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Firing women for using birth control

dimanche 25 juin 2017 à 02:00

Missouri is moving a bill to allow employers to fire women for using birth control.

Women could also be evicted for using birth control or for not using birth control (i.e., getting pregnant).

The bill also hampers abortion with pointless harassment requirements.

Women will have to lie to employers and landlords about their birth control and abortion practices.

Oil pipeline protester sentenced

dimanche 25 juin 2017 à 02:00

Protester Ken Ward was sentenced to two days in jail for turning a value to shut down a tar oil pipeline.

Tuskegee syphilis study

dimanche 25 juin 2017 à 02:00

Sessions wants America to forget about the Tuskegee syphilis study, in which blacks were left to suffer untreated syphilis even after we had a cure.

US military spending

dimanche 25 juin 2017 à 02:00

The troll wants to increase US military spending by 10%, by gutting activities that Americans depend on.

Since the US spends as much on the military as the eight other most powerful armies together, it could do with transferring a lot of this spending to activities that are really useful.

Denying activists jobs and bank services

dimanche 25 juin 2017 à 02:00

A private blacklist database, accumulated from complaints that are hardly verified at all, causes activists to be denied jobs and bank services.