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The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
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It's the first U.S. state to pass legislation criminalizing photography inside factory farms.
There is a new wrinkle in the saga of Bay Area tech privilege and it concerns the transport of employee pets – on the Google Dog Bus.
Twitter, headquartered in downtown San Francisco, received $55 million in tax breaks last year – and residents, workers and activists now say the degree of inequality in the city is unbearable.
A December study by the Council on American-Islamic Relations showed 50 percent of Muslim school kids in California face bullying.
In Egypt, where approximately one thousand people were killed during the 18-day uprising in January and February of 2011, the psychological effects of murders by Egyptian police are still present and being openly felt.
From the explosion at the un-inspected fertilizer plant in West, Tex., which killed 15 people in April, to the mislabeled oil train that derailed and killed 47 in Quebec in July, industrial accidents due to lack of government oversight need to stop.
Across America the news was greeted with measured optimism as food activists praised the company's decision, saying it would help end the still-popular belief that GMOs are a viable, sustainable future solution for food production.
“We must work and work and work towards ending the unnecessary killing of elephants for their tusks and ivory because it is destroying the natural wildlife and landscape that makes this part of the world so amazing and beautiful."
Labor unions lobbied heavily for the bill that passed the state legislature in September, raising California's minimum wage to $10 an hour by 2016, as business groups and restaurant owners continue to oppose the increase they say will mean layoffs.
Effective immediately, a ban on genetically-modified corn in Mexico has gone into action only days after thousands took to the streets in major cities across the country to protest against Monsanto and the GMO industry.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
To win the climate argument, advocates must show how Covid-19 bailout funds could be redirected – instead of making similar mistakes as the 2008 financial crisis.
The most analogous failure to the impending economic turbulence is the financial crisis of 2008, caused, primarily, by the deregulation of the financial industry.
Activists are continuing the fight but are exhausted, balancing careers and a movement, that, to most, has become a personal battle.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
He wrote about crushing debt, pointless jobs and the negative effects of globalization. And he played a leading role in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
To win the climate argument, advocates must show how Covid-19 bailout funds could be redirected – instead of making similar mistakes as the 2008 financial crisis.
The most analogous failure to the impending economic turbulence is the financial crisis of 2008, caused, primarily, by the deregulation of the financial industry.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
He wrote about crushing debt, pointless jobs and the negative effects of globalization. And he played a leading role in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.