Amazon, the retail giant with tentacles in cloud computing, media, and more, is under fire from multiple fronts. Two whistleblowers—Ahmed Shahrour, a Palestinian software engineer suspended for protesting Amazon’s military contracts with Israel, and me, Helene P. de Boissiere, founder of Katrina’s Dream and a former Amazon warehouse worker terminated after filing an FTC complaint…
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September 24, 2025 Sent via email Dear Friends and Family, As the leaves turn and the fiscal year winds down, it’s hard not to wonder: Whatever happened to that big idea President Trump floated back in February about creating a U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF)? In a move that grabbed headlines worldwide, Trump signed an…
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Sent via email 21st of November, 2023 Dearest Family and Friends, As it is each and every Thanksgiving I reflect on much. For me, Thanksgiving is all the Holidays rolled into one. The Thanksgiving that transformed my life was the day my mother took me to a Salvation Army program in the Battery area of New York City…
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Tar Sands: Environmental justice, treaty rights and Indigenous Peoples Clayton Thomas-Müller, March/April 2008, Canadian Dimension magazine Tar Sands: Environment justice, treaty rights and Indigenous Peoples Pulling crude from the tar sands As a conventional reserves of crude oil tighten, the race is on in northern Alberta, where fleets of dinosaur -sized trucks are tearing apart…
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Unions for a Global Economy By Harold Meyerson, April 26, 2007; The Washington Post The business press has barely noticed and the usual champions of globalization have been mute, but an announcement last week in Ottawa signaled a radical new direction for the globalized economy. The United Steelworkers — that venerable, Depression-era creation of John…
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Today is Equal Pay Day. The date—Tuesday, April 24th—symbolizes the fact that on average, a woman must work for a year and four months to earn the same wages as a man receives in a year. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 made it illegal to pay women less than men for work that is…
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This May Be From Katrina Today, Congress has the opportunity to help thousands of New Orleans residents come back home. Â The Gulf Coast Hurricane Housing Recovery Act of 2007 would re-open desperately needed public housing units and make sure there is no loss of affordable public housing in New Orleans. The bill quickly passed the…
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Archbishop of Wales: Easter Fights Racism, Militarism, Nationalism, Sexism and Poverty By Ekklesia staff writers 8 Apr 2007 To believe in the resurrection of Jesus is to be incorporated in a spiritual and political struggle for life against death, empowered by God’s love rather than by the forces of oppression and division, says the Anglican…
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From Apology…to Moral Action on Slavery By Pearl Duncan on Ekklesia 28 Mar 2007 Duncan lives in New York is Author of the book-in-progress, “DNA Birthright Says Nobles, Slaves, Rebels & Roots.” You can visit her website at: http://www.pearlduncan.com/ My ancestors had a folk saying, “One hand don’t clap.” In that respect, words without actions…
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US faith and community coalition welcomes minimum wage victory From Ekklesia The Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign, a national US coalition of 91 religious, labour and community organizations, has thanked the Senate for voting to raise the minimum wage for the first time in many years. “This is a long-overdue step forward for…
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