Prison Strikers Suspend Starvation, Continue Work Strike By Oakland Abolition and Solidarity. December 4, 2020 Prison Strikers Suspend Starvation, Continue Work Strike2020-12-042020-12-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/satf-e1607088764765.jpg200px200px Above photo: Officer Vickjord walks the floor of the 4B SHU at Corcoran State Prison. The prison started accepting inmates in 1988. Grant Slater/KPCC. Corcoran, CA – CDCr’s negligent and careless response to the COVID-19 outbreak at CSATF has now killed at least three people. Active cases at the prison continue to hover near 1000 and now over half of the facility has contracted the disease. Guards and staff members are still failing to follow safety protocols and continue […]
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An appeals court has given Uber and Lyft more time to fight a judge’s order over how they classify their drivers, averting a threatened shutdown in California. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images An appeals court has given Uber and Lyft more time to fight a judge’s order over how they classify their drivers, averting a threatened shutdown in California. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images Uber and Lyft spent the past week threatening to shut down their ride-hailing services in California at the stroke of midnight on Thursday. But the companies got a […]
President Trump speaks before signing an executive order to tighten the rules for technology companies seeking to bring highly skilled foreign workers to the U.S. on April 18, 2017, at Snap-On Tools in Kenosha, Wis. Kiichiro Sato/AP hide caption toggle caption Kiichiro Sato/AP President Trump speaks before signing an executive order to tighten the rules for technology companies seeking to bring highly skilled foreign workers to the U.S. on April 18, 2017, at Snap-On Tools in Kenosha, Wis. Kiichiro Sato/AP President Trump is expected to sign an order as soon as Saturday to suspend H-1B, L-1 and other temporary work visas […]
India 07:02 GMT 05.06.2020Get short URL New Delhi (Sputnik): World Health Organisation had suspended trials of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, after the peer-reviewed international general medicinal magazine Lancet published a study, warning about the drug’s safety. WHO however, resumed the trials after several countries, including India questioned the decision. A top Indian scientist, Sekhar Mande, Director General of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research under India’s federal Science and Technology Ministry reproached what he described as the WHO’s “knee-jerk” decision to suspend the trial use of the Malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus infections. “They shouldn’t have temporarily suspended (the […]