2023-06-22: News Headlines

Katherine Demby (2023-06-22). Private Equity Influence Is at the Heart of Cop City, Report Reveals. truthout.org In the dawn hours of June 6, the Atlanta City Council voted 11-4 to approve funding for the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, an 85-acre police and fire training facility that plans to include a shooting range, a gym, and an urban environment simulation featuring an apartment building, a house, a nightclub, and a gas station. The city council vote is just the latest in a string of actions on… |

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-06-22). Addressing cancer concerns in the LGBTQ+ community. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org During June, many cities and towns around the U.S. and the world celebrate and raise awareness of the LGBTQ+ community's accomplishments and the ongoing fight for equality and acceptance. When it comes to health, the LGBTQ+ community faces increased cancer concerns. Stigma and discrimination create barriers to health care, placing the LGBTQ+ community at heightened risk for certain forms of cancer. Being aware of cancer risks and finding ways to overcome these challenges can be lifesaving. Mayo…

rebekah (2023-06-22). The Power of Fiction in Social Change. inequality.org On May 19th, Tope Folarin — an award-winning novelist and executive director of the Institute for Policy Studies — and Chuck Collins — an IPS scholar and co-editor of Inequality.org — held a virtual discussion about Collins' new novel, Altar to An Erupting Sun. The novel looks back at several of the powerful U.S. social …

Amy Goodman (2023-06-22). Expert Who Met With Biden Explains How AI Is Enabling Racism and Sexism. truthout.org We speak with Dr. Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, who met this week with President Biden in a closed-door discussion with other artificial intelligence experts and critics about the need to explore the promise and risk of AI. The computer scientist and coding expert has long raised alarm about how AI and algorithms are enabling racist and sexist bias. We discuss examples… |

krish-rad_ind (2023-06-22). Reshaping American Racism, or REPLACING American Racism? theduran.com

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2023-06-22). Europa: Muerte, racismo, indiferencia y complicidad institucionalizada. indybay.org "Directrices racistas europeas": | En naufragio frente a Grecia se ahogan cientos de migrantes…

Staff (2023-06-22). How AI Is Enabling Racism & Sexism: Algorithmic Justice League's Joy Buolamwini on Meeting with Biden. democracynow.org We speak with Dr. Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, who met this week with President Biden in a closed-door discussion with other artificial intelligence experts and critics about the need to explore the promise and risk of AI. The computer scientist and coding expert has long raised alarm about how AI and algorithms are enabling racist and sexist bias. We discuss examples, and she lays out what should be included in the White House's "Vision for Protecting Our Civil Rights in the Algorithmic Age."…

Masha Borak (2023-06-22). Civil Society Groups Warn About EU Digital ID Wallet Privacy, Discrimination Risks. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2023-06-22). New U.S. anti-immigrant measures: Militarization, and discrimination watches over the border. mronline.org It is hard to imagine it could get any worse, but another calamitous situation has been created at the U.S.-Mexico border due to the new policies implemented by Joe Biden's administration, which have forced hundreds of migrants to wait on the Mexican side.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-06-22). Cancer and the LGBTQ+ community: Mayo Clinic expert addresses key topics. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Being diagnosed with cancer is a hardship on its own, but it's especially challenging if a person is a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Jewel Kling, M.D., director of women's health at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, explains that stigma and discrimination create barriers to healthcare, placing the LGBTQ+ community at heightened risk for certain forms of cancer due to delayed cancer screenings as well as challenges with survivorship care. Increased cancer risks…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-06-22). Cuban higher education contributes to local development. plenglish.com Havana, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban Ministry of Higher Education (MES) has been implementing a series of innovations in university admissions so as to contribute to the local development's interests in the municipalities.

WSWS (2023-06-21). Abolish UK school inspectorate Ofsted—fully funded schools not punitive inspections! wsws.org The government announced minimal reforms and an inquiry, fearful that the outcry against Ofsted will coalesce with and further ignite the current struggle of teachers over pay, workload and education funding.

