A 3,000-member group called Bikers Against Child Abuse is helping abused children by providing a support network and pledging 24-hour protection. For many B.A.C.A. members, child abuse is a personal issue they had to grow up with, as well. “While it is against the purpose of B.A.C.A. to purposely engage a perpetrator,” B.A.C.A. does offer community […]
“For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.” […]
Russia’s lower house of parliament has given a third reading to the amnesty bill, which means jailed members of Pussy Riot punk band may be freed before the New Year and charges against arrested Greenpeace activists are also to be dropped. As reported by RT: State Duma deputies on Wednesday unanimously supported the amnesty legislation […]
Fast food workers are rising up and demanding an end to low wages in over 100 cities this Thursday. Expected to be the largest fast food strike in the nation’s history, the strike has been coordinated by several organizations to include Fast Food Forward, Fight for 15, Low Pay Is Not OK. As reported by […]
The labor advocacy group Low Pay Is Not OK is targeting McDonald’s for their online employee website, McResource, which advises employees to “consider returning unopened purchases” or to try “Selling some of your unwanted possessions” to pay off holiday debt. A screenshot if the McResource Line website published by Low Pay Is Not OK reads: […]