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2023-07-24: News Headlines

Valerie Jean-Charles (2023-07-23). We Can't Tackle Gun Violence Until We Address Racial Inequity. truthout.org Two years ago, I was nearly caught in the crossfires of teenagers shooting at each other in northwest Washington, D.C. I was on the phone with my mother when I heard a blast go off just inches away from me. I can still feel the kickback of the gun reverberate across my skull. Had I not run into traffic to save my life, chances are my mother would've been subjected to hearing her daughter get shot… |

WSWS (2023-07-23). Stage and screen workers rally in London to support SAG-AFTRA strike. wsws.org Chants of "One struggle, one fight, we support SAG-AFTRA's strike!" rang across Leicester Square at Friday's rally of Equity members.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-07-24). 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…

Editor (2023-07-24). The Climate Crisis Is Most Detrimental to the Black Community. scheerpost.com As the only key to being insulated from the worst aspects of climate change in its current form is through financial stability, the economic fragility that has been a hallmark of this community due to systemic racism makes it most susceptible to feeling the effects of climate change more than any other group.

Speak Out Now (2023-07-24). Saturday 8/5: Police Murder in France: A Nationwide Uprising. indybay.org Online Townhall, see website for details…

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-07-24). Saturday 8/19: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: 'End Times' by Peter Turchin. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

Editor (2023-07-24). The revolutionary spirit of the Buddha. mronline.org Marx and Engels both took a surprising interest in the ideas of the great Indian spiritual leader, argues Sean Ledwith.

Julie Hollar (2023-07-24). Covering 'Racist State' backlash—but not the reality that Israel is a racist state. mronline.org When Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D.—Wash.) called Israel a "racist state" at the Netroots Nation conference, corporate media dutifully covered the political backlash—but scrupulously avoided evaluating the veracity of Jayapal's statement.

Editor (2023-07-23). Young People Should Oppose the Kids Online Safety Act. scheerpost.com By Jason Kelley / Electronic Frontier Foundation Next week, Congress plans to move a bill forward that is opposed by dozens of organizations, digital rights protectors, LGBTQ+ activists, and human rights defenders: the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). As we've written before, KOSA would lead to censorship and privacy invasions for all social media users. But the most …

The Exposé (2023-07-23). CIA, DoD & Rockefeller Foundation confirmed as architects of Deagel .com 2025 Depopulation Forecast & current Mortality Rates imply Covid Vaccination has made it a target that could be hit. expose-news.com In a world where reality often seems stranger than fiction, the machinations behind global events can be an enigma wrapped in mystery. One such intrigue revolves around Deagel.com, an obscure online entity …

Barbara Barrett, In These Times. (2023-07-24). Despite Heat Deaths, Many States Don't Require Water Breaks. popularresistance.org Even as summer temperatures soar and states wrangle with protecting outdoor workers from extreme heat, Texas recently enacted a law that axes city rules mandating water and shade breaks for construction workers. | In state after state, lawmakers and regulators have in recent years declined to require companies to offer their outdoor laborers rest breaks with shade and water. In some cases, legislation failed to gain traction. In others, state regulators decided against action or have taken years to write and release rules. | Heat causes more deaths in the United States each year than any other extreme weather.

Rania Khalek (2023-07-24). Texas 'Death Star' Law Eliminates Water Breaks For Construction Workers. thealtworld.com As Texas sweltered last month under a record-breaking heat wave, the state passed a new law that eliminates mandatory water breaks for construction workers. | Tevita Uhatafe, the 1st Vice President of the Tarrant County Central Labor Council, discusses how HB 2127, which activists are calling "the law that kills", impacts workers across Texas.

teleSUR, DRL (2023-07-24). Rey español anuncia consultas en agosto para formar Gobierno. telesurtv.net Es una prerrogativa constitucional que Felipe VI proponga al Congreso de los Diputados el candidato que, a su juicio, debe ser el jefe de Gobierno.

teleSUR, SH -JCM (2023-07-24). Avanza escrutinio de votos de las elecciones generales en España. telesurtv.net Los electores deberán elegir a los 350 diputados que integran el Congreso y a 208 senadores de los 266 que componen el Senado.

Press Associates (2023-07-24). Laborers, Transportation Trades blast Republicans' infrastructure cuts. peoplesworld.org PHILADELPHIA —In just two weeks, thanks to federal infrastructure funds from legislation last year—and coordination by state, federal, and local officials plus round-the-clock work from unionists—the collapsed I-95 bridge in Philadelphia was replaced and reopened, thus solving a major transportation bottleneck in the Northeast U.S. But if the House's ruling Republicans have their way, in …

Labor Video Project (2023-07-24). SAG AFTRA Members Picket Netflix HQ-Protest 1 Cent Residuals. indybay.org Dozens of SAG AFTRA strikers picketed the headquarters of Netflix in Los Gatos. Netflix refuses to provide information about the times it streams films to the union and also wants SAG AFTRA and Writers Guild West members to work as gig workers with no healthcare and pensions.

