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Andrew Cuomo's top aide apologized to Democratic lawmakers for underreporting and hiding thousands of coronavirus deaths that occurred in nursing homes
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
The Egyptian Drug Authority issued an official license of the Sinopharm Chinese developed coronavirus vaccine for emergency use in Egypt.
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sparked controversy after he was spotted sitting as the national anthem played during a preseason game Aug. 26. Asked why he chose to sit during the “Star-Spangled Banner,” the athlete said the move was a political statement against racism and police killings of blacks.
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” he said.
“To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”
While Black Lives Matter leader DeRay McKesson called the quarterback a “truth-teller,” and others compared him to athletes Muhammad Ali, John Carlos and Tommie Smith—who made bold stands against racism decades earlier—Kaepernick had his fair share of critics.
Actors James Woods and Christopher Meloni took to social media to criticize him and a fan filmed himself burning a Kaepernick jersey. Bigots flooded the quarterback’s social media accounts with racial slurs, threats, demands that he leave the country and accusations that he disrespected veterans. Other critics suggested Kaepernick sat during the anthem for publicity and is too wealthy to be oppressed. But these attacks on the football player are largely shortsighted, no matter how one feels about the national anthem or patriotism.
The long history of oppression people of color have experienced in the United States makes their decision to embrace patriotism (or reject it) both a political and personal matter.
What About the Veterans?
Self-proclaimed patriots have argued that Kaepernick’s anthem protest is an insult to veterans.
But this argument assumes that veterans are a monolithic group who feel the same about patriotism, police brutality and freedom of expression. It also overlooks that veterans, such as Walter Scott, have been police killing victims.
A number of veterans, however, have grasped the complexity of Kaepernick’s
Yet, there are many more issues that have been identified in the wake of Covid-19 which require a holistic legislative approach to cushion both employers and employees against needless, disruptive and expensive litigation which is bound to arise after the pandemic due to the inadequacy of the existing legal framework.
Some of these issues include whether the layoffs necessitated by a pandemic constitute a redundancy, force majeure or frustration; whether the normal protracted termination process also applies during a pandemic; whether statutory benefits like housing and medical should subsist during unpaid leave; employers’ health and safety obligations while employees are working from home; treatment of statutory deductions during unpaid leave; whether performance and disciplinary processes should be conducted during a pandemic; whether employers are liable for the death of employees whom they place at risk in the line of duty; whether employees who are not sick but on quarantine should be given sick or paid leave, among others.
When the Sakaja Bill states that an employer shall not terminate the contract of an employee during a pandemic, this effectively provides a blanket protection for employees and freezes all manner of terminations including those that had been initiated on disciplinary grounds, poor performance or redundancy.
Instead of categorically and boldly stating that in the event of a pandemic an employer shall be at liberty to require employees to proceed on unpaid leave until the end of the pandemic on such terms as shall be agreed between the parties, it prevaricates and simply provides that employers shall permit their employees to take a leave of absence without pay.
The Bill skirts around the matter by feebly providing that an employer shall not coerce an employee to accept a pay cut.
The word boycott entered the English language because of a dispute between a man named Boycott and the Irish Land League in 1880.
Captain Charles Boycott was a British Army veteran who worked as a landlords agent, a man whose job was to collect rents from tenant farmers on an estate in northwest Ireland. At the time, landlords, many of whom were British, were exploiting Irish tenant farmers. And as part of a protest, the farmers on the estate where Boycott worked demanded a reduction in their rents.
Boycott refused their demands, and evicted some tenants. The Irish Land League advocated that people in the area not attack Boycott, but rather use a new tactic: refuse to do business with him at all.
This new form of protest was effective, as Boycott wasnt able to get workers to harvest crops. And by the end of 1880 newspapers in Britain began using the word.
A front-page article in the New York Times on December 6, 1880, referred to the affair of Capt. Boycott and used the term boycottism to describe tactics of the Irish Land League.
Research in American newspapers indicates that the word crossed the ocean during the 1880s. In the late 1880s boycotts in America were being referred to in the pages of the New York Times. The word was generally used to denote labor actions against businesses.
For example, the Pullman Strike of 1894 became a national crisis when a boycott of railroads brought the nations rail system to a halt.
Captain Boycott died in 1897, and an article in the New York Times on June 22, 1897, noted how his name had become a common word:
Capt. Boycott became famous through the application of his name to the relentless social and business ostracism first practiced by the Irish peasantry against the detested representatives of landlordism in Ireland. Although a descendant of an old Essex County family in England, Capt. Boycott was an Irishman by birth. He made his appearance in County Mayo in 1863 and according to James Redpath, he had not lived there five years before he won the reputation
The New York City Draft Riot, similar to the Detroit Draft Riot, was caused by the exemption clause of the Enrollment Act of Conscription and racial tensions between African Americans and white citizens. On July 13, 1863, rioters gathered outside of the Provost Marshal office, attacking the officers, setting fire to the building, and eventually burning down the entire block. African Americans throughout the city were beaten, tortured, and even killed. The riot ended on July 16, 1863 after 105 people died and at least 11 black men were lynched.
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