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Monday Motivation: Stay True, Stay Strong

Here is something to stay positive and remind yourself that life well-lived is a success by itself.– Wayfarer I want you to hear some truth today. You are doing a good job. Yes, maybe it’s not perfect, but here you are still fighting, still believing, still giving. And that is something to be proud of. To hold your head high. To not dismiss. To remember. To see. So today, be proud. Have grace for your story. Keep going. — by Ray Russell * * * “There is dignity in all labor” – Martin Luther King

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Biltwell Parts & Labor Custom Motorcycle Expo 2023

by Bandit and Sam Burns The ultimate destination for motorcycle enthusiasts this last weekend Bike builders, bike riders, and bargain hunters went to see cool shit, meet people, and score deals on the best riding gear, parts and accessories available in rain- soaked SoCal. Click Here to view this Photo Feature Article on Bikernet.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Get to your motorcycle event in style – have a look at the leathers and bedrolls at https://5-ballgarage.com/

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Tesla among companies sued for complicity over child labor in Congo

by Matthew Lavietes from https://www.autonews.com NEW YORK — Five of the world’s largest tech companies, including electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc., have been accused of being complicit in the death of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo forced to mine cobalt, a metal used to make telephones and computers, in a landmark lawsuit. The legal complaint on behalf of 14 families from Congo was filed on Sunday by International Rights Advocates, a U.S.-based human rights non-profit, against Tesla, Apple Inc., Google parent Alphabet Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Dell Technologies Inc.. The companies were part of a system of forced labor that the families claimed led to the death and serious injury of their children, it said. It marked the first time the tech industry jointly has faced legal action over the source of its cobalt. Images in the court documents, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, showed children with disfigured or missing limbs. Six of the 14 children in the case were killed in tunnel collapses, and the others suffered life-altering injuries, including paralysis, it said. “These companies — the richest companies in the world, these fancy gadget-making companies — have allowed children to be maimed and killed to get their cheap cobalt,” Terrence Collingsworth, an attorney representing the families, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Cobalt is essential in making rechargeable lithium batteries used in millions of products sold by the tech industry. More than half of the world’s cobalt is produced in Congo. Global demand for the metal is expected to increase at 7 percent to 13 percent annually over the next decade, according to a 2018 study by the European Commission. The lawsuit said the children, some as young as 6 years old, were forced by their families’ extreme poverty to leave school and work in

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