2022-09-23: News Headlines

____ (2022-09-23). Xi extends greetings ahead of farmers' harvest festival. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has extended festive greetings and sincere regards on behalf of the CPC Central Committee to farmers and people working on agricultural and rural fronts ahead of the fifth Chinese farmers' harvest festival.

WSWS (2022-09-23). Sri Lankan workers and youth support SEP public meeting opposing state repression. wsws.org "This repression is just a rehearsal because the government knows the working class will stand up against its austerity policies even more widely in the future"—Gampola hospital worker.

Toward increased Networking (2022-09-23). Online events w) Nikole Hannah-Jones, Silvia Federici, Chris Smalls, Timothy Snyder, etc. indybay.org Here are about 8 online events taking place over the next week (and starting at 11 am today, 9/21), featuring people such as Nikole Hannah-Jones, Silvia Federici, Gregg Castro, Lazzuly Mello, Chris Smalls, Michelle Eisen, Heather McGhee, Nancy Fraser, Timothy Snyder and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.

A Guest Author (2022-09-23). Boston Marches for Indigenous Peoples Day. workers.org By K. James Protesters will march through the streets of Boston on Oct. 8 to demand that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day (IPD) instead of Columbus Day. For decades, Indigenous peoples in the United States have been demanding an end to the public celebration of Christopher Columbus, . . . |

Staff (2022-09-23). Epidemiological situation continues to be marked by dengue. en.cubadebate.cu Dengue continues to be the most complex hygienic-sanitary situation that we have today in the country, it was reiterated at this Wednesday's meeting of the Government's temporary working group for the prevention and control of covid-19. The exchange was led by the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and president of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and the prime minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz, a member of the Political Bureau. The head of the Ministry of Public Health, José àÅngel Portal Miranda, reported that there is dengue transmission in the 15 provinces and the Isle of Youth.

Santa Cruz Homeless Union (2022-09-23). Friday 9/23: Benchlands Meeting. indybay.org Benchlands, San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz…

WSWS (2022-09-22). America's "New World Order"— The historical and social roots of US plans for war with Russia and China. wsws.org The following is a report given by Andre Damon to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled "Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!"

Staff (2022-09-22). Pope Francis: Humanity is globalized, but poverty, injustice and inequality remain. en.cubadebate.cu The great recession of 2007, public debt, covid, the Ukraine war, global threats. And meanwhile: "cruel" conflicts throughout the world, the explosion of migrations, climate change, endemic poverty because, during these years, "while some men and women improved their daily lives, another part suffered unscrupulous elections, becoming the main victims of a kind of counter-development". It is a stark analysis, as stark as the reality that the world has been forced to face in the last fifteen years, that of Pope Francis in his speech to Deloitte Global.

_____ (2022-09-22). Biden's Afghan Shell Game Prompts Media Shrugs And Stenography. popularresistance.org More than a year after it froze $7 billion of Afghanistan's central bank reserves in the wake of the Taliban's military victory, the US has announced it will use half the money to establish a fund at a Swiss bank to help stabilize the cratering Afghan economy. | President Joe Biden's refusal over the past year to allow the Afghan central bank access to its own reserves has caused an economic crisis that has pushed most of the population into extreme poverty and malnutrition. Moreover, in February, Biden announced that he was reserving half of Afghanistan's money for families of 9/11 victims, sparking internationa…

WSWS (2022-09-22). Top US official visits Sri Lanka to bolster strategic ties. wsws.org Wherever it intervenes, Washington's posturing over "poverty," "human rights," "democracy" and "good governance" is to camouflage its predatory geopolitical interests.

WSWS (2022-09-22). New Zealand ruling elite glorifies British monarchy. wsws.org The endless tributes to the Queen are being used to divert attention from worsening social inequality, the policy of mass COVID infection and New Zealand's integration into imperialist wars.

Editor (2022-09-22). Caitlin Johnstone: America's Perverse Poverty Draft. scheerpost.com

Shailly Gupta Barnes (2022-09-22). Census Data Proves Anti-Poverty Measures Work. otherwords.org The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that poverty dropped notably in 2021. Amid a pandemic and widespread economic pain, this is a significant accomplishment. There are three lessons here — about government programs, about how we measure poverty, and about how far we have left to go. First, these numbers show that government programs work. …

_____ (2022-09-22). Why Aren't Workers At Unions Eligible For Public Service Loan Forgiveness? popularresistance.org In 2007, the Bush-era Congress created the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, also known as 20 USC 1087e (m)(1). The premise of the program was simple: student loan borrowers who made their payments would have any remaining educational debts forgiven after 10 years of public service. | Through PSLF, lawmakers and advocates intended to make public service a viable option for more borrowers, including graduates carrying large student loan balances. Unfortunately, this intention has not been realized for most borrowers or PSLF participants. Rife with exclusions and plagued by a history of poor communica…

WSWS (2022-09-22). The Forgiven: The accidental death of "a nobody" wsws.org The 2021 film concerns the consequences of a wealthy couple, on the verge of divorce, accidentally hitting and killing a young boy, while driving to a party in the Moroccan desert.

Staff (2022-09-22). New York: Prosecutor sues Trump and three of his children for more than 200 cases of fraud. en.cubadebate.cu The 214-page lawsuit is the culmination of a three-year investigation showing that Donald Trump and his children Ivanka, Eric and Donald Trump Jr., as well as Trump Organization executives Allen Weisselberg and Jeffrey McConney, allegedly used the image of wealth and opulence of the former president to make him look like a great businessman who earned millions of dollars when he was a television presenter, as well as during his presidency. James announced the details of the lawsuit at a news conference, where she said the case was civil, not criminal.

Staff (2022-09-22). Papa Francisco: La humanidad está globalizada, pero la pobreza, la injusticia y la desigualdad permanecen. cubadebate.cu "La humanidad está globalizada e interconectada, pero la pobreza, la injusticia y la desigualdad permanecen", comenzó el pontífice en su discurso. "En la actualidad, el mundo sufre un empeoramiento de las condiciones medioambientales; muchas poblaciones o grupos sociales viven de forma indigna en términos de alimentación, salud, educación y otros derechos básicos".

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.

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-09-21). Backed By Bloomberg, Former National Security Agency (NSA) Official To Lead Data Research Center On Black Wealth. moguldom.com National Security Agency (NSA) veteran Natalie Evans Harris has been tapped to lead Bloomberg Philanthropies' new Black Wealth Data Center (BWDC). The center's launch was announced on Thursday, Sept. 15, from its official Twitter account. "We are the Black Wealth Data Center, a go-to resource for wealth equity data that public and private sector leaders can …

_____ (2022-09-21). Detroiters Say 'Hell No!' to DTE's Proposed Electricity Rate Hike. popularresistance.org Recurring power outages have become a fact of life in Detroit and Southeast Michigan. The most recent mass outage left hundreds of thousands in Metro Detroit without power following a brief windstorm on August 29th. Four days on, tens of thousands were still unable to run their medical devices and prevent their food from spoiling. With outages becoming more severe and more frequent as the climate crisis worsens, profit-driven utilities want to take more out of the pockets of working people struggling to afford their unreliable energy service. | Even before the most recent outages, the frustration in Detroit and s…

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