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October 22, 2020

Pennsylvania’s New Vote-by-Mail Law Expands Access for Everyone Except the Poor — ProPublica
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In America’s poorest big city, language barriers, unstable housing and lack of internet access make voting by mail difficult. So low-income Philadelphia residents will be voting in person, if at all.

Venezuela's Maduro, citing Pope, asks congress to consider same-sex marriage | Reuters
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'Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday asked the country's National Assembly to discuss same-sex marriage during its next term beginning in January, citing Pope Francis' comments this week supporting civil unions for same-sex couples."

Cuba says U.S. trade embargo cost more than $5 billion last year | Reuters
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"Damages from April 2019 through March 2020 amounted to $5.570 billion, some $1.226 billion more than in the prior year, Rodriguez said, bringing the total cost to $144 billion since the embargo’s inception."

Occupations of South Asian, Chinese and Black women: Prevalence and age composition

Among the employed population, women are generally younger than men. Furthermore, there are notable differences for particular occupations, which is even more pronounced for certain groups of women. This study uses data primarily from the 2016 Census of Population to examine the prevalence and age composition of three groups of women—South Asian, Chinese and Black—across occupations of various skill levels.

An Oil Company Was Angry Police Would Not Stop Picketing Workers. The CEO Claims Scott Moe’s People Offered to Help.
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Saskatchewan’s government quietly assured an oil company that it would intervene if the company lost “confidence” in police responding to a labour dispute involving 750 picketing workers, according to a letter signed by the oil company’s CEO.

The letter, released through Freedom of Information and obtained exclusively by PressProgress, shows Co-op Refinery CEO Scott Banda wrote to Saskatchewan Correction and Policing Minister Christine Tell earlier this year.

Pro-Sisi party set to lock in control as Egypt heads to polls | Reuters
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"The goal is “to basically pretend that there is a political process surrounding Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, but what we really have is a one-man rule,” said Hisham Kassem, a former newspaper publisher and political activist. “It wasn’t even this bad with (former president Hosni) Mubarak or with (former president Gamal Abdel) Nasser.”"

#DayAgainstDRM December 4th, 2020 | Defective by Design

This year's annual day in protest of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) will be on December 4th, 2020, and will focus on streaming services' unjust use of DRM. We need your help to spread that message far and wide to both anti-DRM activists and those simply concerned with how in a world with continued technological advancement, our digital freedoms are increasingly under threat.

Talk vs. action: Doug Ford’s inadequate response to the second wave of COVID-19 - Behind the Numbers
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Ontario entered the pandemic with an overburdened health system, as health care has been a frequent target for the austerity policies of  successive Ontario governments. Since the pandemic began, the Ford government has failed to increase spending to address the increased health care needs introduced by the virus.

Belgium dusts off 1666 charter for post-Brexit fishing rights | Reuters
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When treaty rights are relied upon by colonists.