-price-if-it-turns-out-tel-aviv-was-behind-beirut-blast/ Immediately after the tragedy occurred, reports emerged that Israel could have been behind the powerful explosion that left more than 200 people dead and 5,000 injured. Tel Aviv, which has been involved in a series of military clashes with Lebanon, has categorically denied the allegation. Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah said Israel will pay the price if it turns out it was behind the deadly explosion that hit Lebanon’s capital Beirut on 4 August. Lebanese officials said the blast was caused by 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate – a chemical compound used in agriculture as […]
Publicly traded brokerage firm Interactive Brokers has agreed to pay multi-million dollar penalties to the SEC, Finra and CFTC for failure to flag suspicious transactions and lapses in AML compliance. Source link
Staff at the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores turned off a 30-foot waterfall and collected all the coins visitors had thrown into the water while making wishes. After cleaning them off, they’ll put the money toward the aquarium’s expenses. Liz Baird/Courtesy of NC Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores hide caption toggle caption Liz Baird/Courtesy of NC Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores Staff at the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores turned off a 30-foot waterfall and collected all the coins visitors had thrown into the water while making wishes. After cleaning them off, they’ll put the money toward […]
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Mount Adams rises in the distance beyond the largely agricultural Yakima Valley, in Yakima, Wash. Elaine Thompson / AP hide caption toggle caption Elaine Thompson / AP Mount Adams rises in the distance beyond the largely agricultural Yakima Valley, in Yakima, Wash. Elaine Thompson / AP It’s strawberry season in northwest Washington’s Skagit Valley. For Ana, a farmworker, that means long days bent nearly doubled over to snap ripe strawberries from low bushes. “You have to lean over a lot to pick strawberries, so of course everything hurts — your legs, your back — everything,” she said in an interview in […]
The Democrat-media complex is using the Coronavirus as a vehicle to rig the election with mail-in voting. The Democrats, with help from their stenographers in the media say it’s far too dangerous to vote in person in November because everyone will die from COVID. Advertisement – story continues below COVID-19 is a peculiar virus because it only infects people at voting booths, gyms, churches and Trump rallies. People lined up as far as the eye could see on Tuesday in Washington DC to pay respects to Congressman John Lewis. TRENDING: TGP at Tech Hearing: Rep. Greg Steube Grills Google CEO on […]
77-year-old Joe Biden on Monday looked old and feeble as he entered the Capitol rotunda alongside his wife Jill and Speaker Nancy Pelosi to pay respects to Congressman John Lewis who is lying in state. Democrat Congressman John Lewis’s body will lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda and he will be laid to rest on Thursday at South View Cemetery in Atlanta. Biden’s handlers let the former VP out of his Delaware basement to pay his respects. Biden looked feeble and confused. TRENDING: We Asked Our Readers to Send Photos of the Democrat Party Sanctioned Destruction and Rioting in their […]
As reparations become a more and more popular topic while anti-police and anti-racism protests rage across the US, rapper Ice Cube wants to see Hollywood studios take part and give yearly payments to black-owned companies. “I think these studios that we know and love should kick in to a studio that’s ran by black people with no outside influences, and whose movies and projects are owned by those black people,” the musician and actor told radio show ‘The Breakfast Club’. These studios, he claims, have “contributed in our narrative, in our pain, in our misrepresentation.” First making waves as a rapper […]
Comments from Alexandria Ocasi-Cortez on her theory about crime spiking in New York City have gone viral and been slammed relentlessly, as the congresswoman believes it all boils down to people being broke and hungry. Asked about the increase in crime in her city during a recent virtual town hall, Ocasio-Cortez connected the stats to a bad economy putting people in desperate situations. “Do we think this has to do with the fact that there’s record unemployment in the United States right now? The fact that people are at a level of economic desperation that we have not seen since the […]
