Help dismantle structural racism in the US
lundi 24 août 2020 à 02:00*Want to dismantle structural racism in the US? Help fight gerrymandering.*
Site original : Richard Stallman's Political Notes
*Want to dismantle structural racism in the US? Help fight gerrymandering.*
World production of syringes is adjusted to meet the typical annual demand. If we do get a vaccine for coronavirus, we will need a lot more.
Countries' competing to buy up the production, and leave other countries without, is not a solution. That is the failure we will get if we fail to cooperate.
* Covid-19 led to 9.3% reduction in humanity’s ecological footprint compared with same period last year.*
That is far from sufficient to reach sustainability.
Monaco seeks to prosecute a whistleblower who revealed bribes paid by a supposedly-Dutch company based in Monaco.
The wrecker said he will station thugs at voting booths, which is a well-known way of trying to discourage people from voting.
To see the harm this can do, put it together with the practice, in many parts of the US, of burdening poor people with fines, then late fees, then fines for not paying fines, more than they can ever pay off. They are entitled to vote — but they might be rationally scared to pass by a thug to reach the voting booth.