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An Associated Press poll found that 78 percent of Americans think teachers are paid too little, and a majority support teachers' strikes to win higher pay. Fifty percent said they favor higher taxes to pay teachers more. After weeks of protesting proposed pension concessions, Kentucky teachers were shocked ...

Despite Dallas stepping up their defence, they were unable to halt Boston in their final push, as the Uprising reached the required distance to claim a clean 4-0 sweep. For more on the Overwatch League games, check out the match recaps from yesterday's series, here, and for more information on when the ...

"It's an iconic image,” said James Simon Kunen, whose best-selling book, “The Strawberry Statement,” chronicled the Columbia uprising. “Here's a very young man sitting at the desk of the president of this huge university. This is the world turned upside down.” Five decades later, with school protests once ...

Teachers in Republican strongholds are on the march because they have nothing to lose. Over the years, state lawmakers have stripped away school funding as well as the wages, pensions, workplace rights and health benefits of public school educators. They have had enough — and thanks to the unions and ...

Welcome to a holiday edition of The Uprising, your weekly dose of Rhode Island-y social, economic and climate justice news. The Holiday? Avengers: Infinity War is opening. Hey! Don't judge me. Let's do this thing: 1a. Is Mattiello a smaller, local Nixon? Rhode Island Speaker of the House Nicholas ...

Mr. Ortega's brother died fighting in this town, and an old national guard post still stands as a landmark to the uprising that brought their leftist guerrilla movement to power. But in recent days, the guard post has been turned into a charred, vandalized mess. Protesters have even taken a famous war slogan ...

The way the Ramaphosa-led government addresses the current uprising in North West goes to the core of restoring democracy, legality and regularisation of state actions, after the Zuma period. The violence in North West is a sign of the alienation of people from government. Unless state officials and the ...

Whether the school bus drivers can succeed in winning their demands and maintaining broad popular support remains to be seen, but the protest provides an important test case on whether these teacher movements will lead to a broader working-class uprising or stay limited to organizing among a ...

Like the participants in other teacher uprisings, Arizona's teachers will likely prove to be bridge builders rather than a wall builder. As a new report from the Schott Foundation for Public Education explains, the Arizona teacher uprising is yet another example of a powerful new wave of community-labor ...

Spoilers for the Westworld Season 2 premiere. Just when things were going so well for Dolores… The Westworld Season 2 premiere shows the newly self-aware host leading the park's artificial inhabitants in a bloody uprising against their human overlords, literally gunning down Delos board members from ...

The red-state school uprising is spreading to educators around the country, with teachers in Colorado and Arizona now planning walkouts to demand better treatment from state and county governments. But the widespread public support that has helped carry the teachers to victories so far has been less ...

Debuting in cinema's last March, the sequel to Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim is hitting Blu-ray this June. Ready to get robotic and uprise? The second Pacific Rim is uprising on you Blu-ray collection… DVDActive is reporting a rebellion is coming to home video. After hitting theaters less than ...

Sunday's riot at the maximum-security prison in Bishopville exposed gaps in the corrections system's ability to respond to and quell mass uprisings in rural facilities where staffing is thin and help is often an hour or more away. It will likely be a key topic of inquiry when an independent panel of prison experts ...

As much as we covered the film, I didn't see the new Pacific Rim movie in theaters. I figured I'd just hold out for the Blu-ray. And if you're like me, then today we have some good news. Steven S. DeKnight's Pacific Rim Uprising arrives on Digital and the all-new digital movie app Movies Anywhere June 5th, ...

Though the two uprisings were not planned by the same group of conspirators, they were connected—and both represent the wave of hope and resistance that spread through occupied Poland during the height of the Holocaust. Located just 50 miles northeast of Warsaw, Treblinka had been in operation ...

The Overwatch Uprising event began in April and the event featured new skins, emotes, and sprays all based on the events that occurred in the past at King's Row. The event featured a new gameplay mode that re-lived Tracer's first mission. The horde style mission involved a team of Overwatch pros ...

Steven S. DeKnight has cause to celebrate. His new film, Pacific Rim: Uprising, unseated Black Panther from the top of the box office this past weekend with over $28 million domestically and $150 million globally. This was DeKnight's first feature film, as his backround is primarily in running television shows ...

Nearly 150 women descended on the bicycle-loving town of Bentonville in northwest Arkansas last week to talk trails, communities and being a champion for both at IMBA's first-ever UPRISING event, a conference created by and for women mountain bikers. We recognized that there are a lot of women ...

