From Gold Lion winner Archie Moore to Brazilians the Tupinambá collective, First Nations artists are making their voices heard at ‘the Olympics of art’. They talk hammocks, hunting and human connection‘I’m not using the word ‘representing’ as I can’t represent Australia,” says the softly spoken Indigenous artist Archie Moore, recovering after the packed opening of the Australia pavilion at the Venice Biennale. “I can’t even represent all the Aboriginal people – because we’re not a homogenous...
DOTHAN, Ala. (WDHN) — The local chapter of the Communication Workers of America could lose about 40 Brightspeed employees as they say it's an uphill battle trying to get more of a fair labor contract. The labor agreement for Brightspeed's Dothan chapter and North Alabama chapter expired one month ago. After negotiation a few weeks []
Union nurses at a local hospital have voted to approve a new contract.
‘Free Palestine’ protesters blocked the northbound lanes of Interstate Highway 880 at 5th and Embarcadero in Oakland on Monday morning, the California Highway Patrol said.The CHP said the protest began about 6:30 a.m. Dozens of CHP officers were seen in riot gear watching as protesters waved flags near where they had painted the colors of Palestine on the highway's center median. Traffic was backed up past the Coliseum. Protesters who created a website A15 Action for April 15 said they were...
Lebanon closed its airspace and suspended air traffic late Saturday, after Iran launched a drone attack on Israel, the transport minister said.
The clock is ticking down on the final few hours of negotiations between the TTC and members of the union representing about 650 communications, electrical, and signal workers. After months of unsuccessful contract talks between the two sides, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) - Local 2 is set to strike on Monday at 12:01 a.m., if a deal isn't reached. The workers have been without a collective agreement since March 2022. In February, they voted 99.3 per cent in favour of a...
In recent years, an amazing number of sitting and former state House speakers have run into serious legal troubles, and as The Detroit Free Press reported, the list grew a little longer yesterday. The Free Press’ report added that the most serious of the charges, conducting a criminal enterprise, is a felony that could put the former Republican state House speaker behind bars for decades. “Our investigation has uncovered evidence that Lee Chatfield used various different schemes to embezzle,...
Protestors at both universities are taking part in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which calls for boycotts against companies that support Israel, as well as divestment and sanctions campaigns, to urge communities and universities to do the same.
Anambra State House of Assembly, Tuesday, declared war on protesting Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN), saying they were disrupting legislative activities for nothing. Members of staff of the Anambra State House of Assembly have embarked on a protest in addition to an indefinite strike aimed at registering their grievances over non payment of sundry […]
Columbia President Minouche Shafik is now privileging pro-Hamas protesters over the rest of the community — and firing her must be just the start of rooting out the school's institutionalized antisemitism.
Pokemon Go Community Days are hardly exciting for PvE players, as most featured species are only PvP-relevant. It's high time this changes.