(2022-06-07). Renters also facing sticker shock. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – Gas stations, grocery stores and car dealers are not the only places people are facing sticker shock, as anyone looking to rent can tell you. Prices to rent an apartment are up around 20% over the last year. | While it is true that the biggest rent increases are for new tenants, and most tenants don't face such large increases, the burden of rising rents is the single biggest factor in the 40-year high inflation rate cutting working people's purchasing power. Almost one-fifth of inflation comes from rent increases, more than the more widely mentioned gasoline or cars. | Working-class and oppressed…
(2022-06-07). Spin-controlling materials team win prestigious Horizon Prize. imperial.ac.uk An international team of scientists working on chiral materials have won the Royal Society of Chemistry's Materials Chemistry Division Horizon Prize.
(2022-06-07). Sunday 6/19: Dangerous Truths 5: Native America And Manifest Destiny. indybay.org On Zoom | zoom.us/j/98671226456?pwd=amp3eTFxcU42UzNlK3hQWWhORHVPQT09 | Meeting ID: 986 7122 6456 | Passcode: 275953 | One tap mobile | +16699006833,,98671226456# US (San Jose) | Dial by your location | +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)…
(2022-06-06). Eni and Repsol to Start Exporting Venezuelan Oil to Europe. orinocotribune.com The United States issued licenses for oil companies to operate in Venezuela. | The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, highlighted the "slight but significant steps" that the United States took by "providing licenses" to oil companies to operate in the South American country, as part of the economic sanctions relief announced by Washington after the beginning of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. | Italian oil company Eni and Spanish Repsol could start shipping Venezuelan oil to Europe as soon as next month to offset Russian crude, resuming oil-for-debt swaps that halted more than two years ago when W…
(2022-06-06). Is US/NATO (with WEF help) pushing for a Global South famine? thesaker.is By Michael Hudson and posted with the author's permission Is the proxy war in Ukraine turning out to be only a lead-up to something larger, involving world famine and a…
(2022-06-06). War in Ukraine causing surge in poverty in Colombia: UN. colombiareports.com Russia's invasion of Ukraine is triggering an increase in poverty in Colombia and the rest of Latin America, according to the United Nations (UN). In a report, the UN's Economic…
(2022-06-06). Australian Rich List reveals accelerating wealth. wsws.org Australia's richest added $75 billion to their fortunes last year, while workers face soaring living costs and lower real wages.
(2022-06-06). Walk For Appalachia's Future Connects Struggles In The Region. popularresistance.org Activists just completed the "Walk for Appalachia's Future" through West Virginia, North Carolina and Virginia to highlight the impacts of fossil fuel extraction on communities and the land. At each stop, they held events with local activists to learn about their struggles and make broader connections. The Appalachian region is a sacrifice zone – rich in mineral wealth that is extracted by large corporations without benefit to the people. West Virginia is the fifth poorest state in the US with low education attainment and high rates of physical and mental diseases. Clearing the FOG speaks with two organizers of t…
(2022-06-06). Canadian restaurant worker speaks to the Global Workers Inquest. wsws.org Robin, a restaurant worker from Vancouver, recently spoke to the Global Workers Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic about dangerous working conditions in the hospitality sector and his experience with being twice infected by COVID-19.
(2022-06-06). Expand the Newark, New Jersey health care workers' strike! wsws.org The workers at Saint Michael's Medical Center cannot win their demands without appealing to other workers in a fight against not only Prime Healthcare, but also the entire profit-based health system.
(2022-06-06). Expand the Newark, New Jersey, health care workers' strike! wsws.org The workers at Saint Michael's Medical Center cannot win their demands without appealing to other workers in a fight against not only Prime Healthcare, but also the entire profit-based health system.
(2022-06-06). Eni and Repsol to Receive Oil-for-Debt Licenses, Venezuela Welcomes 'Small Steps'. venezuelanalysis.com President Nicolás Maduro stated that recent concessions to oil companies represent "small but significant steps" towards sanctions relief.
(2022-06-06). Kroger workers in central Indiana vote down UFCW sellout agreement. wsws.org Workers at Kroger stores in central Indiana voted down a company-friendly tentative agreement negotiated by the UFCW which included poverty wage "increases" that fall far below the rate of inflation.
(2022-06-06). Koffee Klatch Against Cold Hearts at City Hall. indybay.org HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) wants to encourage those outside and their supporters to provide a true narrative that exposes the unjustified and exaggerated claims of City officials led by City Manager Matt Huffaker, With help from Food Not Bombs and other good samaritans, we'll be providing coffee and sweet rolls in the morning for 3-days next week (June 6-8) and perhaps beyond..
(2022-06-06). If Corinthian Student Debt Can Be Wiped Out—All of It Can. zcomm.org Backed by the Department of Education, it has pushed millions of us into a debt trap while Wall Street profited…
(2022-06-06). Seattle City Council Passes US's First Minimum Wage Guarantee for Gig Workers. zcomm.org "There is really strong overall consensus among workers and the public at large that people should be taking home the minimum wage after expenses from their work"
(2022-06-06). Cepal alerta por aumento de pobreza en la región para el 2022. telesurtv.net Según el ente económico la incidencia de la pobreza regional alcanzaría un 33,7 por ciento, lo que representaría 1.6 puntos porcentuales superior al proyectado para el 2021.
