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Urgent: Prisoners fighting fires

vendredi 22 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Everyone: call on Governor Brown of California to pay prisoners for fighting fires the same wage that non-prisoners get.

Glyphosate and cancer

jeudi 21 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Does glyphosate cause cancer in humans? This has not been clearly established, but the EPA decided to let Monsanto be the judge.

Palestinian journalists

jeudi 21 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Israeli soldiers frequently violently attack Palestinian journalists who are covering protests.

Australian refusing to vote

jeudi 21 décembre 2017 à 01:00

An Australian was prosecuted for refusing to vote, but the judge accepted his reasons of principle as valid justification.

Australia's laws not only require each eligible voter to cast a ballot, they also require a valid ballot to list every party. (The voter's choice consists of assigning a numerical order to the parties.) As a result, it is not easy to vote for the minor party you support, without your vote's subsequently being counted for one of the major parties that you detest.

Albert Langer recommended a hack for voters to get that result, and was imprisoned for it.

EU Uber regulation

jeudi 21 décembre 2017 à 01:00

The European Court of Justice ruled that each EU country can regulate Uber and other such companies.

In principle, this means a country can require such companies to offer an anonymous option. People will have to work hard to campaign for this.

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