Poverty

2022-02-05: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-02-05). Conceptual artist places gold cube in Central Park: Once again charlatanry meets extreme wealth. wsws.org Artnet News announced this week that "An Artist Placed a Cube Made From $11.7 Million Worth of Gold in Central Park—Protected By Its Own Security Detail."

Peoples Health Dispatch (2022-02-05). No pause in health workers' struggles in Nigeria. peoplesdispatch.org As health workers' trade unions in Nigeria call their membership to continue strike action over bad working conditions and missed payments, attempts to limit the space for industrial action persist…

Seth Galinsky (2022-02-05). Join Socialist Workers Party, 'Militant' in campaigning. themilitant.com The international In California the fight for ballot status for SWP candidates Eleanor García for U.S. Senate and Joel Britton for governor is underway. García and Britton explain why working people need ou…

Fight Back (2022-02-05). Chicago protest demands federal charges against killer cop Jason Van Dyke. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – A delegation of activists demanding Justice for Laquan McDonald met with an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago's Federal Building. They presented a letter signed by 38 organizations and unions, as well as five elected officials, demanding federal charges against killer cop Jason Van Dyke. | A statement released before the protest explained, "VanDyke was given a 'slap on the wrist' by the Cook County Criminal Court after being convicted of McDonald's murder and 16 counts of aggravated assault and is being released from prison after less than 3 1/2 years, when Black and brown and other working-class…

WSWS (2022-02-05). Canadian workers need a socialist program to defeat the threat of far-right political violence, end the pandemic and oppose war. wsws.org With the support and encouragement of a significant faction of the ruling class, far-right thugs have besieged Canada's parliament for the past week to demand all COVID-19 public health measures be abolished. These extraordinary events underscore the urgent necessity of the independent political mobilization of the working class.

Udani Samarasekera (2022-02-05). [Perspectives] Ayoade Alakija: advancing equity in the COVID-19 response. thelancet.com Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija is running late for our video call because of back-to-back meetings in Geneva as the newly appointed WHO Special Envoy and Co-Chair of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-Accelerator), a global collaboration to accelerate equitable access to COVID-19 health tools. Her Geneva visit will help her "join the dots to help move us from working in silos to working better collectively to overcome COVID-19", she tells me in between her last meeting and catching a flight back home to Abuja, Nigeria.

WSWS (2022-02-05). With Ôªøre-election of ÔªøMattarella, Italian government will seek to enforce "EU recovery plan" wsws.org The anti-working class offensive of the Draghi government and the rise of the Fratelli d'Italia make clear how urgently necessary an independent working class movement is, a party that resolutely leads the struggle against mass infection, social impoverishment and war.

WSWS (2022-02-05). Bomb threats sent to historically black colleges across the United States. wsws.org The series of threats against historically black colleges and the law-and-order response of authorities follow protests and demonstrations at schools and universities against inequality and the spread of COVID-19.

WSWS (2022-02-05). In New Zealand, rising inflation, inequality intensify social crisis. wsws.org The Labour-Green Party government's pro-business policies, imposed since it assumed office in 2017, have produced an unprecedented explosion in social inequality since the onset of COVID-19.

_____ (2022-02-04). How U.S. Meddling Split Sudan, Creating an Oil Republic Drowning in Poverty and Conflict. strategic-culture.org Following decades of US soft power aid interventions to exploit South Sudan's energy reserves and counter China's influence, the republic is trapped in humanitarian crisis.: | TJ COLES | Like most countries, the Republic of South Sudan is a complex nation of shifting alliances and external influences. | Recently, President Salva Kiir, who sports a Stetson hat

_____ (2022-02-04). New Puerto Rico Debt Plan Is A False 'Solution'. popularresistance.org Activists and Puerto Rican community members protest against Steven Tananbaum, a board member of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), for his involvement in a hedge fund that owns over $2 billion of Puerto Rico's debt, outside of the newly renovated and reopened MOMA in Midtown Manhattan on October 21, 2019, in New York City. Drew Angerer / Getty Images | On January 18, Judge Taylor Swain of New York's Southern District confirmed Puerto Rico's eighth amended Plan of Adjustment (POA), setting into motion the closure of the largest municipal debt restructuring deal in the history of the United States. The POA modifies…

WSWS (2022-02-04). Poorer countries facing sovereign debt crisis. wsws.org One of the most vulnerable countries is Sri Lanka. Rating agency S&P Global warned last month the country faced a possible default this year as it downgraded its sovereign bonds.

_____ (2022-02-04). Argentina To Russia: We Want To End Dependency On US. popularresistance.org The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, today visited the Kremlin and told President Vladimir Putin that his country wants to end "dependency" on the US and strengthen economic ties with Russia instead. | Fernández told Putin "Argentina, in particular, is experiencing a very special situation as a result of its indebtedness and the economic situation that I had to inherit. From the 1990s onwards, Argentina has always looked towards the United States. Now, the Argentinian economy depends a lot on the debt it has with the United States, with the IMF, and the role that the US has within the IMF." | The Presid…

David Sirota (2022-02-04). Biden Withdrawing Student Debt Appeal After Outcry. dailyposter.com

Marilyn Bechtel (2022-02-04). Fast Food Sector Council advances in California, but CalCare health bill on hold. peoplesworld.org SACRAMENTO—Legislation to create a first-in-the-nation Fast Food Sector Council charged with regulating wages, working hours, and conditions affecting over half-a-million California fast food workers passed the state Assembly Jan. 31 and is on its way to the state Senate. The measure, Assembly Bill 257, the Fast Food Accountability and Standards (FAST) Recovery Act, by Assemblymember …

rebekah (2022-02-04). After Amazon Tragedy, Workers Come Together to Demand Safe Working Conditions. inequality.org

Richard Duluth (2022-02-04). Connecticut's Essential Worker Relief Fund a model other governments should follow. peoplesworld.org Connecticut is leading the way in building back better. The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the lives of many working-class families, but some relief is in sight. Recently, the Connecticut General Assembly, with a strong push from organized labor, passed the Connecticut Essential Worker COVID-19 Relief Fund. It' a $34 million program which will allow essential …

WSWS (2022-02-04). An open letter to workers in New Zealand: Join the fight to stop the pandemic and save lives in 2022! wsws.org The Labour Party-led government, backed by the trade unions, insists that schools and businesses must remain open, allowing Omicron to spread. The working class cannot accept this policy of mass infection and death.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-04). Human rights lawyer in Egypt slapped with terrorism charges. peoplesdispatch.org Osama Bayoumi was arbitrarily detained after authorities raided his home in capital Cairo last week on Saturday. He has been working as a defense attorney for several political prisoners in Egypt…

WSWS (2022-02-04). New Dutch government lifts COVID-19 measures as infections skyrocket. wsws.org The reactionary and unscientific policy of the European bourgeoisie is going from "living with Covid" to "working with Covid."

