2023-10-01: News Headlines

Editor (2023-09-30). 'Systemic racism' rampant in U.S. police, judiciary: UN. mronline.org The UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law Enforcement calls on authorities to amp up efforts of reform.

midwesternmarx (2023-09-30). Venezuela: Gov't to Launch China-Backed Anti-Poverty Program. By: Andreína Chávez Alava. midwesternmarx.com The Social Equality and Happiness Mission will adapt the Chinese experience to the Caribbean country's reality to alleviate poverty and inequality. Caracas, September 21, 2023 (venezuelanalysis.com) — The Venezuelan government has announced a new social program focused on fighting poverty and inequality, which will be supported by China's International Poverty Reduction Center.​On Monday, during his weekly TV program, President Nicolás Maduro said&nbsp …

Gavin OReilly (2023-10-01). No Jab. No Education? Lockdowns and QR codes Worldwide. Big Pharma's Stranglehold on Schools. globalresearch.ca

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-01). Michael Chong: US' Point Man for Canada-China Policy. libya360.wordpress.com Truth Bomb Media In the political sphere, Canadian civic education emphasizes placing trust in our elected officials, anticipating that they will prioritize the collective good, embody unyielding integrity, and advocate for transparency. Foremost, the welfare of our nation should be their guiding concern. However, the embodiment of this ideal is not always observed, even in…

Christos Tsagkaris, Andreas S Papazoglou, Dimitrios V Moysidis, Stavros P Papadakos, Marios Papadakis (2023-09-30). Correspondence] Striving to afford free health care in Greece during COVID-19. thelancet.com Greece is fortunate to have a public health-care system that provides free access to highly expensive investigations and treatments. However, the reality of understaffing and underfunding within the health-care system means that patients' relatives often have to accompany them day and night to assist with practical needs, such as dressing, eating, and the use of the lavatory. These dedicated, informal caregivers provide these services without any compensation or formal education, sacrificing their own physical, emotional, and social wellbeing.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-30). Malcolm X Academy: Reviving the Panthers' Legacy in 2023. libya360.wordpress.com Hanna Eid Drawing on inspiration from the Black Panther Party, PAIGC of Guinea-Bissau, and the Zapatistas' Chiapas school, the Malcolm X Academy is a welcome addition to the history of African struggle in the United States. Revolutionaries across America are reviving the legacy of the Black Panther Party (BPP) through education. I had a chance…

WSWS (2023-10-01). University and College Union sabotages UK national higher education strike. wsws.org Just 10 days before the action started, the UCU told local branches they could decide individually whether to withdraw from the walkout. This resulted in workers at less than one third of universities (42) being involved.

Areeba Shah (2023-09-30). GOP Waging Coordinated Effort to Undermine US Elections, Says Leading Official. truthout.org Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat viewed as a national leader in voting rights, has received 67 death threats and over 900 threats of online abuse within just three weeks, according to a system used by her office that tracks harassment and threats against election workers. In 2020, Griswold's office launched a "rapid response" election security unit, a team of election security… |

Dominic Alexander (2023-09-30). "Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income" — book review. mronline.org "Welfare for Markets" exposes the neoliberal links of basic income, and helps to explain why it is not a useful demand for the left, argues Dominic Alexander…

Editor (2023-09-30). Lacking moral, political and representative legitimacy: the election of Kasselakis. mronline.org Americans and Tsipras are murdering SYRIZA.

Editor (2023-09-30). The perilous path from Western domination to de-dollarisation. mronline.org One of the major problems faced by Global South countries is that they are saddled with immense debts in dollars, and Western corporations claim ownership over their resources.

Vijay Prashad (2023-09-30). Shouldn't the United Kingdom and France relinquish their permanent seats at the United Nations?: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2023). mronline.org At its fifteenth summit in August 2023, the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) group adopted the Johannesburg II Declaration, which, amongst other issues, raised the question of reforming the United Nations, particularly its security council. To make the UN Security Council (UNSC) 'more democratic, representative, effective, and efficient, and to increase the representation of developing countries', BRICS urged the expansion of the council's membership to include countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Keating Zelenke, . (2023-10-01). Student-Loan Debtors Weigh Options As Debt-Payment Moratorium Expires. popularresistance.org "I'm thinking about the interest that's going to be accruing, on top of each loan, and I'm like, okay, that's going to total maybe $1,000 a month," says Rachel Jerome of the upcoming federal student-loan payment ≠resumption. | After Jerome earned her bachelor's degree, she realized that her career goals were much different than when she was 18 years old. She wanted to switch gears and go back to school for a master's in strategic communications, so she attended an online program at Syracuse University while working full-time at a nonprofit and living with her parents. | COVID-19 induced a federal moratorium on…