Sometimes on Heroes Never Die, we come together to speculate on Overwatch's story, characters and direction. Other times, one of us gets very confused about a particular event. This piece is one of the later. It's almost that time of year again, the time when everyone was like “what spring holiday will we ...

“Pacific Rim: Uprising” is a disappointing and uninspired sequel to the loads-of-fun original. Where the first “Pacific Rim” was popcorn-fueled escapism with the right amount of corn but the care and craft of a master filmmaker, “Uprising” seems to be an attempt to turn it into direct competition to the terrible ...

“Pacific Rim: Uprising” debuted on top of the South Korean box office. Opening on Wednesday, the UPI release earned $6.38 million from 858,000 admissions over five days. That is lower than the $11.2 million of the first “Pacific Rim” series. Taking up some 1,143 screens nationwide, “Uprising” accounted ...

Five years ago, Guillermo del Toro gave the world Pacific Rim, a massive spectacle of a film that pitted giant robots piloted by telepathically linked soldiers against equally giant monsters, with the fate of humanity at stake. It was a film borne of the mind of a talented filmmaker who was given a blank check to ...

This weekend marks the release of the much-anticipated sequel to Pacific Rim with Pacific Rim Uprising, and what better way to celebrate than a cool retro trailer? Below you will find a parody trailer via Nerdist that gives the new film a 1970s Japanese Tokusatsu twist combining elements of classics such as ...

Pacific Rim Uprising is the sequel to 2013's smash hit Pacific Rim, in which humanity united to create Jaegers (giant human-operated armoured robot machines, or mechas) to fight Kaiju (giant alien monsters, which rose from the ocean). While the first movie ended with humanity destroying the Breach - an ...

Welcome to The Uprising! Ready, set, go! 1. Representative Shelby Maldonado (Democrat, District 56, Central Falls) has introduced legislation, with bipartisan support, that will “continue the status quo relating to operator's and chauffeur's licenses and limited work authorization to approved recipients under ...

Not So Brief Plot Synopsis: Jake Pentecost (John Boyega) isn't exactly a chip off the old block. While dad Stacker was the hero who canceled the Apocalypse (and had a cooler name), Jake sells forbidden tech to fund his degenerate lifestyle. It's during a trip to acquire said materiel that he runs afoul of 1) ...

1968, a year of uprisings and dashed hopes. By AFP March 22, 2018 | 10:15 am GMT+7. 1968, a year of uprisings and dashed hopes. Visitors offer flowers at a war memorial dedicated to the victims of the My Lai massacre in the village of Son My during a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the massacre on March ...

A sequel to 2013's Pacific Rim, in order to fight monsters, monster robotic machines were built to deal with the destructive Kaijus that wreaked havoc on various world cities. The unexpected return of the Kaijus from an inter-dimensional wormhole on the ocean floor by an organisation seeking to harness the ...

Squeezing every last frame out of your GPU is a time-honoured tradition in PC gaming, and competitive players in particular have incentives to reach well beyond 30 or even 60fps. But the hardware required to push those frame rates is expensive, and not everybody can afford a monster rig. One Overwatch ...

That certainly holds true for Pacific Rim: Uprising, the slick, upbeat sequel to Guillermo del Toro's giant-monster movie Pacific Rim. The 2013 film had a lot of heavy lifting to do, as it established a version of Earth beset by immense, other-dimensional monsters called kaiju, and explained humanity's effort to ...

The history department hosts Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Heather Thompson as the featured speaker at this year's History Weekend, April 13-14. Thompson, a history professor at the University of Michigan, is author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. Her talk,“The ...

This narration comes courtesy of John Boyega's Jake Pentecost, the “Star Wars” actor taking over lead duties from Charlie Hunnam, whose Raleigh Becket is referenced at one point but is nowhere to be seen in “Uprising.” Jake is the son of General Stacker Pentecost, Idris Elba's character who sacrificed ...

After Guillermo del Toro's Best Director win at the Oscars, fans of The Shape of Water may be tempted to revisit some of the filmmaker's earlier work, like the Godzilla riff Pacific Rim. Some, tantalized by that film's rock-'em-sock-'em action and wild-eyed glee at bringing huge monsters and robots to ...

Yet the Columbia uprising was something new: students at a privileged, Ivy League university taking the college dean hostage and occupying the president's office and four other campus buildings for a week, until the administration called in the police to arrest more than 700 of them in a nighttime “bust” that ...