Daily Archives: September 21, 2022

2022-09-21: News Headlines

Editor (2022-09-21). Busing migrants, targeting socialism. workers.org Playing with human lives in a despicable political stunt, Greg Abbott, right-wing governor of Texas, has bused thousands of undocumented migrants north from the U.S. border with Mexico since the beginning of August. The buses dump homeless, jobless, hungry people — far from their own countries, with few to . . . |

WSWS (2022-09-21). Podemos backs Madrid's commitment to NATO war on Russia. wsws.org Podemos' aggressive support for NATO's war in Ukraine against Russia, amid mounting working class anger at inflation and war, exposes it as a reactionary petty-bourgeois militarist party.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-21). Barbara Lee & "Pete" Get An Earful In Oakland Over Tax Dollars For A's Owner John Fisher. indybay.org Congresswoman Barbara Lee, US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff joined together to talk about Federal funding for Oakland projects. Barbara Lee and "Pete" refused to say whether they supported Federal funds going to the GAP A's billionaire owner John Fisher's proposed new A' stadium on Port of Oakland public land at Howard Terminal. "Pete" also refused to say whether this project would harm the Port of Oakland as a working port.

Staff (2022-09-21). Free Hafez Huraini! Call on Canadian diplomats to demand release of imprisoned Palestinian land defender. samidoun.net On 12 September 2022, Hafez Huraini, along with one other local resident of the small Palestinian village of Atuwani and one international, were attacked by armed Israeli settlers while working in the community garden. During the attack, Hafez sustained multiple fractures to his arms and hands. Despite his severe injuries, he was seized and detained …

WSWS (2022-09-21). Demand immediate strike action at Michigan Medicine. wsws.org The rally and protest at the University of Michigan Board of Regents meeting on Thursday is the latest diversion by the MNA-UMPNC aimed at preventing Michigan Medicine nurses from uniting with other sections of the working class to fight intolerable conditions at the hospital in Ann Arbor.

WSWS (2022-09-21). The White House intervention to block rail strike and the political issues confronting railroad workers. wsws.org When a movement of the working class gets underway, there will be Hell to pay, and the sweep of that movement could assume revolutionary dimensions. With the help of the unions, they are determined to prevent, or at least to delay, this as long as possible.

WSWS (2022-09-21). Unions sabotage struggle against 3,600 layoffs at Mercedes in Brazil. wsws.org Silva's statements that one must accept the massive layoffs or face "the worst" show that the union is working with the company to suppress opposition.

Chris Hedges (2022-09-20). Chris Hedges: Strike, Strike, Strike. mintpressnews.com The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down — strikes.

Ahmed Al-Sammak, Aya Emad (2022-09-20). Suicide in Gaza: "A message of anger" electronicintifada.net Poverty, unemployment and hopelessness are some of the reasons why Palestinians in Gaza are dying by suicide.

WSWS (2022-09-20). African countries face double whammy of debt crisis and food crisis. wsws.org The World Bank has warned that the number of Africans living in extreme poverty is set to rise from 424 million before the pandemic in 2019 to 463 million this year, more than one third of the continent's 1.2 billion population.

TeleSUR (2022-09-20). Argentina's President: Pandemic Highlights World's Inequalities. telesurenglish.net The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, warned on Tuesday at the United Nations that the covid-19 pandemic exacerbated the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest countries. | President of the Argentine Republic, Alberto Fernandez delivers his address during the 77th General Debate inside the General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters in New York, New York, USA, 20 September 2022.

Deweylaura (2022-09-20). Latino working-class voters are key. cpusa.org This November, the extreme right aims to win control of the Senate and House of Representatives and retain and augment control of key state and local posts. To defeat the Trump/MAGA-dominated Republican Party, mobilizing the greatest turnout of voters possible is imperative. This will require ideological, strategic, and tactical awareness and preparation. A large …

Staff (2022-09-20). Palestinian Authority abducts resistance strugglers in Nablus: Rising confrontation challenges security coordination. samidoun.net In the early morning hours of Tuesday, 20 September, Palestinian Authority "security" forces — working in line with the policy of "security coordination" with the Israeli occupation abducted two Palestinian strugglers, both labeled as "wanted" by the occupation forces, Musab Shtayyeh and Amid Tabileh, in occupied Nablus. As the Palestinian people rose up to …

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-20). As African Countries Kick off Local Energy Projects, West Rolls Out Climate Agenda-Based Opposition. orinocotribune.com By Olga Borodkina Sep 17, 2022 | While many countries in Africa are experiencing energy poverty, suffering from electricity cuts, and are working on regional energy projects, the West appears to be skeptical of African nations' strive for self-sufficiency in this area. | The Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) project, an initiative of Nigeria and Morocco that was initially proposed in December 2016, officially kicked off with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Nigeria, Morocco, and the Economic Community of West African States on Thursday in Rabat. | "Once completed, the project wil…

Brett Wilkins (2022-09-20). Number of Ultrarich Hits All-Time High as Someone Dies From Hunger Every 4 Seconds. commondreams.org "Those with the power and money to change this must come together to better respond to current crises and prevent and prepare for future ones," a coalition of charities asserted.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-20). US Rail Workers Fed Up & On Verge Of National Strike Over Working Conditions, Health/Safety. indybay.org Gabe Christenson a conductor and Co-chair of Railroad Workers United RWU is interviewed about the conditions and health and safety for railroad workers.

Aram Aharonian (2022-09-20). América Latina Progresismo, aprender a desaprender. globalizacion.ca Vivimos una crisis de ideas, olvidando que es el pueblo la figura cultural de cualquier cambio, que se deber partir de considerar al pueblo —a los pobres- como sujetos de una política progresista, y no como meros objetos de la…

Derrick Crowe (2022-09-19). People's Action Announces People's Slate, Endorsing 113 Candidates for 2022. peoplesaction.org WASHINGTON, D.C.—People's Action today announced its People's Slate—a list of 113 local, county, state, and federal candidates endorsed by the organization for the 2022 general election. The endorsements are part of People's Action's strategy to build people power and elect movement champions who will co-govern with our working-class members. These candidates run movement politics, people-powered …

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