Empowering or insulting? Unpacking Adidas' titillating new ad

Protesters sympathetic to the Freedom Convoy continue their blockade of Ambassador Bridge. When functional, it is used in a third of all trade between the US and Canada and sees the international transport of freight worth hundreds of millions of dollars each day. But the Freedom Convoy’s blockade, meant to call attention to their demand for onerous COVID-19 regulations to come to an end. Meanwhile, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) agents have joined Ottawa’s police force ahead of plans to further intensify efforts to disperse the protesters gathered near Parliament Hill in Canada’s capital.

From Canberra, Australia to New York City to France to Wellington, New Zealand, protests have broken out around the world to show solidarity with Canadian truckers calling for an end to their respective governments’ mask and vaccine mandates as they continue the fight against COVID-19.

Plus, Dominick Izzo and attorney Reese Everson of the BLUSH Project to weigh in on the marketing campaign for Adidas sports bra, which involved still images of the nude breasts of countless women. Is it empowering to women, as Adidas claims, or is it insulting to them, as some of its critics allege? And whatever happened to modesty?

And they also discuss criticism of artist Adele who said 'she loves being a woman' in her acceptance speech at the BRIT awards. The off-the-cuff gesture has people labeling her a “TERF” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) and a transphobic bigot despite the lack of political intent in her speech.

RT America’s Natasha Sweatte reports on the issue of uncontrolled fires sparked in homeless camps and the danger they pose to housed and unhoused people alike. She also looks at California's new budget proposal to ameliorate the plight of the homeless and whether it's working. Attorney and GOP congressional candidate Ronda Kennedy shares her insights.


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