(2023-03-07). Sunday 3/12: Men 4 Equity & Rep Justice: Free Screening + Panel Disc: "The Business of Birth Control" indybay.org Zoom Panel Discussion: 11-12: 15 Pacific Time — + from March 9-12 – Free Viewing of The Documentary Film: "The Business of Birth Control" – Men (especially) Welcome – Caring People Desired!
(2023-03-07). Health Equity Measures and Hospital Rankings—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply In response to our recent Viewpoint about hospital rankings and health equity, Dr Bai and colleagues note that certain hospitals may attract patients from a broader geographic base outside of the hospital service area for various reasons, including providing specialized care. To address this, US News & World Report's measures that examine racial and ethnic representation were limited to individuals who reside within each hospital's service area. That is, persons who did not reside in a hospital's service area were excluded from both the numerator and denominator.
(2023-03-07). Health Equity Measures and Hospital Rankings. jamanetwork.com To the Editor In a recent Viewpoint, authors from US News & World Report described several health equity measures to be used to evaluate hospitals' performance on 3 dimensions: access, outcome, and social determinants of health. While we applaud the effort to promote health equity and ensure hospital accountability, in this Letter, we highlight some potential limitations of the effectiveness of these measures for evaluating hospitals' health equity performance.
(2023-03-07). Black History Month: Dr. Michele Halyard on a lifetime commitment to health equity, inclusion and diversity. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Michele Halyard Black History Month is commemorated every February. It's a month for all people to celebrate and learn about diverse and important contributions of African Americans to American society and culture, as well as to reflect on the ongoing fight against racism, inequity and discrimination. Mayo Clinic News Network is highlighting Mayo Clinic physicians who are focused every day on achieving health equity, inclusion and diversity through their work. Meet Dr. Michele Halyard,…
(2023-03-06). In Buffalo, A Medical Campus And Community Collaborate For Equity. popularresistance.org "If you want our money, you'll have to work together." | That's essentially what The John R. Oishei Foundation told three separate anchor institutions when they asked for money to fund new buildings on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC). | As Buffalo's largest foundation, Oishei has quietly supported the BNMC from the beginning. But all along, there was one steady condition: The institutions had to collaborate. Funding requests from individual organizations would almost invariably be rejected. Any request had to come from the campus as a whole. | Insisting that the institutions collaborate wasn't a popular…
(2023-03-06). Equality: the Lefty Fantasy. americanthinker.com We, or our descendants, are going to be called to clean up the godawful mess left by our liberal and progressive and Democratic friends after their mad two-century pursuit of the fantasy of equality.
(2023-03-06). Setting Our Sights On The Equality Of Women. popularresistance.org Boston, Massachusetts – A month ago, I heard on the news that Boston public schools would be closed on February 3 because of the severe Arctic cold and wind chill forecast for that day and the next. My first thought was: what if the students' mothers are working single mothers, what if they cannot take off or cannot afford to lose the pay — given inflation of food, energy and rents and the impoverishing impact of Covid? | Boston is a severely unequal city with an extremely segregated public school system: 80 percent of children in public school are low income; 90 percent are students of color, mainly Latino…
(2023-03-06). Public meeting: Support the Socialist Equality Party in the New South Wales state election! wsws.org The SEP's public meeting, on Thursday, March 23, is the only forum for workers to discuss the fight against war, inequality and the disastrous "let it rip" COVID policies supported by all other parties.
(2023-03-06). [Articles] Ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation, intensive care admission, and death: a global systematic review and meta-analysis of over 200 million study participants. thelancet.com Our study suggests that systematic ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 health outcomes exist, with large differences in exposure risk and some differences in prognosis following hospitalisation. Response and recovery interventions must focus on tackling drivers of ethnic inequalities which increase exposure risk and vulnerabilities to severe disease, including structural racism and racial discrimination.
(2023-03-06). Former Google Researcher: Here Are The Top Risks Of AI Systems To Society, We Need Government Oversight. moguldom.com Timnit Gebru, an expert in artificial intelligence ethics who was fired from Google after raising issues of workplace discrimination, is calling for government oversight of the burgeoning and addictive new AI systems that tech is building — and their risks. Initially, the new bots got rave reviews from delighted wanna-be customers who tried out still-being-tested …
(2023-03-06). CSW: Advancing women's rights since 1946. news.un.org The annual UN Commission for the Status of Women (CSW) meets in March each year to address the widespread inequalities, violence and discrimination women continue to face, all around the world. Here is a brief five-point guide to this high-profile UN event.
