Tag: New York
Time for a raise for New York car wash workers
The state legislature could end the sub-minimum tipped wage for car washers downstate.
‘Protest and decades of struggle:’ Long Island is nuclear-free today
Because of that 1979 protest and decades of painstaking and difficult struggle, LILCO was stopped in its nuclear push – and Long Island today is nuclear-free.
How New Yorkers stood up to Amazon and won
Queens activists, unions, and political leaders worried about gentrification and opposed the $1.2 billion in tax breaks offered to the retail giant.
New York City’s early voting plan will favor white, affluent voters,...
In a letter, the New York Civil Liberties Union, Common Cause New York and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law said the plan “will impose a severe burden on many of the City’s low-income voters.”
350.org on Senator Schumer’s support for the Climate and Community Protection...
"Now, the legislature must pass the strongest possible climate justice bill, and Governor Cuomo must sign it into law. The world is watching.”
In a time of cheap fossil fuels, nuclear power companies are...
Illinois and New York have approved hundreds of millions of dollars in clean-energy incentives for nuclear power companies. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland could be next.
New York bans single-use plastic bags
New York becomes the second state to ban single-use plastic bags starting in March 2020.
SUNY uses taxpayer dollars to torture kittens in useless experiments
The State University of New York is being sued for refusing to turn over documents about cruel animal experiments.
Why cities should stop playing Amazon’s game and quit offering companies...
My conclusion: Incentives just don’t work.
Video shows jail attendant assaulting handcuffed man
“This kind of incident does create a blemish. It is painful to watch.”
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Speeding up the ‘kill chain’: Pentagon bombs thousands of targets in Iran using Palantir...
The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic. Israel has used similar AI targeting programs in Iran, as well as in Gaza and Lebanon.