On Monday, the British government imposed sanctions against two North Korean ministries that London suspects of being involved in forced labour, torture, and murder in the DPRK’s prison camps. Pyongyang has slammed the UK for slapping sanctions against North Korea, accusing Britain of meddling in the Communist nation’s domestic affairs. “This act of the UK is a despicable political scheme which follows in the footsteps of the hostile US policy towards the DPRK. The UK will be definitely made to pay the price”, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in a statement on Saturday, dubbing London Washington’s “puppet”. The spokesperson […]
A London judge has ordered former British spy Christopher Steele to pay thousands of pounds in damages for not verifying the claims he included in his scandalous Russian dossier, which alleged Donald Trump’s ties with Moscow. Steele was taken to court by Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven, Russian bankers from Alfa Group, who contested one of the key allegations in the paper that they were responsible for delivering “large amounts of illicit cash” to President Vladimir Putin in the 1990s. Justice Mark Warby of the High Court of England and Wales ruled on Wednesday that Steele’s claim against Fridman and Aven was “inaccurate and […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107919/50/1079195023_0:268:3164:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_167507744746685930ce282976783acd.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007081079832566-amazon-to-pay-fine-of-more-than-100000-over-sales-to-crimea-iran-syria/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Amazon agreed to pay a fine to settle alleged violations of multiple US-imposed sanctions regimes including selling goods to Russia’s Crimea, Iran, and Syria, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said on Wednesday. “Amazon.com… has agreed to pay $134,523 to settle its potential civil liability for apparent violations of multiple OFAC sanctions programs”, the Department said in a statement. “Amazon provided goods and services to persons sanctioned by OFAC; to persons located in the sanctioned region or countries of Crimea, Iran, and Syria”. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant, […]
What Price Will Israel Pay For Annexing The Last Of Palestine? By David Hearst, Middle East Eye. July 2, 2020 What Price Will Israel Pay For Annexing The Last Of Palestine?2020-07-022020-07-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/palfree-e1593704489880.jpg200px200px Above photo: A demonstration in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square to denounce Israel’s plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank on 23 June. AFP. Only when Israel starts paying a real price, will it have second thoughts about its project to establish itself as the only state between the river and the sea. The systematic and collective appropriation of Palestinian land by the State of Israel is not an accident […]
As coronavirus cases persist and some states even backtrack their reopening plans, essential workers have flooded social media with calls for hazard pay. Malte Mueller/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Malte Mueller/Getty Images As coronavirus cases persist and some states even backtrack their reopening plans, essential workers have flooded social media with calls for hazard pay. Malte Mueller/Getty Images A strange thing happened this spring. As co-workers began to get sick, essential worker Yudelka LaVigna took an unpaid leave of absence. When she got her unemployment benefits, she realized something unheard of: She was making more money not working. “That just […]
Exposed: States Relying On ‘House Of Cards’ To Pay For Coal Mine Cleanup By Mark Olalde, Desmog Blog. June 29, 2020 Exposed: States Relying On ‘House Of Cards’ To Pay For Coal Mine Cleanup2020-06-292020-06-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/upper-big-branch-e1593390683379.jpg200px200px Above photo: A memorial in a West Virginia hollow pays homage to the 29 coal miners who were killed in the Upper Big Branch disaster in 2010. Credit: © Mark Olalde. For more than a century-and-a-half, the forests, streams, and hollows of the Appalachian Mountains have been scraped and gashed to unearth their heart of rich black coal. These lumps of hydrocarbons historically played a vital role in America’s electricity […]
This should come as no surprise.Radical Democrat Ayanna Pressley took to the House floor last week and demanded the American people “pay us what you owe us.” The Massachusetts Representative says Black Lives Matter has a mandate. Rep. Ayanna Pressley: “Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It’s time — pay us what you owe us. Our Black skin is not a crime. It is the beautiful robe of nation-builders.” Rep. Ayanna Pressley: “Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It’s time — pay us what you owe us. Our Black skin is not a crime. It […]
