(2023-07-17). Mayo Clinic hosts RISE for Equity conference in Minneapolis Aug. 10-12. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Hundreds of healthcare professionals will gather Aug. 10-12 for Mayo Clinic's third annual RISE for Equity: Reflect, Inspire, Strengthen & Empower 2023 conference, an opportunity to advance national discussion and learn evidence-based practices to improving diversity, equity and inclusion in healthcare. Keynote presentations by leading experts and panel discussions will cover topics such as health disparities, digital equity, artificial intelligence (AI) and coded bias, representation, and organizational belonging, among many others. The…
(2023-07-16). Labor Resolution in Solidarity with the Tampa 5. fightbacknews.org Fight Back! is circulating the following "Solidarity with the Tampa 5" resolution voted up by the union delegates to the West Central Florida Labor Council (WCFLC). President Jim Junecko of the WCFLC, AFL-CIO sent the resolution to Florida State's Attorney Susan Lopez asking she direct Prosecutor Justin Diaz to drop the charges. | Resolution in Solidarity with the Tampa 5 | WHEREAS the West Central Florida Labor Council dedicates itself to improving the lives of working families, bringing fairness and dignity to the workplace and securing social equity in the Nation; | WHEREAS we support union workers, students a…
(2023-07-17). Mayo Clinic named a 'Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion'. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic has been named one of the best places to work for people with disabilities by the American Association of People with Disabilities, the nation's largest disability rights organization, and Disability: IN, the global business disability inclusion network. Mayo Clinic received a score of 100 — the highest score possible — on the Disability Equality Index to achieve the recognition. The Disability Equality Index survey includes new questions each year to evaluate whether companies are adopting emerging…
(2023-07-17). The richest 10% are starting to feel the pinch, but will that change how they think about inequality? nationofchange.org High earners need to come around to the idea that they would benefit from progressive taxes and other policies to create an economy that works for everyone.
(2023-07-16). Cop City And The Escalating War On Environmental Defenders. popularresistance.org The fight in Atlanta over Cop City, a massive police training facility, has turned into ground zero for overlapping crises facing our country: the climate emergency, vast political and economic inequality, ever-militarizing police forces and systemic racism. | If we want a democracy healthy enough to solve these crises, it's worth paying attention to what is happening in the South River Forest. | On May 31, in a disturbing move shortly before Atlanta's City Council approved more funding for the facility, Georgia law enforcement arrested three members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, which provides activists with l…
(2023-07-17). Antisemitism and anti-Chinese racism: The case of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wsws.org Kennedy is not just a lunatic bigot. Powerful sections of the US ruling elite are promoting the Wuhan lab lie, claiming China deliberately created the COVID virus, and whitewashing the neo-Nazi forces in the Ukraine war.
(2023-07-16). The Farm Bill Is an Opportunity to Address Climate Change and Structural Racism. truthout.org This story was originally published at Prism. A significant piece of legislation most voters have likely never heard of will spend the summer sitting on the cutting room floor of Congress. When the legislation is ready for a vote, it will ensure people aren't sentenced to hunger for lack of income, dictate international trade policies, and provide support to a farm system that—depending on who you… |
(2023-07-16). NSW legal groups call for new religious discrimination amendments to be rejected. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-07-16). Starmer confirms Labour's UK education strategy is warmed-over Thatcherism. wsws.org Starmer's speech consisted of a rehash of the pro-market policies of Margaret Thatcher and a continuation of the privatisation expanded under Tony Blair's Labour government.
(2023-07-16). GOP Advances Education Cuts That Could Remove 220,000 Teachers from Classrooms. truthout.org House Democrats warned that hundreds of thousands of teachers could lose their jobs if legislation advanced Friday by a Republican-controlled appropriations subcommittee becomes law. The panel's draft Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies funding bill for the coming fiscal year calls for nearly $64 billion in total cuts, a proposal that Democrats said "decimates support… |
(2023-07-16). Insights | Cambodian student: CPC gives priority to education, policies benefit remote areas. ecns.cn "The CPC makes the people the real beneficiaries of development and enhances the people's sense of gain and happiness."said TEP CHANPANHA, a Cambodian student studying at China University of Geosciences (Beijing), in a recent interview with China News Network.
