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Mandatory arbitration contracts prohibited

dimanche 6 mars 2022 à 05:17

The US has prohibited mandatory arbitration contracts that require workers to deal with sexual harassment or crimes at work through arbitration instead of going to court.

It is a good first step, but the same needs to be done for other sorts of accusations, and for customers as well.

Nuclear power plant attacked

dimanche 6 mars 2022 à 05:17

The Putin forces attacked a Ukrainian nuclear power plant with artillery and hit one of the reactor blocks. (The shelling started a fire in a building at the site, of no crucial importance.)

To reach the plant, soldiers fired at civilians who were blocking the road.

By giving the order to do fire on the plant, Putin risked serious damage to the plant and releasing radioactive materials. That would have endangered people in a wide area, including Ukrainians, Russians who live to the east, and to some extent people in the European countries to the west.

We have to interpret this as a form of threatening a nuclear attack.

This shows a powerful reason not to have nuclear power plants any more.

Calling for a no-first-use nuclear weapon polocy

dimanche 6 mars 2022 à 05:17

Calling for the US to adopt a no-first-use policy for nuclear weapons.

Urgent: Vacant US diplomat offices

dimanche 6 mars 2022 à 05:03

US citizens: call on Senators Schumer and Menendez to take up the nominees for 50 vacant offices for US diplomats.

Harsher sentences

dimanche 6 mars 2022 à 05:03

*In several prominent cases, black people got harsher sentences for unintentional voting errors than whites who committed fraud.*

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I object to bigotry, and normally I decline to link to articles which promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles which give important information about racism or the fight to eliminate racism. That article is one of the exceptions.