suhauna hussain
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reporter @latimes covering labor & workplace issues. [email protected]. signal: suhauna.77 https://t.co/UMDNvDJs26
los angeles ~ she/her
Joined July 2011
i spoke to current & former workers at a lab key to California's effort to track bird flu as it spreads among cattle etc. they described poor management & burn out, leaving skeletal crew struggling to keep up w/ testing & creating potential for mistakes
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actually, it wasn’t just a dozen LA Times employees who signed, it was more than three dozen. and yes it’s true we’ve been taken off coverage, which in effect removes a great many Muslim journalists and most of not all Palestinians at the LA Times from coverage.
New: Reporters at the LA Times who signed an open letter criticizing Israel have been told that they cannot write about the Israel/Gaza conflict for three months
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Associated Press staff received a memo this morning that @vv1lder is no longer with the company, after conservatives rallied to get her fired because she was part of Students for Justice in Palestine in college
I support @vv1lder, the young journalist who conservatives are now trying to get fired from the AP because she was part of Students for Justice in Palestine in college.
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Keep in mind that California just approved a new heat safety standard for indoor workers, but Newsom administration stepped in to have the rule exclude state prisons and jails — meaning incarcerated workers and correctional staff will not be subject to the same protections.
Michael Broadway, a Black man incarcerated at Stateville prison in Illinois, died last Wednesday, partly due to extreme heat. While incarcerated, he earned a degree from Northwestern. A reminder that the climate crisis is here. Even if you don’t feel it, the most vulnerable do.
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attack on @dailybruin reporters & editors was targeted;
"As she tried to break free, Hamilton said she was punched repeatedly in the chest and upper abdomen; another student journalist was pushed to the ground and beaten and kicked for nearly a minute.".
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Nearly 1 in 5 US workers have been let go or have had their hours reduced because of coronavirus, a new poll finds:
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Bloomberg is hiring 500 people ahead of CA primary to promote him to friends & family. I spoke to a few: Interactions were awkward & stilted. Ppl thought texts were spam. Facebook posts got zero likes. Some didn’t even support Bloomberg—they just needed $$
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as a muslim and as a journalist ,,, I’d like to point out that the most effective way for for the U.S. to counter islamophobia would be to stop sanctioning rampant killing of palestinians and other populations racialized as muslim in the global south.
Taking on hate is a national priority. Today, @POTUS and I are announcing the country's first National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia. This action is the latest step forward in our work to combat a surge of hate in America.
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I wrote about how night shift workers—many of whom black and latinx—were impacted by curfews imposed in cities across the country. fearing police and contending w/ public transportation shut downs, workers struggled to make their shifts & get home at night
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jfc. Israeli forces on Sunday killed one of the Palestinian journalists who provided “indispensable research” for Committee to Protect Journalists report released earlier this year that found a pattern of IDF lethally targeting journalists and evading accountability.
The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply saddened by the killing of Palestinian journalist and press freedom defender Bilal Jadallah, a previous contributor to CPJ’s work.
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former U.S. congressmen justin amash had relatives - including a baby - killed in Israeli air strike on saint porphyrius orthodox church in gaza in october. wild imo to have barely seen coverage, only cursory news briefs. where is the detailed narrative, the emotional profile ?.
I was really worried about this. 😔 With great sadness, I have now confirmed that several of my relatives (including Viola and Yara pictured here) were killed at Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church in Gaza, where they had been sheltering, when part of the complex was destroyed as
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Other than in quotes, we are not allowed to say Palestine in the LA Times. Policy, codified in a 2005 memo, directs Palestine be used “only to describe the territory that existed from 1923 to 1948, or the historical region (the land of Palestine). It is not a recognized nation.”.
Washington Post article which touches on DSA’s endorsement drama changes the word Palestine from DSA’s statement to Palestinian territories. “The Palestinian territories solidarity movement” LOL. Are they not allowed to say Palestine in the Washington Post
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Major union SEIU announces its support for @BernieSanders legislation that would block arms sales to Israel, up for a vote in the U.S. Senate this week
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Hacked police files show US law enforcement agencies for decades surveilled social media accounts of pro-Palestine activists & received analyses directly from IDF & training on domestic “Muslim extremists” from pro-Israel non-profits.