Bayer says a settlement worth more than $10 billion will resolve most of the roughly 125,000 claims the company currently faces over its Roundup product. Here, a farmer sprays the glyphosate herbicide in northwestern France in September. Jean-François Monier/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jean-François Monier/AFP via Getty Images Bayer says a settlement worth more than $10 billion will resolve most of the roughly 125,000 claims the company currently faces over its Roundup product. Here, a farmer sprays the glyphosate herbicide in northwestern France in September. Jean-François Monier/AFP via Getty Images Bayer will pay more than $10 billion to […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – German pharma giant Bayer said Wednesday it will pay up to $10.9 billion to settle a raft of lawsuits against its US affiliate Monsanto’s weedkiller Roundup, accused of causing cancer. “Company will make a total payment of $10.1 billion to $10.9 billion… to resolve current and address potential future Roundup litigation”, a statement read. Bayer bought Monsanto, a herbicide and genetically modified seed producer, in 2018, three years after the first lawsuits were filed. “First and foremost, the Roundup™ settlement is the right action at the right time for Bayer to bring a long period of uncertainty to […]
Some cities, such as Washington, D.C. are offering free coronavirus testing for people who’ve attended protests. Where free tests aren’t available, some people may find insurance refuses to cover precautionary testing. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP Some cities, such as Washington, D.C. are offering free coronavirus testing for people who’ve attended protests. Where free tests aren’t available, some people may find insurance refuses to cover precautionary testing. Carolyn Kaster/AP In the wake of the massive turnout at anti-racism demonstrations around the country, public health officials are encouraging protesters to get tested for the coronavirus. As purely precautionary testing […]
Ryde, Singapore’s first carpooling app, will now let customers pay for rides with bitcoin. Starting next week, its users will be able to store and convert bitcoin to the company’s RydeCoin with zero transaction costs, the company announced Wednesday. Customers can top up a maximum of S$999 (just over US$700) in bitcoin at a time to pay for rides, and Ryde claims it will be the world’s first and only cryptocurrency wallet that allows users to pay for rides using bitcoin within its own e-wallet. The company is not the first ride-hailing app to accept bitcoin payments. In 2018, Fold, an […]
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Going out to the street to support Black Lives Matter movement isn’t enough anymore. If you’re white and want to remain in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, you must also share your cash with black people. “I want you to give $10 to one African-American person from this autonomous zone,” a speaker was filmed telling the crowd inside CHAZ, a police-free area in downtown Seattle created a week ago by those protesting over the death of African American man, George Floyd, during his arrest. The orator argued that payment is a challenge for the white people to prove their […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107961/24/1079612427_0:0:2902:1633_1200x675_80_0_0_5b7baa897301d2864cfbeac323335f37.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006141079612456-palestinian-government-announces-inability-to-pay-salaries-to-employees/ GAZA (Sputnik) – The Palestinian government cannot pay salaries to its employees, as it did not receive tax deductions from Israel, spokesman Ibrahim Milhim said on Sunday. “The government did not receive tax deductions from Israel. The Palestinian leadership will not be subject to Israeli blackmail. When the necessary funds for salary payment appear in the Ministry of Finance, then the government will pay all salaries”, Milhim said at a press conference. Last week, Milhim said that the Palestinian government refused to accept Israeli monthly tax transfers for goods produced within its territory, as […]
Can build a better blockchain by paying people to burn one down? Beniamin Mincu, Transylvanian chief executive and founder of the Elrond Network, is in the midst of a 15-day campaign to do just that. Nearly two years after first revealing his “secure proof-of-stake” sharding protocol in a technical white paper, Mincu and Elrond’s now 24-person developer team will offer up to $60,000 to node-runners who can successfully wreak havoc upon their code. Mincu’s goal with the so-called “Battle of the Nodes: Unchained” campaign is, of course, to have white hats expose every bug, attack vector, vulnerability and critical breakpoint on […]