(2023-03-07). Cop City Aims To Transform Police Into A Paramilitary Force. popularresistance.org Atlanta, Georgia, with the support of the police force, banks and corporations, is trying to build a paramilitary police base in the Weelaunie Forest on 300 acres that was promised as a recreation space to the majority-black community living nearby. The base will be used to house police from across the nation and internationally to train them in urban warfare. The local community is largely opposed to it. They have been using traditional tactics of education, demonstrations and holding space through an occupation of the forest. This has all been met with state repression – violence, the murder of a 26-year old fo…
(2023-03-06). 'Things are not looking so great in Great Britain': UK university faculty hit the picket lines. therealnews.com 
The United Kingdom is undergoing a massive wave of industrial action this winter as the cost of living crisis bites. Most recently it's been the university higher education professionals who have been on strike. The Real News Network spent time at picket lines across London as the
(2023-03-06). Australia: Teachers speak on impact of union betrayal in Victoria, public education crisis. wsws.org The 2023 school year began in late January and early February with public schools facing an unprecedented crisis.
(2023-03-07). Wednesday 3/8: International Women's Day: End Women's Poverty – Invest in Caring, Not Killing w/ PPC. indybay.org Online rally for women's rights…
(2023-03-07). Portuguese scholar: Fake news tries to forget China's contribution to battling COVID-19. ecns.cn "My view on China's contribution to fighting COVID-19 globally in the past three years is very positive," said Professor Rui Lourido, president of the Observatory for China in Portugal during an online interview with China News Network.
(2023-03-07). Major U.S. outlets found Hersh's Nord Stream scoop too hot to handle. mronline.org 
Scores of hits from publications across the globe pop up from an internet search for veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh's claim that the US destroyed Russia's Nord Stream gas pipeline.
(2023-03-07). Making Tunisia non-African again — Saied's anti-Black campaign. mronline.org 
On 21 February 2023, President Kais Saied called a meeting with the National Security Council to take urgent measures "to address the phenomenon of the influx of large numbers of irregular migrants from sub-Saharan Africa to Tunisia."
(2023-03-07). State-sanctioned violence in Peru and the role of Canadian mining. mronline.org 
Canadian firms benefit from state-sanctioned police protection and impunity at the expense of human rights and the environment.
(2023-03-07). Starmer is paving the way for the triumph of dark politics. mronline.org 
By waging an all-out war on the left and its ideas, the Labour leader is strangling hope of change in a time of crisis—and risks driving voters towards right-wing authoritarians…
(2023-03-07). Biggest threat from Ukraine war: Last Nuclear Agreement suspended. mronline.org 
War rarely stays within the boundaries set or desired for it. That makes returning to arms control crucial for the survival of humanity.
(2023-03-07). Caterpillar Rank-and-File Committee announces online meeting Wednesday: "Vote NO on the UAW-Caterpillar concessions contract!" wsws.org The Caterpillar Workers Rank-and-File Committee and the WSWS for a democratic forum to analyze the UAW's sellout tentative agreement, and outlining the strategy to mobilize workers in the US and internationally in a common fight back.
(2023-03-06). Faster, higher, hotter: What we learned about the climate system in 2022 (Part 1). mronline.org 
Beyond all the hype and all the anxiety about climate policymaking, the upbeat newsmaking about energy transitions and the growing dread of civilisational collapse, what have we learned about the climate system in the last year?
(2023-03-06). House overwhelmingly approves resolution to maintain Syria sanctions after earthquake. mronline.org 
Only Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) voted against the resolution…
(2023-03-06). Nicaragua's 'political prisoners' would be criminals by U.S. standards. mronline.org 
In an unexpected move on February 9, the Nicaraguan government deported to the United States 222 people who were in prison, and moved to strip them of their citizenship.
(2023-03-06). Rail lobbyists pay Politico to tout train safety. mronline.org 
The Beltway newsletter is running ads about the railroad industry's alleged commitment to safety as rail lobbyists fight new safety rules.
(2023-03-06). Why is Norway the glove that fits the USA's hand? mronline.org 
In the sequel to his revelation of Norway's and USA's role in blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, Seymour Hersh addresses the long standing tradition of Norway's secret and illegal collaboration with USA.
(2023-03-06). Saturday 3/11: Rights of Nature Tribunal: Dangers of Tren Maya Mega Project to Ecosystems & Indigenous. indybay.org Online via Zoom globally (in-person in Yucatan, Mexico)…
(2023-03-06). US Supreme Court hears case challenging Section 230 online liability shield. wsws.org The Supreme Court is hearing the case Gonzalez v. Google amid growing demands from different factions of the U.S. political establishment to either remove the Section 230 liability shield entirely or strengthen its censorship provisions to impose a much harsher regime of government control and regulation of social media and internet content.
(2023-03-07). Nearly lost: "History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Volume 11, The Great Depression, 1929-1932", by Philip Foner. fightbacknews.org When legendary and prolific labor history researcher and author Phil Foner died in 1994, he left behind more than 100 meticulously researched and detailed histories of the U.S. labor movement. But Foner was not merely an historian in the usual university mold; he was a partisan, a lifetime communist, and he saw his work as not just chronicles of past events but serious guides to action for those still on the labor battlefront. His books in many ways became the untold stories of our class struggle. | Probably his most accomplished and massive work is the 11-volume History of the Labor Movement in the United State…
(2023-03-06). NPC deputy calls for more storage facilities to ensure safe, stable supplies. ecns.cn A national legislator has called for construction of more high-capacity energy storage facilities on the power consumption side as the country strives to increase the use of clean energy as a major approach to achieving its carbon neutrality goal.