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Khaled Zayyid, who drove long hours for Uber, died in July of COVID. When his family applied for death benefits through the state workers comp program, they were denied. I wrote about how Prop .22 on the California ballot could affect families like his:
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Lionel Messi & other Inter Miami players canceled their stay this weekend at Fairmont Miramar hotel in Santa Monica after Unite Here Local 11 asked them to honor boycott called by striking hotel workers
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Fear of coronavirus is fueling racist sentiment toward East Asians; I spoke to people who fielded suspicious looks & nasty comments. Derogatory jokes gathered steam online, drawing on age-old racist tropes associating Chinese people w disease & dirty food
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independent journalist @taliaotg was trusted w/video of Aaron Bushnell self-immolation by his loved ones; she’s made careful,intentional decisions 2 report in fullest possible form, tempered by ethical considerations. difficult even WITH institutional support. nothing but respect
If you just want gore, then throwing tantrums about an indie reporter making measured and ethical choices makes sense. If you want some visual for historic purposes, you have that! Leave me alone!.
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Palestinian journalists in Gaza are urging journos in the U.S. to boycott the White House correspondents dinner this month. petition says Biden support of Israel implicates him “directly in the relentless targeting and massacring of journalists in Gaza”
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anecdotally, my understanding is pretty much every young black reporter at the LA times has received layoff notices. .
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New: A Starbucks location store in Santa Cruz at Ocean & Water is filing with the NLRB for a union petition today. It will be the **first store in California** to join the national organizing push, as a cascade of Starbucks across the country have filed petitions in recent weeks.
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New: strippers protesting North Hollywood bar Star Garden for months just filed a petition with the NLRB for a union election, seeking to join the ranks of theatrical union @ActorsEquity. It's a landmark move that brings union recognition in arms reach.
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apparently it’s not enough that Pakistan is expelling 1.7 million Afghan refugees, some who have lived there for 40 yrs. it’s also fleecing deported families, allowing each to only take 50,000 rupees across the border. that is equivalent of about $175 USD
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i am among 600+ journalists urging an end to the killing of gaza journalists and their families. we are also calling on western newsrooms to immediately address failures in coverage of israeli atrocities against palestinians. read and sign our statement:
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& it’s not true or at least not clear signing letter is a violation of LA Times ethics policy. If anything, it reinforces policy by calling for unbiased coverage—no language prohibits signing letters & policy has not previously been used to discipline in this way to my knowledge.
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if you feel you were fired from your job, disciplined, or otherwise retaliated against at work because of views you voiced about Israel-Palestine or ongoing assault on Gaza, i want to hear from you. contact me at suhauna.hussain@latimes.com; DM/email for my signal #.
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Berkeley City Council has permanently banned use of tear gas👇🏽.
We just voted to prohibit the use of tear gas. No “during the COVID-19 state of emergency.” No end-date. No sunset.
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independent journalists as well as those employed at the New Yorker, Al Jazeera, Reuters, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, Seattle Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Middle East Eye, Jewish Currents,, MSNBC, Vox Media, VICE, and dozens of other newsrooms have signed.
i am among 600+ journalists urging an end to the killing of gaza journalists and their families. we are also calling on western newsrooms to immediately address failures in coverage of israeli atrocities against palestinians. read and sign our statement:
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wow. CA legislators holding hostage millions in public funding to push University of California to curb pro-Palestine protests. keep in mind UC students over the yrs have frequently done occupy/encampment style protests on everything frm South Africa apartheid to tuition hikes.
NEW: @UofCalifornia leaders signal they won't tolerate encampments this fall & will consistently enforce campus rules on protests. State is holding back $25 million until UC notifies all students about rules & reports on efforts to enforce them by 10/1.
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getting to the bottom of the al ahli hospital explosion is necessary but also,,, remember, the bombing is indiscriminate, and today alone there were more Palestinians killed than the reported death toll of the al ahli bombing. also from this story:
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striking hotel workers are urging @taylorswift13 to postpone her LA concerts next week. here are some signs from their protest outside the Hyatt Regency LAX this morning:
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casting doubt on Gaza death toll is a very serious allegation for the US president to make w/out proof, esp given the numbers seem conservative. to say palestinians writ large are lying is effectively an incitement of violence against not only folks in Gaza, but palestinians here.
Biden doesn't have confidence in the Gaza death toll: "I have no notion if Palestinians are telling the truth. I'm sure innocents have been killed & it is the price of waging war. Israel should be incredibly careful to ensure they're going after the folks propagating this war."
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Aysenur Ezgi Eygi lived in the Seattle area and had recently graduated from University of Washington, with a degree in psychology, according to her linkedin. She was shot by Israeli forces while protesting illegal settlement expansion in Jabal Sbeih, reports say
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I wrote on Trump's targeting of WeChat & how it could sever a lifeline for the Chinese diaspora. In San Gabriel Valley, Irvine, etc folks buy food, read news & organize there. Businesses are built atop it. It's one of the only ways to talk w/ family abroad
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we have been in discussions with management because this action is imo discriminatory and unacceptable. did not intend to speak on this openly yet but since it’s out there….
