A two-member advance team of the World Health Organization (WHO) dispatched to Wuhan to probe the origins of the Covid-19 outbreak will undertake preliminary work with local scientists, the agency’s emergencies chief has said. The team is currently under mandatory quarantine, the WHO’s Mike Ryan said at a press briefing […]
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Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) says that countries such as the UK and US don’t need to worry about taxes and can essentially print as much money as they require, an argument which has taken increasing significance amid the COVID-19 crisis because of the level of spending governments are engaged in […]
Two technology developers are trying to keep their workplace harassment lawsuit against the Tron Foundation on the path to trial. A legal challenge is calling on a court to overturn an order allowing the central organization developing the Tron cryptocurrency to privately litigate a lawsuit through arbitration. Richard Hall and […]
Now, I have no idea how old you are, nor do I want to make any assumptions. I will assume, though, that since you are reading this, you have an interest in markets and/or crypto assets. And since this is a newsletter aimed at professional investors, I will assume that […]
Guest post by Dr. Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. After six months of exhaustive investigation, the global scientific community has been unable to identify the natural source of COVID-19, that is, the when, where and how it “jumped” from animals to humans. Some now imply that we may never know the natural […]
In the past month, during which two U.S. jobs reports have shown signs of an economic rebound from the depths of coronavirus-related ruin, President Donald Trump has focused largely on what often matters most to him: not getting public credit. According to three people who’ve independently spoken to the president, […]
Mathematicians Urge Colleagues To Boycott Police Work In Wake Of Killings By Davide Castelvecchi, Nature. June 28, 2020 Mathematicians Urge Colleagues To Boycott Police Work In Wake Of Killings2020-06-282020-06-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/unidentified-militarized-police-in-washington-dc-june-2020-from-twitter-e1591369195204.jpg200px200px Above photo: Unidentified militarized police in Washington, DC June 2020, from Twitter. More than 1,400 researchers have signed a letter calling on […]
During an American Workforce Policy Advisory Board meeting on Friday, US President Donald Trump said that “we have a little work to do” on COVID-19 as cases in the US surge. Several US states including Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Missouri and Oklahoma, have been experiencing spikes in COVID-19 cases in […]
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, recently re-tweeted a call for fact checking through open source tech rather than new intermediaries, like Twitter. Dorsey’s message came at the end of May, after Twitter factchecked tweets by President Trump about mail in voting, leading to Trump to sign an executive order attacking […]
What Elinor Ostrom’s Work Tells Us About Defunding The Police By Aaron Vansintjan, Shareable. June 24, 2020 What Elinor Ostrom’s Work Tells Us About Defunding The Police2020-06-242020-06-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/49974424258_b9f44f454d_k-e1593010179739.jpg200px200px Above photo: Taymaz Valley. In the past weeks, I’ve watched the news about the explosion of protests against police brutality and racism in the […]
Reclaiming Work: Can Cooperatives Overthrow The Gig Economy? By Shyam Krishna, Red Pepper. June 24, 2020 Reclaiming Work: Can Cooperatives Overthrow The Gig Economy?2020-06-242020-06-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/reclaiming-work-documentary.-photo-courtesy-of-black-brown-film-e1593025019250.png200px200px Above photo: From Reclaiming Work documentary. Photo courtesy of Black & Brown Film. Review of Reclaiming Work, a new documentary by black and brown film that looks at how cycle […]
Last year, Indians received 72% of H-1B visas. Thousands who’d planned to immigrate to the U.S. this year must scrap or delay their plans. But some suggest the freeze may work to India’s advantage. (Image credit: Pawan Kumar/Reuters) Source link
New Delhi (Sputnik): In February 2020, when the coronavirus had just started to spread outside China, India spent millions of dollars to welcome US President Donald Trump on his maiden visit to the South Asian country. At the time, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi displayed his bonhomie with POTUS in […]
Chelsey Drapeau, a hair stylist in Brooklyn, bought an avocado-printed dress for her first appointment since the New York shutdown began. “I was like, ‘What to wear?’” Drapeau told The Daily Beast. “The season has changed since I last worked [in March]. I went through my closet and got rid […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107721/11/1077211143_0:161:3068:1887_1200x675_80_0_0_fc4a055b312a2504e0289b785ea2699c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006231079693316-us-government-restricts-work-permits-for-illegal-aliens-seeking-asylum/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Migrants who enter the US illegally seeking political asylum will have to wait a full year before applying for permits to work in the United States, more than doubling the present window of 150 days, according to new regulations announced […]
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order putting new restrictions on foreign work visas until the end of 2020, a move the administration said is needed as the economy suffers in the wake of Covid-19 lockdowns. Signed on Monday evening, the order freezes several types of work visas – […]
The Trump Administration announced on Monday it is suspending five classes of work visas, including H-1B visas through the end of 2020 in an effort to open jobs to Americans. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs over the last few months due to the Coronavirus lockdown orders. Trump is […]
A Majority Of Workers Are Fearful Of Coronavirus Infections At Work June 18, 2020 A Majority Of Workers Are Fearful Of Coronavirus Infections At Work2020-06-182020-06-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/mcdonalds-strike-over-covid-issues-e1592326862301.png200px200px Above photo: As they nimbly co-opted the language of the protests, corporate leaders offered up “solutions” to the structural racism that won’t diminish managerial control or […]
Employees at the music and culture site Pitchfork are staging a work stoppage in protest of what they say are anti-union initiatives taken by the publication and its parent company, magazine publisher Condé Nast. For four hours on Thursday morning, beginning at 9 a.m., Pitchfork editorial staffers will not publish […]
A shorter work week would not only make for a better work/life balance it would also increase overall productivity and the ability of citizens to more meaningfully participate in democracy, says economics professor Richard D. Wolff. World leaders, labour representatives and even some high profile business figures, such as Google […]
Amid multiple high-profile police shootings in recent years, millions of dollars were raised for “The Black Lives Matter Foundation,” but the charity is unaffiliated with and diametrically opposed to the movement of the same name. The foundation is a Santa Clarita, California–based charitable organization, which lists a UPS store as […]
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THOUSANDS of ‘black trans lives matter’ protesters gathered outside of the Brooklyn museum on Sunday. The protesters were shoulder-to-shoulder in the hot sweaty sun and not practicing social distancing – at all! Maybe you should start here: pic.twitter.com/SDMt2p09Fz — Douglas Karr (@douglaskarr) June 15, 2020 TRENDING: Oh Brother… Stacey Abrams: […]
The Right To Refuse Unsafe Work Is More Important Than Ever By Kathy Wilkes, Portside. June 13, 2020 The Right To Refuse Unsafe Work Is More Important Than Ever2020-06-132020-06-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/work_safety_protestors-e1592062031411.jpg200px200px Above photo: Demonstrators hold signs during a strike outside of Allan Brothers Fruit in Naches, Wash. on May 18, 2020. Located in […]