(2023-03-06). Xi visits national political advisors. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping on Monday afternoon visited national political advisors from the China National Democratic Construction Association and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce.
(2023-03-06). The Ineradicable Presence of the Chavista Ideal, 10 Years On. orinocotribune.com 
This Sunday, March 5, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, reflected on the fact that it has been 10 years since the passing of Commander Hugo Chávez, and today there exists an ineradicable presence of his ideals, values and revolutionary struggle. | He stated: "10 years later, there has been no absence, only an ineradicable presence of his ideals, revolutionary drive and sworn commitment to advance the construction of a free, independent, sovereign and socialist homeland." | The Venezuelan president led the closure of the World Meeting for the Validity of the Boli…
(2023-03-07). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Over the weekend hundreds of nurses in Toronto, Canada marched to demand improved wages, better working conditions and staffing.
(2023-03-06). NYSNA rams through rotten contract for nurses at Long Island hospital. wsws.org In a blatant attack on nurses' democratic rights, the New York State Nurses Association unilaterally called off a strike at South Shore University Hospital and forced workers to vote on a tentative agreement 24 hours later.
(2023-03-06). He tried to organize Home Depot's first union. Now he's unemployed. therealnews.com 
A wave of grassroots labor struggles is sweeping the country, with more and more workers bringing union organizing to their workplaces for the first time. Among the rank-and-file workers leading shopfloor struggles is Vince Quiles of Philadelphia, a longtime Home Depot employee. Although he had formerly been identified and groomed to move up the ranks of management, Quiles opted instead to try and join his coworkers in organizing the home improvement retail chain's first unionized store. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez travels to Philadelphia to speak with Quiles about his experiences. Shortly afte…
(2023-03-06). We Got Us: A Case Study and Reflections on Supporting an Arrestee from the 2020 Uprisings. itsgoingdown.org Reflection from the Richard Hunsinger Defense Committee about organizing a support committee for an incarcerated activist from the George Floyd uprising. The Atlanta Community Press Collective (ACPC) received the following submission on 3/3/2023 from a defense committee organizing on behalf of an Atlanta activist who was arrested during the uprisings in summer 2020. In the…
(2023-03-06). Fascists Are Trying to Co-Opt Mutual Aid Organizing in East Palestine, Ohio. truthout.org After canvassing, phone-banking and holding public meetings, Columbiana County, Ohio, organizers with River Valley Organizing (RVO) released a set of demands from residents of East Palestine and surrounding areas in the wake of Norfolk Southern's train derailment disaster that led to a controlled burn of toxic chemicals and mandatory evacuations of residents within one mile of the crash site last… |
(2023-03-07). Superexploitation of migrant children/'The coining of children's blood into capital'. workers.org 
The horror portrayed in a recent New York Times exposé of migrant child labor shows how relevant what Karl Marx wrote 156 years ago is now. Marx's monumental work, "Capital," was a tremendous theoretical contribution, describing in meticulous detail how the capitalist system of exploitation operates. One class of toilers, . . . |
(2023-03-07). Still Looking for a Simple, Effective Prevention Measure for Neonatal Sepsis in High-Mortality Settings. jamanetwork.com The "Decade of Vaccines" contributed to notable global declines in mortality among children younger than 5 years, but mortality in the neonatal period remains a stubborn problem. Most neonatal deaths occur in the first week of life. The causes of such deaths are difficult to characterize. Evidence suggests complications of labor and delivery play a major role in deaths in the first hours after birth, and that preterm delivery and infections also each cause approximately one-third of deaths in the first week of life. Many neonatal deaths are a result of multiple conditions, such as preterm birth in combination wit…
(2023-03-07). Facebook Unite Here Local 19 Workers Demand Justice From Billionaire Owner Zuckerberg. indybay.org One hundred Facebook service food workers who are members of Unite HERE 19 were layed off at Facebook in Menlo Park. Although engineers and others are getting severance Facebook and it's owner Mark Zuckerberg refuse to give these benefits to these service workers. Workers rallied outside Facebook headquarters on March 1, 2023.
(2023-03-07). CA AG Bonta Prosecute SF Police Killer Say Speakers At SF State Building. indybay.org
(2023-03-07). How to Destroy Russia. 2019 Rand Corporation Report: "Overextending and Unbalancing Russia" globalresearch.ca Force the adversary to expand recklessly in order to unbalance him, and then destroy him. This is not the description of a judo hold, but a plan against Russia elaborated by the Rand Corporation, the most influential think tank in the USA.
