Thursday, April 25, 2024

Judge says California’s Prop 22 unconstitutional in ‘major’ win for gig workers

A measure that let so-called gig economy companies like Uber and Lyft limit worker protections—is unconstitutional.

LAPD Admits to Underreporting Serious Assaults

While aggravated assaults were actually 23 percent higher than previously reported for 2014, LAPD is doing all it can to improve the accuracy of misreported data within the force. Will accountability put an end to 8 years of deceit?

Lessons on workplace activism from winning campaigns at Google

Forcing a company with Google’s market capitalization and branding power to change its policies is a massive achievement with important lessons to offer.

Paul Manafort accused of witness tampering

Manafort allegedly contacted at least two witnesses by phone, through an intermediary, and an encrypted messaging app.
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‘We never made it to the polls’: Police in North Carolina pepper-spray voting march,...

“We believe that this interaction, this interference from local authorities, has obstructed our marchers from not only lifting up our First Amendment rights to protest, to speak out, but also our rights to vote.”

Meet the “People’s Action 22”: Candidates Fighting For All Of Us

They will work to make sure our democracy is power for those who don’t have it – to hold accountable those who use their power only to maximize their profits.
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Bernie Sanders fights for laid-off worker protections in $2 trillion stimulus with corporate bailout

The bill would massively expand unemployment benefits, providing laid-off workers up to 100% of their salary and health insurance benefits for four months.

How one organization is keeping the spirit of Occupy Wall Street alive

Occupy Wall Street changed the world and how people articulated their grievances, but it did not last long enough to seize upon its own victories.

Judge blocks Trump plan to add citizenship question to census, citing ‘smorgasbord’ of broken...

U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman wrote that in deciding to add a citizenship question to the census, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross violated a “veritable smorgasbord” of federal rules and “alternately ignored, cherry-picked, or badly misconstrued the evidence in the record before him.”

‘Focus’ on the Neo Nazi revival

This resurgence of the Alt-Right (which has always been with us) is leading the way to much more heinous acts and justifications for such thought.