Pavel López Lazo (2023-10-01). Cuba present at the Latin American Cultural Festival in Bucharest. plenglish.com At the headquarters of the National Museum of Romanian Literature, an important cultural institution, Cuba was presented with an online conference given by the National Literature Prize-winner Reynaldo Gonzalez. | The exhibition dealt with the origins of Cuban literature as a manifestation of national independence, an exhibition by Cuban photographer Sonia Almaguer Darna and Romanian photographer Miki Puran. | Plus, the film "Nido de Mantis", by Cuban director Arturo Sotto, was screened. There was also a reading of a chapter from a novel by author Vladimir Perez Casal as well as debates on elements of 19th centur…

teleSUR (2023-09-30). Kenya: Progress To Boosting Child Online Safety, Unicef. telesurenglish.net On Friday, a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) official said that Kenya is making progress in enhancing child online safety amid the rapid proliferation of the internet. | Related: | According to Eri Mathers Suzuki, chief of child protection at the UNICEF Kenya office, the East African nation has established a multi-sectoral technical working group comprising UN agencies, government bodies and civil society to lea…

Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. (2023-10-01). With No Reform Caucus, Auto Workers Would Not Be On Strike. popularresistance.org One lesson is that member power does not have to start from a supermajority; that's unlikely. UAW members are on strike today, with inspiring levels of rank-and-file energy, because four years ago a small group of activists founded a new reform caucus. That caucus, Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), boldly took advantage of an unexpected opportunity, organized like crazy, and won elections. Its candidates are now leading the union. | If UAWD had not existed and organized hard, this current fight that has potential to change the stakes for the entire labor movement would not be happening.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-30). Ethiopia and China sign agreement for technology center of excellence. plenglish.com Addis Ababa, Sep 30 (Prensa Latina) The construction of a technological center of excellence with workshops for professional training and research, is the objective of a contract signed by the Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU) and a corporation from China, it was announced today.

midwesternmarx (2023-09-30). Petro to Travel to China to Discuss Transportation Projects. By: TeleSur. midwesternmarx.com President Petro hopes the Asian nation can help Colombia with transportation projects based on the use of trains and electric technologies. On Thursday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that he will travel to Beijing, where he will meet with President Xi Jinping to discuss the future of Bogota's subway. Its construction is currently being handled by a Chinese consortium."I have an interview with the Chinese president on October 25," he said, adding that he hopes the Asian nati …

Staff (2023-09-30). 30 September, Berlin: Demonstration in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners and against anti-Palestinian repression. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is organizing a demonstration on Saturday, 30 September at 1 pm in Berlin, Germany, in Hermannplatz, in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, the resistance in occupied Palestine, and as part of the

Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence. (2023-09-30). A Major Win Against Factory Farming In Oregon. popularresistance.org In July, Gov. Tina Kotek signed Oregon Senate Bill 85, which places a moratorium on factory farms' ability to use unlimited amounts of groundwater. While some advocates consider the bill to be a diluted compromise, it has potential to significantly limit the destructive activities of CAFOs in a state where a healthy remnant of the family farming economy still thrives. On a national level, it represents the first major state legislative victory against factory farming in the U.S. in years. | SB 85 is the product of a years-long organizing effort, whose ultimate goal is to pass a full moratorium on new factory farm…

Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles (2023-10-01). Saturday 12/9: Creative Workshop: Collaborative Collage. indybay.org 901 E 3rd Street | Los Angeles, CA 90013…

Jacob Andrewartha, Jordan AK (2023-10-01). Victoria's housing plan — a win for developers, a loss for public housing. greenleft.org.au The Victorian state Labor government's Housing Statement allows for residential developments valued at more than $50 million to be fast-tracked, proposes the demolition of all public housing towers for public-private development and sells off public land to developers, report Jacob Andrewartha and Jordan AK.

Jacob Andrewartha, Jordan AK (2023-10-01). Victoria's housing plan — a win for developers, a loss for public housing. greenleft.org.au The Victorian state Labor government's Housing Statement allows for residential developments valued at more than $50 million to be fast-tracked, proposes the demolition of all public housing towers for public-private development and sells off public land to developers, report Jacob Andrewrtha and Jordan AK.

