HUSAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Schools, shops, banks and Iceland’s famous swimming pools shut on Tuesday as women in the volcanic island nation — including the prime minister — went on strike to push for an end to unequal pay and gender-based violence.
Icelanders awoke to all-male news teams announcing shutdowns across the country, with public transport delayed, hospitals understaffed and hotel rooms uncleaned. Trade unions, the strike’s main organizers, called on women and nonbinary people to refuse paid and unpaid work, including chores. Read More...
@chajoowon:
Hello! Nice to see another person here.
I have just finished seeing Episode 5 with English subs. Episode 6 raw is pretty much a mystery to me at this point. I stopped and felt I needed the subs in order to make any sense of it.
Not sure of some of the timeline, too. For example, When did he take the new apartment? Right after he returned from England? How much travelling has he done so far? Read More...
The 1960s were a tumultuous period in American history, marked by the beginning of the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, and the assassination of JFK.
But adults who came of age during this incredible decade remember it as a simpler time, when kids could play baseball right out on the street, when the milkman delivered bottles straight to your door, and when teenagers on a hopeful first date shared a milkshake together under the neon auspice of a roadside diner. Read More...