Michael Hudson (2023-07-24). Is the US a Failed State with Michael Hudson. indybay.org It's a failed state because its economy is paralyzed and we're in a debt deflation, an economic polarization, that is just transferring all wealth and income away from labor, away from industry, into really the financial sector and what I call the finance, insurance, and real estate sector.

Labor Video Project (2023-07-24). UC UAW Workers & Unite Here 11 Strikers Protest Union Busting By UC Bosses At UC Regents. indybay.org Hundreds of UC UAW members and Unite Here Local 11 strikers from Southern California rallied at the UC Regents meeting against the flagrant union busting tactics including felony arrests for chalking at UCSD.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-07-24). Science Saturday: Mayo Clinic discovery leads to diagnoses of 9 people with rare form of muscular dystrophy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Nine people around the world who have been living with unexplained, muscular dystrophy-like symptoms may now have an answer for what is causing the progressive muscle weakness in their body's mid-section, arms and legs. In a new discovery, a collaborative team of scientists led by researchers at Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine has pinpointed alterations in a single gene deep inside these people's genetic blueprint as the root cause of their ultra-rare disorder, known as limb-girdle muscular…

teleSUR, nama, JCM (2023-07-24). Detienen en Brasil a cómplice en asesinato de Marielle Franco. telesurtv.net El arresto sucede por el acuerdo de colaboración que firmó uno de los autores del homicidio, el expolicía Elcio Queiroz.

WSWS (2023-07-24). Australian government's universities report demands restructuring for big business and war. wsws.org "Courses must be designed with the skills needs of industry in mind," Labor's Accord report insists.

WSWS (2023-07-24). Hot labor summer: Growing strike movement colliding with pro-corporate union bureaucracies. wsws.org A powerful strike movement has begun to emerge in the US and internationally in recent weeks, involving tens of thousands of workers across different industries, coming into headlong conflict with the union apparatuses.

ecns.cn (2023-07-24). Efforts to isolate China put technology leaps at risk, academic says. ecns.cn A Chinese political scholar has raised concerns over the implications of the United States' policy of so-called de-risking for China's technological advancements and international collaboration.

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-24). Labor must end immigration detention and offshore processing, protesters say. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-24). Refugee rights rally demands Labor ends cruel temporary visas. greenleft.org.au

Larry Johnson (2023-07-24). U.S. Secretary of STate Blinken Really is this Out of Touch With Reality. sonar21.com My friend, Andrei Martyanov, published a short piece on Antony Blinken's latest public demonstration of schizophrenia and I want to elaborate on Andrei's astonishment at Blinken's total detachment from reality….

Fight Back (2023-07-23). The Milwaukee Area Labor Council stands in solidarity with Teamsters fighting for a fair contract at UPS. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following resolution passed by the Milwaukee Area Labor Council, AFL-CIO executive board in July 2023. | The collective bargaining agreement representing 340,000 Teamsters at UPS across the country, including Wisconsin Teamsters Local 344, expires at midnight, August 1, 2023. | If UPS Teamsters go on strike, it will be the largest strike against a single business in U.S. history, and the largest strike since the last UPS Teamsters strike in 1997. This is a struggle that will impact every working person in the country. | UPS makes over $13 billion in profits every year on…

Editor (2023-07-24). Chasing Clicks Through Ad Money, Media Does PR for Amazon While Ignoring Human Costs of 'Prime Day Deals'. scheerpost.com This year, like every year, Amazon workers' attempts to draw attention to their exploitative conditions were largely drowned out by hundreds of fawning PR press releases thinly disguised as articles about how "consumers" could "take advantage" of "amazing deals" offered by Amazon on "Prime Day."

Adam Johnson, The Real News Network. (2023-07-24). Chasing Clicks Through Ad Money, Media Does PR For Amazon. popularresistance.org Every year, America's corporate media celebrates the coming of that most sacred and deal-laden of holidays, so-called Amazon "Prime Day." The media fanfare around Prime Day is such a staple that it has become a perennial strategic rallying point for Amazon workers trying to draw attention to Amazon's low wages, unsafe working conditions, and aggressive anti-union corporate culture. These are year-round problems that ramp up to 11 during the taxing and brutal period before, during, and after Prime Day, when workers are pressured into long hours, exposed to high temperatures, and given impossible performance metric…

