(2022-01-11). Friday 1/14: MLK22 Weekend Film Festival: Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (Day 1). indybay.org Online via Zoom registration (FREE)…
(2022-01-11). Friday 2/18: "Mi MariÃÅa": First Hand Accounts of Surviving Puerto Rico's Devastating Hurricane. indybay.org Online event via Zoom…
(2022-01-11). Saturday 1/15: MLK22 Weekend Film Festival: Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (Day 2). indybay.org Online via Zoom registration (FREE)…
(2022-01-11). Cuba shows an alternative to Big Pharma hegemony through global solidarity. mronline.org 
Cuba puts people before profits — showing the world an alternative to the monopolistic practices of Big Pharma. It promotes a public health system, state-funded research and shows global solidarity through tech transfer and vaccine delivery to developing countries.
(2022-01-11). Saturday 2/5: Lunar New Year 2022: Aimusic Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra (Virtual). indybay.org Online event…
(2022-01-11). Sunday 1/16: MLK22 Weekend Film Festival: Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (Day 3). indybay.org Online via Zoom registration (FREE)…
(2022-01-11). Wednesday 1/12: Shout Out Against the OVO [Oversized Vehicle Ordinance]. indybay.org ZOOMED Meeting with the Zoning Administrator 10 AM 1-12 | PRIOR TO THE MEETING: | You may comment online at: http: //www.cityofsantacruz.com/za during the open comment period starting 5pm on 12/31/21 through 12pm on 1/4/22 or | send an email to cityplan@cityofsantacruz.com (if you wish to include attachments) | DURING THE MEETING: We recommend you call in at the start of the meeting, 10 AM. If you wish to speak on any item, both computer and phone audio will be available when it is your turn to speak. | Click on Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/81634465483 | Or, Call any of the numbers below. If one is busy, t…
(2022-01-11). Monday 1/17: MLK22 Weekend Film Festival: Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (Day 4). indybay.org Online via Zoom registration (FREE)…
(2022-01-11). Wednesday 1/12: Guantánamo, Off the Record: 20 Years in the Fight. indybay.org Online event via Zoom…
(2022-01-11). U.S.-Russia talks may be the last chance. mronline.org 
It's crunch time in Russia-U.S. relations. High-level talks starting Monday will determine the shape of world security for decades to come, observes Tony Kevin.
(2022-01-10). Thursday 1/20: Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship. indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2022-01-10). Kazakhstan turns into graveyard for U.S. diplomacy. mronline.org 
The Kazakh Ministry of Health issued an innocuous disclaimer today denying social media reports about the seizure of a "military biological lab near Almaty by unidentified people."
(2022-01-10). Kazakhstan crisis 'attempted coup' — President. rt.com 
Tokayev thanks Russia for assistance in dealing with worst incident "in the history of the country" | Last week's unrest throughout Kazakhstan was an attempted coup that had been planned in advance, and was not simply a spontaneous protest against rising fuel prices, the country's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev claimed on Monday. | Speaking to an online meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), made up of six former Soviet republics, Tokayev also stated that constitutional order had been restored. | "Kazakhstan has experienced the worst crisis in the history of its 30-year independence,"
(2022-01-10). Three important books on race in America for deep winter reading. peoplesworld.org 
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." —William Faulkner (1950) Let's consider a trio of books that can be helpful in gaining a deeper understanding of racism, both its practice and its ideological components, including in the current period. Most current of the three is The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (2021), …
(2022-01-10). Week two of forced in-person school begins in Massachusetts amid record COVID case counts. wsws.org After record COVID-19 cases, teacher absences and disrupted classes, students and teachers faced an unprecedented surge of the pandemic in schools across Massachusetts in the first week of classes in 2022. Governor Charlie Baker and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education have mandated that K-12 schools remain open for in-person learning despite these dangerous conditions.
(2022-01-10). Norway Finds Education Gaps Between Immigrants, Ethnic Norwegians. sputniknews.com In Norway, immigrants have been found to do worse on standardised national tests, and a smaller proportion of them pursue an upper secondary education or higher education altogether.
(2022-01-10). Sex education gains steam in south China primary schools. ecns.cn To improve sex education among young people, a school in south China's Hainan Province is promoting a unique awareness program, with teachers imparting knowledge about the private parts of the human body.
