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18/10/20
Author: 
Allison Kite and Robert A. Cronkleton, The Kansas City Star
Protesters with KC Tenants came armed with signs outside the Jackson County Courthouse in downtown Kansas City on Thursday. Shelly Yang SYANG@KCSTAR.COM

October 16, 2020

18/10/20
Author: 
​Chelsea Nash
Image: Tess Siksay
October 9, 2020

On November 3, Canadians will no doubt be transfixed by the historical American presidential election, but gig workers in Canada and those working to organize them will also be paying attention to a voter referendum taking place in California.

08/10/20
Author: 
Daniel Beekman
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan speaks at the press conference in August after police Chief Carmen Best abruptly announced her retirement. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)

Oct. 7, 2020

The Seattle Human Rights Commission is calling on Mayor Jenny Durkan to immediately resign or be removed from office, accusing Durkan of “failing to uphold her duty to serve and protect the rights of Seattle citizens.”

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06/10/20
Author: 
Sheela Tobben - Bloomberg News
Oct 05, 2020 

(Bloomberg) — U.S. oil pipeline operators are slashing fees to encourage customers in Texas to keep using their networks to ship barrels to the Gulf Coast as the pandemic wreaks havoc on profits.

06/10/20
Author: 
Sarah Anderson
To get a sense of the potential impact on specific companies, consider McDonald’s. Last year, CEO Stephen Easterbrook made $17.4 million before stepping down in November. (Photo: Mike Mozart/flickr/cc)

October 05, 2020

The city's Board of Supervisors has placed a proposal on the November 3 ballot that would increase taxes on corporations with extreme gaps between CEO and median worker pay.

CEOs did not cause the pandemic. But they deserve a good deal of the blame for a model that shoveled profits up the corporate ladder, leaving lower-level employees financially insecure. When Covid-19 struck, it didn’t take much to push millions of vulnerable workers over the edge.

01/10/20
Author: 
Aman Azhar
Rebels from Extinction Rebellion DC (XRDC) set off smoke flares and dumped ash outside CNN’s DC offices on Friday, September 18, in protest at news outlet's coverage of the wildfire crisis. Credit: Gabe Cowan (XRDC)

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The views of large businesses and opponents of climate action are given outsized coverage to sway climate debate.

For nearly three decades, mainstream American news outlets duped the public on climate change by publishing significantly more news stories that denied climate science compared to those that said it was occurring, according to a recent study.

01/10/20
Author: 
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Politics That Led to the “Worst Debate”

01 Oct 2020

The incoherence of the Biden-Trump debate will be repeated every election cycle until Blacks and progressives break with the corporate duopoly.

There is nothing smart or ‘strategic’ about falling for the same trick every election cycle.”

30/09/20
Author: 
Jacob Bogage

September 29, 2020

Many USPS employees see recent cost-cutting changes that have slowed mail delivery as violating the spirit, if not the letter, of the law.

[See video at link.]

This summer, as controversial new procedures at the U.S. Postal Service snarled the nation’s mail delivery and stirred fears of how the agency would handle the election, rank-and-file workers quietly began to resist.

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