(2023-07-16). Insights | Cambodian student: Chinese education has many impressive advantages. ecns.cn
(2023-07-17). Monday 7/17: Full Disclosure brain storming session: holding public persons and entities accountable. indybay.org Google Meet (online video conference): | meet.google.com/yqb-ndmw-vng…
(2023-07-17). Monday 7/17: #PlasticPollution: How Plastic Threatens Human and Planetary Health. indybay.org Online event…
(2023-07-17). 373 accounts shuttered to curb online deception. ecns.cn The Cyberspace Administration of China shuttered 373 accounts that promoted false information about public policy, the body said in a statement on Saturday.
(2023-07-16). Insights | Cambodian student: CPC gives priority to education, policies benefit remote areas. ecns.cn "The CPC makes the people the real beneficiaries of development and enhances the people's sense of gain and happiness."said TEP CHANPANHA, a Cambodian student studying at China University of Geosciences (Beijing), in a recent interview with China News Network.
(2023-07-16). Insights | Cambodian student: Chinese education has many impressive advantages. ecns.cn
(2023-07-17). Monday 7/17: Full Disclosure brain storming session: holding public persons and entities accountable. indybay.org Google Meet (online video conference): | meet.google.com/yqb-ndmw-vng…
(2023-07-17). Monday 7/17: #PlasticPollution: How Plastic Threatens Human and Planetary Health. indybay.org Online event…
(2023-07-17). 373 accounts shuttered to curb online deception. ecns.cn The Cyberspace Administration of China shuttered 373 accounts that promoted false information about public policy, the body said in a statement on Saturday.
(2023-07-17). Thursday 9/7: Reclaiming Curanderismo: Pre-colonial Indigenous Healing Practices Across the Americas. indybay.org In-Person: The Commons room | KQED Headquarters | 2601 Mariposa Street | San Francisco CA 94110 | Online via livestream…
(2023-07-17). Wednesday 7/19: Reproductive Freedom Advocate Training w/ NARAL CA. indybay.org Virtual/online training workshop…
(2023-07-17). Wednesday 7/19: Self-Managed Abortion On Our Own Terms: Barriers to Communities of Color & Criminalization. indybay.org Online event…
(2023-07-17). Overseas market demand surges during first half of year. ecns.cn The online demand from overseas markets for products made in China surged 33 percent year-on-year in the first half of the year, data from Alibaba.com, Chinese tech heavyweight Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's business-to-business platform that helps facilitate foreign trade, showed.
(2023-07-17). Inside the slaughterhouse: Child labour in the U.S. mronline.org 
A rise in highly systematic, typically immigrant, child labour is being abetted by state legislation in the U.S., and must be resisted, argues John Clarke.
(2023-07-17). June 2023 was the world's warmest June on record. mronline.org 
June featured unprecedented Canadian heat and wildfires, record-low Antarctic sea ice, and a strengthening El Niño.
(2023-07-17). Needed: Either degrowth or two Earths. mronline.org 
I think top leaders in Washington are using green-energy pipe dreams to distract us from the reality that they have given up altogether on reducing U.S. fossil fuel use.
(2023-07-17). The fatal contradictions of China-bashing. mronline.org 
The fight inside the U.S. pits much of the business community against Biden and his 'neoconservative' foreign-policy advisers.
(2023-07-16). NATO Has Been Nothing but Trouble for Ukraine. strategic-culture.org 
(2023-07-16). Hunting the Military Extremist. tomdispatch.com In April, when Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman with a top-secret clearance, was arrested for posting a trove of classified documents about the Russia-Ukraine war online, the question most often asked was: How did such a young, inexperienced, low-level technician have access to such sensitive material? What I wanted to know was: How did he ever get accepted into the Air Force in the first place? Teixeira seems to have leaked that secret information for online bragging rights rather than ideological reasons, so his transgression probably wouldn't have fallen under the military's ne…
(2023-07-16). In Video: Syrian, Russian Fighter Bombers Eliminate Sabotage Groups Near U.S. Garrison In Al-Tanf. southfront.org 
A Russian Su-24 strike aircraft in the sky over the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Photo: Dmitriy Vinogradov / RIA Novosti | Syrian and Russian Su-24 fighter bombers have carried out a series of airstrikes against sabotage groups in Syria's central desert, also known as al-Badya. | It is unclear when exactly the Syrian and Russian airstrikes took place. However, video footage of the airstrikes surfaced online on July 16. The targeted sabotage groups were reportedly trained by the Unite…
(2023-07-17). China's first ultradeep water drillship to be delivered in 2024. ecns.cn China's first ultra-deepwater research drilling vessel, which can collect samples at depths of more than 10,000 meters, is under construction and set for 2024 delivery.
