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This Thursday, homeless New Yorkers will ask questions directly of New York City mayoral candidates during a virtual forum. The historic event’s conception and organization was led in part by a New Yorker who is homeless himself – Shams DaBaron, an advocate for the city’s homeless and a resident at the Lucerne, an Upper West Side hotel operating as a shelter, who developed the event in partnership with activist groups including the UWS Open Hearts Initiative.
Thursday’s forum marks the culmination of a recent foray into activism for DaBaron, who spent last fall organizing and speaking at rallies alongside locals and his fellow residents to successfully block New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s efforts to move its occupants elsewhere.
Lawsuit says Tyson Foods misled shareholders about COVID-19 protocols By Jonathan Stempel
FILE PHOTO: Fog shrouds the Tyson slaughterhouse in Burbank, Washington
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. meat and poultry processor Tyson Foods Inc was sued on Tuesday for allegedly defrauding shareholders with misleading disclosures about its ability to combat the spread of the coronavirus in its facilities.
The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, was filed in Brooklyn federal court by Mingxue Guo, who lives in Canada, and seeks unspecified damages for Tyson shareholders from March 13 to Dec. 15, 2020.
It followed a Dec. 15 letter from New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that asked the regulator to investigate Tyson’s health and safety disclosures to investors, which include the $229 billion New York City Retirement Systems.
State Sen. Gustavo Rivera will endorse both candidates in their runs for City Hall, with a first place nod to Stringer, the city’s comptroller, and a number two endorsement for Morales, a former non-profit CEO.
The slower-than-expected U.S. rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine drew harsh scrutiny this week as President Joe Biden took over from Donald Trump, who left the incoming administration with “nothing” to help guide distribution of available doses, White House sources told CNN. Similar frustration erupted in the nation’s largest city, where New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday that 23,000 vaccination appointments scheduled for this.
It’s chaos as older people struggle to get a Covid-19 vaccine. Here is what you can do
Nancy Wilkinson knows her way around the internet. Retired from a career in IT support, the 66-year-old was unfazed by the hurdles her Decatur, Georgia, neighbors and friends faced as they struggled to schedule appointments for the Covid-19 vaccine.
Acting on a Sunday
4:30 a.m. email request to register, Wilkinson snagged an appointment last week for her wife, Susan, and herself just after Georgia announced that it was moving to Phase 1B of the phased rollout. That meant the vaccine would now be available to the state’s 1.4 million seniors 65 and over, including Wilkinson.