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Berkeley and Oakland embrace new tenants' right to buy

Berkeley and Oakland embrace new tenants' right to buy

If the measures pass, Oakland and Berkeley would become the first cities in California to enshrine these righ…

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What's inside Prop 22, Uber and Lyft's $182M ballot measure on the fate of gig drivers? | KPFA

What's inside Prop 22, Uber and Lyft's $182M ballot measure on the fate of gig drivers? | KPFA

Are drivers independent contractors, or should they be guaranteed all of the rights of employees, like minimu…

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Public Defender Organizing

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By Ariel Boone Verified
| OnLabor
In the face of a criminal prosecution system plagued by injustice, there are three actors in a criminal court who could reasonably strike in order to assure justice for the accused: Defense attorneys, defendants, and the jury. (For the purposes of this thought exercise, we can realistically exclude judges, court officers, probation officers, and prosecutors.) Juries can act through jury nullification. Defendants can engage in a plea strike, forcing individual cases to trial.
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Peruvian Indigenous Organization Demands Embassies and International Organizations Publicly Denounce Massacre and Repression by Peruvian Government

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By Ariel Boone Verified
| Amazon Watch
Through letter N° 013-2023, the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP) has requested that embassies, international human rights organizations, and faith organizations that hold relationships with Peru release public statements condemning the violence, repression, and criminalization of protest in the country, and lack of action by the government which has already claimed 50 Peruvian lives.
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Peru: The Massacre Must Be Stopped!

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By Ariel Boone Verified
| Amazon Watch
Over the last few weeks, Peruvians have been living through an unprecedented political and social conflict that has already resulted in more than 40 deaths. The vast majority of the victims, including several children, a doctor, and citizens who were helping the wounded, were killed through brutal repression and excessive use of force by the state against mobilizations demanding political change in the country.
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