Why Julian Assange Must Urgently be Freed: Stella Morris
Stella Moris | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Julian and I have two little boys. Since becoming a mother, I have been …
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Top engineer quits Amazon in protest over firings of Covid-19 whistleblower employees
rt.com | 2020-05-04
Vice-president and top engineer at Amazon Web Services Tim Bray has resigned in protest over the firings of workers, mainly from minorities, who complained over conditions at the company's warehouses during the Covid-19 pandemic. | "I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19," Bray wrote in an open letter titled 'Bye, Amazon' which he posted on his personal blog. His last day at the company was May 1. | Bray admitted working with…
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When fear reigns
Anna Jikhareva and Anne Jung | indybay.org | 2020-05-04
What was thought to be temporary has remained until today. Temporary rules became law. Snowden warns of a similar process in the context of a real crisis.Surveillance is accepted on an unprecedented scale.The virus is dangerous.But the destruction of our rights is fatal because it is permanent. Snowden believers.
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Challenging the Narrative: Media Propaganda Launches Conspiracy Theories Against Covid-19 Skeptics
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-03
Following the September 11th attacks in New York City, it instantaneously changed everything, from expanding US wars abroad against Afghanistan and Iraq, the dismantling of whatever civil rights you had left to the increased use of drones for surveillance and …
globalresearch.ca/media-propaganda-launches-conspiracy-theories-against-covid-19-skeptics/5711597
Wikileaks Chief Editor on Assange: "People need to care"
acTVism Munich | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-02
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PA prisoners tortured for protesting racist policies
Ted Kelly | workers.org | 2020-05-02
Eric McGill was locked up in Lebanon County Correctional Facility in Lebanon, Pa., on Jan. 19, 2019. For 15 months now he has been held there, not because he has been convicted of a crime, but because he cannot afford the preposterous $1 million bail the judge set. And during . . . | Continue reading PA prisoners tortured for protesting racist policies at Workers.org…
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Citing 'Vein of Toxicity' and Firing of Whistleblowers, Amazon VP Resigns in Disgust
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-04
Now-former Amazon engineer Tim Bray won praise from labor rights advocates on Monday after resigning from his high-ranking position over the company's treatment of whistleblowers during the Covid-19 pandemic, publishing a "scathing" letter on his personal blog. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1211479571_1.jpg …
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On May Day, Pro-Worker Groups Demand Protections for Frontline Whistleblowers Who Expose Corporate Disregard for Labor Safety
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-01
"The current crisis has elevated workplace whistleblowing and collective action to a matter of national health." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/workers-whistleblowers-covid.jpg …
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Julian Assange's Dad Says 'We Won Today' as Judge Agrees Extradition Hearings Begin in September
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-04
John Shipton, Julian Assange's 74-year-old father, has expressed his relief over the fact that his son's substantive extradition hearings will restart in September 2020 after previous options were deemed to be untenable by both the prosecution and the defence.
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