https://twitter.com/risemelbourne/st...74654866956289
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
France on Bastille day
https://twitter.com/WeAreProtestors/...71680218062848
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
Turkey
Health workers protest
https://twitter.com/01Lambi/status/1545153962642477056
Last edited by Ravenlocke; 15th July 2022 at 13:52.
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
India
https://ommcomnews.com/india-news/yo...ylinder-prices
Youth Congress Protests Over Rising LPG Cylinder Prices
New Delhi: The Youth Congress on Wednesday tried to protest outside the residence of Union Minister Smriti Irani over rising prices but were stopped by the police.
The protest was against the rising LPG cylinder prices across the country.
“Inflation continues on the kitchen, once again the prices of LPG cylinders have been increased drastically. The repeated increase in the price of LPG is adding to the problems of the public,” said its national president Srinivas BV.
He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will neither allow people to eat food nor will he allow them to cook. When Smriti Irani was in the opposition, she used to protest on the streets against an increase of Rs 5 in petrol, diesel and LPG prices, but today when there is all-round inflation she is silent, today the Youth Congress has tried to wake her up from her sleep.
The Youth Congress said that under the BJP’s rule, $1 is at Rs 79.36 and LPG is at Rs 1053 per cylinder.
Holding placards the activists alleged that Modi could not show a red eye to China, but tomatoes are showing a red eye to the public due to inflation, food is being snatched from the people’s plate.
The Congress government used to buy expensive and sell them cheap to the public. But now despite everything being cheap in the international market, it is being sold expensive to the public. It is because of their wrong policies on inflation that today the rich have become richer and the poor have become more poor. Srinivas said that Prime Minister Modi should understand the pain of the people, today the people are suffering from unemployment, inflation has broken the back of the common man. The government should reconsider its decisions and roll back the increased prices as soon as possible.
Mumbai
https://twitter.com/ChemburAap/statu...30862955233282
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
France protesting rise in food and fuel costs
https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/stat...88354068099074
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
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Melbourne Australia
https://twitter.com/andre_mihaescu/s...11503620132864
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
Bill Ryan (21st July 2022)
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
California
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-protests.html
Port of Oakland shuts for a THIRD day in a row due to trucker protests
Truckers protesting a looming California labor law shut down one of the busiest seaports in the United States for the third day in a row.
Operations were halted at the Port of Oakland on Wednesday as hundreds of independent big-rig truckers picketed gates and blocked other drivers from hauling cargo in and out of terminals at the port.
The truckers are protesting Assembly Bill 5, a gig economy law passed in 2019 that sets tougher standards for classifying workers as independent contractors.
The protesters worry that the law, which could soon be put into effect, will impose hefty costs on them that will slash their earnings.
Demonstrations began on Monday and have grown larger and more disruptive with each passing day, exacerbating supply-chain issues that already have led to cargo ship traffic jams at major ports and stockpiled goods on the dock.
Protest organizers say their actions will continue until Governor Gavin Newsom agrees to meet and discuss the issue.
The protests in Oakland followed actions last week at the nation's top two seaports, at Los Angeles and Long Beach in Southern California. The three California ports handle about half of the nation's container cargo volume.
Demonstrators stopped traffic on Wednesday as they picketed in large crowds at the Port of Oakland, interfering with the entrance gates and overall operations.
SSA Marine and Everport terminal managers sent International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) dock workers home for safety reasons.
The protests come as toymakers and other industries enter their peak season for imports as retailers stockpile goods for the fall holidays and back-to-school items.
As a result of the demonstrations, productivity at the port has diminished and wait times for containers have risen.
Port officials fear the 'shutdown will further exacerbate the congestion of containers' and are urging operations at shipping terminals to resume.
'The supply chain already is in crisis. This is a huge disruption,' echoed Peter Friedmann, executive director of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
The truckers are protesting Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), which makes it harder for companies to classify workers as independent contractors instead of employees, who are entitled to minimum wage and benefits such as workers compensation, overtime and sick pay.
'It seems the governor is not concerned about taking American workers' rights away,' demonstrator Bill Aboudi, owner of AB Trucking, told CNBC. 'So far there has been no contact with the governor's office.'
'These are independent, small businesses that choose to operate their own trucks, and now that right is taken away from them. They do pay taxes, they do have insurance. It's their choice to do that.'
California Sen. Brian Dahle, who is running against Newsom for governor, joined the protesters Wednesday and criticized AB5.
'These guys just want to be free to drive their truck and run their business,' Dahle said of the truckers.
'But Gavin Newsom and the legislature doesn't see fit to make sure you get your supplies out of this port and to the store - that's why prices are going up. That's why you can't afford to live in California.'
Dahle, who voted against the legislation, alleged the law has 'created a legal nightmare' and is hurtful to small business owners, specifically truckers.
Truck drivers choke traffic at CA port over controversial AB 5 law
A federal appeals court ruled last year that AB5 applies to some 70,000 truck drivers who can be classified as employees of companies that hire them instead of independent contractors.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters called it a 'massive victory' for exploited truckers, alleging AB5 aims to clamp down on labor abuses and push companies to hire drivers as employees - which would enable them to join unions and collectively bargain with employers.
But the California Trucking Association, which sued over the law, argued the it could make it harder for independent drivers who own their own trucks and operate on their own hours to make a living by forcing them to be classified as employees.
The legal battle stalled enforcement of the law for more than two years, but the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case on June 30, clearing the way for it to go forward.
Meanwhile, there's been no word on when the state might begin enforcing the law, which is still being contested in lower courts.
On Monday, the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development said now that federal courts have rejected the trucking industry's appeals, officials should 'move forward' with enacted the legislation.
'It's time to move forward, comply with the law and work together to create a fairer and more sustainable industry for all,' Dee Dee Myers, office director, told CNBC.
Newsom's office, in a separate email, told the news outlet: 'We also suspect the landscape may change (independent drivers becoming their own authority and/or then existing firms becoming an employee/driver model).'
Ports had already been struggling to handle container traffic, much of it from Asia, prior to the protests.
After the COVID-19 pandemic began to take hold in 2020, cargo traffic to ports slumped drastically. But then it recovered and has been booming since.
'We understand the frustration expressed by the protestors at California ports,' Port of Oakland Executive Director Danny Wan said in the port statement.
'But, prolonged stoppage of port operations in California for any reason will damage all the businesses operating at the ports and cause California ports to further suffer market share losses to competing ports.'
Some 5,000 truckers work at the Oakland port, which handles many different types of cargo and is a major hub for California's agricultural exports including almonds, rice and wine.
The trucker protests come as the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents dock workers at those and other U.S. West Coast ports, is in high-stakes contract talks with terminal operators that employ them.
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
Panama protests against rise on cost of living and fuel continue:
https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023/...12733502185474
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
Bill Ryan (21st July 2022)
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
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Malawi Africa
https://twitter.com/spriteer_774400/...00498023333888
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- - - - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 🪶💜
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