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Urgent: call on Costco to move beyond single-use plastic packaging

lundi 29 août 2022 à 23:33

Everyone: call on Costco to move beyond single-use plastic packaging.

US decrease in rate of shootings

lundi 29 août 2022 à 23:33

The rate of shootings has decreased 4% in the US since last year. But death threats from Republicans are increasing.

Starbucks firing workers illegally

lundi 29 août 2022 à 23:33

Starbucks has now fired over 80 workers illegally. In one unionized store, it sent a new manager to harass workers over little excuses.

Plan to prevent a meltdown

lundi 29 août 2022 à 23:33

The plan to connect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to Russia's power grid is supposedly a backup plan to prevent a meltdown, if connections to Ukraine's grid are damaged.

Preventing a meltdown is important, But doing so that way would also enable Putin to steal the generated power. And the danger of a meltdown exists only because Putin stations troops in the plant.

Putin should demilitarize the plant and let someone repair the damaged redundant connections to Ukraine's grid.

Rules to prevent military operations from harming civilians

lundi 29 août 2022 à 23:33

The Pentagon has published a sensible plan for developing new rules to prevent military operations from harming civilians. When the rules are finished, in 2025, they will become part of "military doctrine", so soldiers will be required to follow them.

A crucial part of the plan is a policy of taking seriously civilians' reports of casualties, instead of rejecting them bullheadedly.