Maximillian Alvarez (2023-07-24). The UPS showdown: What to expect from a strike. therealnews.com We are less than two weeks away from what could be the second largest single-employer strike in US history. As of this recording, contract negotiations between United Parcel Services (UPS) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have reportedly "collapsed"—and the clock is ticking until the current contract expires on July 31. If a deal is not reached and a strike occurs, what will it look like for 340,000 Teamster UPSers to walk off the job? What are the key issues that workers are prepared to strike over? And what can we all do to support them, whether a strike occurs or not? In this episode,…

Revolutionary Workers United Front (2023-07-24). Friday 7/21: POA: Shut it Down! indybay.org On the sidewalk in front of the San Francisco Police Officers Association: 800 Bryant @ 6th Street in San Francisco…

Mark Gruenberg (2023-07-24). Plight of part-timers key issue in Teamsters' struggle vs UPS. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The plight of part-time UPS drivers and warehouse workers, who are approximately half the firm's workforce, has become a key issue in the Teamsters' struggle with UPS. With talks resuming on July 24, after company bargainers walked out at 4 am on July 5, a forced strike by the 340,000 Teamsters members that work for …

teleSUR (2023-07-24). The King of Spain to Call Consultations to Form a Government. telesurenglish.net Due to the political deadlock caused by the general elections, King Felipe VI will initiate a round of consultations with the Spanish parties to form a government after August 17. | RELATED: | On Sunday, the Popular Party (PP) and the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) did not obtain the necessary majority to govern. They need support from other political organizations, which seems unlikely to be achieved. | According to the Spani…

WSWS (2023-07-24). Spain in election limbo after right-wing Popular Party and far-right Vox fail to secure majority to govern. wsws.org Calls for "Unity against fascism" will be used as a weapon against the working class, to try and blackmail workers into uniting behind a renewed Socialist Party-Sumar government to try and stifle a movement to the left that has seen an eruption of struggles against their pro-war and austerity policies.

WSWS (2023-07-24). Union calls more limited strikes by Southern California hotel workers. wsws.org Unite Here Local 11 started a third "strike wave" last Thursday while it maneuvers with owners and Democrats.

WSWS (2023-07-24). Australian Pharmaceutical Industries workers' four-week strike shut down with no real wage gains. wsws.org Under the proposed union-management deal, API workers will receive an average nominal wage rise of 4.5 per annum over four years, keeping their wages lower than their counterparts in other warehouses.

WSWS (2023-07-24). Teamsters announces last-minute deal at Yellow to block strike, as hundreds of workers gather to discuss industry-wide strategy at rank-and-file meeting. wsws.org The agreement to avert a strike is a sellout that resolves nothing for Yellow freight workers and does not commit the company to pay a penny of its $50 million pension obligations.

WSWS (2023-07-24). Workers speak out: Actors and writers, UPS workers, and autoworkers across the US. wsws.org We are posting here a roundup of video comments from actors and writers, UPS workers and autoworkers that appeared on the World Socialist Web Site in the last week.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-24). Leftist parties condemn EU-Tunisia agreement to curb migration. peoplesdispatch.org The Workers' Party of Tunisia and the Italian leftist party Potere al Popolo said that Tunisia's deal with the EU on migration and an upcoming agreement with the IMF are a "perfect pact between liberalism, authoritarianism and xenophobia"

Food Empowerment Project (2023-07-24). New Video Examines How Amy's Kitchen Impacted the Lives of More Than 300 of Its Workers. indybay.org One year after the layoffs of more than 300 employees at the Amy's Kitchen factory in San José, California, Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice organization, has released a video on the lives that the company impacted.

UAW 2865 (2023-07-24). Wednesday 7/19: Stop Union Busting UAW 2865 and 5810 academic workers rally outside the UC Regents UCSF. indybay.org Rutter Center in San Francisco | UCSF Mission Bay Campus…

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-24). Finance union urges NAB workers to vote up improved agreement. greenleft.org.au

midwesternmarx (2023-07-23). Hollywood Executives Bring Industry to Halt Rather Than Pay Workers a Fair Price By: Sonali Kolhatkar. midwesternmarx.com Refusing to negotiate better compensation and fair working conditions for actors and writers, major film and television studios are to blame for the work stoppages afflicting their industry. Hollywood has come to a standstill this summer as actors join their writer colleagues on the picket line. The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) announced that it would be on strike starting July 14, 2023, over negotiations breaking down with t …

Fight Back (2023-07-23). Waste workers at Republic Services rally as potential strike approaches. fightbacknews.org Atlanta GA – On July 21, waste workers at Republic Services, who are represented by Teamsters Local 728 in Atlanta, rallied in support of a potential strike. The rally was held less than two weeks after 95% of waste workers in Local 728 voted to authorize a strike if the company refuses to offer a decent contract before July 31. | The action started with a march of about 60 people to the front gate of Republic Services, where management was watching from their offices. Union members and supporters from the community chanted "Who are we? Teamsters!" and "Hey hey! Ho ho! Corporate greed has got to go!" The march wa…

