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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Prada Removes Window Display After Getting Called Out for Blackface

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Prada has issued an apology and taken down a holiday window display at its SoHo location after a civil rights lawyer passed the storefront and called out the company for utilizing racist imagery.

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Israel chides Australia’s recognition of West Jerusalem as capital | World news | The Guardian

The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, said on Saturday that Canberra formally recognised West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but also reaffirmed his country’s support for a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem under a two-state peace deal.

Source: Israel chides Australia’s recognition of West Jerusalem as capital | World news | The Guardian

Vietnamese Americans rally in Little Saigon against Trump administration’s push to deport thousands of war refugees

Their faces were grim, but with their voices united in a common cause, Vietnamese Americans rallied in Little Saigon on Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s push to deport thousands of war refugees.

“We stay together,” and “Pho-get Trump,” they shouted, carrying signs and sharing photos…

How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments – The New York Times

About four miles from where the McKinsey consultants discussed their work, which includes advising some of China’s most important state-owned companies, a sprawling internment camp had sprung up to hold thousands of ethnic Uighurs — part of a vast archipelago of indoctrination camps where the Chinese government has locked up as many as one million people. One week before the McKinsey event, a United Nations committee had denounced the mass detentions and urged China to stop.