The Wedge Free-range ban
The Wedge Co-op in Minneapolis has banned its workers from displaying any political symbol of support for Palestine or anti-war in Gaza. Some employees are complaining that they have been sent home for wearing free Palestine or the Palestinian flag signs. Customers, however, can still register a formal complaint or fill out a customer card.
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On Friday, during Microsoft’s 50th-anniversary celebration in Redmond, Washington, a Moroccan engineer and a Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad interrupted the event with a powerful protest against the tech giant’s involvement in the ongoing Genocide in Gaza. As AI chief Mustafa Suleyman addressed an audience that included Bill Gates, Aboussad stood and shouted, “You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide.” Despite his cool, casual dress, Suleyman, a Syrian-American and the head of Microsoft’s AI division, was visibly shaken and uncool. “Mustafa, shame on you,” Ms. Aboussad called on him as she was walking toward the stage.,
Hands Off” What?
Last Saturday, thousands of Americans rallied across the country in one of the biggest anti-Trump protests in his second term. People with their signs and chants marched through streets, public squares, parks, and to the capitols. In Minnesota, where I live, over 80,000 people gathered at the state capitol in St. Paul, where one of the main speakers, Amy Klobuchar, who supported the Genocide in Gaza, blocked Senator Sanders’s resolution to stop sending weapons to Israel.
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