(2023-03-07). Science Saturday: Could antidepressants cause treatment-emergent mania? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In a study published in Molecular Psychiatry, Mark Frye, M.D., a Mayo Clinic researcher and collaborators, investigated the risk of treatment-emergent mania in bipolar disorder when treated with antidepressants. "We found that antidepressants that increase mitochondrial energetics (cells that extract energy from nutrients for sustaining life) may elevate the risk of treatment-emergent mania," says Dr. Frye. The increased energy expenditure of mania associated with impulsivity, poor judgment, psychosis and loss of insight can drive high-risk behaviors, often…
(2023-03-07). Mediación y solución de conflictos, perspectiva cubana. cubadebate.cu La Mediación es el procedimiento estabilizador de la "contienda" a nivel particular y social; la relación familiar (de primera prioridad para la sociedad), conyugal, comunitaria, laboral, etc., encuentran en ella la solución pacífica de sus contradicciones.
(2023-03-07). Headlines for March 7, 2023. democracynow.org Biden Administration Mulls Return to Detention of Asylum-Seeking Families, Migrants in Tunisia Flee Hate Crimes and Violence Following President's Racist Remarks, Survivors of Forced Labor Under Japanese Occupation Condemn South Korean Compensation Plan, North Korea Warns U.S. Shootdown of Test-Fired Missiles Would Be "Declaration of War", Chinese Leaders Condemn U.S. Policy of "Containment, Encirclement and Suppression", Ukraine Holds Out in Defense of Bakhmut as Both Sides Inflict Heavy Losses, Belarus Sentences Opposition Leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to 15 Years for Treason, Do…
(2023-03-07). South Korean government demands "normalization" of labor unions. wsws.org The Yoon administration is reviving old police-state measures in an effort to silence unrest and opposition especially in the working class as social conditions deteriorate.
(2023-03-07). Australian "robodebt" lies expose how governments work. wsws.org Ex-minister Stuart Robert's extraordinary admission to the robodebt inquiry laid bare the reality that all governments, Labor and Liberal-National, lie and deceive the population on every front.
(2023-03-07). UAW runoff elections end in debacle for bureaucracy. wsws.org After decades of collaborating with the corporations and successive governments in the systematic destruction of workers' jobs, living standards and working conditions, the affluent upper-middle-class executives who occupy the union's misnamed "Solidarity House" and its satellites are viewed with contempt by the rank and file.
(2023-03-06). Seven Decades Of Nazi Collaboration: America's Dirty Little Ukraine Secret. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | An interview with Russ Bellant, author of "Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party" by As the Ukrainian crisis has unfolded over the past few weeks, it's hard for Americans not to see Vladimir Putin as th…
(2023-03-06). From the Gulf of Tonkin to the Baltic Sea. transcend.org 22 Feb 2023 – The secret and incomplete history of US-Norway collaboration in covert operations.
(2023-03-06). The Vital Difference between Work and Labor: Lewis Hyde on Sustaining the Creative Spirit. transcend.org "The gifts of the inner world must be accepted as gifts in the outer world if they are to retain their vitality."
(2023-03-06). Fire Ant: Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity #15. itsgoingdown.org Announcing Fire Ant #15, a publication featuring the writings of anarchist prisoners. PDF for Printing Fire Ant is a quarterly publication focused on spreading the words of anarchist prisoners and generating material solidarity for our imprisoned friends. Begun as a collaboration between anarchist prisoners and anarchists in Maine, Fire Ant seeks to raise material aid…
(2023-03-06). S. Korea to compensate Japan's wartime forced labor victims via donations. ecns.cn South Korea offered on Monday to compensate the South Korean victims who were forced by the Imperial Japan into harsh labor during World War II through a private foundation rather than direct payment by responsible Japanese companies.
(2023-03-06). Japan to uphold key postwar apology: PM. ecns.cn Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday that his government will uphold a key postwar apology, previously issued by Japan following South Korea provided a solution to a protracted wartime labor row.
(2023-03-06). Nigeria's Opposition Candidates To Challenge Presidential Poll Results. popularresistance.org On Friday, March 3, the Court of Appeal in Nigeria's capital Abuja ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow the presidential candidate of the Labor Party (LP), Peter Obi, access to all poll materials for inspection. Bola Tinubu, candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has been declared the winner of the presidential election that was held on February 25. | The order was passed in response to an appeal filed by Obi on Thursday. Access was also granted to Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who had also filed a separate appeal earlier on Wed…
(2023-03-06). Barngarla people tell Labor 'no' to nuclear waste dump. greenleft.org.au Supporters of the Barngarla people gathered outside the Federal Court building to protest continuing moves by the Anthony Albanese government to put a national nuclear waste dump on First Nations land near Kimba. Renfrey Clarke reports.
(2023-03-06). Cuba apuesta por el reconocimiento del casabe como patrimonio cultural inmaterial de la Unesco (+ Video). cubadebate.cu Cuba participa en la confección del expediente multinacional para la elaboración y consumo tradicional del casabe, a fin de presentar su candidatura a la Lista Representativa del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Unesco. El casabe es una manifestación cultural presente con un fuerte componente histórico en seis provincias.