Joris Leverink (2022-02-04). "City on the Second Floor": Clarion call from a poetic craftsman. roarmag.org Police investigate at a homeless people's encampment in Los Angeles, US. September 15, 2022. Credit: Ringo Chiu / Shutterstock | Matt Sedillo's poetry is electric, like a lightning bolt. He is a man on a mission, with a message to spread and fire on the tongue. With the tone and the tenor of a biblical prophet — though one with a profound sense of the farcical, too — he delivers a scathing critique, a desperate denunciation of the patriarchal, white supremacist and capitalist dystopia that we inhabit. His latest book, City on the Second Floor, is a cohesive and compelling compendium of some 32 poems a…

SAM (2022-02-04). A Labor Stunner in Mexico Augurs Greater Equality — on Both Sides of the Border. inequality.org

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2022-02-04: News Headlines

rebekah (2022-02-04). After Amazon Tragedy, Workers Come Together to Demand Safe Working Conditions. inequality.org

Ben Norton (2022-02-03). US-Backed Coup Regimes Trapped Honduras in Unpayable Odious Debt, Warns new President Xiomara Castro. orinocotribune.com By Bejamin Norton — Feb 1, 2022 | At the time of the 2009 US-backed coup, Honduras had $2.48 billion in external debt. Now it has $9.25 billion. New leftist President Xiomara Castro says this odious debt is unpayable. It already eats up 50% of the government budget. | The new leftist administration in Honduras managed to win November 2021 elections in a landslide and defeat an authoritarian coup regime, but now it faces a huge problem that will make it difficult to govern: odious debt. | When a US-sponsored military coup overthrew Honduras' democratically elected left-wing President Manuel Zelaya in 2009, th…

_____ (2022-02-03). How US Meddling Split Sudan. popularresistance.org Like most countries, the Republic of South Sudan is a complex nation of shifting alliances and external influences. | Recently, President Salva Kiir, who sports a Stetson hat gifted him by George W. Bush, signed a peace agreement with old enemies, the Sudan People's Liberation Army-In Opposition. Around the same time, the so-called Embassy Troika consisting of the US, Britain, and Norway facilitated International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs for South Sudan. | When China proposes investment schemes, US politicians call it "debt-trap diplomacy." As has been seen in South Sudan, when Western corporations seek to pl…

sputniknews (2022-02-03). UN Survey: Moscow World's Best City in Terms of Quality of Life, Infrastructure Development. sputniknews.com The City Prosperity Index (CPI) measures different kinds of achievements in a city and identifies its prosperity with success, wealth, thriving conditions, well-being as well as confidence in the future, and opportunities for all.

Patricia Ferrer (2022-02-03). Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Demonstrate Against Argentina's Agreement with IMF. orinocotribune.com The President of the Association of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Hebe de Bonafini, through a letter published this Monday, January 31, expressed the organization's disagreement to the payment of Argentina's external debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). An exorbitant loan was issued by the Washington, DC-based IMF to the Argentine government during the mandate of former neoliberal President Mauricio Macri. The $56.7 billion loan was the largest ever issued to a single country. | The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo organization was formed to struggle against the Argentine dictatorship of 1976 to 1983. Par…

sputniknews (2022-02-03). Argentina President: It's Necessary to End Dependence on US, Develop Cooperation With Russia. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Argentina's large external debt rose largely because of the United States, so Buenos Aires needs to get rid of dependence on Washington and open up new opportunities in cooperation with Russia, President Alberto Fernandez said.

WSWS (2022-02-03). Deepening crisis of American capitalism as national debt hits $30 trillion. wsws.org The endless rise of the national debt, now $7 trillion more than the size of the entire US economy, is the outcome of deeply rooted processes whereby profits are increasingly obtained through stock market and other financial operations.

Joachim Hagopian (2022-02-03). Reaching Covid-19 "Turning Point of Critical Mass": Is Nuremberg 2 Next? London Metropolitan Police Criminal Investigation. globalresearch.ca Not only is Britain's largest police force actively involved in the probe, the Hammersmith Police alongside the ICC are working together in what's being called the world's largest international crime investigation.

WSWS (2022-02-03). US autoworkers support European Ford workers' fight against concessions: "We are all behind you in the United States" wsws.org Ford workers in Europe recently formed a rank-and-file committee to organize against attempts to roll back wages and working conditions.

Fight Back (2022-02-03). Florida: Students demand justice for Aramark Starbucks workers. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On February 2, around 80 Florida State University (FSU) students, representing FSU Against Aramark, FSU Students for a Democratic Society, FSUDems, and JStreet, marched across campus from Strozier Library to Dirac Library protesting Starbucks working conditions and standing in solidarity with Aramark workers on campus. | Aramark, a multibillion-dollar corporation, is known for consistently underpaying its workers at universities around the country. The protest, spearheaded by FSU Against Aramark, was the culmination of a three-day boycott of all campus Starbucks locations. The essence of this s…

Staff (2022-02-03). Jan Egeland on Afghanistan Facing Famine, a Massacre in DR Congo & Civilian Casualties in Syria. democracynow.org The United Nations warns Afghanistan is "hanging by a thread" as millions in the country suffer from hunger and are at risk of freezing to death during the winter as U.S. sanctions have devastated the economy. We get an update on what is now the world's largest humanitarian crisis from Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council. He also discusses how the NRC has condemned the deadly attack on a camp for displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the organization's humanitarian concerns after the U.S. raid in Syria targeting an ISIS leader that reportedly killed at least 13, inc…

G. Dunkel (2022-02-03). Hunger, violence and earthquakes — Haiti's problems intensify. workers.org Former Haitian senator MoàØse Jean Charles, was deported to Haiti from Miami, Jan. 25 The last week of January, two moderately severe earthquakes shook southwest Haiti in the department of Nippes. An official said 191 homes were destroyed, and 591 were damaged. At least two people were killed. Dozens of . . . |

Staff (2022-02-03). FAO Removes Venezuela from List of Hunger Hotspots, Incorporates Colombia. orinocotribune.com The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has excluded Venezuela from its list of countries facing severe food shortages. | In a FAO, in its report, stated that this year in Latin America, Colombia, Haiti and Honduras are in the Agency's list of highest levels of concern; but there is not such a forecast for Venezuela…

Benjamin Norton (2022-02-03). Illegal US blockade against Cuba continues harming millions on 60th anniversary. multipolarista.com February 3, 2022 is the 60th anniversary of the illegal blockade against Cuba, which the US admitted aims "to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government." Cuba estimates the embargo has cost its economy $144.41 billion.

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2022-02-03: News Headlines

_____ (2022-02-02). Central Asia becomes a Platform for Cooperation between Russia, India and China. journal-neo.org Central Asia (CA), due to its geostrategic location at the junction of Europe and Asia, its proximity to the leading international actors such as Russia and China, its wealth of natural resources and its yet-to-be fully exploited trade and economic opportunities, has recently attracted increasing interest from international actors. In order to create a stable …

Jake Johnson (2022-02-02). US Has the Highest COVID Death Rate Among Wealthy Countries. truthout.org A new data analysis out Tuesday demonstrates that Covid-19 is now killing people at a significantly higher rate in the United States than in other rich countries, a grim reality that analysts have attributed to the nation's lagging vaccination campaign and — more broadly — its fragmented for-profit Citing figures from Johns Hopkins University, the World Bank, and the U.S. government,…

_____ (2022-02-02). Biden Moves To Block Student Debt Victory. popularresistance.org Despite increasing pressure to fulfill a campaign promise to forgive student debt, President Joe Biden is now going in the opposite direction: His administration has taken an initial step to try to overturn a key legal victory for borrowers, according to court filings reviewed by The Daily Poster. | If the administration wins an appeal, it could bolster a legal precedent against millions of debtors being crushed by bankruptcy laws that Biden infamously helped his finance industry donors sculpt during his four decades in Washington. | On January 14, a federal judge in Biden's home state of Delaware moved to elimin…

ecns.cn (2022-02-02). U.S. national debt surpasses 30 trln USD as Fed prepares to raise rates. ecns.cn The U.S. national debt has surpassed 30 trillion U.S. dollars for the first time, raising concerns about future fiscal sustainability, as the Federal Reserve prepares to raise interest rates to tame inflation.

