(2022-04-17). Monday 5/16: Gira de movilización de la campaña para los pobres de California – marcha y protesta. indybay.org EN PERSONA: Los Angeles City Hall, 200 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 | EN LÂNEA: www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream/…
(2022-04-17). Chinese mainland reports 3,867 new local COVID-19 cases on Friday. ecns.cn Shanghai officials said at a press conference on Friday that the city adheres to the dynamic zero-COVID strategy and would improve care for homeless people facing difficulties and cooperate with social assistance agencies to keep them safe.
(2022-04-17). Shanghai improves care for those left homeless by virus. ecns.cn Shanghai authorities will improve care for homeless people facing difficulties during the latest COVID-19 outbreak and cooperate with social assistance agencies to keep them safe, officials said at a news briefing on Friday.
(2022-04-17). Egypt Decides to Save Itself from Hunger on its Own. journal-neo.org 
Video reports on national TV channels and the Internet about half-empty supermarket shelves in the US and Western Europe are causing widespread nervousness about the world's food security prospects. Despite warnings from Moscow, no one in Europe took into account that with the introduction of provocative Russophobic sanctions, designed to cripple the Russian economy, essential …
(2022-04-16). Liberal Russophobia And War Propaganda. popularresistance.org The city of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts prohibit discrimination based upon race, color, gender, disability, religion, and national origin. Such discrimination is prohibited by most cities, states, and the federal government as well. But one wouldn't know that due to a plethora of discriminatory acts carried out against Russian nationals. The latest perpetrator is the Boston Athletic Association (BAA) , which announced that citizens of Russia and Belarus who reside in those countries will be barred from participating in the Boston marathon taking place on April 18, 2022. The war in Ukraine, years…
(2022-04-16). [Correspondence] Understanding the social determinants of health — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We thank Priya Vart for the critical reading of our study1 of the association of parental education and global mortality in children younger than 5 years. Our models accounted for study-level controls for the confounding effects of wealth or income, partner's years of schooling, and sex of the child. The key challenge of systematic reviews is that they are limited by the characteristics of the data from published studies, and this constrained our choice of covariates. This constraint brings us to a larger point—namely, in characterising the average effect of published studies, we had to choose an ideal stud…
(2022-04-16). Russia's Sergey Glazyev introduces the new global financial system. mronline.org 
The world's new monetary system, underpinned by a digital currency, will be backed by a basket of new foreign currencies and natural resources. And it will liberate the Global South from both western debt and IMF-induced austerity.
(2022-04-16). Saturday 4/30: Dangerous Truths 3: Frederick Douglass And Other Black Transcendentalists. indybay.org Join us on ZOOM Saturday, April 30 from 1 to 3 PM Pacific Time zoom.us/j/99245067041?pwd=YUFGWE91SXZhUkdpZjNjNFVXVWpCZz09 | Dial by your location (+1 669 900 6833) Meeting ID: 992 4506 7041 Passcode: 460429…
(2022-04-16). Reinstate the fired strikers at Brazil's CSN! Unify the struggles of the working class! wsws.org The WSWS and the Socialist Equality Group in Brazil demand the immediate reinstatement of the rank-and-file commission and all fired workers at CSN.
(2022-04-16). Class struggle and the French elections. iacenter.org By G. Dunkel April 15, 2022 Emmanuel Macron, from the party En Marche, whose job history as a banker primed him for his current role as a bankers' president, came in first in France's presidential vote held April 10 with 27.4%. Macron is a supporter of the European Union, which is basically the organ of the European banks. The far right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen, representing the Rassemblement National, in her third run for president, came in second with 24.1% of the votes cast. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, of the anti-capitalist, working-class party France Insoumise, came in a close third behind Le Pen with 21.5% of t…