Labor Video Project (2023-10-01). SF Labor Community Rally To Defend Community Space at Redstone Labor Temple. indybay.org

Labor Video Project (2023-10-01). Government Shutdown: An Attack On All Workers! Gilbert Galam AFGE1230 TSA Worker & Leader. indybay.org The government is shutting down and millions of workers and the public will be affected. Gilbert Galam who is with AFGE Local 1230 where he Is legislative & political director and is a TSA worker talks about the last shut down and why this is an attack on the entire working class.

United Front Committee for A Labor Party (2023-10-01). All Out Support Striking UAW Members! 32 hours Work for 40 Hours Pay, No Two Tiers, & COLA. indybay.org The United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCCLP supports the demands of the UAW for 32 hours work for 40 hours pay, an end to tiers and a COLA. It also supports uniting the entire working class for a general strike especially connected to the attack on the working class by the government shutdown. It also calls for workers to control and benefit from AI but that requires a mass workers party that will run the country for the working class.

Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles (2023-09-30). Saturday 12/9: Creative Workshop: Collaborative Collage. indybay.org 901 E 3rd Street | Los Angeles, CA 90013…

Jeremy Fuster, Portside. (2023-09-30). Negotiating With Hollywood: Writers' Representatives Tell The Story. popularresistance.org Writers are finally back to work in Hollywood after the WGA and studios reached a deal, which has left many in the industry asking, "What took so long?" | Chris Keyser and David A. Goodman, the co-chairs of WGA's negotiating committee, pin the blame on the stall tactics that the studios used alongside the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, one that was rendered ineffective by the solidarity built between the WGA and other unions throughout the summer. | "The AMPTP was created in the 80s during the Reagan era, a very anti-labor time. Now, labor is reasserting itself over the last few years, and t…

Labor Video Project (2023-09-30). SF Labor Community Rally To Defend Community Space at Redstone Labor Temple. indybay.org

Labor Video Project (2023-09-30). Government Shutdown: An Attack On All Workers! Gilbert Galam AFGE1230 TSA Worker & Leader. indybay.org The government is shutting down and millions of workers and the public will be affected. Gilbert Galam who is with AFGE Local 1230 where he Is legislative & political director and is a TSA worker talks about the last shut down and why this is an attack on the entire working class.

teleSUR, lfb, DRL (2023-09-30). Cuba aprueba legislación contra discriminación y acoso laboral. telesurtv.net Esta herramienta legal permitirá la identificación, prevención y control, así como la capacitación de los trabajadores y empleadores ante escenarios discriminación, violencia y acoso laboral.

United Front Committee for A Labor Party (2023-09-30). All Out Support Striking UAW Members! 32 hours Work for 40 Hours Pay, No Two Tiers, & COLA. indybay.org The United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCCLP supports the demands of the UAW for 32 hours work for 40 hours pay, an end to tiers and a COLA. It also supports uniting the entire working class for a general strike especially connected to the attack on the working class by the government shutdown. It also calls for workers to control and benefit from AI but that requires a mass workers party that will run the country for the working class.

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. (2023-10-01). Canada, Ukraine, And Nazis. popularresistance.org There is something especially satisfying when one's opponents help make a case for something they have denied. Recently the Canadian government did just that. Their effort to prop up the failing Ukraine proxy war instead exposed that country's Nazi past and present. | Ukraine has been a divided nation ever since its founding as a state after World War I. Its population is divided by language with Ukrainian and Russian speakers, with some favoring its status as a Soviet republic while others were vehemently opposed. So strong was that faction that there were many Ukrainians who actively collaborated with German oc…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-01). On the road again – thanks to collaborative cancer care. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In a matter of months, Bill McDermott went from having abdominal pain and learning he had lymphoma to being told it was time for hospice care. What his family did next would steer him in an entirely different direction. Although he doesn't remember all of the details, Bill McDermott says he began having abdominal issues and pain in mid-2021. He went in for some tests at a local hospital, where he got a diagnosis…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-01). Mayo Clinic and GE HealthCare enter strategic collaboration to advance innovation in medical imaging and theranostics. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Combining the world-class clinical and research expertise of Mayo Clinic with the deep research, engineering, and product development expertise of GE HealthCare, this new collaboration aims to forge an integrated innovation engine to advance the practice of radiology and care to patients worldwide. ROCHESTER, Minn. ‚Äï Today, Mayo Clinic and GE HealthCare announce a strategic healthcare collaboration for research and product development programs aimed to transform the experience of patients and clinicians in the practice…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-01). At-home COVID-19 tests: A Mayo Clinic expert answers questions on expiration dates and the new variants. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org COVID-19 at-home antigen test At-home COVID-19 tests allow you to collect your sample and detect active COVID-19 infections. But what if you have at-home COVID-19 tests nearing expiration or expired on your shelf? Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, says companies set the original test dates arbitrarily due to these diagnostic at-home tests being developed rapidly. So, check your boxes before you toss them. "Now that we are 3 1/2 years into…