US 20:33 GMT 04.06.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107952/17/1079521785_0:132:3406:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_a60de6ec64b833f0d7f3277477e92fe8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006041079521837-did-mxico-pay-for-it-netizens-scoff-as-white-house-erects-fencing-concrete-barriers—video/ The federal government’s decision to fortify the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) has drawn criticism from netizens and Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser. Tall, metal fencing, along with concrete barriers, appeared along 17th Street in the US capital and around the White House and EEOB on Thursday. In addition to the new fencing, which now extends past the EEOB down 17th Street, @abdallahCNN reports that additional concrete barriers have been installed behind existing fencing at 17th and Pennsylvania Ave. NW pic.twitter.com/aoULVLNFF8 — Betsy Klein […]
It’s next to impossible to socially distance in Eureka Springs. Built in the late 1880s as a rural spa village, the northwest Arkansas hamlet is defined by painstakingly preserved Victorian buildings and narrow cobblestone streets that snake through its perpetually bustling entertainment district. Just as European settlers traveled to Eureka Springs for the promise of the healing waters of the Ozark mountains, hundreds of tourists crowd its narrow sidewalks on the weekends, brushing past each other to buy handmade jewelry at the Ladybug Emporium or a cup of coffee at Local Flavor Café. Historically, its busy walkways were part of Eureka […]
Renters in the Woodner apartment building in Washington, D.C., protest to demand their rent be forgiven during the COVID-19 pandemic on May 28. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images Renters in the Woodner apartment building in Washington, D.C., protest to demand their rent be forgiven during the COVID-19 pandemic on May 28. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images As one of the country’s worst economic and health crises in history deepens, rent is due again for millions of people who are struggling to make ends meet. Over the last few months, states and the […]
US Firms Shield CEO Pay As Pandemic Hits Workers, Investors By Jessica DiNapoli and Ross Kerber, Reuters. May 31, 2020 US Firms Shield CEO Pay As Pandemic Hits Workers, Investors2020-05-312020-05-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/whpng-e1590953388840.png200px200px Above photo: Christopher Nassetta, the President and CEO of Hilton, participates in a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and tourism industry executives on coronavirus (COVID-19) response within the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 17, 2020. Reuters/Leah Millis/File Photo. New York/ Boston – Sonic Automotive Inc (SAH.N), which operates 95 U.S. car dealerships, started laying off and furloughing about a third of its workforce as the coronavirus pandemic crushed […]
Women’s world number three Karolina Pliskova says any male stars complaining over demands for equal pay for their female counterparts are “super weak” – but insisted she is not pushing for parity between the sexes. Recent weeks have seen renewed calls from the likes of men’s icon Roger Federer for the ATP and WTA tours to merge – leading to questions over what that would mean for the pay disparity between the tours. Also on rt.com Impractical idealism? Roger Federer calls for ‘men’s and women’s tennis to come together as one’ Pliskova, 28, said she did not think that a merger […]
This weekend, temporary pay bumps for workers during the coronavirus pandemic are ending at companies across the country. In a normal world, high hazard pay might be the only way to stop employees from quitting en masse. But with tens of millions unemployed, workers quickly lost a lot of leverage. Ada Yokota/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ada Yokota/Getty Images This weekend, temporary pay bumps for workers during the coronavirus pandemic are ending at companies across the country. In a normal world, high hazard pay might be the only way to stop employees from quitting en masse. But with tens of […]
Rent Strike: Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay By Amy Hall, The New Internationalist. May 29, 2020 Rent Strike: Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay2020-05-292020-05-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/04/rent-strike-e1590508502204.png200px200px Above photo: Students with their ‘Rent Strike’ banner from the News Line. The Covid-19 crisis has triggered an international rent strike. Housing activists hope to build strong networks of solidarity as a financial crisis and mass evictions loom. Julian has worked in exhibition centers in Australia for several years. The Latin American whose employment has always been on a casual basis, with no contract, lost all of his work as coronavirus hit and doesn’t expect any more for eight months. With no income, […]
