ARVADA, Colo. (AP) — Hundreds of students walked out of classrooms around suburban Denver on Tuesday in protest over a conservative-led school board proposal to focus history education on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism and respect for authority, in a show of civil disobedience that the new standards would aim to downplay. The youth protest […]
A group of Rutgers University students have taken their stand against Condoleezza Rice being their commencement speaker to the next level. Fifty or so of them have staged a sit-in at an administrative building on the New Brunswick, N.J., campus, NJ.com reports. They are carrying signs with slogans like “No Honor for War Criminals” and […]
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Postal workers in cities big and small protested in front of Staples stores on Thursday, objecting to the U.S. Postal Service’s pilot program to open counters in stores, staffed with retail employees. Rallies were planned at 50 locations in 27 states. In Concord, more than 100 boisterous workers donned bright blue […]
Everybody is out here trying to survive on the paycheck they receive from their jobs. However, when you continually short employees on their money, they…
Dominique jokes with the crew about O.J. Simpson’s request for a new trial and Detroit’s fast-food workers’ protest.
DETROIT (AP) — Some workers at about 50 fast food restaurants in and around Detroit walked off their jobs as part of an effort to push for higher wages. The one-day protest starting about 6 a.m. Friday at a McDonald’s on Detroit’s eastside before being duplicated at other eateries. The Detroit area strike follows Thursday’s […]
Chanting “we fired up, we can’t take it no more”, hundreds of fast-food and retail workers hit the streets of Chicago Wednesday afternoon asking for higher wages. According to the Chicago Tribune, employees of Subway, Sears, Macys, Victoria’s Secret, and other popular stores are protesting their low wages. Currently, many of the employees are making […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The mystery surrounding the man behind the crudely produced anti-Islamic video that sparked violence in the Middle East took a strange turn after he appeared in court and gave yet another name in a string of aliases. Arrested on Thursday after authorities said he violated his probation from a 2010 check […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge Thursday refused to order YouTube to take down the film trailer that has inflamed the Muslim world, rejecting a plea from an actress who says she was duped into appearing in the project. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Luis Lavin rejected the request from Cindy Lee Garcia, an […]
With a secret grand jury slated to convene in less than 24-hours to finally weigh evidence in the Trayvon Martin shooting death, the city of Sanford stood at unease early Monday, as one instance after another simultaneously gave clearer pause and illustration to just how grippingly polarizing the 17-year-old unarmed Florida teen’s senseless and mournful […]