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Discussion around Prop. 22—the measure on the California ballot bankrolled by Uber, Lyft, DoorDash etc—is SUPER convoluted. I explain in my latest what Prop. 22, pass or fail, would ✨actually✨ mean for companies as well as drivers & delivery workers:
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Target, Starbucks and Kroger—which owns grocery chains like Ralphs, are ending coronavirus-related pay bumps. Employees say it's a slap in the face; scores of grocery workers have died, & they feel they are still taking on great risk by reporting to work.
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*****more LIKE three dozen. last I checked it was about 34 LA Times staffers. sorry very tired haha.
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yep… execs at LA Times, Associated Press, Washington Post are among those that punished or otherwise forced journalists to retract their names from a .similar letter .
This is good. But several of these executives’ news organizations punished or censored their own journalists who were saying this months ago.
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as a reminder, what the letter urges is v straightforward and in clear alignment with core industry standards and ethics by a) condemning killing of journalists & b) calling for fair, accurate, non-racist coverage of Palestinians.
Some 30-odd LA Times journalists are being punished for calling for baseline journalistic norms to offset biased, racist coverage and to condemn the killing of tons of journalists trying to do their jobs. Read the letter here:
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It makes sense that the average person isn’t going to garner hundreds or thousands of likes on a post about Bloomberg. But the tactic raises interesting questions about the efficacy of paying people to capitalize on personal relationships built on trust & authenticity.
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update: Uber says it too will cover legal fees if drivers are sued under the Texas abortion ban.
some news: Lyft says it will cover legal fees if drivers are sued under Texas's six week abortion ban for transporting a patient. An Uber spokesperson said the company doesn't believe the law applies to their drivers.
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Zoom shut down U.S. activists’ account after they held an event on the platform commemorating the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. The company said "we must comply with applicable laws" in China:
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just an fyi, the move to stop using "looting" at the LA Times was quite literally a well-documented effort by many of us staff journalists outraged @ coverage of george floyd's killing & resulting protests. to say change was driven by NSS is misleading imo
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Also, because so many Twitter users — a number of whom were paid by the Bloomberg campaign — were posting identical content, Twitter cracked down on 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts on Friday after we inquired about the practice
Twitter just suspended 70 accounts; identical social media messages posted supporting Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign violate its policy against platform manipulation and spam. Scoop from @jeffbercovici and me:.
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(the letter in question).
i am among 600+ journalists urging an end to the killing of gaza journalists and their families. we are also calling on western newsrooms to immediately address failures in coverage of israeli atrocities against palestinians. read and sign our statement:
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breaking: two starbucks stores in santa cruz just became the first in california to unionize. workers at the mission and dufour location voted 15 to 2 in favor of a union. workers at the ocean and water location voted 13 to 1. here's our story:
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la times: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝.
everyone: silence of the lambs. new york times: 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑳𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒔, 𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆.
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yoooo some personal news: i get to work with johana 5ever!!!.
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workers at a pricey LA kbbq restaurant said until recently, they weren't paid for all their hours, weren't given all tips they earned & weren't allowed to take rest breaks. now, they may be the💫first kbbq place in the US💫 to have unionized. @JeongPark52
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hundreds of migrants are living in open-air desert camps in San Diego county, where US Customs and Border Protection is forcing them to wait for days w/ little food or water, until the agency can transfer them to detention centers. New frm @MelissaGomez004
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I spoke to grocery workers who are deeply worried about getting coronavirus & say safety measures are lax or slow to be implemented. Major chains like Target, CVS & Whole Foods have offered temporary raises or bonuses. Workers say it's not nearly enough
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some news: Lyft says it will cover legal fees if drivers are sued under Texas's six week abortion ban for transporting a patient. An Uber spokesperson said the company doesn't believe the law applies to their drivers.
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'Not welcome here': Arab leaders cancel Dearborn meeting with Biden campaign manager.
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I am honestly in shock that this California measure to ban forced labor in prisons, appears to have failed in such a clear and complete manner
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Indian authorities have barred any protest supporting Palestinians in Muslim-majority Kashmir & banned Friday prayers at Srinagar’s largest mosque , representing efforts to quell protests of India’s own occupation
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What's less clear is what would happen if Prop 22 fails. Uber, Lyft, DoorDash etc have been resisting state law requiring them to classify workers as employees. They've poured ~$200 million into it, making it the costliest ballot initiative in US history. (via @ryanvmenezes)
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don’t forget Muslims came out organizing for Bernie Sanders in force
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scoop: I spoke to migrants living at a skid row shelter who were recruited to work at hotels in Santa Monica and near LAX to replace striking employees represented by @UNITEHERE11 ; story here:
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I wrote about two women who are compiling numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths at Whole Foods stores and Amazon warehouses across the country. They do this meticulous, time-intensive work because Amazon won't release this data and they don't feel safe.