Simon Pirani (2023-07-24). War in Ukraine Makes Just Transition on Energy More Urgent. fpif.org Even in the midst of war, there is a struggle for Ukraine's energy future. | It's one that international allies of Ukraine's social movements need to pay attention to, because states like the United States and United Kingdom, and international organizations like the European Union, will be influential in how that tussle turns out. | In almost every country in the world there is a battle for influence between partisans of renewable, decentralized energy production, and those of legacy nuclear or carbon-intensive methods, who often have deeper pockets and stronger political connections. | But in Ukraine, that st…

Mark Gruenberg (2023-07-24). Jóvenes organizadores hablan de sindicatos con Biden y Bernie en la Casa Blanca. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Por lo general, Kumbar Nambiar, un joven graduado de Yale, pasaría los lunes libres antes de lanzar como relevista durante el resto de la semana para los Lansing Lugnuts, un club agrícola de béisbol de ligas menores de los Tigres de Detroit en el estado de Michigan. Sin embargo, no el 17 de julio. En …

WSWS (2023-07-24). ILWU leadership forcing Canadian dockers to vote on government-dictated sellout contract previously rejected by union delegates. wsws.org The decision marks yet another miserable capitulation by the union bureaucracy to the pro-war, pro-austerity Liberal government, which made clear its intention to employ ruthless state repression if dockers had resumed strike action.

WSWS (2023-07-23). Striking UK First Manchester bus drivers: Unite union "try and split us, but we've all stuck together so they can't push us around" wsws.org One driver said, "All the big companies made profits over COVID. The government is investing in things we don't need, like going to war. We're in a war here with our circumstances."

Ali Abunimah (2023-07-23). UK union cancels "Weaponising Anti-Semitism" book launch. electronicintifada.net Senior leaders of Unite accused of political censorship.

Peter Mertens, People's Dispatch. (2023-07-24). Mutiny In South And North. popularresistance.org History proceeds in waves, and I think it is important to understand the movement of history. The unipolar era under the dominance of the United States is coming to an end. | The future belongs to multilateral relations between countries and peoples, with mutual respect and reciprocity, without outside political or military interference. Within this framework, enormous numbers of people have committed themselves in recent days to building lasting relations between Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe. | We all know: as the movement of history continues, some cling frenetically to the certainties of the old wo…

José Seoane (2023-07-24). The eco collapse we were warned about has begunÔøº. nationofchange.org The banners of a change inspired by social and climate justice and the effective paths of this socio-ecological transition raised by popular movements are becoming more imperative and urgent today.

teleSUR (2023-07-24). Hitmen Assassinate Manta Mayor Intriago in Ecuador. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Agustin Intriago, the mayor of the Ecuadorian port city of Manta, was assassinated in an armed attack. | RELATED: | The 38-year-old mayor was shot several times as he was unveiling city projects at a local neighborhood. He was taken to a hospital for emergency treatment but died from his wounds. | Intriago was re-elected in 2023 by the Citizen Revolution Movement, the most important opposition party led by form…

teleSUR (2023-07-24). TeleSUR Celebrates 18 Years of Informative Sovereignty. telesurenglish.net On July 24, 2005, Hugo Chávez's dream came true: the creation of teleSUR, the New Television of the South, currently a multimedia that exposes the voices of the peoples, social movements and political forces that fight for justice and against oppression. | Related: | From its beginnings, teleSUR emerged as a counter-hegemonic and decolonizing South American television project from the media point of view, different from the…

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-07-24). No damage as magnitude 6.8 quake shakes El Salvador. plenglish.com San Salvador, Jul 24 (Prensa Latina) El Salvador ¥s Environment and Natural Resources Ministry on Monday informed the country continues to face seismic movements in its territory following a magnitude 6.8 tremor was reported on July 18.

PACBI (2023-07-24). American Anthropological Association Votes by 71% to Boycott Complicit Israeli Universities. bdsmovement.net

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-24). The Blak Sovereign Movement on the Voice referendum. greenleft.org.au

teleSUR (2023-07-23). Guatemalans Call 'The Flowers March' to Defend Democracy. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, the Highlands Farmers Committee (CCDA), the Palin Indigenous Mayor's Office, and students from the University of San Carlos (USAC) called for a "march of flowers" to defend democracy in Guatemala. | RELATED: | This happens at a time when the Prosecutor's Office is carrying out persecutory actions against the Seed Movement party (Semilla), which might jeopardize the holding of the presidential run-off sch…

WSWS (2023-07-24). Stop the censorship of socialist students at Macquarie University! wsws.org The IYSSE is being targeted because it "is the only organization that advances a genuine anti-war perspective based on the unification of the international working class against the capitalist nation-state system."