(2023-03-06). Marrero Cruz visita institución de salud en Venezuela donde laboran médicos cubanos. cubadebate.cu "A pesar de las dificultades y del bloqueo, la misión cubana se mantiene en pie para ayudar al pueblo venezolano", aseguró el miembro del Buró Político del Partido y primer ministro, Manuel Marrero Cruz, en su segunda visita, en menos de un año, al CDI Diego Santana, ubicado en la Parroquia 23 de Enero en Caracas.
(2023-03-06). Messi sorprende con anuncio de su propia serie animada. cubadebate.cu Lionel Messi, ganador del pasado Mundial de Catar 2022 con la selección argentina, tendrá su propia serie de animación, anunció este lunes en exclusiva la revista especializada Deadline. El proyecto será producido por Sony Music Entertainment, en colaboración con Leo Messi Management.
(2023-03-06). Sri Lanka's JVP-NPP collaborates with ex-military officers and business representatives. wsws.org The JVP-NPP is putting itself forward as an alternative government to implement the deeply unpopular austerity measures demanded by the IMF and support the rising anger of broad layers of working people.
(2023-03-06). Australia: Labor's NSW election launch highlights bipartisan pro-business program. wsws.org The stage-managed and choreographed event underscored the fact that Labor is a party of big business that does not differ from the Liberal-National Coalition on a single substantive issue.
(2023-03-07). Bearing witness in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. workers.org 
By Mumia United Nations Liaison Group The recently formed Mumia United Nations Liaison Group is hosting an event in Philadelphia on March 11 highlighting evidence of Mumia Abu-Jamal's innocence that was illegally withheld by prosecutors at his initial trial and subsequent appeals. The event is taking place shortly before an . . . |
(2023-03-07). Puerto Rico is Not for Sale activists confront Luis Miranda Jr. on his backing for PROMESA. workers.org 
By Puerto Rico is Not for Sale Contact Lorraine Liriano (347) 228-2214 prnosevende@gmail.com. Article from on a press release published March 2, 2023. Manhattan, New York — At a forum March 1 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), longtime political and nonprofit operative Luis . . . |
(2023-03-07). WFTU: Solidarity with the indefinite strike of workers in France on March 7! fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the World Federation of Trade Unions. | The World Federation of Trade Unions, representing 105 million workers in 135 countries, expresses its solidarity with the workers of France who will go on an indefinite strike, on Tuesday, March 7, against the pension, a reform project that President Macron wants to impose. | Indeed, after 5 days of strikes and demonstrations throughout the country since January 19, the class-oriented trade unionists of France have decided to launch a new strike in the strategic sectors of the country to make the governmen…
(2023-03-07). La campaña de guerra de Biden aviva la resistencia. workers.org 
27 de febrero de 2023 — En la semana del primer aniversario de la guerra de Estados Unidos y la OTAN contra Rusia en Ucrania, la administración Biden ha tomado o anunciado medidas para prolongar la guerra y arriesgarse a una escalada. Los medios de comunicación corporativos han repetido como . . . |
(2023-03-07). Deutsche Post DHL workers: Take the strike into your own hands. wsws.org We have made it clear with our warning strikes and protests in recent weeks that we want to fight for our demands. But we must prepare ourselves for the fact that the Verdi union will do everything it can to prevent industrial action.
(2023-03-07). SEP (Australia) campaigners for NSW election speak to workers about cost of living crisis and war. wsws.org One young person said: "The working class are paying and giving money to the government and the government is giving it to the richer people so the richer people are going to get richer, and the people who are working have to work harder, longer, just to support that."
(2023-03-07). More Dana workers stand up to reveal rampant corporate-union abuse. wsws.org "It only takes one person to get the word out. Now other people want to join in and stand up because nobody wants to do it alone, and we have had enough."
(2023-03-06). Munich Security Conference: "Intensifying Authoritarian Revisionism" transcend.org 26 Feb 2023 – MSC 2023 Attracts Historic Number of US Congressional Attendees – It is ironic that the Munich Security Conference is set in the site of Adolf Hitler's return in 1920. Home to the Munich Putsch of 1923, Munich became the location from which the Workers Socialist Nazi party grew into a mass movement and political force throughout Germany.
(2023-03-06). Adams signs first pact with DC 37, major municipal workers' union. peoplesworld.org 
NEW YORK —AFSCME District Council 37 and the city reached a tentative contract of more than five years covering 90,000 city workers, Council Executive Director Henry Garrido and New York Mayor Eric Adams announced. The pact, Adams's first with a city municipal union, is retroactive to May 26, 2021, and expires Nov. 6, 2026, the …
(2023-03-06). Ohio rail cleanup workers fall ill as yet another train derails. peoplesworld.org 
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio—The unionized workers cleaning up the mess from chemicals released by Norfolk Southern's giant freight train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3 are getting sick. But when they complained about nausea, migraine headaches, and lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) to their immediate bosses at the wreck site, they got the …
(2023-03-06). Smash the patriarchy, marchers sing on International Women's Day. greenleft.org.au The Hunter Workers Women's Committee continued the tradition of loud and proud street marches with its International Women's Day. Niko Leka reports.