BuzzFeed News staff are taking a paycut and agreeing to share the workload in a deal to offset most of the potential employee furloughs the company planned for its editorial employees. Following the massive downturn of the advertising market in the coronavirus pandemic’s wake, numerous news media companies including BuzzFeed have cut costs with some layoffs and the cutting of employee salaries and furloughing of staff through the summer. In order to stave off further cuts, BuzzFeed News staff struck a deal with management to share duties across the company’s editorial union, which is organized through the New York chapter of […]
BitClave, a California startup whose Ethereum-based search engine raised $25.5 million in a 2017 token sale, will pay back its 9,500 investors in a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The settlement ended BitClave’s court saga almost as soon as it began. Prosecutors with the SEC announced their charges Thursday in tandem with an order that called BitClave’s Consumer Activity Token (CAT) sale an unregistered initial coin offering (ICO). BitClave neither admitted nor denied that it broke the law when it sold CAT in 2017. In exchange, the “blockchain services firm” will return all $25.5 million to the […]
Essential Sanitary Workers Strike For Hazard Pay And PPE By Mike Ludwig, Truthout. May 17, 2020 Essential Sanitary Workers Strike For Hazard Pay And PPE2020-05-172020-05-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/ppe1-e1589725714406.png200px200px Above photo: Rahman Brooks and other striking sanitation workers gather around a car at a picket line in New Orleans. The strikers are demanding higher wages and better working conditions from a private contractor and city officials. Mike Ludwig. The severe outbreak of COVID-19 in southern Louisiana was the last straw for a group of sanitation workers who pick up trash in eastern New Orleans. Last week, they walked off the job and went on strike, demanding hazard […]
The elderly have already been hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, but one Oxford economist thinks that they should shell out to ease the economic burden on the young. He’s since been accused of “scapegoating” the vulnerable. “Young people benefit the least from the lockdown measures, because they are less susceptible to the virus,” economist and professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve told Belgian news channel VRT on Thursday. “The older generation should realise that young people are sacrificing themselves, both economically and in terms of mental health.” To even the score, the 41-year-old Oxford professor – who heads the prestigious university’s ‘Wellbeing […]
Facebook will pay $52 million to thousands of contract workers who viewed and removed graphic and disturbing posts on the social media platform, lawyers for the company said in a new legal filing. Ben Margot/AP hide caption toggle caption Ben Margot/AP Facebook will pay $52 million to thousands of contract workers who viewed and removed graphic and disturbing posts on the social media platform, lawyers for the company said in a new legal filing. Ben Margot/AP Facebook will pay $52 million to thousands of current and former contract workers who viewed and removed graphic and disturbing posts on the social media […]
How much would you pay to have dinner with Hillary Clinton on the internet? The DNC is hoping their donors will pay up to $100,000 dollars for the chance. That’s a lot of cash for a ‘virtual’ event. Could they possibly get any takers for this? The Blaze reports: TRENDING: Texas Governor And Attorney General Call For Immediate Release Of Jailed Salon Owner, Rip Judge For ‘Political Stunt’ DNC is asking people to pay upward of $100K for a ‘virtual dinner’ with Hillary Clinton Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to appear at a “virtual dinner” campaign event for […]
Andrew Cuomo Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that healthcare workers who voluntarily traveled to New York to help with the Coronavirus will have to pay state income taxes. Recall, Cuomo begged America’s healthcare workers to travel to New York to fight the outbreak at the hardest hit part of the nation. So THOUSANDS of medical workers left their families and traveled to New York, risking getting the virus in order to help others in need. Now Cuomo is taking money from the volunteer workers because his state has a $13 billion deficit. TRENDING: Armed Texas SWAT Team Raids Daddy Zane’s […]
Earlier, the Committee on Finance in Sweden’s Riksdagen made a plea to prohibit dividends for companies that have been appealing for state aid during COVID-19 health crisis in a bid to stay afloat during economic turmoil. This measure, however, still was not introduced Swedish manufacturing giants, including luxury car-maker Volvo, bearing manufacturer SKF AB and Assa Abloy conglomerate, are still paying out around 15 billions of kronor (or $1.5 billion in total) to their shareholders despite applying for state aid during the coronavirus pandemic and laying off thousands of workers who are now also seeking financial support, Bloomberg revealed. Volvo is […]