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-07-24). CIA Has Been Working to Overthrow the People's Republic of China (PRC) Since Its Inception in 1949. covertactionmagazine.com New book details saga of two CIA officers, Jack Downey and Richard Fecteau, who were imprisoned for 19 years in China following a botched covert operation in the "Asian Bay of Pigs." Six years ago, The New York Times reported that the Chinese government systematically dismantled CIA spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing …

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2023-07-23: News Headlines

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-07-23). 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…

Carolyn Marie Peterson (2023-07-22). What is a Woman? — A War on Biological Reality is being fought by Misogynistic & Child Abusing Men. expose-news.com As a steadfast advocate for women's rights and gender equality for decades, my journey has taken me through tides of societal change. I've witnessed the evolution of the feminist narrative, growing from …

Meredith Reiches (2023-07-22). Perspectives] What we get wrong about patriarchy. thelancet.com In June, 2022, when the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the 1973 case protecting the right to abortion at the federal level, Senator Susan Collins, a Republican legislator from Maine, criticised the decision in a statement in a press release. The Supreme Court, she wrote, had "abandoned a fifty-year precedent at a time that the country is desperate for stability" and she drew attention to "the importance of supporting long-standing precedents". It is noteworthy that, in her statement, Collins did not reach for the language of freedom, equality, or progress to express dismay at the abrogation of a right th…

Keerti Gopal (2023-07-22). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Illinois Abolishes The Cash-Bail Trap. levernews.com Good things are happening! Illinois takes the lead on curbing pretrial discrimination, the EPA gets serious about lead poisoning, incarcerated students regain access to federal aid, and another college ends legacy admissions.When You Land On Illinois, Get Out Of Jail Free: Illinois is the first state to abolish cash bail, with its supreme court determining it's unconstitutional to hold defendants in jail based on their inability to pay.Cash bail allows people to put up a sum of money in exchange for leaving jail and awaiting trial at home. It's entirely contradictory to the principle of "innocent until pr…

Pranav Jani (2023-07-22). GOP Planned to Destroy Public Education in Ohio. We Defeated Them — for Now. truthout.org Ohioans invested in the integrity and well-being of public universities across the state breathed a sigh of relief in late June after Ohio Senate Bill 83 — Republicans' big push to overhaul higher education across the state — failed in its bid to become law before the summer recess began. A few of the bill's lowlights — in its original and revised forms — include: SB 83 teems with contradictions. |

Fight Back (2023-07-22). California: Tustin rallies in solidarity with Tampa 5. fightbacknews.org Tustin, CA – On July 12, over 20 activists and community members rallied in front of the Tustin Police Department in solidarity with the Tampa 5 and against police repression in Orange County. The rally was held for an emergency National Day of Action with rallies happening across the country. The Tampa 5 are student and worker activists who were arrested while for protesting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's attacks on education. The activists now face up to ten years in prison. | Diana Terreros, a member of Community Service Organization Orange County (CSO OC), explained, "The Tampa 5 were attacked, body slammed,…

Ana Luisa Brown (2023-07-22). Cuba and French cities strengthen sports ties for Paris-2024. plenglish.com Paris, Jul 22 (Prensa Latina) The president of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder), Osvaldo Vento, highlighted here today the support of several French cities to the training of Cuban athletes for the Paris-2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-07-23). Saturday 8/19: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: 'End Times' by Peter Turchin. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

Anonymous669 (2023-07-23). Russian Army Annihilates NATO Equipment In South Donetsk, Zaporozhye (Videos). southfront.org File image | The Russian military repelled several large-scale attacks by Kiev forces in the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions between July 22 and 23. | While repelling the attacks, the Russian military reportedly destroyed seven German-made Leopard 2 main battle tanks and American-made Bradly infantry fighting vehicles. Video footage that surfaced online did show at least three damaged or destroyed Leopard 2 tanks as well as a fourth Leopard 2 and a Bradly vehicle receiving direct hit…

ecns.cn (2023-07-23). Over 700,000 pieces of fake online content deleted. ecns.cn More than 700,000 pieces of fake information on the internet have been eliminated by Chinese police during a 100-day campaign against rumors, the Ministry of Public Security said on Friday.

Planned Parenthood (2023-07-23). Wednesday 7/19: History of Planned Parenthood and Racial Justice Teach-in. indybay.org Online event | ACCESSIBILITY: Closed captioning will be available.

WSWS (2023-07-22). ONLINE MEETING: The battle at Yellow freight: Logistics and postal workers must rally in support! wsws.org With the company on the verge of bankruptcy and refusing to pay pensions and healthcare, a strike at the company could begin as soon as Monday.