(2023-03-06). The Role Of Big Investors In East Palestine And Ukraine. popularresistance.org U.S. President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kiev Feb. 20 and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The trip was purposefully made to focus attention on the one-year anniversary of the U.S.- and NATO-led proxy war against Russia, and Biden promised large amounts of military aid to Zelensky's regime in Kiev. | Meanwhile, in the U.S., the Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, had become the lead news story. Because the Biden administration had done little to focus on Ohio, the Ukraine trip caused unexpected political problems at home.
(2023-03-06). Lunch ladies strike after Hastings, Minn., school board stonewalls contract negotiations. peoplesworld.org 
HASTINGS, Minn.—With signs reading "Our Kids Deserve a Hot Meal" and "Superintendent Bob gets 35K Raise, Food Service Offered 35 ¢," school food service workers in Hastings, Minn., are heading into their fourth week of a strike, demanding a fair contract that respects these essential workers who keep students nourished every day. The 35 school cafeteria workers, members of Service …
(2023-03-06). How GOP lawmakers are putting teen workers in harm's way. nationofchange.org "Why would you want to weaken the law when you can see companies already taking advantage?"
(2023-03-06). Saturday 3/4: Workers Strike Back: Bay Area Launch Meeting. indybay.org Berkeley South Branch Library Meeting Room | 1901 Russell St, Berkeley…
(2023-03-06). What's at stake in the Caterpillar workers' struggle. wsws.org The key to an understanding of management's intransigence lies in the examination of the explosive state of class relations in the United States, as well as the predatory geo-political aims of US imperialism.
(2023-03-06). Warning strikes in Germany's public sector and local transport. wsws.org Despite workers' readiness to take strike action, the central rally called by the Verdi trade union and the Fridays for Future climate protest organisation was poorly attended by strikers.
(2023-03-06). Huwara offensive against Palestinians fuels anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel. wsws.org It is impossible for Israeli workers to halt the government's plans for a dictatorship or to prevent all-out war with the Palestinians without rejecting nationalism and allying themselves directly with the Palestinians…
(2023-03-07). Public Statement by Indian People's Movements, Trade Unions and Other Civil Society Groups on G20. asia-pacificresearch.com
(2023-03-07). United States: Behind the derailment in Ohio — anti-worker deregulation, corporate greed. greenleft.org.au The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, highlighted safety regulation failures, indifference and anti-union bias, writes Malik Miah.
(2023-03-07). Women's rights at the heart of the fight over pensions in France. peoplesdispatch.org This year's International Working Women's Day in France holds special significance because of a nation-wide call by trade unions and people's movements to bring the country to a standstill from March 7…
(2023-03-07). Co-belligerents: Ukrainian defense chief to brief EU counterparts. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Interfax-UkraineMarch 6, 2023 EU defense ministers to listen to Reznikov about development of situation, discuss how to speed up supply of ammunition The Defense Ministers of the European Union member states will listen to the information of their Ukrainian counterpart Oleksiy Reznikov about the latest developments on the battlefield, about the needs of the Ukrainian …
(2023-03-06). US Exceptionalism and the Wars in Syria and Ukraine. transcend.org After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, neoconservatives said it was time for US interests and priorities to be dominant. This was to be a New American Century with no challengers. It became US foreign policy: The US should not permit any country to challenge US supremacy and dominance.
(2023-03-06). Tunisians mobilize against rising political persecution and government's failure to address economic concerns. peoplesdispatch.org Large protests were organized by political parties and trade unions on Saturday and Sunday against the crackdown on the opposition and economic woes. Calls have been given for for more people's actions in the coming days…
(2023-03-06). La Unión Eléctrica pronostica una afectación de 496 MW para el horario pico nocturno. cubadebate.cu La Unión Eléctrica pronostica para la hora pico nocturna de este lunes una disponibilidad de 2 434 MW y una demanda máxima de 2 860 MW, para un déficit de 426 MW. De mantenerse las condiciones previstas, se estima una afectación de 496 MW en este horario.
(2023-03-06). "Hopeful": Historic U.N. High Seas Treaty Will Protect 30% of World's Oceans from Biodiversity Loss. democracynow.org 
The first-ever international treaty to protect the oceans was agreed to by negotiators from more than 190 countries at a United Nations conference this weekend, capping nearly two decades of efforts by conservation groups. The legally binding pact could help reverse marine biodiversity loss by establishing marine protected areas covering nearly a third of the world's seas by 2030. We hear more from one of the treaty's scientist-negotiators, Minna Epps, a marine biologist and director of the Ocean Team at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
(2023-03-07). Consumer Health: What's the difference between kidney cysts and polycystic kidney disease? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org March is National Kidney Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about the difference between two kidney disorders — kidney cysts and polycystic kidney disease. Your kidneys are situated in the back of your abdomen under your lower ribs, one on each side of your spine. One of the important jobs of the kidneys is to clean the blood. As blood moves through the body, it picks up extra fluid, chemicals and waste….
