Bernie Sanders Lobs A Crippling Blow At The Kochs With Bill To Publicly Fund Elections

Bernie Sanders Lobs A Crippling Blow At The Kochs With Bill To Publicly Fund Elections During a campaign event in New Hampshire today, Sen. Bernie Sanders announced that he will be filing a bill that would effectively cripple the Kochs and right-wing billionaires by providing public funding for elections.      Read more »

Anti-Public School Evangelicals Now Control Alabama and Texas Education Boards It is obvious that the owner of a professional sports franchise, say a National Football League team, would only hire a hair-stylist who detests, and has never played, the game of football as a general manager and head coach if they wanted their team to fail miserably. That is an absurd idea, but it is precisely what two religious Republican governors who want to decimate their state's public education system did in appointing evangelical anti-public education fanatics to run their state's public school systems.     Read more » Bernie Don’t Play That: Sanders Stonewalls Media Effort To Get Him To Attack Clinton Bernie Sanders put on a clinic and completely stonewalled ABC's News Jon Karl when he tried to get the Democratic candidate to personally attack Hillary Clinton.     Read more » Scott Walker Goes Full Scumbag By Refusing To Admit That Obama Is A Christian In a deplorable move, Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker refused to admit that President Obama is a Christian.     Read more » Bernie Sanders Lobs A Crippling Blow At The Kochs With Bill To Publicly Fund Elections During a campaign event in New Hampshire today, Sen. Bernie Sanders announced that he will be filing a bill that would effectively cripple the Kochs and right-wing billionaires by providing public funding for elections.     Read more » Hillary Clinton Promises To Defend President Obama Bold New Clean Power Plant Plan Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is pledging to the American people that she will protect and defend President Obama new clean power plant plan.     Read more » Donald Trump Falls Apart When Called Out On His Racism Towards African-Americans Donald Trump fell apart when questioned about his racism towards African-Americans on ABC's This Week.     Read more » Vice President Joe Biden Is Seriously Exploring A Run For President Vice President Joe Biden is seriously considering a run against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.     Read more » Ted Cruz Auditions to be the Koch’s Paid Whore on Capitol Hill Ted Cruz is spending this weekend with the Kochs, and what is going on in that ocean-side retreat has nothing to do with family values     Read more »

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US Fast Food workers win wage increase in Los Angeles and New York

US Fast Food workers win wage increase in Los Angeles and New York Fast Food workers have won two important victories in their fight for better wages as both Los Angeles County and New York State voted to raise minimum wages. These are important steps for the Fight For 15 campaign  for better wages and the right to join a union for US fast food workers. Continue reading here   The WTO's Doha Development Round: bad news from start to… finish? Nearly 10 years ago, the IUF, together with two of our sister international union federations and a coalition of international civil society organizations, warned of the likely consequences of the WTO's stalled Doha Round of trade negotiations, calling it "a recipe for the massive destruction of livelihoods, mass unemployment and the degradation of work". That was after 4 years of negotiations which showed the exercise to be a thinly-disguised effort by wealthy countries to extract major concessions from developing countries on goods and services with agriculture being employed as a 'bargaining chip'.  Now there is a new threat coming from the WTO - the way in which the Doha Round may be formally wound up or suspended in the months preceding the Nairobi WTO ministerial in December. The full story is here Urgent Action Myanmar (Burma) In response to the international campaign launched by the IUF to defend basic trade union rights at the upscale Bagan Hotel River View in Myanmar (Burma), management is now screening job applicants to identify potential union supporters. Earlier this year, management attempted to crush the legally registered trade union by compelling the elected officers to sign resignation letters in a closed meeting guarded by hotel security. If you have not yet been able to send a message in support of this important struggle for trade union rights for hotel workers in Myanmar,CLICK HERE

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Pinay scientist creates lamp that runs on saltwater

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Posted at 08/02/2015 4:43 PM

​Aisa Mijeno, CEO, co-founder and inventor of SALt lamp. Handout photo

MANILA – “To light up the rest of the Philippines sustainably” was the vision of Filipina scientist Aisa Mijeno when she made the Sustainable Alternative Lighting (SALt) lamp.
The SALt Lamp is an environment-friendly and sustainable alternative light source that runs on saltwater, making it suitable to those who live in coastal areas.
It can also function well in remote barrios. With just two table spoons of salt and one glass of tap water, this ecologically designed lamp can run for eight hours.
“It is made of tediously experimented and improved chemical compounds, catalysts, and metal alloys that when submerged in electrolytes will generate electricity,” Mijeno explained in an interview with ABS-CBN.
Because of its inspiring vision and ground-breaking innovation, the SALt lamp has received various awards and recognition from organizations in the Philippines, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea.
It has also won in several competitions here and abroad.

Aisa Mijeno receives the Kotra Award at the Startup Nations Summit 2014 in South Korea.Handout photo

Safe alternative to traditional lamps
According to Mijeno, the idea behind the SALt lamp is the chemical conversion of energy. It utilizes the scientific process behind the Galvanic cell, but instead of electrolytes, the SALt lamp uses saline solution, making it harmless and non-toxic.
Compared with kerosene lamp, the SALt lamp is also a lot safer, Mijeno stressed since it does not have components and compounds that may spark fire. Moreover, it does not emit toxic gases and leaves minimal carbon footprint.
“This isn’t just a product. It’s a social movement,” she said.
Although the SALt lamp is not yet being mass-produced, Mijeno and her team have been working intensively with non-government organizations (NGOs), local government units (LGUs), and charitable foundations, among others.
These organizations aid in the purchase and distribution of the SALt lamps to remote communities where electricity is scarce, or worse, not available.
A sustainable light for the Philippines

A family in the province relies on a kerosene lamp. Handout photo

Mijeno said that her experience working with an environmental organization made her realize the need for an alternative source of light, especially in rural areas of the Philippines.
“I used to be part of Greenpeace Philippines and did personal immersions/volunteers across rural communities, and there I learned so many things. Most of these people are so poor and underprivileged that they endure long hours of walking just to get kerosene for their lamps,” Mijeno recalled.
Currently, for every SALt lamp that is bought, one lamp is given to a selected family.
“Our main focus is on the island communities that do not have access to electricity and have no financial capacity for acquiring alternative source of electricity,” Mijeno added.

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