Editor (2023-07-22). Africa is burning! DRC in environmental crisis. mronline.org Much attention is paid to the ongoing environmental crises engulfing the regions of South Asia, North America, and Europe, and rightfully so. The global climate crisis—as well as environmental injustice generally—is contiguous and virulent. But much less attention, however, is paid to the ongoing ecological crisis of Africa; the mother of all civilization.

Editor (2023-07-22). Over 3 thousands protesters arrested during week of unrest in France. mronline.org France's Interior Minister reports that one-third of those imprisoned during the week of violence were young rioters.

Editor (2023-07-22). Newly organized nurses in Texas and Kansas strike for a first contract. mronline.org Through wet weather in Wichita, Kansas, and scorching heat in Austin, Texas, hundreds of nurses walked picket lines June 27 in a one-day strike for safe staffing and patient safety. Nearly 2,000 nurses represented by National Nurses United (NNU) walked out.

Editor (2023-07-22). When can there be a fall in the rate of profit? mronline.org SEVERAL major economists have put forward theories predicting a falling tendency of the rate of profit under capitalism; Marx had seen in this fact an awareness on their part of the essential transitoriness of the capitalist system. But while some of these theories have logical validity, others do not. Among the latter is Adam Smith's theory.

Vijay Prashad (2023-07-22). If everybody's going to join NATO, then why have the United Nations? The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2023). mronline.org The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) held its annual summit on 11—12 July in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Editor (2023-07-22). The evolution of a solution. mronline.org After 20 plus years of educating and organizing throughout the Alabama prison system, one of the most frequently asked questions I get is, "What is a work stoppage like?" Well, it's surreal, it's really hard to put into words and I don't want to be cliche about it, but I'll do my best.

ecns.cn (2023-07-22). Insights | BRI doesn't distinguish participants based on ideologies, nor does it respond to zero-sum game logic: expert. ecns.cn "The Communist Party of China (CPC) has never forgotten its main mission, which is to serve the people and their interests," said Fabio Massimo Parenti, professor of international studies at the International Institute Lorenzo de' Medici in Florencein an online interview with China News Network.

teleSUR, SH -JCM (2023-07-23). Avanza escrutinio de votos de las elecciones generales en España. telesurtv.net Los electores deberán elegir a los 350 diputados que integran el Congreso y a 208 senadores de los 266 que componen el Senado.

teleSUR, SH -JCM (2023-07-23). Cierran mesas electorales de los comicios generales en España. telesurtv.net Los electores deberán elegir a los 350 diputados que integran el Congreso y a 208 senadores de los 266 que componen el Senado.

teleSUR, SH (2023-07-23). Abren centros de votación para elecciones generales en España. telesurtv.net Los electores deberán elegir a los 350 diputados que integran el Congreso y a 208 senadores de los 266 que componen el Senado.

teleSUR, SH (2023-07-23). Sube participación del electorado 2,4 puntos más que en 2019 en elecciones en España. telesurtv.net Los electores deberán elegir a los 350 diputados que integran el Congreso y a 208 senadores de los 266 que componen el Senado.

WSWS (2023-07-22). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific. wsws.org Sri Lankan health workers hold nationwide protests; Bangladeshi secondary-level school teachers strike; Australia: Queensland power workers walk out for higher pay; New Zealand nurses to strike for 24 hours.

Colonel Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. (2023-07-22). Knives Are Out Again For Advocates Of Peace On The Korean Peninsula. popularresistance.org The knives are out again for those advocating for peace on the Korean Peninsula. Almost eight years to the day, I wrote "The Knives are Out For Those Who Challenge Militarization of the Korean Peninsula," about Washington Beltway pundits and those on the payroll of organizations and corporations that make money out of the U.S. bureaucracy's need for an enemy. These groups had focused their outrage and diatribes at Women Cross DMZ for organizing the 2015 trip to North and South Korea and daring to challenge the status quo of U.S. policy toward North Korea. | Eight years later as Women Cross DMZ and other Korea pea…

Staff (2023-07-22). Venezuela's El Panal 2021 Commune Welcomes Vietnam's Communist Party Delegation (+Arreaza & PCV). orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Socialist Commune El Panal 2021 welcomed the Commission of Mass Mobilization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, accompanied by Venezuelan Minister for Communes and Social Movements Jorge Arreaza. The aim of the meeting is sharing the advances made in social and communal organizing in both countries in order to resolve problems of the communities. | The Vietnamese delegation toured the productive spaces of the commune and noted the progress and experiences of Venezuela's grassroots organizations. | "With a tour of its productive facilities, the Socialist Commune El Panal 2021 re…

Labor Video Project (2023-07-23). SAG AFTRA Members Picket Netflix HQ-Protest 1 Cent Residuals. indybay.org Dozens of SAG AFTRA strikers picketed the headquarters of Netflix in Los Gatos. Netflix refuses to provide information about the times it streams films to the union and also wants SAG AFTRA and Writers Guild West members to work as gig workers with no healthcare and pensions.

