Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Tuesday, September 13. Unarmed Native American "Water Protectors" protesting the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline were arrested today, along with journalists who were trying to cover the action, and two medics who were with the protestors. All roads to the site are now blocked off, and there has been a near blackout of media coverage. Facebook commenters have said that their photo images of the arrest have been censored, and Unicorm Riot, which had been broadcasting live video, says...
Evan McMullin believes that America should be much more worried about presidential candidate Donald Trump's close ties to Vladimir Putin. The former CIA agent and former Republican is so concerned about Trump's ties to Putin that he entered the 2016 presidential election as an Independent candidate in July in an eleventh-hour bid to bring some attention to the issue. In an interview this week with CNN, McMullin asserts that his friends in intelligence have told him that Trump's previous...
California Governor Brown has signed a bill to give farm workers overtime pay. The state will become the first in the nation to grant agricultural workers the right to collect overtime pay when the bill takes effect in 2019. Currently, California is one of only five states where the minimum wage, $10/hour, is greater than the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour. Assembly Bill 1066 will phase in the wage increases over the four years beginning in 2019. For farmers with 25 employees or less, there...
Roy's Boys LLC, the Nashville-based company founded by the sons of Roy Orbison to administer their late father's catalog and safeguard his legacy, has teamed up with Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, to release Roy Orbison – The Ultimate Collection. The 26-track anthology, out October 28, will be available as a single CD and as a double vinyl LP set, spans four decades, from his start at Sun Records in the mid 1950s, all the way through his massive comeback i...
Couples who talk about money at least once a week say they are happier (78 percent), than those who discuss money less than every few months (50 percent), according to the second annual TD Bank Love & Money Survey. Money is a hot relationship topic for millennials with 74 percent discussing it weekly (and an additional 19 percent discussing it at least once a month). In fact, these discussions begin even before the first date, with nearly half (48 percent) of millennials surveyed who have used...
The Genesis Prize Foundation (GPF) and the Jewish Funders Network (JFN) today launched "Breaking Barriers", a matching grant program in honor of 2016 Genesis Prize Laureate Itzhak Perlman. The initiative will promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of Jewish communal life, echoing Mr. Perlman's lifelong dedication to breaking barriers and creating a society fully inclusive for people of all abilities. This is the second matching grant collaboration between the Genesis Pr...
A new AJC survey of American Jews shows that Democrat Hillary Clinton would win 61 percent of the Jewish votes and Republican Donald Trump would garner 19 percent, if elections were held today. The AJC 2016 Survey of American Jewish Opinion is the first national survey of Jewish attitudes in this year's election campaign and the latest in the global Jewish advocacy organization's annual surveys that date back decades. It also covers the views of American Jews on other pressing issues, including...
Hooch and Seven Other Heroic Hounds to Appear in American Humane Hero Dog Awards Premiering on Hallmark Channel October 28, 2016 at 8pm ET/PT, 7 pm Central LOS ANGELES, September 11, 2016 – Following nearly a million votes by the American public and the opinions of an expert panel of celebrity animal lovers and dog experts, Hooch, a three-year-old French Mastiff from Tehachapi, California, has been named this year's most courageous canine, beating 173 other heroic hounds and capturing the top t...
While the American people are demanding drug peace and self-ownership, the DEA is headed in the wrong direction with kratom. The DEA is losing the war on drugs with state after state softening stances on marijuana. 8 states will be voting on legalizing marijuana for recreational AND medicinal purposes in November. Americans are overwhelmingly seeing that prison and government violence are terrible ways to solve the problems of addiction and drug abuse, and they are demanding a different...
