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President’s Day
Today is President’s Day and I am spending it watching an AWS webinar. I totally forgot it was a holiday when I registered, but at least I’m being productive. Unfortunately, this past Saturday was not a productive for the United States. Tyrant Trump was acquitted by the Senate, his enablers. Only seven people in the…
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#metoo
“Me Too” was a phrase that started in 2006 when Tarana Burke, a social activist and community organizer, used it in a campaign to empower women of color who had experience sexual abuse. In 2017 Alyssa Milano popularized the phrase when she used it in a hashtag to draw attention to sexual harassment and assault. …
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The Case of Janus
Yet again, we are hit with another blow to the working class as the right-wing groups push to destroy public-sector unions. The ruling came in on Wednesday, June 27, 2018, and immediately makes null the fair-share provisions overturning a 1977 case, Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, where Detroit public-school teachers opposed paying fees to…