_____ (2022-02-02). In A Single Year, $1.78 Trillion Was Taken From The Working Class. popularresistance.org The fate of the Build Back Better Act is currently unknown. The bill would be the largest social spending achievement in decades and provide needed services and support to millions of families‚Äâ—‚Äâwith more than half of the proposed $1.75 trillion in spending going to child care, preschool, affordable housing, higher education and healthcare. | But this proposed spending, over 10 years, is barely noticeable compared with the wages workers have lost over the past 40 years. In terms of productivity, wages should be significantly higher than they are, and the average worker…

_____ (2022-02-02). Feb. 3 Webinar: Camila Saab, Wife Of Diplomat/US Political Prisoner. popularresistance.org Alex Saab is a Venezuelan diplomat the US government has illegally seized and imprisoned for what the US considers "violation" of the illegal US economic warfare on Venezuela. He was in fact assisting Venezuela in legally working around the US blockade on his country by finding the means to import food, medicine, and materials for the Venezuelan oil industry. The US is seeking to coerce Alex Saab into disclosing the methods Venezuela uses to circumvent the US-Canadian-European sanctions with the goal of further tightening the economic blockade and suffering on the Venezuelan people. These sanctions are illegal ac…

Staff (2022-02-02). Tomorrow February 3 Webinar: In Conversation with Camila Saab, Wife of Alex Saab & Special Guest, Oscar López Rivera. orinocotribune.com Alex Saab is a Venezuelan diplomat the US government has illegally seized and imprisoned for what the US considers "violation" of the illegal US economic warfare on Venezuela. He was in fact assisting Venezuela in legally working around the US blockade on his country by finding the means to import food, medicine, and materials for the Venezuelan oil industry. The US is seeking to coerce Alex Saab into disclosing the methods Venezuela uses to circumvent the US-Canadian-European sanctions with the goal of further tightening the economic blockade and suffering on the Venezuelan people. These sanctions are illegal ac…

Brasil de Fato (2022-02-02). Congolese refugee MoàØse Kabamgabe beaten to death in Rio de Janeiro after asking for wages. peoplesdispatch.org 24-year-old MoàØse Kabamgabe, a Congolese migrant living in Rio de Janeiro, was found dead on January 24 after being beaten to death. Kabamgabe had gone to the Tropicália kiosk, in the Barra da Tijuca beach, to collect payment for working two days as a kitchen helper, according to family members. In response, men from the kiosk beat him for 15 minutes until his death. | In an interview with Folha de S. Paulo, Mamanu Idumba Edou, MoàØse's uncle, said that MoàØse went to collect his overdue salary, when the manager of the establishment took a piece of wood and began to attack him. | "He called…

Fight Back (2022-02-02). USW rejects Marathon's proposal, offers 24-hour rolling extensions of current oil agreements. fightbacknews.org Pittsburgh, PA – The United Steelworkers union (USW) announced today that it rejected Marathon Petroleum's most recent proposal for a pattern settlement on wages, benefits and working conditions for approximately 30,000 USW members in the oil and petrochemical industry. The union then offered rolling 24-hour extensions of the current labor agreements. | The USW has been in talks with Marathon, which represents industry as its lead negotiator, since January 13. The current national agreement expired at midnight on February 1. | "Our members remain strong and united in their commitment to reaching a deal that meets…

Rachel Godin (2022-02-02). US Economic Policy is Bringing Famine to 23 Million Afghans. peaceaction.org People, Not Statistics Without urgent humanitarian support and international cooperation, one million children are predicted to starve this year in Afghanistan. Ever since America's withdrawal of troops from the country, humanitarian partners have been "racing against time to deliver aid and supplies" to half of the country's population that now requires humanitarian assistance to survive. …

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2022-02-02: News Headlines

Julia Rock (2022-02-02). Biden Moves To Block Student Debt Victory. dailyposter.com

TJ Coles (2022-02-01). How US meddling split Sudan, creating an oil republic drowning in poverty and conflict. thegrayzone.com Following decades of US soft power aid interventions to exploit South Sudan's energy reserves and counter China's influence, the republic is trapped in humanitarian crisis. Like most countries, the Republic of South Sudan is a complex nation of shifting alliances and external influences. Recently, President Salva Kiir, who sports a Stetson hat gifted him by George W. Bush, signed a peace agreement with old enemies, the Sudan People's Liberation Army-In Opposition. Around the same time, the so-called Embassy Troika consisting …

WSWS (2022-02-01). Poverty in Germany: 2021 report exposes profit-before-lives policy. wsws.org 13.4 million Germans, or 16.1 percent of the population, lived in poverty in the first year of the pandemic, 200,000 more than in 2019.

_____ (2022-02-01). New Gates Foundation Trustee Led Plot To Overthrow Zimbabwean Leader Alongside US Gov't. popularresistance.org In a shake-up of an institution named for one of the world's wealthiest and most influential oligarchs, Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa was appointed to the Gates Foundation's board of trustees this January. He will be joined on the board by a seemingly diverse cast of corporate elites known for their embrace of technocratic and neoliberal policies. | Back in 2007, Masiryiwa helped orchestrate a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe alongside the US and the Zimbabwean opposition party it was backing, the Movement for Democratic Transition.

_____ (2022-02-01). New Gates Foundation Trustee Led Plot To Overthrow Zimbabwean Leader. popularresistance.org n a shake-up of an institution named for one of the world's wealthiest and most influential oligarchs, Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa was appointed to the Gates Foundation's board of trustees this January. He will be joined on the board by a seemingly diverse cast of corporate elites known for their embrace of technocratic and neoliberal policies. | Back in 2007, Masiryiwa helped orchestrate a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe alongside the US and the Zimbabwean opposition party it was backing, the Movement for Democratic Transition. | Both the Central Intell…

Joel Wendland-Liu (2022-02-01). Michigan, mass incarceration, and the new surveillance society. peoplesworld.org "Prisoners lives matter," chanted hundreds of imprisoned men who had stopped work and occupied the prison yard in the Kinross State Penitentiary, in Kinross, Mich., on Sept. 10, 2016. Nearly the entire 150 or so imprisoned kitchen staff protested inhumane living and working conditions. The event had been planned for the 45th anniversary of the …

Staff (2022-02-01). Role of Workers' Productive Councils in Venezuela's Economic Recovery—Interview with Manuel Páez. orinocotribune.com On February 19, 2020, President Nicolás Maduro decreed an energy emergency and a state of exception in the country's hydrocarbon industry, which led to the creation of the General Staff of the Workers' Productive Councils (CPTT). Manuel Páez, who belongs to the presidential commission of the CPTT for the hydrocarbon sector, in an interview with àöltimas Noticias, explained that there are "71 colleagues who were assigned (by the president and the working class itself) the task of directing the transformation of the industry… presenting a new management model, which is basically collective management." | Páe…

WSWS (2022-02-01). Open letter to New Zealand rail workers: Form rank-and-file committees to fight for safe working conditions. wsws.org Commuter rail operator Transdev, assisted by the Rail and Maritime Transport Union, is imposing conditions that will allow Omicron to spread and infect rail workers and passengers.

