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Sonoma City Council Directs Staff to Ban Glyphosate

Last night in Sonoma, the City Council voted 3-0 to ban all the use of the herbicide glyphosate by City staff in all parks and along bike paths. The Council was acting on a Staff recommendation to “ban the use of glyphosate-based herbicides in all City parks and direct City staff to amend the City’s …

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Professor Quigley’s Social Justice Quiz from 2008 with current updates

  20 Questions: Social Justice Quiz 2008 Friday 12 September 2008 by: Bill Quigley, t r u t h o u t | Perspective In its 2007 Annual Homeless Report to Congress, HUD reported that nearly one in four people in homeless shelters are children 17 or younger. Bill Quigley’s “Social Justice Quiz 2008” challenges …

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Federal jury sides with sickened workers and families in Tennessee coal ash cleanup case

“A company supervisor told the worker, Robert Muse Jr., to report any other workers who were wearing respiratory gear to clean up the coal ash and that the employees would be dealt with — the company didn’t want the workers wearing safety gear for fear about how that would look. Jacobs Engineering did not want …

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Trump administration working to weaken EPA radiation rgulations

SWAMP WATCH Saving money for corporations, risking citizens health….how morally bankrupt can you get? Same supporters of rule change are climate change deniers and think smoking tobacco is fine. “Calabrese and his supporters argue that smaller exposures of cell-damaging radiation and other carcinogens can serve as stressors that activate the body’s repair mechanisms and can make …

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Labor news from around the world:

International Labor Rights is hiring + news We’re Hiring! Two Job Openings at ILRF Join Us in NYC on Oct 1: Protest Forced Labor in Turkmenistan Observing the 6th Anniversary of the Ali Enterprises Factory Fire New Bangladeshi Minimum Wage is Only Half of Garment Workers’ Demand 25 CSOs Urge Thai Government to Ratify ILO Convention …

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Occupy Sonoma County Presents – Rise Up: A Look At Today’s Labor Movement – Mon. Sept. 24, 7 PM at PJC

Occupy Sonoma County Presents – Rise Up: A Look At Today’s Labor Movement – Mon. Sept. 24, 7 PM at PJC Occupy Sonoma County Presents Rise Up: A Look At Today’s Labor Movement with North Bay Jobs with Justice Monday, September 24, 7-9 PM. Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa 95401 Free …

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