WSWS (2023-06-21). New strike dates announced as UK education unions promote below-inflation deals. wsws.org Tellingly, the education unions' main activity in recent weeks was to jump on a report by the Sunday Times, which published the leaked latest recommendations of the STRB, proposing a 6.5 percent wage rise for teachers for the 2023-24 pay round.

Editor (2023-06-22). Europe — fastest warming continent in world since 1980s, says WMO. mronline.org Temperatures over Europe have warmed significantly over the 1991-2021 period, at an average rate of about +0.5 ∞C per decade, making it the fastest warming region of all the WMO Regions…

Editor (2023-06-22). Learning from David Graeber. mronline.org We ask a number of activists and academics to tell us what David Graeber's work meant to them and the salient message it still carries today.

Editor (2023-06-22). On the dialectics of socialism and western Marxisms' purity fetish. mronline.org Gabriel Rockhill "one of my favorite jokes that I've heard about the socialist project is the following: socialism looks good on paper, but in reality… you just get invaded by the United States."

Fight Back (2023-06-22). FRSO fund drive surpasses $70,000. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – The Freedom Road Socialist Organization Fund Drive has now surpassed $70,000 and more money is coming in every day. | FRSO Organizational Secretary Tom Burke states, "The FRSO online fundraiser was a grand success. Now we need a push to achieve our final goal. The money we spend will make us bigger, badder and bolder in advancing the cause of the American working class." | Burke also urged local FRSO groups to follow up on folks who have made pledges. | To contribute to the fundraising drive, go to FRSO.org and hit the donate button. You can also donate by mailing a check made out to "Lucy Parso…

NARAL Pro-Choice (2023-06-22). Thursday 6/22: One Year Without Roe: The Current State of Abortion Access w/ NARAL Pro-Choice. indybay.org Online teach-in…

Peninsula Peace & Justice Center (2023-06-22). Thursday 6/22: Pride, Prejudice & Corporate P.R: Corporate Capitalism and Anti-LGBTQIA+ Hate. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

The Lever (2023-06-22). üéß LEVER TIME: Boots Riley On The Writers Strike, Organized Labor, And His New TV Show. levernews.com

Anonymous669 (2023-06-22). Syrian Druze In Occupied Golan Heights Clash With Israeli Police Over Wind Farm Project (Videos). southfront.org Druze face off against police during a protest against the construction of a new wind farm near the Druze village of Majdal Shams, in the Golan Heights, June 21, 2023. (Israel Police) | On June 21, thousands of Druze residents of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights protested against Israeli plans to set up a wind farm near the town of Majdal Shams. | The protestors burned tyres on key roads in the Golan Heights. They also hurled rocks, fireworks and Molotov cocktails at Israeli police…

teleSUR, dcdc, DRL (2023-06-22). Indígenas guatemaltecos rechazan candidatos pro militares. telesurtv.net En las elecciones, además de presidente y vicepresidente, se elegirá un nuevo Congreso (160 diputados) para el período 2024-2028.

WSWS (2023-06-22). UK nurses' strike in danger: union leader claims action has "hit the end of the road" wsws.org If the turnout in the current ballot fails to reach the legal threshold, it will not be down to any lack of will to fight among nurses, but a massive vote of no confidence in Cullen and the bureaucracy she heads.

WSWS (2023-06-22). Scapegoated nurse RaDonda Vaught fights for reinstatement of nursing license. wsws.org As nurses warned, Vaught's persecution has opened the door for increased attacks on healthcare workers made to pay for dangerous short staffing and conditions in hospitals driven by profit interests.

