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BP disaster: What went wrong, step by step

Posted in Climate Change, Energy, tagged , , , , , , on June 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »

What caused the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig that led to the deaths of 11 workers and a catastrophic gush of oil that continues unabated to this day? According to a thorough examination by The New York Times, it wasn’t a single event but a combination of things. Regulatory agencies granted exceptions to [...]

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A month after the oil spill started, still no solution

Posted in Activism, Energy, Environment, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Happy anniversary, BP. It has been exactly one month since the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig started a full-force environmental crisis. And yet, officials still have no effective solution to stop the oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, and we are no closer to an organization (whether it be BP, Transocean, Halliburton [...]

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There will be blame: Oil spill meets The Daily Show

Posted in Activism, Energy, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Nobody can say it quite like Jon Stewart. The man has a gift for pointing out the absurd and capitalizing on it, granted, sometimes for a cheap laugh. The absurdity he highlighted in last night’s episode focused on the oil spill in the Gulf — discussing plans to stop the oil from pouring into the [...]

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Shame on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Posted in Activism, Congress, Social Justice, tagged , , , , on November 19, 2009 | 5 Comments »

By now, you’ve probably heard about the story of Jamie Leigh Jones. In 2005, she was working for a Halliburton subsidiary in Iraq when she was gang-raped by coworkers. Four years later, Jamie is still being denied justice. Jamie can’t pursue justice in criminal court because the rape took place overseas, and a forced arbitration [...]

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Letter from David Arkush on the Franken amendment in Washington Post

Posted in Congress, Social Justice, tagged , , , , on October 29, 2009 | Comments Off

The following letter was published Thursday, October 29, in the Washington Post. Stand up to Halliburton, and sign our petition! In her Oct. 25 column, Kathleen Parker defended the 30 GOP senators who opposed Al Franken’s amendment to the defense appropriations bill. The amendment would restore access to justice for individuals who are sexually assaulted [...]

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Urge Congress not to weaken Franken amendment

Posted in Activism, Congress, Consumer Protection, Social Justice, tagged , , , on October 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »

By now, you are probably aware of an amendment to a bill funding the Department of Defense that would prohibit the U.S. government from doing business with defense contractors who deny employees who have been raped or sexually assaulted, like Jamie Leigh Jones, the right to hold them accountable in court. This amendment, introduced by [...]

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Don’t let the Senate weaken Franken amendment

Posted in Activism, Congress, Consumer Protection, tagged , , , on October 19, 2009 | Comments Off

Thanks to help from activists like you, lawmakers passed Sen. Al Franken’s (D-Minn.) amendment to bar defense contractors from forcing employees with sexual assault and discrimination claims into arbitration. But now, as the House and Senate negotiate a final version of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act (DOD Appropriations bill, H.R. 3326), Senate leaders are [...]

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America’s most trusted newsman tackles Republican opposition to the Franken amendment

Posted in Congress, Social Justice, tagged , , , on October 16, 2009 | Comments Off

Jon Stewart, America’s most trusted newsman, points out the rampant hypocrisy of the thirty senators who voted against Senator Franken’s amendment prohibiting the use of any Federal funds to any contractor that “requires that employees or independent contractors sign mandatory arbitration clauses.” Check out the video, after the jump (hat tip: HuffPo) Cross-posted from Fair Arbitration [...]

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Franken goes to bat against forced arbitration again

Posted in Congress, Consumer Protection, tagged , , , , , on October 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Sen. Al Franken, the new patron saint of fair arbitration, tore into an arbitration apologist Wednesday, administering a beating that one would more expect to see in a boxing ring than a committee hearing room. If you don’t believe me, watch for yourself. Poor Mark de Bernardo, a partner at corporate-side employment law firm Jackson [...]

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