(2023-03-06). The Path to a Green New Deal Must Involve a Series of Separate Bills. truthout.org The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act are two landmark bills with the potential to carry significant economic and environmental benefits. They also speak volumes of the role that progressive voices and organizations can play in helping to create sustainable and equitable economic growth and in powering a safer future. Of course, they are imperfect bills… |
(2023-03-06). China confident of creating 12 mln new jobs in 2023: NDRC. ecns.cn China has confidence in creating 12 million new jobs in 2023, one million more than the target of last year, said Li Chunlin, vice head of China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), on Monday.
(2023-03-06). Preview: What to Expect in the February Jobs Report. cepr.net The January jobs report showed the economy added 517,000 jobs, with the unemployment rate falling to a half-century low of 3.4 percent. This pace of job growth was extraordinary and clearly cannot be sustained. It also was hugely out of line with the employment growth reported in the household survey, which increased by just 164,000 …
(2023-03-06). New Report: The Dollar Store Invasion. popularresistance.org Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and Family Dollar are targeting vulnerable communities, opening stores at a breakneck pace in urban and rural areas alike. It's tempting to assume that these chains simply fill a need in cash-strapped places. But the evidence suggests that dollar stores are not merely byproducts of economic distress; they are a cause of it. Through predatory tactics, the dollar chains are killing off grocery stores and other local businesses, leaving communities with fewer jobs, diminished access to basic goods, and dimmer prospects for overall well-being. | As these losses mount, dollar stores are fa…
(2023-03-07). Heading Into International Women's Day in Mexico: Let's Be Thousands in the Streets against Femicide and Violence. scheerpost.com 
In 2022, 3,754 women were killed in Mexico, but only 33.7 percent were investigated as femicides. We need to build a movement that fights against misogynist violence.
(2023-03-07). Judy Heumann, 'Mother of Disability Rights Movement,' Dies at 75. scheerpost.com 
"Disability only becomes a tragedy when society fails to provide the things we need to lead our lives—job opportunities or barrier-free buildings, for example," Heumann told one reporter.
(2023-03-07). FRSO and community organizations hold International Women's Day panel. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On Saturday, March 4, around 20 community members and students attended an International Women's Day panel, hosted by the Tallahassee Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). The panelists included Delilah Pierre from the FRSO, Regina Joseph from Tallahassee Community Action Committee and Cas Casanovah from FSU Students for a Democratic Society. | The speakers covered a wide array of topics, ranging from combatting male chauvinism to the historic role women have played in working-class and revolutionary movements. | International Women's Day, originally International Working Women's Day, has…
(2023-03-07). Georgia: Saakashvili party rallies "color" thugs to "physically confront Russians inside the Parliament" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Rustavi2March 7, 2023 "A special force mobilized in the vicinity of the Parliament A special force mobilized in the vicinity of the Parliament. In particular, near the entrances of the legislature. There was a confrontation between the police and the protestors in the area. The Chairman of the United National Movement, Levan Khabeishvili, addressed the …
(2023-03-07). Israel's new far-right government: Analysis. bdsmovement.net 
(2023-03-06). West African people's movements call for greater unity as France announces military 'reorganization'. therealnews.com 
This story originally appeared in The prime minister of Mali's transitional government, Choguel Kokalla MaàØga, concluded a visit to neighboring Burkina Faso on February 26, as both countries have moved to forge closer ties. | MaàØga met with his Burkinabè counterpart, Apollinaire Joachimson Ky…
(2023-03-06). Voices On The Frontlines Of The Fight To Stop Cop City. popularresistance.org Atlanta, Georgia – "A massive victory," is how one participant, "Jean," who spoke to It's Going Down in a recent interview, described this weekend's mobilization against "Cop City" in Atlanta. The movement is currently at a high-point, following an outpouring of support and rage over the brutal murder of Manuel "Tortuguita" Teran, an anarchist and forest defender, who was shot and killed by law enforcement during a raid on tree-sits and protest encampments on January 18th. Statements of solidarity and support have come in from across the Left and the environmental movement, spanning from the Sierra Club and 350.o…
(2023-03-06). Report: Informant Got $20,000 From FBI To Create Divisiveness Among George Floyd Protestors, Accuse Activists Of Working With Police. moguldom.com The Federal Bureau of Investigation paid a convicted felon to be an FBI informant and undermine racial justice protests during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement in the summer of 2020, a new podcast alleges. According to a report by CBS News, "Alphabet Boys" is a 10-episode docuseries that debuted in February that accuses the FBI of …
(2023-03-06). "The Amount of Solidarity is Incredible Here": Voices on the Frontlines of the Fight to Stop Cop City. itsgoingdown.org "A massive victory," is how one participant, "Jean," who spoke to It's Going Down in a recent interview, described this weekend's mobilization against "Cop City" in Atlanta. The movement is currently at a high-point, following an outpouring of support and rage over the brutal murder of Manuel "Tortuguita" Teran, an anarchist and forest defender, who…