(2022-01-10). Oakland Students Petition For School District To Go To Remote Learning. popularresistance.org Oakland, Calif. — Following a planned "sick-out" on Friday where more than 500 teachers across the Oakland Unified School District called out of work sick, hundreds of students within the district have come together in an online petition demanding increased COVID-19 protocols or else they'll strike. | Students at schools in Oakland Unified School District are now demanding increased COVID-19 protocols and supplies. | If their demands are not met, they plan to boycott showing up for in-person classes. | "We are demanding KN95 masks for all of the students because they're not easily accessible to them, twice…
(2022-01-10). Tuesday 1/25: Reframing the Constitution: The Continuing Struggle to Realize a More Perfect Union. indybay.org Online event…
(2022-01-10). Saturday 1/15: MLK22 Weekend Film Festival: Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (Day 2). indybay.org Online via Zoom registration (FREE)…
(2022-01-10). Monday 1/10: 2022 Voting Rights State of Play: Taking Action to Protect the Vote. indybay.org Online event…
(2022-01-10). Wednesday 1/12: Freedom to Vote and Reproductive Rights: The Intersection and The Impact. indybay.org Online event (FREE)…
(2022-01-10). Bennett Warns Israel Won't Be Bound by Any Iran Nuclear Deal, Will 'Reserve Freedom of Action'. sputniknews.com Tehran, other signatories of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Iran nuclear deal, and the United States have been negotiating on bringing the agreement back online. Israel has repeatedly threatened to carry out strikes against the Islamic Republic targeting its nuclear programme, either unilaterally or in coordination with Washington.
(2022-01-10). Wednesday 1/12: Shout Out Against the OVO [Oversized Vehicle Ordinance]. indybay.org ZOOMED Meeting with the Zoning Administrator 10 AM 1-12 | PRIOR TO THE MEETING: | You may comment online at: http: //www.cityofsantacruz.com/za during the open comment period starting 5pm on 12/31/21 through 12pm on 1/4/22 or | send an email to cityplan@cityofsantacruz.com (if you wish to include attachments) | DURING THE MEETING: We recommend you call in at the start of the meeting, 10 AM. If you wish to speak on any item, both computer and phone audio will be available when it is your turn to speak. | Click on Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/81634465483 | Or, Call any of the numbers below. If one is busy, t…
(2022-01-10). China steps up crackdown on harmful, illegal content. ecns.cn China investigated and handled over 13,000 cases related to online and offline activities involving vulgar content and illegal publications in 2021, according to official statistics.
(2022-01-10). Netizens Troll AOC for Catching COVID-19 After Partying Maskless in Florida. sputniknews.com Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has triggered a furor online after she was seen several times breaching coronavirus guidance during the Christmas holidays.
(2022-01-10). PayPal may launch own cryptocoin. rt.com 
Global online payment system mulls creating own crypto, but looks to US dollar for support | Tech giant PayPal is preparing to launch its own crypto token, the company confirmed after signs of the move were found on its iPhone app. | "We are exploring a stablecoin; if and when we seek to move forward, we will of course, work closely with relevant regulators," the head of PayPal's crypto department, Jose Fernandez da Ponte, said in a statement to Bloomberg News. | The company is looking at creating a stablecoin — a cryptocurrency backed by the value of a fiat currency or commodity. | PayPal's move to creat…
(2022-01-10). Women's rights in environmental law, from 1972 to today. mronline.org 
Important progress has been made, but now is the time to place women's rights at the heart of transnational environmental law.
(2022-01-10). Sunday 1/16: MLK22 Weekend Film Festival: Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (Day 3). indybay.org Online via Zoom registration (FREE)…
(2022-01-10). Nothing natural about this disaster. mronline.org 
Profit over people kills workers in the Midwest.
(2022-01-10). Friday 1/14: MLK22 Weekend Film Festival: Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (Day 1). indybay.org Online via Zoom registration (FREE)…
(2022-01-10). When comic books threatened the U.S.A. (and the world). mronline.org 
Hank Kennedy reminds us of a period of all-sided culture war against comic books, pointing at its lessons and aftermath today.
(2022-01-10). Women in the Haitian Revolution. mronline.org 
Black women in the French-speaking world have been marginalized throughout history and even if they did not lack autonomy within the family unit (which often they did), they certainly suffered as a result of their colonial status. This often created double oppression.
(2022-01-10). Monday 1/17: MLK22 Weekend Film Festival: Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (Day 4). indybay.org Online via Zoom registration (FREE)…
(2022-01-10). The U.S. is intentionally strangling Venezuela. mronline.org 
The consequences of the current U.S. sanctions regime, and collusion with the Venezuelan opposition, have been devastating for the Venezuelan people. Against a suffocating embargo and corrupt bureaucracy, the revolution will survive only if the grassroots reinvent it.