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this type of ban is extremely standard in mainstream US newsrooms, the LA Times is by no means an anomaly. incredible journos like @adamelmahrek have pushed hard for changes but it’s an uphill battle.
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yes. have seen so many newsrooms including my own conflate the two in recent weeks. no doubt anti-palestinian racism & islamophobia are often linked, but they are distinct. often journalists sub in "islamophobia" & erase actual dynamic of anti-palestinian racism. we must be clear.
It’s anti-Palestinian racism. Not Islamophobia. There is a difference.
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Prop 22, if passed, would cement the status of gig workers in California as independent contractors, depriving them of the full slate of benefits & protections they should be getting per current state law. @VanessaMartinez & @ruhlmuk analyzed the data and illustrated the pay gap:
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dozens of latinx journos…. video gutted , de Los gutted , business desk gutted , photo gutted . this is fucking unacceptable.
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if you're trying to learn more about what's unfolding in kashmir, here is a quick thread of some people i've found are helpful follows + initial reading materials (really just more threads).
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New: UC Riverside has shut down its economics research center, after i reported in february the financial details of the university's arrangement with private consulting firm Beacon Economics & UC faculty concerns about the controversial relationship
i wrote about a private firm that runs a UC research center and faculty concerns that the arrangement lacks academic oversight & allows the firm to stamp UC Riverside branding on corporate-funded research reports targeting CA labor policy .
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New: the union push at Trader Joe's has spread to the chain's home state: California. workers at an Oakland Trader Joe's filed a petition with the NLRB, becoming the first in the state to seek a union election. story:
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how does one turn a newspaper into a work owned co-op ,, asking for a friend.
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guess it’s the start of internship announcement szn on journo twitter so i’m just here to say it’s all trash, a total crapshoot. some applicants have resources, fancy school names, some do not. all u can do is try ur best and don’t get beaten down by the flood of rejections 🥴😔.
@sherships applied to four consecutive internship cycles @chronicle (summer, fall, spring, summer) and landed it on my fourth attempt in 2017 :’) (thanks @arthomason).
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this investigation is sweeping and so horrific; it includes literal children who work as garment workers in Los Angeles, where they stitch “Made in America” tags into J. Crew shirts.
The US is seeing an unprecedented wave of migrant child labor right now. Thousands of kids are working overnight in dangerous factories for brands like Cheerios, Fruit of the Loom and Ford. They're here alone and they're being failed in the most basic way.
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this👇🏽.
Our biggest assets as journalists - particularly journalists of color - are our abilities to connect with sources and bring unseen perspectives to light. Punishing journalists for calling for *unbiased* coverage and holding ourselves to higher standards hurts everyone.
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I'm still in class, but this is what the #MiloAtCal protest outside of MLK student union looks like rn (photo courtesy of @karimpuff1)
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to be clear this is more than just peoples livelihoods - which is enough to make this deplorable. this is the destruction of the newspaper of the second largest city in the United States and the most populous state,, which has an economy larger than many countries.
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nobody:. local journalists:.
I tweeted THE FUCK out of that meeting and now I'm so hyped on civics energy + coffee I'm gonna crash so hard tomorrow.
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inbox: Teamsters announce workers at four Southern California Amazon warehouses have voted to authorize strikes in an effort to push Amazon to recognize their union. Included warehouses in Victorville, Industry, San Bernardino and Palmdale
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memo also instructs reporters “to steer clear of the term ‘refugee camps’ to describe areas of Gaza …The areas are recognized by the United Nations as refugee camps and house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees.”.
The New York Times actively refuses to use terminology that accurately describes Israel's occupation of Palestine. They even avoid terms like "occupied territories." Everyone should be clear about what the Times is doing here: not journalism but propaganda.
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UCLA student said he’s been spit on & called terrorist for wearing keffiyeh. some1 pepper sprayed student then ran off; another jumped by 2 men & suffered wrist fracture - said hesitant to report incidents bc distrustful of UC admin @TeresaWatanabe reports
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reporting sometimes just be like . hi pls talk to me maybe? . *no response*. pls r u free? . *no response*. pls talk to me pls talk to me pls pls talk to me ?? ?. *no response* . talk ? ??? pls? *crumples to the floor and withers away*.
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copy pasting this ……. But If you got the 9:30 HR meeting email: take notes, don’t sign anything, ask any questions you want.
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tfw ur employer lays off hundreds of people but continues to do expensive construction on a corporate campus that literally no one cares about or needs
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