Deja Gaston, Emma Roberts (2022-02-01). Utah organizers fight to overturn abortion 'trigger law'. liberationnews.org The PSL is engaged in building a coalition of working and oppressed people, women of color and queer activists to oppose the attacks on bodily autonomy and to keep abortion legal in Utah.

WSWS (2022-02-01). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Longshore workers are battling attacks on jobs, working conditions and pay, with inflation rampaging across South America.

_____ (2022-02-01). Another California Minimum Wage Earthquake? popularresistance.org California is the epicenter for a nationwide grassroots movement to raise the wage floor for American workers. On January 1st, the state set $15 an hour as the floor for large employers and $14 an hour for small ones (rising to $15 for all in 2023). Meanwhile, thirty-nine California cities and counties have established higher rates, with Emeryville the highest at $17.13 an hour and most well above $15. | The Fight for Fifteen movement has reshaped public opinion, pushing local and state officials around the country to approve a $15 per hour minimum wage. Eleven states and fifty-four cities and counties have $15 m…

WSWS (2022-02-01). Cold temperatures expose crisis of homelessness and hunger in Missouri. wsws.org A cold snap that hit the state on January 19 exposed the desperate conditions that confront the most vulnerable sections of the population.

Anonymous Contributor (2022-02-01). Boise Community Mobilizes In the Face of Threats of Violence from Far-Right Group. itsgoingdown.org Report back on recent community mobilization against threats of violence from the Idaho Liberty Dogs, a far-Right group in so-called Boise, Idaho. For background information, go here. photo: @RedoubtAFA After a week filled with cops stealing survival items, being stink bombed, and facing multiple threats of violence from local fascists — folks experiencing houselessness and…

Fra Hughes (2022-02-01). Yemen: How Many Must die Before the World Intervenes? orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes — Jan 26, 2022 | A beautiful historic country of poetry and art, of ancient buildings and centuries-old culture, has been devastated, destroyed, and bankrupted by fierce aggression led by imperialist forces. | As the death toll rises and nearly 20 million civilians face starvation… When will the international community intervene to end this suffering? Needless slaughters, bombs, regional politicking, airstrikes, the imposed siege, weapons of mass starvation targeting the infrastructure, including hospitals, prisons, and the fabric of civil society that holds a nation together in Yemen. | As I…

Jessie de Waal (2022-02-01). OXFAM: Pandemic exposes systemic inequality. greenleft.org.au Since the pandemic began a new billionaire has been created every 26 hours, according to OXFAM. Jessie de Waal reports.

In Contempt (2022-02-01). In Contempt #13: Hunger Strikes Spread; Eric King's Mail Ban Ends; Florida Prisoners Launch Sit-In; Arrests in Atlanta. itsgoingdown.org photo: Radical Graffiti We've got a jam packed installment of In Contempt this month! From updates on political prisoners, George Floyd uprising defendants, to news of prisoner resistance across the so-called US, along with birthdays, news, and ways to support those facing repression. There's a lot to cover, so let's dive in! Political Prisoner News…

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2022-02-01: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-02-01). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Longshore workers are battling attacks on jobs, working conditions and pay, with inflation rampaging across South America.

WSWS (2022-01-31). Expiration of expanded tax credit throws millions of US children into poverty. wsws.org Amid a surge in the Omicron variant which has sickened millions, the Democrats have allowed expanded child tax credit (CTC) payments to expire with 30 million families not seeing the payments on January 15 after just six months of the program.

_____ (2022-01-31). New Report: Small Business's Big Moment. popularresistance.org Small businesses build local wealth, with benefits for nearly every aspect of the community and region. They offer a path to prosperity for hard-working entrepreneurs. They keep a larger share of their economic output within the community than businesses with outside ownership, putting that output to work to support schools, public safety, roads, parks, affordable housing, and many other vital public needs. And young, small businesses create the bulk of the nation's new jobs. | But one of the biggest challenges facing America's communities is leveling the playing field for small businesses and intentionally movin…

Alexander Rubinstein (2022-01-31). New Gates Foundation trustee led plot to overthrow Zimbabwean leader alongside US gov't. thegrayzone.com Listed as a US asset while spearheading Zimbabwean regime change plans, billionaire Strive Masiyiwa joins a cast of technocratic zealots on Gates' new board of trustees. In a shake-up of an institution named for one of the world's wealthiest and most influential oligarchs, Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa was appointed to the Gates Foundation's board of trustees this January. He will be joined on the board by a seemingly diverse cast of corporate elites known for their embrace of technocratic and …

_____ (2022-01-31). Is Erdogan Trying to Revise his Foreign Policy? journal-neo.org Turkey has lately shown signs of a clearly growing socio-political crisis in the country. Its economy is going through a difficult, if not disastrous, phase: the lira is plummeting, foreign exchange reserves are shrinking, external debt and unemployment are skyrocketing. Against this background, the approval rate for Recep Tayyip Erdogan as head of state has …

_____ (2022-01-31). How Kroger Is Using DC Spin Doctors To Fight Their Unionized Workers. popularresistance.org In recent weeks, Kroger has faced a rash of negative news reports about its employees' working and living conditions, drawn new scrutiny from lawmakers, and seen thousands of workers go on strike in Colorado — all as the company lobbies on union rights legislation, and bankrolls corporate trade associations trying to kill it. | Now amid the potential for congressional hearings and a federal crackdown, the grocery giant did what so many other corporate behemoths do when they're feeling the heat: pay big bucks to run counter programming claiming it offers "great pay and great benefits" in a Beltway tip sheet…

WSWS (2022-01-31). NYC mayor Adams steps up law and order campaign after two police officers killed. wsws.org The city's new Democratic mayor, along with the entire political establishment and bourgeois media, is preparing increased police repression as a response to growing working class resistance to the pandemic and its consequences.

Editor (2022-01-31). Replacing imports to guarantee greater biotechnological sovereignty in the production of medicine. mronline.org Interview with president of Cuba's leading pharmaceutical enterprise group, BioCubaFarma, working to strengthen the country's technological sovereignty and contribute to the population's quality of life.

WSWS (2022-01-31). Stop the intra-company bidding war at Ford! No concessions—neither in Saarlouis nor in Valencia. wsws.org We are no longer prepared to accept the systematic sellout of our jobs and the constant deterioration of our wages and working conditions without a fight.

WSWS (2022-01-31). Thousands of Sri Lankan health workers hold one-day strike in Western Province. wsws.org Repeated struggles in the health sector indicate that the working class will not accept the government's attack, and is determined to defend its living conditions and social rights.

