Above Photo: U.S. President Joe Biden listens as Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland speaks at the White House on October 8, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images). Washington – More than 360 climate, tribal, religious and conservation groups petitioned the Biden administration today to use its executive authority to phase out oil and gas production on public lands and oceans. The petition provides a framework to manage a decline of oil and gas production to near zero by 2035 through rulemaking, using long-dormant provisions of the Mineral Leasing Act, Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and the National Emergencies […]
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Above photo: Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press. Rally at the British Embassy in Washington, DC in 2020. Washington, DC – Led by the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), more than 26 antiwar groups and 2,500 individual peace and justice advocates have cosponsored a statement calling for the immediate release of publisher Julian Assange and commending him for his contributions toward global peace. Assange is currently fighting extradition to the United States after the Trump administration indicted him on unprecedented Espionage Act charges. His indictment marked the first time in U.S. history that a journalist has been charged for publishing truthful information. […]
Oakland, Calif. — Following a planned “sick-out” on Friday where more than 500 teachers across the Oakland Unified School District called out of work sick, hundreds of students within the district have come together in an online petition demanding increased COVID-19 protocols or else they’ll strike. Students at schools in Oakland Unified School District are now demanding increased COVID-19 protocols and supplies. If their demands are not met, they plan to boycott showing up for in-person classes. “We are demanding KN95 masks for all of the students because they’re not easily accessible to them, twice a week PCR and rapid tests […]
Above Photo: ESCR-Net / Unsplash. US, UK, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland in violation of international human rights law in “prolonging the pandemic” ahead of vital World Trade Organisation meeting. Geneva – An international coalition of human rights law groups, public health experts, and civil society organizations is taking legal action against the US, UK, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland, on the grounds that these countries are in violation of international human rights law by failing to intervene on what has been an inequitable and racially discriminatory roll-out of the vaccine and other COVID healthcare technologies. In an appeal to the UN Committee on the […]
Above Photo: An Amazon fulfillment center where organizers are planning to file for a union election next week after gathering more than 1,700 employee signatures in the borough of Staten Island in New York, Oct. 21, 2021. Justin Lane/EPA via Shutterstock. The independent group is being led by employee-turned-activist Chris Smalls. A coalition of Amazon warehouse workers in New York City have officially filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on Monday. Kayla Blado, the press secretary for the National Labor Relations Board, confirmed to ABC News on Monday that the union petition was filed […]
Above Photo: By U.S. Government Accountability Office from Washington, DC, United States – Figure 1: Map of the Navajo and Hopi Reservations with 521 Abandoned Uranium Mines, Four Former Uranium Processing Sites, and Other Key Sites, Public Domain. For decades, the people on Navajo Nation have had no drinking water, due to uranium mining. Today, the Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM) submitted the additional documents needed for a petition it filed in 2011 against the United States over the issue, to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In a Washington Post Live program on Tuesday, Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez said […]
Above photo: Kim Duncan’s three adopted daughters, from left, Shalyn, Shyanne and Shelbi, sit smiling with their watermelon in the summer heat. Courtesy photo. Reaction to developments in Indian Child Welfare Act review. The Cherokee Nation, the Oneida Nation, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians of California and the Quinault Indian Nation are petitioning the Supreme Court to request that the bill remain intact. Cetan Sa Winyan, director of the American Indian Movement’s Indian Territory Oklahoma chapter, said all tribes — not just the four already petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court — should stand together against potential changes to the Indian Child Welfare […]
A Brighton & Hove Albion fan has taken their anger to the extreme by petitioning the Premier League to overturn the decision to award Manchester United a penalty after the final whistle in their 3-2 defeat on Saturday. United won the game at the Amex Stadium with a 100th-minute Bruno Fernandes spotkick after Neal Maupay was penalized for handball following a VAR check after the final whistle had been blown. Scoring a 100th minute penalty, after the final whistle has already gone, to win a game they deserved to lose, is the most Man Utd thing ever to happen in the […]
“Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star Kylie Jenner has faced several criticisms in the past over her alleged appropriation of black culture with her braided hair shoots and too-tanned makeup. However, her recent appearance in Cardi B’s and Megan Thee Stallion’s music clip was slammed as never before. A petition to remove Kylie Jenner’s brief cameo from Cardi B’s WAP video has now received over 64,000 signatures, according to Change.org. The wild music clip, which also featured Megan Thee Stallion and other well-established female R&B musicians, premiered this week, and soon gathered the attention of Jenner’s haters, who said that her […]
An eerie photo of Mark Zuckerberg sporting a thick layer of sunblock while surfboarding in Hawaii has sent Twitter into overdrive, giving boost to a petition launched to bar him from “colonizing” Native Hawaiians’ land. Facebook CEO has become the butt of jokes on Twitter on Sunday evening after photos of him holidaying in Hawaii were leaked to the media. The images show Zuckeberg braving the ripples on an electronic surfboard while wearing a copious amount of sunscreen as well as his famous hoodie. Netizens pulled no punches tearing into Zuckerberg’s looks, noting his striking resemblance to otherworldly creatures, and quipping […]
Internet users have expressed bewilderment and amusement over a petition denouncing “racist” Trader Joe brands. The company has already admitted wrongdoing and claims it is in the process of discontinuing its “harmful” packaging. The Change.org petition calls on the popular grocery chain in the US to remove the labels used for some of its ethnic food, claiming that the “racist” practice “perpetuates harmful stereotypes.” The internet complaint listed “Trader Ming’s,” which is used to brand the chain’s Chinese food, and “Trader José,” the label used for Mexican foods, as examples of this purportedly inappropriate packaging policy. Trader Joe’s name is itself […]
As Texas faces a massive surge of COVID-19 cases and increasing criticism from public health experts for having opened too early and too quickly, Houston has been at the forefront of the outbreak. Hospitals in the state’s most populous city are quickly running out of beds—including Texas Medical Center, the largest hospital in the world, where ICU beds were at more than 99 percent normal capacity on Thursday—as the number of confirmed cases in the state have begun an “exponential rise.” Public health experts have maintained that Houston’s hospitals are well equipped to handle hospitalizations in the near term, but in […]
Radical St. Louis Islamist Umar Lee was arrested in Ferguson, Missouri in September 2014.Umar Lee once threatened to behead his critics and watch them squeal “like Daniel Pearl.” Lee was cuffed and detained in September 2014 in Ferguson. Umar Lee is now passing around a petition to remove the grand St. Louis Statue from Art Hill in Forest Park in St. Louis. TRENDING: Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy: White People Should Shine Shoes of Black People to Express Shame for Racism The petition calls for St. Louis to be renamed. Via KMOX: A petition has been made with hopes of changing the […]
About 1,000 Health Care Workers Petitioned Arizona Governor to Make Face Masks Mandatory in Public Places David Schulzinger started this petition to Martha McSally and 2 others Petition Title: Make masks mandatory in Public Places throughout Arizona Governor Ducey, I find it unacceptable that your answer is that business must continue and that we need to learn to live alongside Covid. I find it unacceptable that you are not mandating masks. I find it unacceptable that you’re not even supporting masks. We need to require masks in all public areas. We need to pump the brakes on any further reopening until you have met CDC reopening […]
Senator Tom Cotton has accidentally kicked off an effort to rechristen the Washington Monument after mockingly dubbing it the “Obelisk of Wokeness.” Inspired netizens soon ran with the idea, however, even starting a petition. The Republican lawmaker laid into what he called the “woke child mob” in a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday, taking aim at a “cancel culture” that seeks to tear down anything not in line with fashionable progressive attitudes, from movies to monuments. “So, where does this cancel culture take us? What is the logical conclusion? What is the end of the cancel culture?” Cotton asked. […]
On Thursday night, The Daily Show’s team of correspondents spoofed the incredibly cringeworthy “I Take Responsibility” (for Racism) Hollywood PSA that was rudely foisted upon us like a U2 album with one of their own. Only theirs was a bit…different. “What if I told you about a country in crisis…a country ravaged by disease…where the economy has collapsed…where soldiers patrol the streets…a government gasses its own people…and the lines to vote are longer than the bathroom line at Coachella. Now, what if I told you that that country is America?” Roy Wood Jr., Jaboukie Young-White, Michael Kosta, Desi Lydic and Dulcé […]
Michigan State Board of Canvassers approved language for a petition to recall tyrannical Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer. The petitioners now have 60 days to come up with one million signatures from registered voters in Michigan. MLive reported: The language in a petition to recall Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for the signing of nine of her executive orders during the COVID-19 pandemic has been approved by the Michigan Board of State Canvassers. Albion resident Chad Baase, 39, was successful in his third attempt at coming up with “clear and factual” language to move forward with the recall petition process. He and his group […]