Texas House Attacks Public Employee Unions with ALEC Influenced Dues...
Texas, long known as an anti-union “Right to Work (For Less)” state, has introduced a potentially devastating bill for public employee unions that would prohibit most government entities from...
View ArticleTPP Remains Classified after Trade Transparency Act is Blocked by Senate...
Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Joe Manchin of West Virginia introduced S.1381 on May 19, 2015, which would have required President Obama to de-classify the Trans Pacific...
View ArticleTexas Republicans Deny Minimum Wage Increase to Millions
Texas’ House Joint Resolution 26, which would have allowed for a state-wide referendum on increasing the state minimum wage to $10.10, was defeated by Republicans in the Texas House on May 14, 2015.
View ArticleTPP Human Trafficking Bill Passes As Malaysia Discovers Migrant Workers Grave...
Mass graves highly thought to be those of migrant workers were found in Malaysia days after an amendment to the Trade Promotion Authority prohibiting human trafficking, child and slave labor, passed...
View ArticleLeaked Documents Reveal #TPP Targets Journalists and Whistleblowers
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Intellectual Property Rights Chapter released to WikiLeaks late last year contains a Trade Secrets section that allows for the criminalization of investigative journalists...
View ArticleSilence by Hillary Clinton on #TPP is The Same as Supporting It
As Fast Track Authority for #TPP is set to hit the House floor next week, Democratic Presidential Primary candidate Hillary Clinton remains silent on organized labors biggest trade fight in a generation.
View ArticleHow the Trans-Pacific Partnership is the Core of the U.S. Pivot to China
With the conflict over the Senkaku-Diaoyu Islands between Japan and China coming to the forefront in the discussion over the U.S. pivot to China, the Trans-Pacific Partnership now seems more like a...
View ArticleGawker Media Votes Whether to Unionize -- VICE Watches in Dismay
Gawker Media, Overlord of such sites as Jezebel, Deadspin, Gizmodo, i09, and 1990's Geo Metro Convertible look-alike Jalopnik, vote to destroy the online news media as we know it, by potentially...
View ArticleWoman Involved in Starting McKinney Pool Fight Placed on Administrative Leave...
Tracey Carver-Allbritton throws a punch during a fight at a McKinney, TX pool party. After a video of a 15 year old African-American teen being slammed into the ground by McKinney Police Officer Eric...
View ArticleCoreLogic Inc. Accused of Negligently Reporting Race and Criminal Background...
A Class Action lawsuit filed by the Legal Action Center alleges that CoreLogic SafeRent LLC violated the NY Fair Credit Reporting Act by inaccurately reporting criminal backgrounds of consumers, as...
View ArticleBreaking: Report of Shots Fired at Dallas Police HQ From Armored Van
The van thought to have been used in the Dallas Police HQ shooting was sold by a Georgia company called Jenco Sales Inc. There are initial reports that shots were fired from an armored van at the...
View ArticleTexas Secedes from United States via Flooding...Floats Away
Rain God's spokesperson, TS Bill leads the charge for an independent Texas. Not to be outdone, "The Rain Gods", long thought to be defunct in the Lone Star state show up the Republic of Texas by...
View ArticleTracey Carver-Allbritton Releases Statement Regarding McKinney Pool Party
More than a week after the incident at a McKinney pool party went viral, one of the individuals involved in the fight has finally released a statement disputing accusations of being racist.
View ArticleWhat Happened to Sandra Bland? Inmates and Community Disagree with Official...
Sandra Bland, an outspoken critic of police brutality and supporter of the #BlackLivesMatter movement was pulled over by a Texas Department of Public Safety Ranger for failure to signal a lane change...
View ArticleThe Dahiya Doctrine: State Terrorism and a Philosophy of War Crime
What Is the Dahiya Doctrine?In the 2006 Lebanon War, Israel Defense Force Northern Commander Gadi Eisenkot, now the deputy chief of general staff, recommended and had approved the application of a...
View ArticleOrganizers Launch Campaign to Rename Marilla St. in Dallas,TX to M.E....
ORGANIZERS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN TO RENAME MARILLA ST. TO M.E. CRENSHAW BLVD. Dallas, TX. - Organizers from all districts of Dallas have formed the Commemoration Committee to Honor Marvin Crenshaw and Roy...
View ArticleFederal Lawsuit Challenges Dallas City Council Over Prohibiting The Renaming...
April 26, 2018Dallas, TX. - The Commemoration Committee to Honor Marvin Crenshaw and Roy Williams, an organization advocating for the renaming of Marilla St. to M.E. Crenshaw Blvd., filed a federal...
View ArticleSilence by Hillary Clinton on #TPP is The Same as Supporting It
As Fast Track Authority for #TPP is set to hit the House floor next week, Democratic Presidential Primary candidate Hillary Clinton remains silent on organized labors biggest trade fight in a generation.
View ArticleHow the Trans-Pacific Partnership is the Core of the U.S. Pivot to China
With the conflict over the Senkaku-Diaoyu Islands between Japan and China coming to the forefront in the discussion over the U.S. pivot to China, the Trans-Pacific Partnership now seems more like a...
View ArticleGawker Media Votes Whether to Unionize -- VICE Watches in Dismay
Gawker Media, Overlord of such sites as Jezebel, Deadspin, Gizmodo, i09, and 1990's Geo Metro Convertible look-alike Jalopnik, vote to destroy the online news media as we know it, by potentially...
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