teleSUR (2023-09-30). Kenya: Land & Funds Allocated, Public Health Emergencies, WHO. telesurenglish.net "This strategic initiative, falling under the Operations Support and Logistics (OSL) pillar, addresses a critical gap in managing the numerous public health emergencies faced by WHO-AFRO, totaling over 142 ongoing crises encompassing disease outbreaks and humanitarian challenges." | WHO's Regional Emergency Hub reflects Kenya's commitment to global health collaboration. Sep. 30, 2023.

krish-rad_ind (2023-09-30). Twenty-Five Thousand Auto Workers Are Now on Strike at the Big 3. labornotes.org

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-01). After a five day strike, Inghams Chickens' workers win better pay and conditions. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-01). Inghams Chickens workers strike for a decent pay rise. greenleft.org.au

Susan Price (2023-10-01). Building ties between workers & the climate justice movement. greenleft.org.au The Global Ecosocialist Network brought together labour and climate justice activists from Africa, Asia, the United States and Europe, in June, to discuss how to build stronger links, reports Susan Price.

Alexis Moncada (2023-09-30). Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers set to strike. liberationnews.org More than 60,000 California healthcare workers have authorized a strike at Kaiser Permanente — signaling the possibility of the largest healthcare strike in United States history.

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-30). After a five day strike, Inghams Chickens' workers win better pay and conditions. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-30). Inghams Chickens workers strike for a decent pay rise. greenleft.org.au

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-30). Parliamentary Investigation of MST Ends with the Movement Strengthened. libya360.wordpress.com Brasil de Fato Ricardo Salles was the commission's rapporteur. Photo: Vinicius Loures/Câmara dos Deputados The movement was facing attacks from the MVPs of Bolsonarism and the agribusiness sector, but it has emerged victorious On Wednesday September 27, the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (also known as CPI) that investigated the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) came…

Luis Feliz Leon (2023-09-30). Twenty-Five Thousand Auto Workers Are Now Striking Against the Big 3 Automakers. truthout.org Seven thousand Auto Workers at two more assembly plants walked off the job on Friday, UAW President Shawn Fain announced in a Facebook Live appearance this morning. Joining the strike are Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant and General Motors' Lansing Delta Township Assembly in Michigan. Fain announced that Stellantis would be spared this time. The union had been expected to expand the strike today at… |

Marjorie Cohn (2023-09-30). Right-Dominated Supreme Court Is Poised to Do Grave Harm in Upcoming Term. truthout.org The 2023-2024 Supreme Court term will begin on Monday, October 2. Dominated by six right-wingers, the court has agreed to review cases in which voting rights, consumer protection, and the regulation of health and safety, workers' rights and the environment are in jeopardy. The cases present the issues of gerrymandering and the power of administrative agencies. In light of its recent conservative… |

Revolutionary Workers Front (2023-09-30). Monday 10/2: SF Speak Out-Stop Attacks On Civil Service &. Outsourcing/Privatization Using Non-Profits. indybay.org San Francisco City Hall | Room 400 | San Francisco…

WSWS (2023-09-30). Maui wildfire survivors plea for increased aid and insurance payouts as Hawaiian Electric deflects responsibility. wsws.org Through multiple hearings and townhalls across the island and in Wasington D.C., politicians have sought to suppress enormous opposition boiling over among workers and youth through feigned concern for those desperate for relief.

WSWS (2023-09-30). Enough is enough! For an all-out strike of all Big Three autoworkers! wsws.org Workers want to join the walkout, but we have to develop the means to overrule the biggest strikebreakers of all—Fain and the rest of the UAW bureaucracy.

