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Leo Burnett Receives Four Grand Clios for their Gun Control Work

Since 1963, nearly 193,000 children and teens have been killed with guns on American soil—more than four times the number of U.S. soldiers killed in action in the Vietnam, Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq wars combined, according to Children's Defense Fund. According to the gun control advocacy group Change The Ref, last year alone 3,044 more students did not get the chance to graduate because they were killed …

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Keep Bastrop Boring

Bastrop County is a fast-growing neighbor to Travis County—the home of Austin, the University of Texas, the state capitol, Austin FC, Austin City Limits, Oracle, Tesla, and so on. Bastrop is also directly downriver from Tesla's new world headquarters and car-making factory. When Elon Musk moved from California to Texas, his Boring Company quickly set up shop in rural Bastrop County, and currently has a permit to …

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Cannabis Brand Develops New Show for VICE TV

Weedmaps is producing a new, original cannabis-centric docuseries called Tumbleweeds with Killer Mike. Hosted by rapper and activist Killer Mike, the series was produced by Wheelhouse DNA and Wheelhouse Labs and distributed through VICE Media Group. The first two episodes of the four-part series will air on VICE TV on April 20 starting at 10 P.M ET. Tumbleweeds with Killer Mike challenges existing …

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Why Are Grown Men Allowed to Marry Young Girls?

In what sounds like news from 1822, not 2022, Tennessee lawmakers will vote today to remove any age barriers for marriage. Twenty-four Tennessee Republicans are sponsoring House Bill 233. Current Tennessee law states you can get married as young as 17 if you have parental consent. In the absence of federal law setting a minimum age for marriage, several states have outlawed child marriage, but the practice is …

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Say “Gay”

From a political point of view, Florida and Texas appear to be in a race to the bottom. The governors and state legislatures in both of these densely populated sunbelt states are working overtime to forward a reality that spookily mirrors the dystopian states that some of our best writers have depicted. The politicians are not acting alone. Many citizens in these states and elsewhere are in favor of banning books, …

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Freedom Deniers Lose Their Star

The American flag has been through several iterations from the 18th century on. It will be altered again one day, possibly with the addition of two stars for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. What no one saw coming was the removal of 29 stars from the flag by the Human Rights Campaign—the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization. The Human Rights …

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Polluted Water for Canada’s First People Is An Effing Problem

It's been six years since the Truth & Reconciliation Commission in Canada issued call-to-action #19 which called upon the federal government to address inequities in health outcomes, including access to basic health needs like clean water. Since then the federal government has done... f*ck all. https://youtu.be/KW9e1b3uUGY Almost 70 Indigenous communities in Canada still have to boil their water before …

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Stanley Black & Decker To Help Train 3M Skilled Workers

Building healthy brands and companies that last requires long-term vision from the leadership team. As brand managers look to the future, some of the problems that will be waiting for them begin to reveal themselves. For instance, today there are 10 million manufacturing jobs around the world that remain unfulfilled due to a lack of skilled trade workers. The same is true for the construction industry where there …

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Ad Chatter: Joe Cole Talks About Clean Creatives and We Are Rosie

A new generation of ad pros is getting more vocal about what they’re willing (and not willing) to work on, and how to do their work. Joe Cole is at the intersection of both of those ideas. He’s the Creative Strategist for Clean Creatives and a Creative Recruiter for We Are Rosie. In this 35-minute Ad Chatter episode, I chat with Joe about whether fossil fuel advertising could become as verboten as tobacco …

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Carhartt Wants America’s Workers To Be “Fit For The Next Frontier”

In the United States today, our problems have problems. Did you know that the country faces an unprecedented skilled labor shortage – with more than 3.2 million skilled trade jobs sitting open as of August 2021? While the Biden administration is busy selling their "Build Back Better" vision for the future, Carhartt is rallying America’s workforce and inspiring people to claim these good jobs with its new "Fit For …

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