(2023-07-17). Ambassador underlines key to Chinese companies' success in UK. ecns.cn BCEGI, an international property developer and construction company established by Beijing-based BCEG in 1990, set up its UK company in October 2013 with Manchester as its headquarters.
(2023-07-17). China-Pakistan nuclear cooperation marks a milestone. ecns.cn The construction of Chashma Nuclear Power Plant Unit 5 in Pakistan marks another milestone in nuclear energy cooperation between China and Pakistan, while further enhancing the influence of China's nuclear power technology worldwide.
(2023-07-16). Resisting the Shock Doctrine: A Conversation on Ukraine, Debt and Reconstruction. truthout.org In this discussion, Yuliya Yurchenko, Eric Toussaint, and Sushovan Dhar contextualize Ukraine's struggle as part of the global movement against neoliberalism and debt. This public forum was organized by the Ukraine Solidarity Network (U.S.) on May 12, 2023 and was co-hosted by Haymarket Books. Each speaker made opening comments, with a discussion. Special thanks to Nate Moore for assistance with… |
(2023-07-16). China's high-speed railway is far more outstanding than U.S.: media reports. ecns.cn CNBC on Wednesday presented two sets of data regarding railway construction in a mini-documentary. "The United States ranks below many industrialized nations when it comes to ridership on its passenger rail," CNBC said, while that of China is far more outstanding, according to its figure.
(2023-07-16). How To Create A Debt Co-Op To Take Back Your Student Loans. popularresistance.org The day we refinanced our first student loan, four debt cooperative members met for coffee and eggs at a greasy spoon at 8 a.m. to prepare the paperwork. Together, we all went to the bank, got the cashier's check, printed the letter, and put it in the mail, and it was elating. | So elating, in fact, that residents of downtown Seattle looked concerned as four grown adults let out shouts of joy outside a perfectly average post office after doing a seemingly simple task. But the task was anything but simple—and we had done it together. | Like an untold number of ideas throughout human history, the nuts and bol…
(2023-07-17). Australia: Health workers should reject union-government sellout and build rank-and-file committees to fight for a real pay rise! wsws.org Neither of the pay options offered by the New South Wales Labor government and the Health Services Union represent a way forward for workers.
(2023-07-17). Campaign to defend victimised Sri Lankan estate workers wins significant support. wsws.org The Ceylon Workers Congress, the country's main plantation union collaborated with police, providing the names of the protesting workers, who were later arrested on frame-up charges.
(2023-07-17). Does fear of US intervention explain Labor's support for AUKUS? greenleft.org.au 
(2023-07-17). Amerigo Scientific Updates Its Laboratory Incubators with More Advanced Features. indybay.org Amerigo Scientific recently updated its line of laboratory incubators with more advanced features.
(2023-07-16). Sign-on in Support: Justice for Li Tang "Henry" Liang! peacepivot.org This statement has been republished from the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance The APALA Massachusetts Chapter and UNITE HERE Local 26 are supporting a local worker who has been wrongfully targeted. Read the statement below and sign-on to show your support. Sign-on LetterJustice for Li Tang "Henry" Liang! Chinese American community activist and hotel worker …
(2023-07-17). Australian Pharmaceutical Industry workers vote down company offer again as strike enters fourth week. wsws.org Despite a campaign of isolation by the United Workers Union, workers have taken an important stand, determined to secure a pay increase that enables them to survive crippling mortgage interest rates, soaring rents and energy prices.
(2023-07-17). "It is like one big sweatshop": Yellow worker describes horrendous working conditions at near-bankrupt freight company. wsws.org The Teamsters bureaucracy is prepared to grant concessions but is facing fierce opposition from workers at Yellow Corporation, the largest freight trucking company in the US.
(2023-07-17). How federal law can protect all workers on sweltering summer days. nationofchange.org "How in the world can you deny your workers an opportunity to get a drink of water?"
(2023-07-16). Growing opposition among Canadian West Coast dockworkers to ILWU's support for government-dictated contract. wsws.org "The BCMEA group continues to make billions while the hard workers get peanuts. (ILWU Canada President) Rob Ashton sold us out," one longshore worker told the WSWS.
(2023-07-16). Jeering metalworkers force Sumar's Yolanda Díaz to suspend rally in Cádiz. wsws.org The intervention of the metalworkers at Díaz's campaign is a microcosm of the intensifying opposition of workers to the pseudo-left parties across Europe.