Adriaan Alsema (2022-01-31). UN flags Colombia as 'hunger hotspot'. colombiareports.com The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned that the food security of Colombia's poor could deteriorate in the coming months. The FAO added Colombia to a list of…

Ann Brown (2022-01-31). Driver Video Shows Road Rage Bustin' On Highway: 'Always Assume Americans Have Guns Without Mental Healthcare'. moguldom.com A violent road rage incident on a Florida interstate in which a driver fired nearly a dozen shots toward another car is leaving some on Twitter worried about Americans without adequate mental healthcare. Dashcam footage of the shooter, Eric Popper, 30, was recently released from an incident that took place in June 2021. Around 6: 53 …

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2022-01-31: News Headlines

New Atlas (2022-01-30). China's Belt & Road Already Delivering for Southeast Asia. newatlas.report January 30, 2022 (Brian Berletic — NEO) — The West's propaganda campaign against China is attempting to convince the world that Beijing and its policies pose a global threat. China is accused of everything from presenting an outright military threat to its neighbors and the world, to sinisterly trapping nations in debt for infrastructure projects …

_____ (2022-01-30). A Journey From Incineration Toward Zero Waste. popularresistance.org As you enter Chester, Pennsylvania, and drive by 10 Highland Ave, chances are you just took a breath of mercury, soot, and lead. You might have also seen a big smokestack as you drove by, and if you did, you would have seen the country's largest trash incinerator run by a company called Covanta. This incinerator sits in a mostly Black neighborhood in which one-third of the residents live under the poverty line. The location of this incinerator, however, is far from a coincidence. | Forty-five percent of all incinerators in the country are in neighborhoods where people of color are a majority or a higher percentag…

Staff (2022-01-30). Colombian Narco-Trafficking Network Involving Deputies and Mayors Busted by Venezuelan Authorities. orinocotribune.com The National Anti-Drug Superintendence (SUNAD) of Venezuela announced this Friday, January 28, the dismantling of a drug trafficking network that had involved some Venezuelan officials. Víctor Julio Cano Páez, of Colombian nationality, was in charge of recruiting Venezuelan elected public officials (deputies and mayors) and induct them into the network. So far, 16 people have been arrested as alleged members of that network, including a mayor, three deputies, a state legislator and an assistant working at the National Assembly. | Cano Páez was arrested on November 7, 2021 at the La Guaira Maritime Port, when the…

Stephanie Pavlick & Kit Baril (2022-01-30). Bridge collapses in Pittsburgh same day that Biden visits to tout infrastructure bill. liberationnews.org Infrastructure in the United States is falling apart, and it's working people who have to suffer the fallout.

Charles Taylor (2022-01-30). All States Need Expanded Medicaid Access. Gerrymandering Prevents It. truthout.org My job at the Mississippi NAACP is to safeguard the civil rights of those in my state and fight for current and future generations. | When I think about the challenges facing Mississippi, they come down to the "haves" and the "have-nots." It's about power — who has it, who's working to maintain it, and who lacks it. | Two policy issues confronting states, particularly Southern states, include closing the health insurance coverage gap and redistricting. These issues impact people's quality of lif…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-01-30). Italian students and youth protest government apathy and flawed policies. peoplesdispatch.org Student and youth organizations have been on the streets of Italy demanding justice for Lorenzo Parelli, who, while working as an intern for a private company, died when a steel girder fell on him on January 21. The students have blamed an exploitative school reform of 2015 which implemented a mandatory internship for students responsible for his death.

Basav Sen (2022-01-30). Pro-Highway, Pro-Car Public Transportation Policy Is Fueling Inequality. truthout.org For decades, the federal government has allocated about This policy choice has consequences for racial and economic justice, the environment, and more. Here, we focus only on the racial and economic justice questions — whose interests are not served, and who are excluded, by…

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2022-01-30: News Headlines

Benjamin Norton (2022-01-29). China is helping Nicaragua's Sandinista gov't build houses for poor people. multipolarista.com China signed an agreement with Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government to build thousands of homes for poor and working families, expanding the already existing Bismarck Martínez public housing program.

Benjamin Norton (2022-01-29). China ayuda al gobierno sandinista de Nicaragua a construir viviendas para el pueblo. multipolarista.com China firmó un acuerdo con el gobierno sandinista de Nicaragua para construir miles de viviendas para familias pobres y trabajadoras, expandiendo el Programa Bismarck Martínez de casas dignas.

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-01-29). Honduras Resumes Diplomatic Relations with Venezuela. orinocotribune.com With the start of the mandate of President Xiomara Castro de Zelaya in Honduras, the Republic of Honduras normalized diplomatic relations with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The Honduran leader took office this Thursday, January 27, with the announcement of very innovative measures to address the crisis of extreme poverty in her country, as well as a number of progressive measures in domestic and foreign policies. | The political, economic and cultural exchange and cooperation between Venezuela and Honduras was interrupted since 2019 when former President Juan Orlando Hernández terminated relations with th…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-01-29). COVID-19 pandemic led to increase in extreme poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, reports ECLAC. peoplesdispatch.org According to ECLAC's annual report, extreme poverty rate in the region rose from 13.1% in 2020 to 13.8% in 2021, a setback of 27 years…

MoveOn, Public Citizen,, more (2022-01-29). Thursday 1/27: #Cancel Student Debt! Town Hall on Ending Student Debt Across the Nation. indybay.org Virtual town hall via Zoom…

WSWS (2022-01-29). Bridge collapses in Pittsburgh ahead of Biden's visit touting scaled-back infrastructure bill. wsws.org Rescue workers working with ropes and creating a human chain were able to get the two passengers and driver off the bus as well as the other people who were in their cars.

Editor (2022-01-29). The 13th Amendment's Fatal Flaw Created Modern-Day Slavery. scheerpost.com In this rare photograph taken in 2000, prisoners at the Ferguson Unit in Texas are seen working in the prison's cotton fields. By Kwasi Konadu and Clifford C. Campbell / The 13th Amendment is having a moment of reckoning. Considered one of the crowning achievements of American…

WSWS (2022-01-29). Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee joins with autoworkers to demand the shutdown of schools and nonessential businesses. wsws.org As Michigan's largest school district, Detroit, plans to resume face-to-face schooling, teachers, school workers, students and autoworkers map out the fight to unify the working class against the deadly school reopenings.

Naomi Craine (2022-01-29). Black farmers in Illinois fight for improved conditions. themilitant.com HOPKINS PARK, Ill. — "Black farmers in rural Pembroke Township protest Nicor plan to build gas pipeline through their community," read a headline in the Dec. 7 Chicago Tribune. It reported on a rally in downtown Chicago opposing the installation of natural gas service lines here, 65 miles south of the city. | But most Black farmers favor the chance to get natural gas, which can make their working and living conditions better. "The farmers aren't against the gas line. We've been fighting for it for 30 years," Pam Basu told the Militant. Her family owns the organic Basu Natural Farms. "We don't have natural g…

WSWS (2022-01-29). American Trotskyist and retired General Motors worker Jim Lawrence dies at age 83 (February 18, 1938—January 25, 2022). wsws.org Lawrence made an immense contribution to bringing the Trotskyist perspective to a key section of the American working class.

WSWS (2022-01-29). American Trotskyist and retired General Motors worker Jim Lawrence dies at age 84 (January 18, 1938—January 25, 2022). wsws.org Lawrence made an immense contribution to bringing the Trotskyist perspective to a key section of the American working class.

