2022-02-10: News Headlines

Sameena Rahman (2022-02-10). Supreme Court OKs Alabama state government plot against Black voters. liberationnews.org With a slew of high-profile cases the Supreme Court is slated to hear this year, it is increasingly clear that the rightwing justices will use every opportunity to take away key rights won by mass movements and move us backwards to greater inequality.

Michael Lyon (2022-02-10). Saturday 2/12: Demonstration Against Environmental Racism in BVHP. indybay.org Assemble 3rd St & Evans in SF's Bayview district…

Alex Bainbridge (2022-02-10). Video: Former Citipointe student speaks out against religious bigotry. greenleft.org.au Former Citipointe Christian College student Jared Mifsud spoke out against the so-called religious discrimination bill at a Brisbane rally on February 9.

Elizabeth Bantas (2022-02-10). Melbourne rallies against religious discrimination bill. greenleft.org.au Hundreds of people turned out at short notice to protest federal government's religious discrimination bills. Elizabeth Bantas reports.

Alex Bainbridge (2022-02-10). Former Citipointe student speaks out against religious bigotry. greenleft.org.au Alex Bainbridge reports more than 700 people attended a February 9 rally in Brisbane, called at two day's notice, to protest the Religious Discrimination Bill.

Haymarket Books (2022-02-10). Friday 2/11: Automating Banishment: The Data-Driven Policing of Stolen Land. indybay.org Online teach-in w/ CC available…

Peter Boyle (2022-02-10). New petition launched to remove Kurdistan Workers Party from terrorist list. greenleft.org.au The Federation of Democratic Kurdish Society-Australia launched an online petition calling on the Australian government to de-list the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as a "terrorist organisation". Peter Boyle reports.

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-02-09). Fact Check: Biden And Democrats To Hand Out Crack Pipes To Promote Racial Equity, Prevent Infection. moguldom.com The Biden Administration is providing funding to fight against drug addiction and crack pipes are among the supplies included on the approved equipment list. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has included the pipes as one of 20 items in its planned safe smoking kits, which will be distributed through the department's …

_____ (2022-02-09). On Contact: The Gig Economy. popularresistance.org After the end of World War II, two generations of workers in the United States were blessed with a period of unprecedented prosperity. Wages for the working class were high. Jobs were stable and came with benefits and health insurance. Unions protected workers from abuse by the business elites. Taxes on the wealthiest individuals and corporations was as high as 91%. The public school system provided a quality education to the poor and the rich. The nation's infrastructure and technology were cutting edge and unrivaled. But by the 1970s, it all began to go south. Wages stagnated. Income inequality grew, until by 2…

Matt Sedlar (2022-02-09). Black History Month: How Far Are We from Martin Luther King's Dream of Equal of Opportunity? cepr.net We are far from the society of equality of opportunity that King dreamed about. How far are we?

Sarah Anderson (2022-02-09). President Trump Axed an IRS Report on the Richest 400 Americans. Let's Bring It Back. inequality.org

Berry Craig (2022-02-09). Kentucky Republicans again aim to ban teaching truth about racism. peoplesworld.org Here they go again—white Republicans trying to whitewash history. Kentucky State Sens. Max Wise and Robby Mills have introduced SB 138, the "Teaching American Principles Act." Like HB 14 and HB 18, it's a censorship bill aimed at restricting the teaching of systemic racism in public schools. SB 138 requires a teacher who "chooses to discuss current events …

CJ Baker (2022-02-09). Protest Song Of The Week: 'Down In Virginia' By Grace Victoria. shadowproof.com Composed around the time that George Floyd was murdered by police in 2020, "Down In Virginia" is an exploration of the racism and violence faced by Black people on a constant basis.

Ann Brown (2022-02-09). The Flores Effect: Houston Texans Hire Lovie Smith As Head Coach. moguldom.com Lovie Smith has been hired as the next head coach of the National Football League's Houston Texans, the team announced on Feb. 7. This comes on the heels of a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores filed against the NFL and several teams. Is Smith's hiring a sign of the …

Gabrielle Walsh (2022-02-09). Oppose Morrison's discriminatory bill. greenleft.org.au Experts say federal parliament should not pass Scott Morrison's three religious discrimination bills because they would allow discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people, writes Gabrielle Walsh.

Mei Mei Chan (2022-02-09). Oakland students fight for COVID safety in schools. liberationnews.org On Friday, Jan. 21, striking students in the Oakland Unified School District held a public town hall to address the urgent COVID safety needs of school communities. Less than a week later, the Oakland Education Association and the OUSD came to a tentative agreement in support of all of the students' demands.

Labor Video Project (2022-02-09). ILWU Local 6 California Waste Solutions Workers Demand Justice At Oakland Education Rally. indybay.org ILWU Local 6 California Waste Solutions workers spoke out for justice on the job at the Oakland City hall rally against education cuts.

Editor (2022-02-09). Neoliberal capitalism and the commodification of social reproduction, from our home to our classroom. mronline.org It is official: we are getting ready for another round of industrial action in the UK higher education sector.

Special to People's World (2022-02-09). Online Event: Solidarity with Striking UMWA Mine Workers at Warrior Met Coal. peoplesworld.org TUESDAY, FEB. 22, 2022 — 8 P.M. EASTERN REGISTER HERE Click here to make a donation that goes directly to UMWA mine workers strike fund. Read People's World coverage of the strike at Warrior Met: > Warrior Met forces 1,100 Mine Workers in Alabama into long strike > Solidarity going strong for striking Alabama …

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-09). Violent clashes and displacement of people continue in Myanmar. peoplesdispatch.org In the latest cycle of violence, the junta forces torched over 100 buildings in the Chin State town of Thantlang. Activists and lawyers have also raised concerns that the measures taken by the military to cement its authoritarian control of online spaces will deepen surveillance in the country…

Editor (2022-02-09). Alex Saab is being tortured in the U.S., denounces Diplomat's wife Camila (+Oscar López Rivera). mronline.org Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab "is suffering torture and inhumane treatment everyday in the United States," decried his wife Camila Fabri Saab during a solidarity event for the diplomat, hosted last Friday, February 3, by the US-based human rights organization Alliance for Global Justice.

Editor (2022-02-09). What Cuba can give the peoples, and has given, is its example. mronline.org On February 4, 1962, in José Martí Plaza de la Revolución, the Second Declaration of Havana was ratified by popular acclaim, an emphatic response to the aggression, sabotage and crimes against our country, financed by the United States.

Editor (2022-02-09). Class struggle and freedom beyond colonial borders. mronline.org The global COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief how truly interconnected our world is, how superficial colonial borders are, and thus how the struggle for freedom must link localized organizing to broader global insurgencies.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-02-09). Portrait exhibition celebrates staff and patients in healthcare research. imperial.ac.uk A new series of portraits documenting researchers and patients involved in healthcare research has been unveiled in an online photography exhibition.

Speak Out Now (2022-02-09). Saturday 2/26: The Kaepernick Effect: How Taking a Knee Sparked a Movement. indybay.org Online meeting; see website for details…

Editor (2022-02-09). USA CIA veteran hosting anti-China 'Uyghur diaspora' podcast funded by U.S. government. mronline.org The "WEghur Stories" podcast claims to speak on behalf of "the Uyghur diaspora," and uses intersectional feminist rhetoric to demonize China. But it's co-created and hosted by an ex CIA agent, with funding from the U.S. embassy in France.

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