Cheryl Meeker
cherylmeeker.bsky.social
Cheryl Meeker
@cherylmeeker.bsky.social
Artist and planet earth resident
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The #ProvStrike2025 is because after more than a year of negotiations Providence refused to negotiate a fair agreement for workers or patients. apnews.com/article/oreg...
Largest health care strike in Oregon history begins as thousands picket Providence hospitals
Some 5,000 hospital health care workers have walked off the job in Oregon as they picket all eight Providence hospitals in the state.
apnews.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Another day another series of Israeli war crimes: "At least 7 Palestinians killed by Israeli attack on Gaza’s Nuseirat camp. Attack comes hours after 20 people from the same displaced family were killed in northern Gaza." www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12...
At least 7 Palestinians killed by Israeli attack on Gaza’s Nuseirat camp
Palestinian Civil Defence says a woman and three children were among those killed.
www.aljazeera.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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Israel bans the importation into Gaza of anaesthetics. Hence, the scores of children who are amputated daily, following Israel's bombings, are put to the knife without anaesthesia - if they are lucky to be taken to a functioning medical facility and not be bombed when in it.
December 2, 2024 at 10:20 AM
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Joe Biden never misses an opportunity to say one thing and do another. “I said I’d abide by the jury decision, and I will do that. And I will not pardon him,” Biden said in last June's G7 summit. Five months later, he pardoned him. Voila! www.ft.com/content/615e...
Joe Biden pardons son Hunter over gun and tax charges
President sparks backlash with use of executive powers in reversal of promises weeks before leaving office
www.ft.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:27 AM
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Now. Press conference as historic International Court of Justice #ICJ hearing begins considering legal consequences of States for #climatechange harm. Ilan Kiloe Melanesian Spearhead Group"Our distinct identity as people and our very existence is grossly threatened by the impacts of climate change."
December 2, 2024 at 12:47 PM