(2023-07-16). LEVER WEEKLY: What Workers Are Up Against. levernews.com What The Lever Reported This Week: : •
(2023-07-16). What Workers Are Up Against. levernews.com
(2023-07-16). Canada: Gov't pushes dock workers union to tentatively end strike. greenleft.org.au 
The strike by nearly 7500 dock workers in British Columbia may have come to an end after nearly two weeks, as the union and shipping bosses announced a tentative agreement, reports Jeff Shantz.
(2023-07-16). Hollywood Executives Bring Industry to Halt Rather Than Pay Workers a Fair Wage. socialistproject.ca 
(2023-07-16). Friday 7/14: Free Palestine! indybay.org Israeli Consulate | 456 Montgomery | San Francisco…
(2023-07-17). Media touts "new era" for UAW, as union carries out closed-door talks with Big Three automakers. wsws.org The media are promoting Fain's "militant" bona fides because they know that behind all the blustering rhetoric about "corporate greed," Fain and his lieutenants are known quantities, having worked loyally in the bureaucracy for decades.
(2023-07-17). Abogan por integración en cumbre bianual de la Unión Africana. telesurtv.net El presidente de la Comisión del ente, Moussa Faki Mahamat afirmó que existe la necesidad de buscar una visión común para el continente.
(2023-07-17). Ahead Of CELAC-EU Summit, Movements Build People's Summit. popularresistance.org On July 17 and 18, leaders from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU) will converge in Brussels, Belgium, the seat of the EU, for the III CELAC-EU Summit. The two-day summit will be chaired by Ralph Gonsalves, the pro tempore president of CELAC and prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Charles Michel, the president of the European Council. | The last summit of this nature took place in 2015, and the parties will meet again in a moment of great regional and global transformation and with the political composition in each region looking vastly diffe…
(2023-07-17). Top U.N. Human Rights Official & Fmr. Swedish FM on Palestine, Sudan & U.S. Cluster Bombs to Ukraine. democracynow.org 
On Friday, July 14, Amy Goodman moderated a wide-ranging panel on human rights in Venice, Italy, to mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The panel's speakers included United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Tàºrk, former Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrà∂m and Eamon Gilmore, the European Union special representative for human rights. They discussed the U.S. sending cluster bombs to Ukraine, the war in Sudan, Palestine, as well as the role of civil society and the media in elevating human rights issues.
(2023-07-17). African Union Committee on Economy and Finance meets in Kenya. plenglish.com Addis Ababa, Jul 17 (Prensa Latina) The sixth meeting of the Specialized Technical Committee (STC) of the African Union Commission will meet in Nairobi, Kenya, until July 21st, and will focus on economic development, planning and integration.
(2023-07-17). EU and Tunisia Sign MoU on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, the Tunisian presidency stated that Tunisia and the European Union (EU) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on strategic and comprehensive partnership. | Related: | According to official reports, the MoU was signed in the presence of Tunisian President Kais Saied, the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. | According to official…
(2023-07-17). Peoples' Summit Begins in Parallel to the 3rd Celac-EU Summit. telesurenglish.net The Peoples' Summit begins this Monday in Brussels, capital of Belgium, which will be held until Tuesday in parallel to the Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States and the European Union (Celac-EU). | Related: | The meeting, organized by European and Latin American left-wing organizations and representatives, is scheduled to be attended by several heads of state who will take part in the C…
(2023-07-17). Venezuela and Cuba Ratify Anti-Imperialist Position in Brussels. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Yván Gil, and Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez, held a meeting in the Belgian capital, Brussels, where they traveled to attend the III Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU), scheduled for July 17 and 18. | Related: | Both diplomats reviewed the relations of fraternity and solid…
(2023-07-17). EVENT: Trade unionism and working-class leadership. thecommunists.org On Saturday 29 July , the CPGB-ML will be holding a seminar in London on trade unionism and working-class leadership and hear from our guest speaker on the French perspective. We will be drawing from our recent publication dealing with these matters; Manifesto for the Crisis: Class Against Class. Event details 2.00pm on Saturday 29 …
(2023-07-16). Seattle activists rally to defend the Tampa 5. fightbacknews.org Seattle, WA – On July 12, a crowd of 30 activists and community members gathered in Denny Park to show solidarity with the Tampa 5 on the date of their second court appearance. This demonstration was one of many actions all over the country showing support for the five campus activists arrested in Tampa. The main demand is that all charges be dropped. | The Tampa 5 – Laura Rodriguez, Gia Davila, Jeanie Kida, Chrisley Carpio, and Lauren Pineiro – are four student activists and a union campus worker arrested last March. The arrests happened during a march and rally at the University of South Florida (USF) protestin…
(2023-07-16). Cuban president meets with Venezuelan foreign minister. plenglish.com Brussels, Jul 16 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil met in this capital on Sunday in the framework of the 3rd Summit between the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (EU-Celac).