Anonymous Contributor (2023-06-22). Reflections on the Campaign Against the Turning Point USA/BLEXIT event in NYC. itsgoingdown.org Report on recent antifascist organizing campaign in New York City against Turning Point USA. From Monday, June 12th to Friday, June 16th, 2023, we — an informal coalition of NYC antifascists — launched a targeted campaign to shut down a Turning Point USA and BLEXIT event in our city. While the event ultimately did happen, we…

krish-rad_ind (2023-06-22). Signs U.S. Secretly Organizing For Military Take-Over of Ukraine. theduran.com

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-22). Political crisis deepens in Moldova as Constitutional Court bans pro-Russian »òor party. peoplesdispatch.org »òor, which has six MPs in the current parliament, is a pro-Russian conservative populist party that has been organizing fierce protests against the government's attempts to integrate Moldova into the European Union (EU) and its failure to tackle the ongoing cost of living crisis in the country…

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-06-22). Sindicatos se movilizan por mejoras laborales en Uruguay. telesurtv.net Por la implementación de iniciativas de mayor seguridad, los constructores uruguayos se concentraron ante las oficinas del Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social (MTSS).

WSWS (2023-06-22). Pseudo-left Socialist Alternative supports nationalist, pro-business indigenous Voice to Australian parliament. wsws.org Socialist Alternative acknowledges that the Voice to parliament has not emerged from the demands of Aboriginal workers and youth and will do nothing to address their plight, but insists that the Labor government's policy must be supported.

Editor (2023-06-22). The Need to Reform American Labor Laws. scheerpost.com By Bernie Sanders / CounterPunch We are living in a moment where corporate America and the 1% have more economic and political power than they have ever had in the history of our country. The time is long overdue for Congress to stand up for the working families of our country, 60% of whom live …

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-22). Environment coalition protests NT Labor's plans for more gas. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-22). Labor must be pushed on its inadequate housing plan. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-22). Protestors call on Vic Labor to save Barak Beacon housing estate. greenleft.org.au

JANET (2023-06-22). Eyewitness Xinjiang: the reality vs. U.S. propaganda. iacenter.org By Sara Flounders June 19, 2023 The author is a co-director of the International Action Center and a contributing editor to Workers World newspaper. A slightly abridged version of this article was published in Global Times. U.S. imperialism's hostility to China is increasing — with military threats, new rounds of sanctions and increasingly wild fabrications. The media have been saturated with allegations of human rights abuses, forced labor, religious persecution and "genocide" — especially of Uygur and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. Sara Flounders, Lee Siu Hin and Arjae Red in front of Id Kah M…

Labor Video Project (2023-06-22). Actor Danny Glover Becomes Honorary Member Of ILWU Local 10 On Juneteenth. indybay.org On Juneteenth ILWU Local 10 closed Ports throughout Northern California and made Danny Glover an honorary member of the Local.

Peter Novak (2023-06-22). Who determines the rules of the "rules-based world order"? indybay.org Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States – as well as the European Union with G7 observer status – that is the global West, for too long imagined that it was the world. In fact, colonialist exploitation and forced labor – in the case of Germany, also the Nazi policy of robbery – were the foundation of its power. But the world has changed.

Arjae Red (2023-06-22). Imperialist media can't stop lying about mosques in China. workers.org The writer participated in a delegation organized by the China/U.S. Solidarity Network that visited China from May 11 to May 31. Over the last few years, the U.S. media have routinely run stories accusing China of the erasure of Islam, in part based on the alleged mass demolition of mosques. . . . |

Ted Kelly (2023-06-22). Hunger strike threat by Palestinian prisoners forces concessions. workers.org Credit: Samidoun.net Over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, who had been held without charges by Israeli authorities, were poised to launch a mass hunger strike beginning on June 18. But in a statement by The Administrative Detainees' Committee of the Palestinian prisoners' movement, the strike has been postponed. Why? Because the organized . . . |

