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Overnight News for Wednesday, September 20 (Strike is over? Edition) [1]
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Date: 2023-09-20
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On Wednesday evening, the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers released a joint statement that the two groups met for bargaining and would meet again on Thursday. x BREAKING: The Hollywood Writer's Strike is OVER, according to CNBC. They will likely finalize the deal this Thursday.
They held out for a fairer deal for writers, and they GOT it. pic.twitter.com/3KRZUTiL4W — CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) September 21, 2023 Writers and producers are near an agreement to end the Writers Guild of America strike after meeting face to face on Wednesday, people close to the negotiations told CNBC.
The two sides met and hope to finalize a deal Thursday, the sources said. While optimistic, the people noted, however, that if a deal is not reached the strike could last through the end of the year.
On Wednesday evening, the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers released a joint statement that the two groups met for bargaining and would meet again on Thursday.
Look, all I know is your recalcitrance is putting me at risk. If these strikes go on much longer I could slip from the top 0.0001% to the top 0.001%, and that would be mortifying. x "Look, all I know is your recalcitrance is putting me at risk. If these strikes go on much longer I could slip from the top 0.0001% to the top 0.001%, and that would be mortifying."#StandUpUAW#SolidaritySeason
https://t.co/UV7NCI0VkB — Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) September 20, 2023 The United Auto Workers are now on strike, and writers and actors have been striking against Hollywood studios for months. These work stoppages are clearly frustrating for the extremely wealthy, but I’m happy to say one anonymous executive had the courage to share his thoughts with the strikers. Dear striking poors: I am a wealthy executive involved in both the auto and film industries, and I’m writing today to politely ask you to halt your labor strikes before you do any more harm to me or my family, including my three purebred Tibetan mastiffs: Hampton, Belvedere and Harrumph. Your unwillingness to accept the generous, more-than-zero wages you’re being offered is rude, and I don’t think you’ve given much thought to how your work stoppage might inconvenience people like me who are more important than you. Thanks to your “desire for an equitable wage,” several of my children have been forced to consider what it would be like to work for a living, and we’ve had to wean the mastiffs off wagyu to a wagyu-Angus cross, which has a lower marbling score that has made them impish.
Yep, he did it!
x "Brazil could record its highest temperature in history during this winter heatwave."
Read that again. It's still winter in Brazil and they are approaching all-time record hottest temperatures for *any* month in *any* year.
We are in a climate emergency.
https://t.co/DGGE65pRC4 — Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) September 20, 2023
..With over 700 marches and other actions in more than 60 countries and 600,000 participants worldwide 15-17 September, the global climate movement is more diverse and united than ever before. The main event was a climate march in New York City, where world leaders are gathering for the UN General Assembly and the UN Secretary General is convening a “no-nonsense” Climate Ambition Summit. Following the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi at the start of September, Greenpeace Africa marched in eight cities in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, and South Africa. In Durban, Greenpeace activists who collected plastic waste reminded us: “99% of plastics are made from oil & gas. End plastic pollution. End fossil fuels.” x Greenpeace International joined 600,000 people in global actions to #EndFossilFuels #FastFairForever
Here's what happened, via @greenpeace
https://t.co/erFb4FtX7u — Extinction Rebellion Global (@ExtinctionR) September 20, 2023 … This year has been historically hot, polluted and deadly. Yet this global mobilisation can blow a fresh breeze of hope. The climate movement took to the streets and won’t budge until we end fossil fuels for good.
x Khamis Mushayt in Saudi Arabia this evening.....👀🌊pic.twitter.com/0ym4tNJ7i8 — Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) September 19, 2023
On September 20, the U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is hosting a Climate Ambition Summit seeking to galvanize greater climate action from world leaders. Coming on the heels of the powerful March to End Fossil Fuels last weekend, this summit continues the pressure on governments to meet the urgency of the moment. x The solution is clear: to keep the planet liveable, every country and sector must fast-track their #ClimateAction efforts. No more excuses. No more delays.
Follow the actions at the @UN Climate Ambition Summit: — UN Environment Programme (@UNEP) September 20, 2023 ...Back in March of this year, when the sobering IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report was released, the U.N. Secretary-General made a powerful speech calling the scientific report a “how-to guide to defuse the climate time-bomb.” He also called for a quantum leap in climate action and announced an Acceleration Agenda for governments, the financial sector, and businesses. The upcoming Climate Ambition Summit will serve as an opportunity for those who have taken up the challenge to announce specific actions and commitments to deliver on this agenda. The three tracks for the Acceleration Agenda are Ambition, Credibility, and Implementation, outlined in more detail here. Governments are being asked to commit to more ambitious emission reduction commitments for 2030 and beyond by 2025, as part of the regular cycle of updates in line with the latest science called for in the Paris agreement, as well as to boost climate finance commitments from rich nations.
Just as a summer covid wave shows signs of receding, the Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is reviving a program to mail free rapid coronavirus tests to Americans. Starting Sept. 25, people can request four free tests per household through covidtests.gov. Officials say the tests are able to detect the latest variants and are intended to be used through the end of the year. x The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is reviving a program to mail free rapid coronavirus tests to Americans. Starting Sept. 25, people can request four free tests per household through
https://t.co/84NxcFYPBW.
https://t.co/MpuH2uCUO9 — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 20, 2023 The return of the free testing program comes after Americans navigated the latest uptick in covid cases with free testing no longer widely available. The largest insurance companies stopped reimbursing the costs of retail at-home testing once the requirement to do so ended with the public health emergency in May. The Biden administration stopped mailing free tests in June.
x The Big 3 Automakers have spent $66 billion on stock buybacks and dividends over the decade.
That amounts to roughly $440k for each of the ~150,000 workers covered by UAW collective bargaining agreements.
And we’re supposed to believe they can’t afford to pay workers more? — Robert Reich (@RBReich) September 20, 2023
Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their deaths as US authorities have been asked to investigate Musk’s claims. x Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their deaths as US authorities have been asked to investigate Musk’s claims.
https://t.co/FGqPcvAJy7 — Jennifer Ouellette (@JenLucPiquant) September 20, 2023 FRESH ALLEGATIONS OF potential securities fraud have been leveled at Elon Musk over statements he recently made regarding the deaths of primates used for research at Neuralink, his biotech startup. Letters sent this afternoon to top officials at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by a medical ethics group call on the agency to investigate Musk’s claims that monkeys who died during trials at the company were terminally ill and did not die as a result of Neuralink implants. They claim, based on veterinary records, that complications with the implant procedures led to their deaths. Musk first acknowledged the deaths of the macaques on September 10 in a reply to a user on his social networking app X (formerly Twitter). He denied that any of the deaths were “a result of a Neuralink implant” and said the researchers had taken care to select subjects who were already “close to death.” Relatedly, in a presentation last fall Musk claimed that Neuralink’s animal testing was never “exploratory,” but was instead conducted to confirm fully formed scientific hypotheses. “We are extremely careful,” he said.
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