Workers at Amazon, Walmart, others plan 'May Day' strike

Friday over safety

ByDaniel Uria

MAY 1, 2020 / 7:39 AM

"May 1 (UPI) Employees for a number of major U.S. companies planned a mass strike Friday International Worker's Day – to protest health conditions at their workplaces due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A coalition of workers from Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target, FedEx and Shipt plan to stage a walkout or "sickout" due to what they say are flawed policies and lack of protective equipment that's exposed some to the coronavirus disease.

The workers will either call out sick or walk out during their lunch break Friday. Union members are also expected to join the coalition.

"Because of the failings of our employers, many of our fellow employees have contracted this deadly virus and some have died," said a statement shared by organizer Christian Smalls, who was fired from Amazon after organizing a strike at a Staten Island facility last month. "Although there have been some changes in company policies, they are not enough to adequately protect us.""

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https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/05/01/Workers-at-Amazon-Walmart-others-plan-May-Day-strike-Friday-over-safety/5231588299721/

A Broken System: Trader Warns "The Fed Has Poisoned

Everything"

by Tyler Durden

Fri, 05/01/2020 - 06:40

Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com,

"The Fed poisons everything, and I mean everything. From markets, the economy, and I will even go as far as politics. Sounds far fetched? Let me make my case below. But as much as the Fed poisons everything, this crisis here again reveals a larger issue: The system is completely broken, it can’t sustain itself without the Fed’s ever more monumental interventions.

These interventions are absolutely necessary or the system collapses under its own broken facade. And this conflict, a Fed poisoning the economy’s growth prospects on the one hand, and its needed presence and actions to keep the broken system afloat on the other, has the economy and society on a mission to circle a perpetual drain.

So how does the Fed poison everything?

Let’s start with the Fed actual process of working towards its stated mission: Full employment and price stability.

How does it do that? Well, for the last 20 years mainly by extremely low interest rates and balance sheet expansion sprinkled with an enormous amount of jawboning. The principle effect: Asset price inflation.

It’s not a side effect, it’s the true mission. The Fed has been managing the economy via asset prices even though Jay Powell again insisted on saying the Fed is not targeting asset prices."

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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/broken-system-trader-warns-fed-has-poisoned-everything

deep state tears or legitimate concern?

Armed ‘boogaloo’ activists converge on Raleigh, flouting

state law

Jordan Green

May 01 2020

"Armed militia activists who promote the idea of a second civil war through coded “boogaloo” themes plan to show up at the General Assembly in Raleigh today carrying firearms, in direct violation of state law.

One day after armed protesters stormed the Michigan state capitol in Lansing, a militant offshoot of the Reopen NC movement is mobilizing supporters from out of state to show up “fully armed as a show of force” at the North Carolina General Assembly.

The May 1 action was organized in response to an arrest made by Raleigh police at the first Reopen NC protest on April 14. The police arrested four other protesters, including Reopen NC cofounder Ashley Smith, at the third weekly protest on April 28.

“This is a call to arms,” the Facebook account Blue Igloo posted on the open page for the “Protect the 1st Amendment” event on April 14. “I’m going to need every able-bodied man to pack up your gear and plan for peaceful assembly at this very spot on May 1st. Call your brothers from other states.”"

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https://triad-city-beat.com/armed-boogaloo-activists-converge-on-raleigh-flouting-state-law/

booga booga! are they Patriots or Extremists?