Projects tagged "Acoss the USA"

Michael Moore demands nationwide boycott of Walgreens for not selling abortion pill: 'Bigotry and misogyny'
Practitioner:
Michael Moore
Date:
Mar 6 2023
Filmmaker Michael Moore has called for a nationwide boycott of Walgreens after the pharmacy chain announced it would not sell abortion pills in 20 states. n February, 20 Republican state attorneys general wrote to Walgreens Corp. threatening legal action if Walgreens provides the abortion pill, mifepristone, to consumers in their pharmacies across the U.S.
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Federal Trade Commission demands Elon Musk 'identify all journalists' who had access to Twitter Files
Practitioner:
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Date:
Mar 7 2023
he Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is demanding Elon Musk turn over internal Twitter documents, including a list of the journalists who were behind the viral "Twitter Files." The Wall Street Journal first reported Tuesday about more than a dozen letters the FTC sent to Twitter and its legal counsel as part of a probe looking into Musk's 2022 takeover of the tech giant.
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Justice Kavanaugh Boof Kits
Practitioner:
Von Wendys
Date:
Nov 3 2018
Throughout the weekend, big box stores across the country were stocked with an unexpected item: “The Justice Kavanaugh Boof Kit.” The item, an alcohol enema kit (known as “boofing” or “butt chugging”), appeared on dozens of retailer’s shelves over the weekend in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Detroit. Some of the stores included Walmart, Target, Bevmo and other major super market chains.
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A small group forces PNC to stop financing mountaintop removal
Practitioner:
Earth Quaker Action Team
Date:
Mar 2 2015
This wonderful campaign of Earth Action Network against mountaintop removal coal mining focused not on the invulnerable mining companies, but on the banks that financed them - and especially PNC, which based its growth model on recruiting university students. It stopped both PNC and then, because of that, ALL banks from financing mountaintop removal coal mining.
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