A new study finds some 43 per cent of Chinese restaurant workers earn less than minimum wage while more than half said they worked over 40 hours a week. Read the rest of this post on the original site at ‘Widespread’ workplace abuse persists for Chinese restaurant workers
Talking to The Daily Star, Mohammed Iqbal, officer-in-charge of Kalabagan Police Station, said they suspect the involvement of militants in the killing. Editor of LGBT magazine ‘Roopban’, Xulhaz Mannan was known for his gay rights activism. Read the rest of this post on the original site at LGBT magazine editor …
Organizers of an upcoming literary conference at California State University, Fullerton on the late science-fiction author Philip K. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Philip K. Dick Conference disinvites white separatist
This coming Sunday marks the celebration of the life of St. Patrick, the bishop who brought Christianity to Ireland some time in the early 400s. And if you eat at all on St. Read the rest of this post on the original site at What the Irish Ate Before Potatoes
Let us be terrible, so that the people do not have to be. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Let Us Be Terrible:Considerations on the Jacobin Club
A recent article titled “Why is AI Female?” made the connection that gendered labor, in service professions in particular, is fueling our expectations for gendered AI assistants and service robots. Read the rest of this post on the original site at From Siri to sexbots: Female AI reinforces a toxic …
On Jan. 28, 2000, two police officers drove Darrell Night five kilometres outside of Saskatoon and abandoned him in -22° C weather with just a T-shirt and jean jacket on his back. Read the rest of this post on the original site at New light on Saskatoon’s ‘starlight tours’
Anonymous submission. More seriously, we are making each other vulnerable. Photographers at demonstrations will soon outnumber demonstrators, those who are willing to take action. This is something we need to take a stand against. Read the rest of this post on the original site at In Defence of Smashing Cameras
The far-right are mobilising yet again for a demo in Dover and yet again anti-fascists are heading to the south-coast town intent on stopping them. Read the rest of this post on the original site at No apologies: anti-racism, multiculturalism and violence
This original story saw the light of day thanks to support from readers like you. Help us publish more stories like it by donating to Truthout now! Moments after I arrived in the living unit at the federal penitentiary in Lompoc, California, a young white man named Carl approached me. …