(2022-08-14). Saturday 9/10: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Beyond Money – A Postcapitalist Strategy. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite.
(2022-08-14). Nowhere Land: The Magical Thinking of Santa Cruz Officials. indybay.org "The staff at the Armory treated me so badly I climbed on the van with my walker and bags and moved to the bushes near the Benchlands," explained a recently widowed woman in her 70s at the Union of the Homeless meeting this week. She was one of more than twenty Benchland residents who came to discuss the closing of camp.
(2022-08-14). China sets world record in steady high magnetic field research. ecns.cn Chinese scientists on Friday produced a steady field of 45.22 Tesla, the highest steady magnetic field by a working magnet in the world, according to Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
(2022-08-13). Intense Debate in Venezuela About Wages and National Budget Office Decisions. orinocotribune.com 
A diversity of voices demand greater clarity about the "ONAPRE instructions." | The substantial, expected, necessary and celebrated salary increase of March was followed, as appropriate, by the adaptation process according to collective agreements, tables, tabulators, rankings and scales of the different institutions, entities and agencies of the national public administration. | Through the Special Official Gazette No. 6,691 of March 15, 2022, the two presidential decrees that increased the mandatory monthly minimum wage, as well as the amounts of retirement benefits, pensions and the socialist basket ticket, we…
(2022-08-13). The Phoney Nitrogen Crisis: The Netherlands Is Ground Zero for Global Famine Agenda. Precipitating "30,000 Farmers Out of Business" globalresearch.ca
(2022-08-13). WAFA: "Palestinian detainee Khalil Awawdeh remains on hunger strike for 153 days" imemc.org 
RAMALLAH, Saturday, August 13, 2022 (WAFA) — Despite his critical health condition, Palestinian detainee Khalil Awawdeh, 40, has been on hunger strike for 153 days in protest of his prolonged administrative detention without charge or trial by the Israeli occupation authorities. Awawdeh, from the town of Idna in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, …
(2022-08-13). [World Report] Turkish doctors emigrate amid low pay and rising violence. thelancet.com The number of physicians leaving Tàºrkiye has surged in the past decade over concerns about working conditions. Kaya Genc reports from Istanbul.
(2022-08-13). [Perspectives] The power of Jatra. thelancet.com The thought of the difficult working conditions in many factories in the Bengal region brings to mind Taslima Akhter's heartbreaking photograph of two dead workers, holding each other in the rubble after the collapse of the Rana Plaza, a building that housed garment factories in Savar, Bangladesh, on April 24, 2013. Cracks that had appeared in the walls of the building before the industrial accident were ignored by the owners and the collapse resulted in the death of more than 1130 people. Different cracks and factory conditions feature in Sonali Bhattacharyya's play Chasing Hares, at the Young Vic in London, UK.
(2022-08-13). [Perspectives] Poornima Prabhakaran: advocate for health in a changing climate. thelancet.com Poornima Prabhakaran, Head of Environmental Health and Deputy Director of the Public Health Foundation of India's Centre for Environmental Health, grew up in Bangalore and followed in the footsteps of her physician father. After her medical degree at Bangalore Medical College, she moved to New Delhi, where she worked as a Senior Medical Officer, before her "first foray into research" in the Department of Endocrinology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. She began thinking of working in preventive and social medicine, "but I was never convinced", she recalls, until "I got really interested in epidemiol…
(2022-08-12). 25 days on strike at Starbucks: Interview with worker and organizer Spencer Costigan. peoplesworld.org 
Spencer Costigan is a worker and a union organizer at the Starbucks store at 874 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. The workers there have been on strike for nearly a month, pushed to the picket line by the company's rollout of a divisive unequal employee benefits plan aimed at curbing support for the union and by …