Michael Hudson (2023-07-23). Is the US a Failed State with Michael Hudson. indybay.org It's a failed state because its economy is paralyzed and we're in a debt deflation, an economic polarization, that is just transferring all wealth and income away from labor, away from industry, into really the financial sector and what I call the finance, insurance, and real estate sector.

Labor Video Project (2023-07-23). UC UAW Workers & Unite Here 11 Strikers Protest Union Busting By UC Bosses At UC Regents. indybay.org Hundreds of UC UAW members and Unite Here Local 11 strikers from Southern California rallied at the UC Regents meeting against the flagrant union busting tactics including felony arrests for chalking at UCSD.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-07-23). Science Saturday: Mayo Clinic discovery leads to diagnoses of 9 people with rare form of muscular dystrophy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Nine people around the world who have been living with unexplained, muscular dystrophy-like symptoms may now have an answer for what is causing the progressive muscle weakness in their body's mid-section, arms and legs. In a new discovery, a collaborative team of scientists led by researchers at Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine has pinpointed alterations in a single gene deep inside these people's genetic blueprint as the root cause of their ultra-rare disorder, known as limb-girdle muscular…

WorkWeek (2023-07-23). Tuesday 7/18: Labor Report on Argentina With High School Teacher Luciana Alterleib, member of ADEMYS tra. indybay.org Labor Report on Argentina With High School Teacher Luciana Alterleib, member of ADEMYS trade union and a member of the workers organization Tribuna Docente, Partido Obrero in the Left Workers Front in Argentina…

Zach Patnoe (2023-07-22). Wisconsin Teen Killed in Sawmill Amid National Push to Expand Child Labor. liberationnews.org Amid the ongoing push to expand child labor across the nation, 16-year-old Michael Schuls was tragically killed while working at a sawmill in northern Wisconsin. Florence Hardwoods had illegally employed the teen despite Wisconsin state law prohibiting minors from all occupations in logging and sawmills.

Sara E Boyd, Scott J C Pallett, Luke S P Moore (2023-07-22). Correspondence] Orthopaedic preparedness for disasters must extend to infection surveillance. thelancet.com We read with interest the work of Hamaiyal Sana and colleagues who highlight the unique surgical requirements and barriers to quality provision of orthopaedic care in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) during disaster situations.1 Development of the suggested collaborative framework has merit, but preparedness stretches beyond adequacy of surgical equipment and must consider the entire care pathway. Disaster situations are associated with considerable disruption to diagnostic microbiology laboratory infrastructure, exacerbating limited capacity in many LMICs.

Dan DiMaggio, Courtney Smith, Labor Notes. (2023-07-22). Auto Workers Kick Off Bargaining With 'Members' Handshake'. popularresistance.org Bargaining between the United Auto Workers and Big 3 automakers is looking very different this year. | New UAW leaders ditched the public handshake ceremony with company executives that has traditionally kicked off bargaining. "I'm not shaking hands with any CEOs until they do right by our members," said President Shawn Fain in a Facebook live talk July 11. | Instead, officers—recently elected on promises of greater transparency and militancy, in the union's first-ever direct election for top posts—established what could become a new tradition: "the Members' Handshake." Fain and other executive board…

mforinoco (2023-07-22). BP Financed Colombian Military. orinocotribune.com By John McEvoy — Jul 19, 2023 | Documents reveal how the oil company offered to finance Bogota's military as it was killing opponents during the 1990s and collaborated with a general accused of kidnap, torture and murder, John McEvoy reports. | BP offered to aid Colombia's "national defence activities" when the country had the worst human rights record in the Western hemisphere | Foreign Office promised to "do anything we could to help BP operate smoothly in Colombia" | Colombian trade unionist who holds BP partly responsible for his kidnapping and torture tells Declassified he hopes "BP will be judged for i…

ecns.cn (2023-07-22). TSMC delays chip production at Arizona plant. ecns.cn Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) — the world's largest chipmaker — will delay mass production of chips at its new Arizona-based chip plant until 2025 due to a shortage of skilled labor.

ecns.cn (2023-07-23). Xi writes back to academicians and experts, encouraging more sci-tech workers to participate in science popularization. ecns.cn Xi on Thursday wrote back to representatives of academicians and experts who have participated in the lecture tours "Science and China". In the letter, he expressed his sincere hope that sci-tech workers will support, and participate in science popularization.

