(2021-10-12). A call to look beyond prescription opioid supply-side restrictions and include health equity when predicting opioid policy effectiveness. mronline.org 
We read with interest the study by Rao and colleagues on opioid policy effectiveness, which extends their previous modeling efforts to predict opioid-related overdose, life-years, and QALYs. This work presents a useful framework from which to investigate policy effectiveness.
(2021-10-12). Xi stresses people's well-being, social justice. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for efforts to concentrate on bettering people's well-being to promote social equity and justice.
(2021-10-12). Expert Alert: Advancing individualized medicine through genomics. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — The virtual 10th Annual Individualizing Medicine Conference on Oct. 8—9 will highlight the latest discoveries, diagnostics, therapeutics and emerging approaches in the field of genomics. Attendees will hear from renowned experts and learn first-hand how individualized medicine is transforming clinical practice, research and education. Highlighted topics will include artificial intelligence, health disparities, precision oncology, microbiome, genomic clinical applications and challenges, and many others. Taking the virtual center stage will be keynote speakers Gianrico…
(2021-10-12). Media ignore politics behind Green leader's demise. mronline.org Annamie Paul's perspective has overwhelmingly shaped coverage of the dramatic and bitter conflict within the Green Party.
(2021-10-12). Saturday 11/6: "Hacer Pueblo": a narrative of community health from Mexico. indybay.org online meeting, see website for details…
(2021-10-12). Tuesday 10/12: 831 Water Street City Council Public Oversight Meeting. indybay.org The public oversight meeting for the 831 Water Street project is #18 on the city council meeting agenda, and will be heard in the afternoon, sometime after 1 PM. | * Click on Zoom link (no time delay): zoom.us/j/94684401344 | * Online at http: //www.cityofsantacruz.com/government/city-council/council-meetings…
(2021-10-12). Thursday 10/14: Transgender Law Center's SPARK. indybay.org Virtual Gathering, online…
(2021-10-12). Wednesday 10/20: Doubling Down for Passing the Women's Health Protection Act w/ NARAL. indybay.org Online teach-in and call to action…
(2021-10-12). Monday 10/11: #LandBack: Defending Sovereignty and Land Rights w/ the Shinnecock Nation. indybay.org Online event via livestream…
(2021-10-12). Wednesday 10/13: CalCare Now! California Health Care for All Virtual Town Hall. indybay.org Online town hall…
(2021-10-11). Indigenous People's Day Reminds Us To Acknowledge And Support Indigenous Struggles. dissidentvoice.org 
Today is Indigenous Peoples Day. Across the country, a growing number of cities and states are recognizing this day in place of the traditional Columbus Day. This change reflects the growing awareness that holidays like Columbus Day are used to rewrite the past and uphold institutions of white supremacy, racism and settler colonialism. As Justin …
(2021-10-11). Non-Aligned Countries Call for Equity in COVID-19 Vaccination. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) President Ilham Aliyev criticized developed countries whose nationalism prevents a more equal distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in the world. | RELATED: | "Vaccine disparity is very large," Azerbaijan President Aliyev said during the opening of the commemorative meeting of the 60th Anniversary of the NAM first conference in Belgrade, Serbia. | Besides asking countries to a…
(2021-10-11). Report: Police and DEA Teamed Up For 'Covert Surveillance' Of George Floyd Protests In 50 Cities. moguldom.com The protests that materialized nationwide following the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd were not only attended by people demonstrating against police brutality and racial inequality and also by undercover Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents. Following the murder of Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, 2020, thousands of people took …
(2021-10-11). Socialist Equality Party (Australia) health workers' forum discusses fight for eradication of COVID-19. wsws.org SEP National Secretary Cheryl Crisp said any conception Australia had somehow escaped the worst of COVID-19 had been dispelled by 56,000 people being infected with the virus in the past four months.
(2021-10-11). Awakening: Martin Luther King and the Poor People's Campaign. counterpunch.org The usage of the term 'woke' has spread rapidly in the last ten years from meaning awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination to describing the identity politics of various ethnic groups in the USA. The term has a long history reaching back to the 1930s when Black American folk singer-songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly finished a song advising people with the words to 'best stay woke, keep their eyes open.'
(2021-10-11). It's Not Misinformation. It's Amplified Propaganda. zcomm.org You don't need fake accounts to spread ampliganda online. Real people will happily do it…
(2021-10-11). Deathly Silence: Journalists who mocked Assange have nothing to say about CIA plans to kill him. mronline.org 
It would seem that covert plans for the state-sanctioned murder on British soil of an award-winning journalist should attract sustained, wall-to-wall media coverage.
(2021-10-11). China's accession to the WTO and the collapse that never was. mronline.org 
President Joe Biden is worried about China. In April he explained "we are in competition with China… to win the 21st century… we are at a great inflection point in history. We have to do more than just build back better… we have to compete more strenuously."
(2021-10-11). Thousands of police killings are unreported. mronline.org 
Police killings of Black people are a feature of American law enforcement and they are deliberately under counted.
(2021-10-11). Bellingcat funded by U.S. and UK intelligence contractors that aided extremists in Syria. mronline.org 
Supposedly "independent" website Bellingcat raked in money from scandal-ridden Western intelligence firms that wreaked havoc — and reaped massive profits — in Syria.
(2021-10-11). The true cost of Ireland's data centre boom. mronline.org 
As People Before Profit prepare to introduce a Bill to Dáil Éireann which would ban new data centres in Ireland, Alexandra Day looks at the disasterous impact of these centres for the environment and communities.