Betsey Stone (2022-01-29). Socialist Workers Party conference launches 2022 California campaign. themilitant.com LOS ANGELES — Socialist Workers Party members in California met in a statewide convention here Jan. 23 and voted to run Eleanor García, a retired aerospace worker and party leader with long experience in working-class struggles, for U.S. Senate and Joel Britton, a longtime SWP campaigner, unionist, and member of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 125, for governor. | As part of the party's bold national campaign in 2022, the candidates will present the need for the working class to fight today's attacks by the bosses and their political parties, and to chart a course to take poli…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-01-29). Iran, S Korea set for working-level talks over frozen assets. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — Informed sources say that South Korea and Iran plan to hold working-level consultations next month in Seoul to discuss ways to untangle years-long disputes over Tehran's assets frozen under US sanctions.

Seth Galinsky (2022-01-29). 'Cuba's socialist revolution sets an example for working people'. themilitant.com Halfway through the Jan. 1 to Feb. 15 international "I worked in hospitals for decades," Militant reader Jannie Jackson told SWP members Kaitlin Estill and Jacquie Henderson when they stopped by her home in Cincinnati Jan. 18…

Staff (2022-01-29). New York nurses arrested after making staggering amount from fake vaccine cards. rt.com The scheme allegedly brought in more than $1.5 million | Two New York nurses have been arrested for allegedly selling fake Covid-19 vaccination cards, and making more than $1.5 million in the process. | The Suffolk County district attorney's office announced the two nurses working in Long Island, 49-year-old Julie Devuono and 44-year-old Marissa Urraro, had forged vaccine cards from last November into January of 2022. The pair reportedly charged $220 to $440 for vaccine cards for adults, but offered a discount for children, only charging $85. | After faking the actual physical vaccine cards, the two would then…

Alexandra Martinez (2022-01-29). COVID-19 Test Delivery Leaves Out Houseless and Multigenerational Households. truthout.org This piece was originally published by This month, the Biden administration launched a

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2022-01-29: News Headlines

Victoria Korn (2022-01-28). Xiomara Castro ya es la primera mujer presidenta de Honduras. globalizacion.ca La izquierdista Xiomara Castro, primera mujer en gobernar Honduras, asumió este jueves un país golpeado por la pobreza, la migración, el narcotráfico y la corrupción, mientras apaga una crisis en el Parlamento que amenazó su liderazgo. | De 62 años y…

_____ (2022-01-28). China's Belt & Road Already Delivering for Southeast Asia. journal-neo.org The West's propaganda campaign against China is attempting to convince the world that Beijing and its policies pose a global threat. China is accused of everything from presenting an outright military threat to its neighbors and the world, to sinisterly trapping nations in debt for infrastructure projects the West insists are unnecessary in the first …

Staff (2022-01-28). Thursday February 3 Webinar: In Conversation with Camila Saab, Wife of Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab. orinocotribune.com Alex Saab is a Venezuelan diplomat the US government has illegally seized and imprisoned for what the US considers "violation" of the illegal US economic warfare on Venezuela. He was in fact assisting Venezuela in legally working around the US blockade on his country by finding the means to import food, medicine, and materials for the Venezuelan oil industry. The US is seeking to coerce Alex Saab into disclosing the methods Venezuela uses to circumvent the US-Canadian-European sanctions with the goal of further tightening the economic blockade and suffering on the Venezuelan people. These sanctions are illegal ac…

Alan MacLeod (2022-01-28). Graphika: The Deep State's Beard for Controlling the Information Age. mronline.org Semi-state actors play a very important role in today's online landscape and in the 1970s, Graphika employees would likely have been working directly for the CIA.

Orion Rummler (2022-01-28). Trans Workers Face a Significant Wage Gap, Poll Finds. truthout.org Originally published by Transgender and gender-nonconforming people are among the lowest paid LGBTQ+ people working full time in the United States, according to a The HRC found that trans men an…

WSWS (2022-01-28). Workers at Trinity-Mercy Hospital in Muskegon, Michigan demand new contract by January 31. wsws.org Health care workers at Trinity Health-Mercy hospital in Muskegon held a rally on January 17 to demand that the hospital chain negotiate a new contract by January 31 that includes wage increases and improved working conditions.

WSWS (2022-01-28). Hospital employees at Mercy Hospital in Muskegon, Michigan demand new contract by January 31. wsws.org Health care workers at Trinity Health-Mercy hospital in Muskegon held a rally on January 17 to demand that the hospital chain negotiate a new contract by January 31 that includes wage increases and improved working conditions.

Ema Moolchand (2022-01-28). Where's the meat? The avoidable supply crisis. greenleft.org.au The lack of meat on supermarket shelves under the latest wave of the pandemic is a story of poor working conditions in the meat processing plants. Ema Moolchand and Shelley Marshall report.

Joachim Hagopian (2022-01-28). Reaching Covid-19 "Turning Point of Critical Mass": Is Nuremberg 2 Next? London Metropolitan Police Criminal Investigation. globalresearch.ca Not only is Britain's largest police force actively involved in the probe, the Hammersmith Police alongside the ICC are working together in what's being called the world's largest international crime investigation.

Sam Pizzigati (2022-01-28). Tax Cuts and Voter Suppression Laws Are Working Together to Lock in Plutocracy. truthout.org America's national media typically pay little attention to the moves the nation's state lawmakers make. Not this year. State legislative battles have emerged over recent months as a top-tier national story. And deservedly so. The battling at the state level — on a tidal wave of proposed new voter-suppression laws — could well determine the course of American democracy. | But state lawmakers are threatening democracy with more than schemes for voter suppression. In one state afte…

Staff (2022-01-28). Home Demolition in Sheikh Jarrah Seen as Part of Broader Israeli Effort to Dispossess Palestinians. democracynow.org Israeli forces continue to expel Palestinians from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem, a move that the United Nations has described as a possible war crime. We speak to Palestinian poet and activist Mohammed El-Kurd, whose own family is among those facing eviction in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. Sheikh Jarrah is also where the Salhiyeh family recently gained attention for threatening self-immolation while protesting their eviction and the demolition of their home. The dispossession of Palestinians has left families facing homelessness in the cold of winter. "This is not a unique situation for our neighborh…

Basav Sen (2022-01-28). How the U.S. transportation system fuels inequality. nationofchange.org For decades, the federal government has allocated about four times as much funding to roadways as it has to public transit such as buses and subways. This policy choice has consequences for racial and economic justice, the environment, and more. Here, we focus only on the racial and economic justice questions — whose interests are …

_____ (2022-01-28). From Rikers To Santa Rita: Close The Death Camps! popularresistance.org January 27, 2022/25th Sh'vat 5782, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps, where so many of our ancestors were incarcerated and enslaved, raped and robbed, maimed and murdered. | We are an anonymous collective of Jewish New Yorkers who are striking this day, across the five boroughs of NYC/across occupied Lenapehoking, in solidarity with the hunger strikers at Rikers Island and with all who are resisting this genocidal regime. This is a regime which took the lives of 15 fellow New Yorkers last year alone — a number which has c…

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2022-01-28: News Headlines

rebekah (2022-01-27). Why Are We Torching Our Best Tool to End Child Poverty? inequality.org

Nan McCurdy (2022-01-27). Nicaragua Once Again Inaugurates the "People as President" dissidentvoice.org Family in Bismarck Martinez Housing neighborhood watch the inauguration and swear to fight with all their strength to eliminate hunger, poverty and backwardness. [Photo by Jairo Cajina] On January 10, Daniel Ortega was inaugurated President and Rosario Murillo was inaugurated as Vice President. The central event in the Plaza of the Revolution was accompanied by …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-01-27). "Bastille 2022": Building a Worldwide Movement Against "Corona Tyranny" globalresearch.ca Bastille 2022 pertains to the restoration of fundamental rights. It seeks to reverse the criminal COVID-19 agenda which in the course of the last two years has triggered economic, social and political chaos Worldwide, coupled with bankruptcies, unemployment, mass poverty and despair.