WSWS (2023-09-30). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific. wsws.org India: 20,000 ASHA Accredited Social Health Activist workers continue strike Haryana; Sri Lankan academic educators protest nationally over tax increases and excessive workloads; Australia: Firefighters in Victoria demonstrate for improved work agreement…

dzorinoco (2023-10-01). Nicaragua: Putting People First. orinocotribune.com By Roger McKenzie — Aug 29, 2023 | Estelí, the eighth-largest city of the Central American nation, the de facto capital of the north, is also the country's main tobacco production region. The land around Estelí is ideal for growing cigar tobacco and the city became a conclave for Cuban cigar makers who left the Caribbean island after the revolution in 1959. Since that time Estelí has become one of the most important cigar producing cities anywhere in the world. | Tobacco and the health problems that arise from it for the workers who produce it and the smokers that use it seemed to me a good place to look at…

Lucy Dean Stockton, The Lever. (2023-10-01). Automakers' Electric Vehicle Lie. popularresistance.org The United Auto Workers are entering their third week of the first-ever simultaneous strike against the three big automakers, and for the first time, a sitting US president, Joe Biden, joined them on the picket line. Executives at General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis are pushing back on worker demands by invoking the climate crisis. They say it is impossible to give workers what they want while also making a swift transition to manufacturing electric vehicles. | On September 14, Ford's CEO Jim Farley said that the union's demands — higher wages, better hours, an end to tiered employment, and guaranteed job…

Pete Dolack (2023-10-01). It's a Capitalist World. counterpunch.org Image by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona. | Conditions for working people continue to get worse. The right to strike, or to join a union, is denied by increasing numbers of the world's governments. The 2023 Global Rights Index report issued by the International Trade Union Confederation makes for grim reading, as has consistently been the case for the decade that the ITUC has issued its yearly reports. | Once again, there is no country on Earth that fully protects workers' rights, the

presstv.ir (2023-10-01). UK retailers urge government action amid rising crime rates. presstv.ir UK retailers raise the alarm about rising crime levels, urging government to take action.

A Guest Author (2023-09-30). Zionists will always call us antisemitic. workers.org By Nicki Kattoura The author is a Palestinian editor, writer, and organizer based in Philadelphia. Ask any Palestinian or accomplice to the movement, and it is almost a guarantee that they were called antisemitic for expressing their anti-Zionist politics. The Zionist accusation has become so commonplace that it is to . . . |

guest author (2023-09-30). 'Wuthering Heights' at four summits. workers.org A Venezuelan international relations expert, Rodriguez Gelfenstein was previously Director of the International Relations of the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, his country's ambassador to Nicaragua and an adviser for international politics for TeleSUR. X: @sergioro0701 Translation: John Catalinotto. The title of this article alludes to an extraordinary . . . |

krish-rad_ind (2023-09-30). Workers Win Big After Months Long Strike. youtu.be

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2023-10-01). Before His Assassination, JFK Sought Peace With The Soviet Union. popularresistance.org We will never know the world that could have been had President John F. Kennedy's assassination never taken place, but an inkling of how things could have been different can be found in the final months of his life. In his new book, To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace, Jeffrey Sachs unearths JFK's final political campaign—to establish a secure and lasting peace with the Soviet Union. How far did JFK's efforts go? What sort of progress was made on ending the Cold War, not through the collapse of the Soviet Union, but rather through mutual cooperation and understanding? To answer these questions and more…

repost (2023-10-01). DiFiFoYum: Feinstein For Sale. indybay.org Diane Feinstein has a long record of conflicts of interest, war mongering, corruption and pushing privatization and union busting.

infobrics (2023-09-30). Is Pashinyan the new Saakashvili?>. infobrics.org The unflattering fate of Saakashvili should serve as a stark warning to Pashinyan. Perhaps he should take some lessons from one of Saakashvili's more successful successors, namely Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili who correctly understood that NATO expansion in the former Soviet Union is invariably aimed against Russia and that the countries the political West uses against Moscow in this process are seen as acceptable collateral damage (that is, mere pawns).