(2022-06-06). Emptying the Navy's Red Hill Jet Fuel Tanks in Honolulu Should Take 27 Days—Not Two Years. commondreams.org With trucks working this schedule (with 3 union drivers working 8-hour shifts) of moving 3,7 ,000 gallons per day, it would take 27 days to drain the 100 million gallons from Red Hill tanks.
(2022-06-06). Collapse of the Us Dollar. transcend.org 1 Jun 2022 – Two years ago I wrote that the dollar would lose its global role and be devalued. Reasons: the bloated military budget and national debt to pay for it, the blow-back effect of U.S. sanctions on other countries, and the reaction of countries such as Russia, China, Turkey and India to trade their dollars for gold. According to Zero Hedge, this trend has intensified.
(2022-06-06). TMS has budget for one more month only. Please pitch in to avoid TMS bankruptcy. transcend.org The TRANSCEND Media Service team is about to start PAYING TO WORK. With TMS funds depleted, we must pay the bills from our own pockets. It is discouraging after 24 years of making a difference. As donations dwindle, it gets harder to keep up the struggle. Please do your part. Today. Thank you.
(2022-06-06). The Richest 1% Pollute More than the Poorest %. transcend.org As an introduction to the World Environment Day on 5 June, this report deals with how the excesses of the world's population, mostly in the wealthiest countries, are causing so much harm to Planet Earth.
(2022-06-06). Iran, Iraq officials discuss enhancing coop. in banking field. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA) — Governor of Iraq's Central Bank held talks with Iranian Ambassador to Baghdad on Monday to discuss various issues including banking cooperation and also paying back Iraq's debt for gas imports.
(2022-06-05). Where is the war in Ukraine going? How should the peace movement respond? iacenter.org For antiwar, anti-racist and working-class activists, a May 23 webinar on the role of the U.S., NATO and Ukrainian neo-Nazis in provoking and prolonging the war in Ukraine provides an antidote to the poisonous propaganda in the U.S. corporate media. Credit: UNAC Those who missed the webinar live can catch it by visiting the home page of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) at unacpeace.org. Hundreds of people are viewing it daily, and millions could learn from it. The webinar's strength was that the speakers were not only knowledgeable, articulate and convincing, they covered the questions from diverse an…
(2022-06-05). Getting Formula Was a Strain for Many Low-Income Families Before Shortages. truthout.org Miracle Abbott became pregnant during her junior year at the University of South Carolina Upstate. | She worked a low-wage job and had mounting student debt, so the then-19-year-old turned to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, known as WIC, to get infant formula and food. But after she gave birth, her baby had colic and painful reflux and her pediatrician recommended a special formula not available through the program. | It took four months, three pediatrician appointments, and two meetings at her local WIC office before the program provided her with formula that worked f…
(2022-06-05). We Need a Strong "Wealth Squad" to Counter the Endless Defenses of the Megarich. commondreams.org As U.S. billionaires got richer and their wealth defense tactics proliferated, audit rates sharply declined. Funding the IRS' wealth squad would help ensure the nation's richest pay their fair share of taxes.
(2022-06-05). Kurdish SDF Wants to Work With Syrian Govt to Resist Turkish Invasion. news.antiwar.com Kurdish SDF Wants to Work With Syrian Govt to Resist Turkish Invasion | SDF would like Syria to use air defense on Turkish planes…
(2022-06-05). Let Them Eat (Jubilee) Cake. popularresistance.org When Marie Antoinette discovered her subjects were facing a bread shortage and starvation in around 1789, due to multiple poor crop harvests and rodent infestations, she apparently exclaimed 'let them eat cake!' Her hereditary privilege meant she had no grasp of the severity of their suffering, or the fact that cake was much more expensive than bread to produce. | Inequality during this period, immediately before the French revolution, was very high. Historians have estimated that around 90 per cent of working-class families lived at or below subsistence level, meaning they could only afford bare necessities. Mar…
(2022-06-05). UK: Workers speak to the World Socialist Web Site at Sheffield Arbourthorne food bank. wsws.org Arbourthorne is a working-class district of a city formerly associated with the steel, engineering and mining industries, where 44 percent of children are officially living in poverty.
(2022-06-05). City of Santa Cruz Vehicles Torched in Opposition to Homeless Sweeps. indybay.org Multiple city vehicles were set on fire and destroyed at a maintenance yard at Harvey West Park in Santa Cruz on June 2. Graffiti left at the scene read, "Leave Homeless Alone!!" and "Stop Sweeping!"
(2022-06-05). Many Europeans to face poverty due to anti-Russian sanctions. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 05 (MNA) — People of Europe face inflation and degradation of quality of life because of the anti-Russian sanctions, and many will face poverty because of these sanctions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.