(2022-01-17). Monday 1/17: Voting Rights Now! MLK Holiday Virtual Action Rally w/ Indivisible. indybay.org Virtual rally and online actions for voting rights…
(2022-01-17). Monday 1/17: MLK Day Deliver for Voting Rights Rally in Washington D. C. (livestream). indybay.org Online via livestream…
(2022-01-17). Sunday 1/16: Voting Rights Now! MLK Weekend Virtual Action Rally w/ Indivisible. indybay.org Virtual rally and online actions for voting rights…
(2022-01-17). Tuesday 1/18: Freedom to Vote: Phone Banking for Voting Rights w/ End Citizens United & Let America Vote. indybay.org Online/virtual action for voting rights…
(2022-01-17). Tuesday 2/15: Voting Rights Speaker: Activist LaTosha Brown, Black Voters Matter. indybay.org Online event…
(2022-01-17). UK income inequality worsens during pandemic. wsws.org UK average earnings for full-time work fell between 2019 and 2021 and soaring inflation and utility prices are reducing wages and living standards further.
(2022-01-17). Thursday 1/27: #EqualityNow: Rally for Equal Rights Amendment in Washington D.C. (livestream & actions). indybay.org Livestream of D.C. rally & online actions…
(2022-01-17). Covid kills poor as rich get richer — report. rt.com Oxfam says that the poor have died from vaccine inequality and a lack of access to treatment | Oxfam, a charity confederation, has said that while the wealth of the world's top 10 richest people has doubled during the pandemic, the poor around the globe continue to suffer due to a dearth of vaccines and treatment. | In a report published on Monday, Oxfam
(2022-01-17). How Scholars Are Countering Well-Funded Attacks on Critical Race Theory. zcomm.org There is a long history of right-wing forces fighting against progressive educational curricula. Now, scholars like Robin D. G. Kelley are working to level the playing field against the moneyed political interests behind the attacks…
(2022-01-17). Thursday 1/20: 'My Mother's Experience': Author Toby Asai Loftus on WWII Japanese American Incarceration. indybay.org Online event…
(2022-01-17). Wednesday 1/19: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts w/ author Rebecca Hall. indybay.org Online via Zoom or YouTube livestream…
(2022-01-17). Retail sales drop in December. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On Friday, January 14, the U.S. Department of Commerce reported that retail sales dropped 1.9% in December 2021. This number was called "terrible" by economists, who expected a very slight drop of 0.1%. Since the retail sales report is not adjusted for inflation, sales discounting higher prices fell almost 2.5%. | Many news reports tried to blame the new Omicron variant of COVID-19, which began to surge in the United States in December. But online sales, which usually go up when people don't want to shop in stores because of the pandemic, fell a much sharper 8.7% in December, more than four times…
(2022-01-17). Saturday 2/19: San Jose Day of Remembrance: 80th Anniversary EO 9066 WWII Japanese American Incarceration. indybay.org Virtual/online remembrance program…
(2022-01-16). Monday 1/17: Voting Rights Now! MLK Holiday Virtual Action Rally w/ Indivisible. indybay.org Virtual rally and online actions for voting rights…
(2022-01-16). Ominous History in Real Time: Where We Are Now in the USA. zcomm.org Corporate power constrains just about everything, whether healthcare or education or housing or jobs or measures for responding to the climate emergency. What prevails is the political structure of the economy…
(2022-01-16). Official: Ukraine absolutely ready to join NATO. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Yermak: Ukraine absolutely ready to become NATO member Ukraine has proved its stance and principled approach…and is ready to join NATO. "I think now is the time to have a very honest, full-fledged, transparent conversation with Ukraine about our NATO prospects," Head of the President's Office Andriy Yermak said during an online conversation organized by …
(2022-01-16). What does it have to do with Black folks? mronline.org The worldview of liberals usually ends at the borders of the U.S. settler-state until they are mobilized by the oligarchy to provide ideological cover for the latest imperialist intrigue. This is as true for the liberal Black "misleadership" class as it is for Euro-American liberals.
(2022-01-16). Tuesday 2/15: Voting Rights Speaker: Activist LaTosha Brown, Black Voters Matter. indybay.org Online event…
(2022-01-16). Sunday 1/16: Voting Rights Now! MLK Weekend Virtual Action Rally w/ Indivisible. indybay.org Virtual rally and online actions for voting rights…
(2022-01-16). Tuesday 1/18: Freedom to Vote: Phone Banking for Voting Rights w/ End Citizens United & Let America Vote. indybay.org Online/virtual action for voting rights…
(2022-01-16). Warren Demands Private Equity-Backed Firms Answer for Role in Rising Rent Prices. zcomm.org Sen. Elizabeth Warren is demanding answers from housing corporations with backing from private equity, who she says are involved in inflating housing prices for both renters and buyers.
(2022-01-16). Tuesday 1/25: Dollar for Dollar NOW: From Pay Equity to Paid Leave – The Push for Economic Justice. indybay.org Online webinar…
(2022-01-16). Thousands rally for labour protections, public services in South Korea and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at the 2022 People's Rally against inequality in South Korea, the killing of 23 year old Ashling Murphy in Ireland, and more…
(2022-01-16). Following historic strike by French educators, government comes to the negotiating table. peoplesdispatch.org Thousands of teachers and education sector staff struck work across France on January 13 against the French government's erratic rules regarding testing at schools. They also sought better safety measures and working conditions…
(2022-01-16). Monday 1/17: Civil Rights Through Art and Music w/ MoAD. indybay.org Online event (FREE)…
(2022-01-16). Wednesday 1/19: Socially Responsible Investing: Funding Retirement that Benefits Worker, Nature & Society. indybay.org Online webinar…
(2022-01-16). As Omicron rages, teachers and students fight for safety measures in Chicago and elsewhere. mronline.org Chicago Teachers Union members voted by 77 percent on January 4 to go fully remote until effective Covid mitigations to protect educators and students were approved by members and enacted, or until the current Covid surge subsided.
(2022-01-16). Challenging the poverty of words: Interview with progressive poet Frederick Pollack. mronline.org San Francisco State University professor Daniel Langton has called Frederick Pollack's poems "necessary" because "do what poetry should do—grapple with the important."
(2022-01-16). Financial Markets under capitalism. mronline.org One of the most important arguments advanced by John Maynard Keynes, the renowned economist, was that the operation of financial markets under capitalism is deeply flawed.
(2022-01-16). Unions allege petrol bombs, intimidation as strike intensifies at South African Dairy giant. mronline.org Amid threats and intimidation, the workers' action at Clover has been strengthened by worker solidarity as well as the increasing support of civil society for its boycott campaign.
(2022-01-16). 'Treated Me Like Nothing': Britney Spears Takes Another Shot at Her Sister Jamie Lynn. sputniknews.com The online feud between the Spears sisters has continued for several days, with Britney and Jamie exchanging bitter statements on social media – notably, just days before the release of the latter's book titled "Things I Should Have Said".
(2022-01-16). Wednesday 1/19: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts w/ author Rebecca Hall. indybay.org Online via Zoom or YouTube livestream…