People's Dispatch. (2023-09-30). Protests Against Mining Concession Given To Company Intensify In Panama. popularresistance.org Since early August, Panamanian trade unions, Indigenous groups, and people's movements have been taking to the streets in different parts of the country in rejection of a concession contract signed in March between the government of President Laurentino Cortizo and Minera Panamá S.A., a subsidiary of the Canadian multinational mining company First Quantum Minerals Limited. | The contract allows the mining company to continue operations at one of Central America's largest open-pit copper mines, Cobre Panamá, for 20 years, with the possibility of extending the period for another 20 years. It also authorizes the com…

WSWS (2023-09-30). Sri Lankan SEP celebrates comrade R.M. Gunathilake's 85th birthday. wsws.org Jayasekera said that Gunathilake had not wavered one iota from his struggle for revolutionary principles, despite immense difficulties, including state witch-hunts, the thuggery of goons and the treachery of the trade union bureaucracies.

Editor (2023-09-30). A Major Win Against Factory Farming Points to a Powerful New Direction for the Climate Movement. scheerpost.com

JANET (2023-09-30). Cash, cars and gold bars — and the crooks who slander Cuba. iacenter.org September 27, 2023 Senator Bob Menendez, in the news recently, is nothing but a front man for the Cuban right-wing Gusanos, those worms who left Cuba after the 1959 revolution stopped their exploitation and theft. The Democrat from New Jersey is notorious for his furious rants against Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and any country that dares to pursue a socialist path. Menendez has taken up other despicable causes, such as backing the "Israel Anti-Boycott Act" that would criminalize free speech in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). As recently as May 11, Menendez sent a vicious message…

JANET (2023-09-30). Zionists will always call us antisemitic. iacenter.org By Nicki Kattoura The author is a Palestinian editor, writer, and organizer based in Philadelphia. Ask any Palestinian or accomplice to the movement, and it is almost a guarantee that they were called antisemitic for expressing their anti-Zionist politics. The Zionist accusation has become so commonplace that it is to be expected in response to any vocal support for Palestine. Nevertheless, as much as it can be anticipated, it can still be reputationally devastating and traumatizing for the people going through it. Banner welcoming participants to Palestine Writes Festival on UPenn campus, Philadelphia, Sept. 22-…

Staff (2023-09-30). 6 October, NYC: Holy Land 5 Film Screening and Discussion with Nida Abu Baker and Stop Cop City Activists. samidoun.net Join Samidoun NY/NJ, together with Within Our Lifetime and Dare to Struggle, for a screening of Holy Land 5 on Friday October 6th at 7: 00pm! Screening will be followed by a discussion with Nida Abu Baker, daughter of co-founder Shukri Abu Baker, and activists from the Stop Cop City movement. Holy Land 5 is an …

Staff (2023-09-30). #StandWithZaid campaign grows with international and German events, 230+ endorsers. samidoun.net The campaign is growing in Germany and around the world to #StandWithZaid: Zaid Abdulnasser, a Palestinian refugee from Syria, coordinator of the Samidoun Network in Germany and active with the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement. Dozens of additional organizations have signed on to the statement, while postering campaigns, actions and events are …

Nitza Soledad Perez (2023-10-01). U.S. grants work permits to nearly half a million Venezuelans. america.cgtn.com The U.S. government gave legal migrant status and work permits to almost half a million Venezuelans amid a surge in illegal crossings at the southern border. | The policy, though welcomed by city leaders strained by the wave of new migrants, has others fearing that this will attract more undocumented migrants to the country. | CGTN's Nitza Soledad Perez reports.

ecns.cn (2023-10-01). Consultation helps take ties 'step forward'. ecns.cn Analysts said Beijing and Washington "made one step forward" this week in advancing working-level pragmatic discussions on managing differences, as senior diplomats from both sides convened in Washington DC for a China-US consultation on Asia-Pacific affairs, which was the first of its kind.

ecns.cn (2023-09-30). Consultation helps take ties 'step forward'. ecns.cn Analysts said Beijing and Washington "made one step forward" this week in advancing working-level pragmatic discussions on managing differences, as senior diplomats from both sides convened in Washington DC for a China-US consultation on Asia-Pacific affairs, which was the first of its kind.

WSWS (2023-09-30). Looming US government shutdown targets the working class. wsws.org The budget impasse at the center of world imperialism takes the form of a savage intensification of the attack on the working class.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-01). Mayo Clinic Minute: Red flags for heart failure during pregnancy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the U.S. Deaths from heart disease in women who are pregnant or delivered a baby within one year has increased over the previous 30 years. Dr. Demilade (Demi-lad-ay) Adedinsewo (Ah-ded-in-shay-woah), a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, explains the red flags for heart failure during pregnancy and how healthcare professionals are working to detect the condition earlier. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/DCgDX2yvUc0 Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg…

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