Monica Moorehead (2023-06-22). The real answer to end state repression. workers.org Two recent developments prove once again that police terror and extralegal terrorism are inextricably tied to white supremacy under capitalism. On June 2, an African American mother of four children, Ajike Owens, was fatally shot by her white neighbor, 58-year-old Susan Lorincz, in Ocala, Florida. Ajike Owens The 35-year-old Owens, . . . |

Will Hodgkinson (2023-06-22). Los incendios devastan las tierras y el aire indígenas. workers.org Algonquinos de las tierras de la Primera Nación del Lago Barriere, Quebec, Canadá. En todo el norte de Norteamérica, los incendios forestales siguen causando estragos, amenazando vidas y naciones indígenas y envenenando el aire de decenas de millones de personas. Originalmente agrupados en las Primeras Naciones que ocupan el oeste . . . |

WSWS (2023-06-22). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Italian airport workers hold national 24-hour strike over pay and conditions, grounding 3,000 flights; UK refuse workers' pay strike at Cumberland and Sandwell councils spreads to Hertfordshire and Selby; general strike in Iranian city of Saqqez to protest attempts to limit access to grave of Mahsa Amini, murdered by morality police; Nigerian unions suspend national fuel subsidy strike on empty promise of negotiating concessions…

Abdul Rahman (2023-06-22). Is the EU bribing and blackmailing Tunisia to crack down on migrants? peoplesdispatch.org The Workers' Party of Tunisia and human rights groups have condemned an agreement between the government and European countries which seeks to end "irregular migration." They say Tunisia will become a policeman for Europe and crack down on migrants…

krish-rad_ind (2023-06-22). Starbucks Agrees To Settlement For Violating Workers Rights In Seattle. popularresistance.org

Revolutionary Workers United Front (2023-06-22). Friday 6/23: Bridge Bannering for Peace and Justice. indybay.org We'll be on the pedestrian bridge over Geary at Webster near Japantown in San Francisco.

Staff (2023-06-22). Argentina: Repression Against Indigenous People in Jujuy (+Human Rights in Venezuela). orinocotribune.com Police repression of mass protests regarding provincial constitution reforms—threatening the right to protest and land workers' rights—have led to at least 68 people being arrested and 170 injured this Tuesday, June 20. The events in the lithium-rich province of Jujuy, Argentina, have mobilized spokespersons of the international community and human rights defenders around the world. | Reforms of the provincial constitution have deepened the differences between union organizations, indigenous communities, social movements, and the regional government of the opposition leader Gerardo Morales. Governor M…

thecommunists (2023-06-22). Homeless charity workers on strike for decent wages. thecommunists.org As at the time of writing, the workers at homelessness charity St Mungo's are entering their fourth week of strike action, fighting as so many workers across the country are doing to secure a wage rise that might offset the real-terms reduction they have suffered as a result of galloping inflation. Their demand for a …

Dianne Mathiowetz (2023-06-21). Week of action demands STOP COP CITY! workers.org Stop Cop City Solidarity has called a Week of Action for June 24-July 1, beginning with a kickoff barbecue and continuing with multiple protests throughout Atlanta. The call to action states in part: "We must continue to uplift the spirit of our beloved comrade Tortuguita, who was murdered in cold . . . |

Joe Piette (2023-06-21). Incarcerees organize unprecedented seminar against life sentences. workers.org For some Pennsylvania state legislators, incarcerated people belong in prison, no questions asked. "Lock 'em up and throw away the key," as the reactionary saying goes. State policies that sustain the mass incarceration of Black and Brown people and members of impoverished communities hinge on people not knowing the hidden . . . |

Gloria Rubac (2023-06-21). Abolitionists celebrate Juneteenth in Houston. workers.org Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement activists participated in the 10th Annual Acres Homes Juneteenth Parade on June 17, with signs and banners on a truck and a shiny red jeep. Activists spoke on a sound system to the hundreds lining West Montgomery Road in Northwest Houston. Texas Death Penalty Abolition . . . |

WSWS (2023-06-21). Craigavon postal worker speaks about dire working conditions after CWU blocks local industrial action. wsws.org Over 100 members of the Communication Workers Union sought to wage a fight against imposed revisions and the suspension of their two union reps back in February.

