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RAPPER KENDRICK LAMAR has won the Pulitzer Prize for music.
The Pulitzer board called the album DAMN a work that captures the complexity of African-American life. It’s the first non-classical or jazz work to win the award.
Lamar has been praised and lauded for his deep lyrical content, remarkable live performances, and his profound mix of hip-hop, spoken word, jazz, soul, funk, poetry and African sounds.
His major-label albums good kid, m.A.A.d city, To Pimp a Butterfly and DAMN became works of art, with Lamar writing songs about blackness, street life, police brutality, perseverance, survival and self-worth.
His raps helped him become the voice of the generation, and easily ascend as the leader in hip-hop and cross over to audiences outside of rap, from rock to pop to jazz.
Meanwhile, the New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for reporting that brought down Harvey Weinstein and spawned a cultural watershed on the issue of sexual harassment.
The prestigious prize was awarded to the Times team led by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey and New Yorker contributor Ronan Farrow, for reports that ruined the career of the Hollywood mogul and sparked an avalanche of accusations against other powerful men.
Since the Times and New Yorker articles last October, more than 100 women have publicly accused the producer of misconduct ranging from sexual harassment to rape, sparking the #MeToo movement that has gone global.
Weinstein’s wife left him and police opened criminal investigations in London, Los Angeles and New York. The 66-year-old has been hit by a litany of civil lawsuits that stand to see him financially ruined.
Dana Canedy, the Pulitzer administrator, said their work “exposed powerful and wealthy sexual predators, including allegations against one of Hollywood’s most influential producers, bringing them to account for long-suppressed claims of coercion, brutality and victim silencing thus spurring a worldwide reckoning about sexual abuse of women”.
The Washington Post won the Pulitzer in the investigative category for relentless reporting that influenced the outcome of the 2017 Senate race in Alabama, revealing Republican candidate Roy Moore’s alleged past sexual harassment of teenage girls.
Moore’s opponent Doug Jones won the special election last December, becoming Alabama’s first Democratic senator in 25 years and dealing a humiliating blow to President Donald Trump’s administration.
With reporting by © – AFP, 2018
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Sadly yet another catering / hospitality business that leaves its employees high & dry. There are 2 chances employees will receive a single cent, little & none. It begs the question how did wage arrears get to the levels they did, its a sure bet suppliers too will be hovering around the premises later today. Sad state of affairs but the writing was on the wall since Christmas.
just give them the dough
Another long line of unskilled Eastern Europeans set to be on social welfare for life
Di€khead
Tom Cross – UKIP are looking for supporters, why don’t you get involved? Idiot
Roisin why not go join the socialist workers party? Those dregs would suit you just fine
100% non Irish Staff. Wonder why that was the case. Business in the heart of Dublins most famous street.
2/10. You can troll better than this.
Ah yeah, the tweet from Siobhan O’Donoghue is obviously from the Polish branch of that surname.
I dont get why the bosses will care.
It not a chain so who cares about bad press.
They probably rent so not their building. So no prob there.
Hope they get some or all there money owed but not sure if the sit in helps
Maybe the bosses should be held legally responsible and have to forfeit their personal/business assets to meet their liabilities!
With a Labour coalition partner in government, this sort of thing should never happen. But there again, they are Labiur in name only!
In fairness, if it’s a limited liability company then the owners cannot be forced to forfeit private property to pay for business debt.
That’s the current rule, but the limited liability company is a creature of statute and we could change it if we wanted to. In capitalist New York, for example, the top few shareholders are liable for at least some of the unpaid wages of employees.
Even without that, there’s a serious question mark over the actions of the directors. If they had to withhold wages in order to keep the lights on, they probably knew there was no realistic possibility of keeping the company going. That’s wrongful trading, and if that’s proved then they can be made to cough up personally for some of the extra losses. The ODCE looks into this automatically now, so the workers may end up being looked after. Doesn’t put food on the table today, of course.
Is Mr Forel Irish, not a citizen but actually born here? I ask this as this would not be the first example of non-nationals being exploited by other non-nationals.
Martin has a point, why should workers be at the bottom of the list behind Revenue and banks when it comes to payment? These people are the most vulnerable and deserve payment right now and let the other vultures fight over the carcase of this business.
Hope they brought enough food with them for the sit in.
Lots of Dubliners are dropping by with food and books and encouragement for them.
A few photos of Mr.Forel smugly smoke on some fine cigars.
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