14 January 2019
Thousands of Portuguese workers continue striking into the new year, protesting low wages and poor working conditions. The strike actions are the continuation of a wave of vindications during 2018, when over 600 stoppages were recorded doubling the work actions in 2017. According to Jornal Económico, the “increasing social unrest” that marked 2018 will continue […]
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15 December 2018
Portugal is facing a wave of civil unrest over the holidays with about 50 strike warnings being issued by workers, most of them civil workers, demanding higher wages and better working conditions. Protests and strike actions are being organized mostly on social media, outside the control of workers’ unions, which could result in social turmoil […]
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05 December 2018
By Millicent Borges Accardi With heritage in Madeira, the writer Amy Sayre Baptista’s work has appeared in The Best Small Fictions (2017), Ninth Letter, The Butter, Alaska Quarterly Review, and other journals. Her flash fiction chapbook “Primitivity,” winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition, spring 2017 is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press this fall. She has […]
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03 December 2018
Portugal was voted ‘World’s Leading Destination’, for the second consecutive year,at the World Travel Awards Grand Final Gala Ceremony 2018 held in Lisbon In a statement, the Secretary of State for Tourism, Ana Mendes Godinho, said it was “extremely proud to receive this distinction again.” At the awards ceremony, which took place for the first […]
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29 November 2018
U.S. Congressman David Goncalves Valadao (R-CA), was defeated by Democrat TJ Cox for the California’s 21st Congressional District seat, after the Cox campaign declared victory on Wednesday. The 21st Congressional District was the last contested Congressional race in the November 6, 2018, mid-term elections. TJ Cox has substantially outperformed Rep. Valadao by securing over 60 […]
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27 November 2018
The Dr. Edward Leitão Memorial Scholarship Fund is now accepting applications for scholarships from Portuguese-American medical students, as well as college and high-school students interested in pursuing medicine or other health careers, following the fund’s goal of filling the need among the community for Portuguese-speaking medical professionals. This is the 3rd year that the scholarships […]
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