(2023-07-16). Díaz-Canel: Cuba to defend its convictions at EU-Celac Summit. plenglish.com Brussels, Jul 16 (Prensa Latina) President Miguel Díaz-Canel said on Sunday that Cuba will defend its convictions and will not allow interferences in its internal affairs during the 3rd Summit between the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac).
(2023-07-16). Nuclear War. "90 Seconds to Midnight": The Pentagon's 1945 "Doomsday Blueprint" to "Wipe the Soviet Union off the Map" globalresearch.ca
(2023-07-16). Wang Yi: China, EU should strengthen communication, deepen cooperation. ecns.cn China and the European Union (EU) should strengthen communication, enhance trust and deepen cooperation which serves the common interests of both sides, senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi has said.
(2023-07-16). Cuban President Diaz-Canel arrives in Brussels for EU-Celac Summit. plenglish.com Brussels, Jul 16 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel arrived on Sunday in this capital, where he will participate in the 3rd Summit of the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac).
(2023-07-16). Presidente Díaz-Canel se reúne con cubanos residentes en Portugal. telesurtv.net Posteriormente, Díaz-Canel dialogó con cerca de una treintena de empresarios, algunos con presencia en Cuba y otros en vías de estarlo.
(2023-07-16). EU-Cuba project focuses on smart city model. plenglish.com Brussels, Jul 16 (Prensa Latina) The European Union (EU) and the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana (OHCH) are promoting a project to implement a smart city model in Havana, Nelys García, director of the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana, said on Friday.
(2023-07-17). Charting a Socialist path for Africa. peoplesdispatch.org 200 delegates from political parties and people's movements have gathered for the "Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism" conference. The delegates talk about why this conference is important and the socialist path forward for the challenges faced by the continent…
(2023-07-16). No more sanctions against Cuba, claim in front of White House returns (+Photos). plenglish.com 
Washington, Jul 16 (Prensa Latina) Representatives of social movements and organizations in the United States held a peaceful protest in front of the White House on Sunday to demand an end to the illegal and cruel sanctions against Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
(2023-07-16). Africa's path to socialism. peoplesdispatch.org 200 delegates from 40 organizations are gathering in South Africa for the "Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism" conference. For the next four days, progressive movements and organizations will discuss the challenges posed by capitalism, and articulate the socialist way forward…
(2023-07-16). Feminism Paved the Road for Transgenderism. thealtworld.com In the Spring 2023 issue of City Journal, Kay Hymowitz in a well written and researched article reports on the transgender movements success in using public schools to teach children they might be born into the wrong gender. A "health industry" has grown up around the transgender ideology, and doctors are now conducting Joseph Mengele experiments on American children. Hymowitz notes that the transgender approach to children casts aside all we know about childhood and human nature and is undermining legal and cultural mores that are the foundation of our society. Essentially, transgenderism throws the accumulation…
(2023-07-16). The Future Is Now: Rethinking Public Ownership. popularresistance.org Something momentous has happened, according to recent opinion polls. After 40 years of reluctantly accepting the Thatcherite mantra that there is no alternative to the market, the British public declared that they had had enough. In August 2022, Survation polling for the campaign group We Own It revealed that 69 per cent were in favour of publicly-owned water, 65 per cent for publicly-owned buses, 67 per cent for rail, 66 per cent for energy, 68 per cent for Royal Mail, and a whopping 78 per cent for the NHS. With public sentiment matching the vigour of an emboldened labour movement, there is a feeling that some…
(2023-07-16). Germany's hospital "reforms": Another blow to healthcare. wsws.org The reform will lead to unprecedented hospital closures and significantly worsen healthcare provisions for working people.
(2023-07-16). Talk World Radio: Sean Conner on Working for Peace with the International Peace Bureau. davidswanson.org
(2023-07-16). Ukrainian Forces Hit Mine In Rare Attack On Luhansk. southfront.org 
On the morning of July 16, Ukrainian forces launched a major strike on the city of Luhansk in the Luhansk People's Republic. According to the locals, several explosions thundered in the area. | At about 10 am Moscow time, Russian air defence systems were heard working on the south-western outskirts of the city of Lugansk. Then several explosions thundered in the area. | The target was reportedly a mine warehouse with ammonium and TNT which was not used by the Russian military but is necessary…