protests Archives - Flux https://flux.community/tag/protests/ A platform for change Thu, 22 Sep 2022 03:34:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 What started with the murder of one woman has turned into protests that threaten to overturn Iran https://flux.community/mark-sumner/2022/09/what-started-with-the-murder-of-one-woman-has-turned-into-protests-that-threaten-to-overturn-iran/ Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:00:44 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12381 On Sept. 13, Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman from northern Iran, was in Tehran to visit with her brother. She was walking with him near the entrance to a metro station when members of a “guidance patrol,” also known as the morality police, surrounded them. The religious police complained that Amini wasn’t properly wearing her hijab—a head covering women are required to wear […]

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]]> Sanders joins striking Starbucks workers on the picket line in Boston https://flux.community/jessica-corbett/2022/08/sanders-joins-striking-starbucks-workers-on-the-picket-line-in-boston/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:00:59 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12115 U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday joined striking Starbucks workers in Boston to express solidarity with them and other employees of the coffee chain who have so far organized over 200 U.S. locations in less than a year. “What you are doing is what people all over this country are beginning to do,” the Vermont Independent said through […]

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