WSWS (2023-06-21). The Clarios strike and its lessons for the working class. wsws.org The Holland, Ohio workers fought a 40-day strike against the world's largest auto battery maker and the treachery of the United Auto Workers bureaucracy.

WSWS (2023-06-21). UAW announces tentative agreement at GE Aviation, while Spirit AeroSystems workers to vote on contract proposal Wednesday. wsws.org Thousands of aviation workers at GE Aerospace and Spirit AeroSystems are voting on contracts this week, amid indications of substantial anger over meagre terms.

Global Research News (2023-06-22). Selected Articles: African Peace Initiative Seeks to End War in Eastern Europe. globalresearch.ca By African Union (AU) member-states have refused to remain silent on the crisis between the Russian Federation and Ukraine since the beginning of the …

Cinnamon Janzer, Next City. (2023-06-22). What Ohio's Co-Op Evangelists Learned From Spain's Union Co-Op Network. popularresistance.org For his 91st birthday three years ago, Bob Moore, the namesake behind the ubiquitous Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods brand, surprised his employees during a celebration of his 91st birthday. He unveiled an Employee Stock Ownership Plan that, as of April that year, turned his roughly 600 employees into co-op owners of a company that generated more than $50 million in annual sales in 2018. | While Bob's Red Mill might be one of the most high-profile examples of an employee-owned business in the U.S., it's far from the only one—especially in Ohio. | For more than a decade, Co-op Cincy has been working to both cre…

krish-rad_ind (2023-06-22). What Ohio's Co-op Evangelists Learned From Spain's Thriving Union Co-op Network. nextcity.org

Natalia Marques (2023-06-22). Chinese-American worker and activist arrested for advocating for peace between US and China. peoplesdispatch.org Li Tang "Henry" Liang, a hotel worker active in his Boston local union, was suspended from his job after being indicted on federal charges…

PACBI (2023-06-22). Israel just murdered another footballer. PUMA is complicit. bdsmovement.net

Prabir Purkayastha (2023-06-22). Daniel Ellsberg matters more than ever to global peace movements. peoplesdispatch.org Daniel Ellsberg released the 'Pentagon Papers' which gave new life to a generation struggling against the US war on Vietnam. Though he is no longer with us, his commitment and goals never mattered more to the peace movement…

Stansfield Smith (2023-06-22). Liberal and "Left" Silence on National Security Police State When Used against Trump and His Supporters. dissidentvoice.org The National Security police state now regards the Democratic Party as a more useful tool to criminalize opposition to US wars and maintain their control over the US government. We see this in the attack on the Uhuru Movement as being in the pay of Russia, in the imprisonment and torture of Julian Assange, in …

unitedEditor (2023-06-21). Operation Belisarius: Eurasianist Strategy for the West. uwidata.com United World International continues publishing papers that were presented to the Global Multipolarity Confernce held on April 29. The conference was organized by Nova Resistência (Brazil), the New International Order Initiative (Türkiye), the International Eurasian Movement (Russia), the Thinkers' Forum (China) and the International Russophile Movement. Today we present the speech of Alexander Wolfheze philosopher …

Michelle Alejandra Silva (2023-06-22). DACA Recipients Are Under Attack Once Again. progressive.org Two recent legal challenges have placed more than 600,000 undocumented in danger of losing the only home they have known.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-06-22). "If You Challenge the FBI, they Will Crush You," Says Whistleblower at Congressional Hearing. covertactionmagazine.com Being an FBI agent was Stephen Friend's dream job. For eight and a half years working there, the Notre Dame graduate and Iraq War veteran investigated around 200 violent crimes, including human and sex-trafficking cases, and served five years as part of an FBI SWAT team. Friend did his job so well that he won …

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