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Urgent: Add critical context to the Enola Gay museum display
US citizens:
call on the Smithsonian
to add coverage of the effects of the nuclear weapon used on Hiroshima
to its exhibit about the airplane that dropped it. |
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Urgent: Predatory financial tech products
US citizens:
call on the US government
to protect Americans squeezed by poverty by regulating digital payday lenders.
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Urgent: An exception for federal court trials on TV — USA V. Trump
US citizens:
call on Congress
to permit televising the trial of the
insurrectionist for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
+1-202-224-3121,
+1-888-818-6641 and
+1-888-355-3588.
If you phone, please spread the word!
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Wanton worker exploitation
9% of employees in Britain
are denied their workers' rights because the state
does nothing to punish their employers for doing that.
Similar problems happen in the US, including theft of wages,
denial of sick leave,
and exploitation in the
gig economy.
The traditional reason has been that elected politicians
listen to what the employers want. However, the California referendum
shows that big tech companies have the power to mobilize voters
to vote to exploit these workers so that they can enjoy somewhat lower
prices as customers for gig platforms.
Since some of the benefit of paying the low wages is kept by the
gig platforms, the net benefit goes to the wealthy, and the people
overall would be wise to support the higher wages.
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Montana youths win climate lawsuit
Young plaintiffs in Montana won their climate lawsuit, as the judge ruled
that Montana's prohibition on considering likely future climate damage
when evaluating development projects
violates their constitutional rights.
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Trump indicted: racketeering in GA
The insurrectionist now faces charges in Georgia of
trying
to steal the election
there.
People have posted references to the complete text of the indictment
at a page on documentcloud, a site that doesn't work without
JavaScript. For moral reasons I can't refer people there. Can
someone please send me a URL where the text is accessible from the Free World?
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