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I’m a Restaurant Critic. Am I Fueling Gentrification?

Soleil Ho San Francisco Chronicle
Restaurant critics don’t talk about gentrification--a process whereby longtime residents of underserved neighborhoods are displaced in favor of more affluent ones, new businesses and amenities-but this critic discusses their possible role in it.

Strike Threat As Nursing Union Demands Legal Minimum Staffing Levels

Pat Leahy, Emmet Malone, Jennifer Bray The Irish Times
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), the country’s main nursing union, has demanded legislation that would require minimum staffing levels in hospitals and threatened to strike if the Government does not agree.

GOP Treason Is Stalking Democracies Around the World

Thom Hartmann Hartmann Report
And it’s damn well past time that the people who conceived and ordered and facilitated the execution of this crime against all the rest of us are held to account in a meaningful way

Brazil Protests

Tom Phillips, Andrew Downie The Guardian
Lula Vows To Punish ‘Neo-Fascists’ After Bolsonaro Supporters Storm Congress.