(2023-03-06). 1500 Scientists Say 'There Is No Climate Emergency' — The Real Environment Movement Was Hijacked. globalresearch.ca
(2023-03-06). Palestine Solidarity Movement Speaks Out At Board Of Investment Meeting. popularresistance.org St. Paul, Minnesota – On March 2, the Minnesota State Board of Investment (SBI) which includes Governor Walz, Attorney General Ellison, State Auditor Blaha and Secretary of State Simon, met for the first time this year at the state capitol. They meet quarterly to monitor the investments of Minnesota public employees. At the meeting members of the Palestine solidarity movement spoke out. | One of the speakers was Brandon Schorsch, an anti-Zionist Jew and activist with the Anti-War Committee, who stated, "So today, building on our testimony from last August, we bring a list of well over a dozen companies that the S…
(2023-03-06). Georgia: U.S. envoy engineering new "revolution" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Rustavi2March 6, 2023 Revolutionary changes are needed, otherwise we will become a province of Russia — Levan Khabeishvili Revolutionary changes are needed, we have to make revolutionary changes quickly, otherwise we will become a province of Russia. Such a statement made today the Chairman of United National Movement. [The party founded by Mikheil Saakashvili.] "We …
(2023-03-06). West African People's Movements Call For Greater Unity. popularresistance.org The prime minister of Mali's transitional government, Choguel Kokalla MaàØga, concluded a visit to neighboring Burkina Faso on February 26, as both countries have moved to forge closer ties. | MaàØga met with his Burkinabè counterpart, Apollinaire Joachimson Kyélem de Tambèla, following which both delegations presented a cooperation agreement, emphasizing their commitment to making the "Bamako-Ouagadougou axis a successful model of sub-regional integration and South-South cooperation." | On matters of insecurity and armed conflict in the "Sahelo-Saharan strip," the delegations noted the "need to com…
(2023-03-06). How to beat the Fracking Frenzy—Lessons from the Campaign that ended it in Ireland. juancole.com 
The successful Irish anti-fracking struggle offers key insights on community power building for anti-extraction movements all over the world.
(2023-03-06). Seattle students rally in support of hunger strikers at the Northwest Detention Center. fightbacknews.org Tacoma, WA – A crowd of 35 people gathered at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma on Saturday, March 4, to call for the closure of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement-sanctioned prison for undocumented people. The Northwest Detention Center is owned and operated by the private corporation GEO Group. | The Northwest Detention Center is notorious for its mistreatment of inmates, lack of sanitation, medical neglect and overuse of solitary confinement. The prisoners there have gone on multiple hunger strikes over the past year to protest these conditions, most recently in February when over 85 demanded an en…
(2023-03-07). In Video: In The CIA, We Didn't Give A Hoot About Democracy. southfront.org
(2023-03-07). Protesting pension reforms, French working class shuts down the country. peoplesdispatch.org The controversial pension reform bill calling for an increase in the retirement age from 62 to 64 is currently being discussed in the French Senate but was passed over to the Senate before it could be voted on because of disagreements about raising the retirement age…
(2023-03-06). India: The Next Front in the War on the BRICS. strategic-culture.org For years the wildcard in the BRICS Alliance has been India. India's rivalry with China as well as its complicated relationships with both Russia and the West have always served as wedge issues to drive the alliance apart. During the Trump years the "I" in BRICS, India, was slowly working its way under Prime Minister Narendra Modi back into the West's orbit. It led to me thinking that that "I" had been replaced by Iran, especially pre-COVID-19.
(2023-03-06). Marxist IQ: Women and the fight for democracy and socialism. cpusa.org 
This year's United Nations-sponsored International Women's Day on March 8th and Women's History Month in the United States takes place after the extreme-right Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade. The Dobbs v. Jackson decision ranks as one of the worst in SCOTUS history. This Marxist IQ is dedicated to the mobilization of all working-class …
(2023-03-06). The Comprehensive Crisis in the US and the Revolutionary Way Forward. orinocotribune.com By Carlos L. Garrido — Mar 1, 2023 | The United States tells the world and its citizenry that it is the best country on the planet, where freedom and democracy reign, and where an American dream exists which affords all the opportunity to live flourishing 'middle class' lives with white picket fence homes and two automobiles. However, for the working masses of the United States, as the great comedic critic George Carlin noted, "it's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."[1] When awake, what the American masses experience is the American nightmare; lives plagued by stagnant wa…
(2023-03-06). NYC: 3/25: In Honor of Women's History Month: Join the Int'l Working Women's Day Coalition. iacenter.org
(2023-03-06). "They All Knew": Media Matters Files FEC Complaint That Fox News Broke Election Laws, Lied for Trump. democracynow.org 
A number of bombshell revelations about the inner workings of Fox News have come to light as part of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against the network. Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, has admitted under oath that many hosts on his network "endorsed" Donald Trump's false claims about the 2020 election for financial, not political, reasons, stating, "It is not red or blue, it is green." In court filings, Dominion also revealed that Murdoch had given Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner confidential information about Biden's campaign a…
