The Daily Shaarli
March 28, 2021
At least 114 people reported killed by security forces on Saturday during protests, according to reports
Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami denounced a terrorist attack against the gas pipeline in eastern Venezuela.
Everyone knew that Amazon would fight the union drive in one of its fulfillment centers in Bessemer, Alabama. But the company’s union-busting tactics are drawing more scrutiny as the final days for workers to mail in ballots draw near. Vote counting starts at the end of March, and Amazon will likely use every trick in the book to challenge ballots from union supporting workers to drag the union drive into the courts and delay a final ruling until late April.
The people are on the streets now in the midst of what they are calling a “drum revolution.” With each passing day, more and more people are joining the call for a return to civilian rule, even if this means going back to the status quo with the military pulling the strings in the background.
Bentonville, Arkansas, is home to Walmart’s headquarters. It’s also a town in which the Walton Family Foundation works like a parallel state, creating a kind of twenty-first-century company town.
Calls for sanctions relief are also gaining steam in Washington DC.