Plus, check out the filibuster in Nebraska
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Starbucks has been under intense scrutiny for breaking the law to defeat organizing efforts, including excluding unionized stores from new benefits, shutting down cafes, and terminating dozens of employee organizers. But during last week's annual shareholders meeting, members of the company's board of directors seemed unfazed by any of this.
In spite of corporate efforts, the unionization wave is still going strong, with seven stores filing for union recognition last week. |
"Sanctuary city" ordinances for anti-abortion activists run the legal gamut, invoking different protections to meet the needs of the locale in question. In New Mexico, for instance, where abortion is protected in the state constitution, a Texas pastor named Mark Dickson is attempting to use the Comstock Act – a federal anti-obscenity law from the 1800s – as a legal anchor, in spite of the fact that the law hasn't been enforced in a century. We’re about to find out what it looks like for such an ordinance to be challenged in court. |
The rapid decline in Black-owned land is, in part, due to decades of discrimination perpetrated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), local banks and other agents of the state. Black farmers built a successful case against the government, but the win turned out to be merely the beginning of what would become a decades-long fight. It’s been 25 years since a class action discrimination lawsuit against the USDA, and Black farmers are still waiting for the debt relief they are owed. |
Democratic Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh had been filibustering in protest of an anti-trans bill that would ban gender-affirming care for trans youth under the age of 19. Last week, she was joined by her fellow Democrat, Sen. Megan Hunt. “I will join it with my whole heart, with my whole chest and every bill will be going to cloture,” Sen. Megan Hunt said. “We don’t attack trans people.” |
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Headlines that turned my head this week
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I have three words for you: Succession is back! Read Vulture's recap of the season premiere here. (Vulture)
Did you hear about the sanitation strike in Paris? The City of Lights is currently teeming with trash as sanitation workers and other public sector employees protest President Emmanuel Macron's decision to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 while bypassing the French Parliament. It's a very controversial but completely legal move. (Bloomberg) That's all I've got for this week. Thanks for reckoning with me, Aria |
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