Staff (2022-01-27). Headlines for January 27, 2022. democracynow.org Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to Retire, Handing Biden Chance to Nominate Replacement, U.S. and NATO Offer No Concessions to Russia in Standoff over Ukraine, U.S. Approves $2.5 Billion Arms Sale to Egypt Despite Human Rights Abuses, House Democrats Demand End to U.S. Servicing of Saudi Warplanes Used in War Crimes, 180 Killed as U.S.-Backed Forces Retake Syrian Prison Where Children Are Imprisoned, U.N. Renews Calls to Free Up Aid for Millions of Afghans Facing Starvation, Extreme Poverty, Global COVID Cases Break New Record as COVAX Falls Short on Vaccine Delivery Goal, Spotify Sides with Joe Rogan in Vac…

Ann Brown (2022-01-27). 7 Things To Know About Hereafter Farms: Black Americans Pull Resources To Collectively Buy And Develop Land In Georgia. moguldom.com Several Black families and individuals in 2021 teamed up to purchase land in Northern Georgia. In an effort spearheaded by two Nation of Islam members, the Hereafter Farms is getting underway. The goal of Hereafter Farms is for the families to live debt-free, to be collective landowners, learn to live off the farm to be …

MoveOn, Public Citizen,, more (2022-01-27). Thursday 1/27: #Cancel Student Debt! Town Hall on Ending Student Debt Across the Nation. indybay.org Virtual town hall via Zoom…

Staff (2022-01-27). "The Lords of Easy Money": How the Federal Reserve Enriched Wall Street & Broke the U.S. Economy. democracynow.org As the Federal Reserve signals it will raise interest rates in March, we talk to Christopher Leonard, author of the new book "The Lords of Easy Money," about how the Federal Reserve broke the American economy. He details the issues with quantitative easing, a radical intervention instituted by the federal government in 2010 to encourage banks and investors to lend more risky debt to combat the recession. "The Fed's policies over the last decades have stoked the world of Wall Street," says Leonard. "It has pumped trillions of dollars into the banking system and thereby inflated these markets for stocks, for bonds.

Amy Goodman (2022-01-27). The Federal Reserve Has Fueled Wall Street at the Expense of the Rest of Us. truthout.org As the Federal Reserve signals it will raise interest rates in March, we talk to Christopher Leonard, author of the new book The Lords of Easy Money, about how the Federal Reserve broke the American economy. He details the issues with quantitative easing, a radical intervention instituted by the federal government in 2010 to encourage banks and investors to lend more risky debt to combat the recession. "The Fed's policies over the last decades have stoked the world of Wall Street," says Leonard.

_____ (2022-01-27). Movements And Leaders Have Seasons. popularresistance.org Over the last two years, social movements, organizations and leaders around the world have been thrust into a period of tumult, transition and uncertainty. These moments of crisis in our personal lives and in society can force sudden changes in our capacity to respond. What happens when we are not able to offer leadership like we used to? Or inversely, what happens when we do have the energy and capacity to respond, but our efforts don't yield the results that are expected? | Responsibility is the essence of leadership, and millions of community leaders who are working hard to resolve difficult, structural proble…

_____ (2022-01-27). The Surveillance And Policing Of Looted Land. popularresistance.org The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is a community group rooted in the Skid Row community on Tongva/Gabrielino land, stolen territory known as Los Angeles. Over the past decade, we have been working to build power to abolish LAPD surveillance. This report grew out of that organizing and examines the relationships of policing and surveillance to displacement, gentrification, and real estate development. We study those relationships with a focus on the process that has always bound policing and capitalism together: colonization. | We often hear that police are an occupying army in our communities. Throughout the history…

Maurizio Coppola (2022-01-27). Youth on Italy's streets are fighting for their lives. peoplesdispatch.org After a young student Lorenzo Parelli died in a working accident, students all over Italy have expressed their discontent and taken to the streets against precarity and lack of future.

WSWS (2022-01-27). COVID-19 ravages homeless shelters in Toronto. wsws.org Recently homeless individuals are ten times more likely to need intensive care treatment and five times more likely to die than other Canadians infected with COVID-19.

SAM (2022-01-27). Government Contracting: The Next Big Battleground for a More Equal America? inequality.org

Anonymous Contributor (2022-01-27). From Rikers to Santa Rita: Close the Death Camps! itsgoingdown.org Statement linking the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with a call to support the ongoing hunger strikes happening within Rikers Island and Santa Rita jail. Hunger Strikers still striking! Today, January 27, 2022/25th Sh'vat 5782, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps, where so…

Oakland Abolition, Solidarity (2022-01-27). Phone Zap Supporting Hunger Strikers in Santa Rita Jail: Friday, January 28th. itsgoingdown.org Call for a phone-zap campaign in support of an ongoing hunger strike at the Santa Rita jail in the bay area of California on Friday. To listen to an It's Going Down interview with a hunger-striker, go here. We are calling on all of you to support the hunger strikers in Santa Rita Jail. Phone…

Judy Greenspan (2022-01-27). Santa Rita prisoners conduct hunger strike. workers.org Protesters outside Alameda County Sheriff's Office call for release of Santa Rita Jail inmates during COVID-19 pandemic. Oakland In what has been a continuing struggle by Alameda county prisoners for decent food and sanitary conditions at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California, two dozen prisoners went on hunger strike Jan. . . . |

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2022-01-27: News Headlines

MoveOn, Public Citizen,, more (2022-01-27). Thursday 1/27: #Cancel Student Debt! Town Hall on Ending Student Debt Across the Nation. indybay.org Virtual town hall via Zoom…

Clara Moore (2022-01-26). Why Are We Torching Our Best Tool to End Child Poverty? otherwords.org Ada Mae's beautiful blonde curls are wild on this sunny, mild winter afternoon. | I've just picked her up from the homeschool co-op that supplements the first-grade lessons we've been doing at home, and we're hanging out at the park. This is my favorite time of the week, watching her play with other kids. | But I'm also remembering my own childhood — cold Missouri winters without boots, hats, or mittens. The grind of poverty was tough on my family, and that trauma pursued me into adulthood. | I would do anything to keep my child from that fate, but we've had our close calls. | We were nearly homeless when t…

Peter Certo (2022-01-26). In OtherWords: January 26, 2022. otherwords.org For millions of American families, this January meant financial strain. | Why? Because Republicans, together with Democrat Joe Manchin, have stalled the renewal of the expanded Child Tax Credit. That credit reduced child poverty by 30 percent in December alone, but in January — the first month without payments — the rate is expected to climb to its highest point in a year. | This week in OtherWords, Clara Moore explains how those monthly payments changed her life — and her child's life — for the better. Don't miss it! | Meanwhile, Martha Burk marks another sober January milestone: Roe v. W…

sputniknews (2022-01-26). 1 in 4 Holocaust Survivors in Israel Live in Poverty, State Does Little to Help. sputniknews.com Although 54,000 victims are getting an assistance package worth up to $2,000 per month, the vast majority are forced to live off a stipend of roughly $105, a drop in the ocean given Israel's high living expenses.

_____ (2022-01-26). Glen Ford: Legacy Of A Black Revolutionary. popularresistance.org As 2021 comes to an end, and the U.S. approaches the one-million mark of American lives lost to Covid-19, I would think holiday celebrations should include more somber notes than usual. Instead of seeing street behavior that would acknowledge grieving over 800,000 people in the U.S. who have died of Covid-19, we witness the convulsions for survival in a society and nation that is imploding as the wealth gap stretches far beyond our imaginations. In a nation inundated with death, whether from school shootings, the up-tick in crime rampages, fentanyl overdoses, alongside Covid-19 deaths, those who have passed may o…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-01-26). Concerns Mount Over Buckhead Plan To Separate From Atlanta, Establishing New Services And Taxes Not That Easy. moguldom.com Atlanta's wealthiest and whitest neighborhood has been in talks for years about seceding from the city. The movement to create Buckhead City is gaining traction with a continued uptick in crime in the area. As a result, Atlanta officials are concerned about losing major numbers in population and tax revenue, according to The Wall Street …

Jim Hightower (2022-01-26). An Uncharitable View of Charity. otherwords.org Our society has coined expressions like "philanthropist" to encourage and hail people's charitable spirit. Look on the flip side of that shiny coin of generosity, however, and you'll find that its base substance is societal selfishness. | After all, the need for charity only exists because we're tolerating intentional injustices and widespread inequality created by power elites. A society as supremely wealthy as ours ought not be relegating needy families and essential components of the common good to the whims of a few rich philanthropists. | Yes, corporate and individual donations can help at the margins, but t…

Staff (2022-01-26). Venezuela: An Oasis of Environmental Conservation. orinocotribune.com By William Urquijo Pascual — Jan 21, 2022 | Bathed by the Caribbean Sea, and with a territory that extends from the foothills of the Andes through the extensive llanos plainlands all the way to the forests of the Amazon, Venezuela stands out today as an oasis of natural wealth and environmental conservation. | The situation of Venezuela as an Amazonian, Andean and Caribbean country gives it a wide diversity of climatic zones, habitats, and geological units, which make the country a land of inexhaustible resources and extensive biodiversity. | Venezuela has a total of 44 national parks, all of them protected…

Strike Debt Bay Area (2022-01-26). Saturday 2/12: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber et alv. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite.

PAI (2022-01-26). OSHA kills emergency anti-COVID standard on order of right-wing Supreme Court. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (PAI)—The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has permanently yanked its Emergency Temporary Standard requiring firms with at least 100 workers to develop and implement plans to protect employees against the coronavirus. But it'll keep working on a permanent standard to achieve that goal. OSHA's January 26 decision obeys the January 13 ruling by the …

Sean Connolly (2022-01-26). Racist zoning is killing working class New Yorkers. liberationnews.org The recent Twin Parks fire in the Bronx, which killed 17 residents — including eight children — is a tragic example of a long history of neglect made possible by racist zoning laws.

Sean Connolly (2022-01-26). Racist zoning is killing working-class New Yorkers. liberationnews.org The recent Twin Parks fire in the Bronx, which killed 17 residents — including eight children — is a tragic example of a long history of neglect made possible by racist zoning laws.

Staff (2022-01-26). EU split over plan for colossal sanctions against Russia — media. rt.com Brussels is reportedly working on plans to hit Russia's currency operations, trade, and access to technology | The EU is currently working on a package of sanctions that would curb Russia's ability to convert currency, impose trade bans, and restrict access to "key technology" in the event Moscow orders an invasion of Ukraine, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing officials close to the process. | Cutting the country off from the SWIFT international payment system and placing sanctions on its energy exports were said to also still be on the table. | Western nations are developing a response to what they say co…

Toward increased Networking (2022-01-26). Online events w) Isabel Allende, Kali Akuno, Selma James, Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva, etc. indybay.org Here are some 40 online events taking place over the next 2 weeks (and starting at 11 am tomorrow, January 24th), featuring people such as Isabel Allende, Angela Davis, Kali Akuno, Stephanie Kelton, Selma James, Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada, the UK, and Australia (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.

sputniknews (2022-01-26). Qatar Reportedly Has 'Little Spare Capacity' for EU Amid US Search for Alternatives to Russian Gas. sputniknews.com On Tuesday, Biden press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that the White House was "working to identify additional volumes of gas" for Europe from North Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the United States in the event of a drop in Russian supplies amid the Ukraine crisis.

WSWS (2022-01-26). What "endemic" COVID-19 really means: Mass infection and death forever. wsws.org Government officials and the corporate media want to declare COVID-19 "endemic," to enforce policies that will have disastrous consequences for the working class.

WSWS (2022-01-26). Thousands of couriers at Turkey's largest e-commerce platform Trendyol launch wildcat strike for wages. wsws.org Skyrocketing living costs and the thousands of preventable deaths caused by the homicidal response of governments around the world to the COVID-19 pandemic are driving growing sections of the working class into struggle.

Editor (2022-01-26). Solution to global inequality is socialism! workers.org Around the globe, billions of people are suffering incredible losses resulting from capitalism's inability and refusal to seriously address the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions have lost lives or loved ones. Families are houseless. Workers have been forced to choose between risking their health at minimum wage jobs and feeding their families, . . . |

_____ (2022-01-26). Coalminers On Strike For 10 Months Vow Not To Be 'Starved Out'. popularresistance.org About 1,100 coalminers in Alabama have entered 2022 still on strike, more than 10 months since they walked out back in April last year, making it the longest strike in the US since the Covid-19 pandemic began and the longest in Alabama's history. | Workers started the unfair labor practice strike over claims of bad faith bargaining by Warrior Met Coal over a new union contract. In the previous contract settled in 2016, miners accepted several concessions, including a $6-an-hour pay cut and reductions in health insurance and other benefits as the mines switched employers in the wake of a bankruptcy. | The miners o…

WSWS (2022-01-26). Macron calls to introduce massive US-style university tuition fees in France. wsws.org The French president's proposal to launch "American-style" tuition fees reflects his broader policy of intensifying social inequality in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

It's Going Down (2022-01-26). This Is America #158: Hunger Strike at Santa Rita Jail; Police Attack Encampment in Boise; Update on Resistance at Winnemucca. itsgoingdown.org Welcome, to This Is America, June 27th, 2022. "At least two dozen prisoners in the Alameda County Jail are continuing a hunger strike which began on January 8, 2022 to protest an increase in the jail's commissary prices." Prices has risen in some cases by 20%. Report from @OaklandAboSol. t.co/1FyXQKHHN1 — It's Going Down (@IGD_News)…

Editor (2022-01-26). The Neocons' Primary War Tactic: Branding Opponents of U.S. Intervention as Traitors. scheerpost.com Former Bush White House speechwriter David Frum speaks to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough about Russia, Nov. 30, 2021 | By Glenn Greenwald / One of the most bizarre but important dynamics of Trump-era U.S. politics is that the most fanatical war-hungry neocons, who shaped Bush/Cheney militarism, have become the most popular pundits and thought leaders in American liberalism. They have not changed in the slightest — they are employing the same tactics they have always invoked, and for the same causes — but they…

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