Revolutionary Workers United Front (2023-07-23). Friday 7/21: POA: Shut it Down! indybay.org On the sidewalk in front of the San Francisco Police Officers Association: 800 Bryant @ 6th Street in San Francisco…

Food Empowerment Project (2023-07-23). New Video Examines How Amy's Kitchen Impacted the Lives of More Than 300 of Its Workers. indybay.org One year after the layoffs of more than 300 employees at the Amy's Kitchen factory in San José, California, Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice organization, has released a video on the lives that the company impacted.

UAW 2865 (2023-07-23). Wednesday 7/19: Stop Union Busting UAW 2865 and 5810 academic workers rally outside the UC Regents UCSF. indybay.org Rutter Center in San Francisco | UCSF Mission Bay Campus…

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-23). Finance union urges NAB workers to vote up improved agreement. greenleft.org.au

Bella DeVaan (2023-07-22). Cuentas 401(k) vacías, deuda estudiantil: los trabajadores jóvenes realmente necesitarán el Seguro Social. peoplesworld.org "El consejo más importante sobre cómo ahorrar para la jubilación es este", comienza la guía de ahorro para la jubilación del New York Times: "Empiece ahora". Si los jóvenes estadounidenses tuvieran un centavo por cada vez que reciben ese consejo, bueno… no tendrían que preocuparse por la jubilación. Pero a muchos trabajadores jóvenes les resulta …

WSWS (2023-07-22). Judge sets May 2024 trial date in criminal case against Trump for stealing classified documents. wsws.org The setting of the trial date, in the midst of an escalating war against Russia and a growing wave of strikes and protests by workers in the US and internationally, highlights the unprecedented crisis and breakdown of the US political system.

WSWS (2023-07-22). US writers and actors continue their fight against entertainment giants. wsws.org With the contracts of hundreds of thousands of UPS and autoworkers expiring soon, the possibility of major shutdowns of critical industries looms.

WSWS (2023-07-22). "They're trying to strip us of our right to our livelihoods": Ford Kentucky Truck workers denounce Biden intervention into auto talks. wsws.org Ford workers spoke about Biden's meeting with the UAW president and the need for rank-and-file control over the contract struggle.

WSWS (2023-07-22). 10,000 airport ground workers strike across Italy. wsws.org Almost 1,000 flights had to be cancelled and an estimated quarter of a million passengers were affected.

progressive.international (2023-07-22). When bosses tried to sack them, these automotive workers took over their factory. progressive.international In July 2021, 422 employees at the GKN automotive factory received an email explaining they had been fired en masse.

Jessica Buxbaum, Mintpress News. (2023-07-22). Sierra Club Workers Challenge Leaders' Greenwashing 'Apartheid Tours'. popularresistance.org In June, members of the Sierra Club unit of the Progressive Workers Union (PWU) passed a resolution pledging solidarity with the Palestinian people as the environmental organization pushes forward with its planned trips to Israel. | The workers' resolution puts its words into action by ensuring union funds aren't investing in Israel's settler enterprise and contributing to the oppression of Palestinians. It also calls for establishing a Palestine solidarity committee to foster relationships with Palestinian-led organizations and help educate members on the connections between Palestine and Indigenous struggles in…

Ali Abunimah (2023-07-23). UK union cancels "Weaponising Anti-Semitism" book launch. electronicintifada.net Senior leaders of Unite accused of political censorship.

Zoe Alexandra, People's Dispatch. (2023-07-23). People's Summit Calls For Respect Of Democracy And Self-Determination. popularresistance.org Without sovereignty and mutual respect, dialogue between regions is impossible. Throughout the days of debate and work at the People's Summit held parallel to the III CELAC-EU Summit, trade union activists, community leaders, left political leaders, artists, and students from across Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe ratified the importance of spaces for democratic and plural debate between equal partners. The summits occurred simultaneously in the Belgian capital of Brussels from July 17-18 after a eight-year pause. | The People's Summit, held at the Free University of Brussels, was organized by a broad…

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-07-23). March of the Flowers in defense of democracy in Guatemala. plenglish.com Guatemala City, Jul 23 (Prensa Latina) Social, student and union organizations are carrying out today the "March of the Flowers" along the streets of this capital against the actions of the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP, in Spanish) and in favor of democracy in Guatemala.

Derrick Broze (2023-07-22). Study Shows Pesticide Companies Hid Developmental Neurotoxicity Data From EU Regulators. thelastamericanvagabond.com A recently published study reveals that pesticide companies have failed to disclose data related to brain toxicity. What does this mean for toxicity data in other fields of research? Recently, the U.S. Geological Survey acknowledged that at least 45% of the nation's tap water is estimated to have one or more types of the chemicals

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-07-22). Maghreb: Displaced Denied Permission to Dream of Happiness. libya360.wordpress.com Guadi Calvo The European Union (EU) continues to intensify its operations in the Mediterranean to prevent the arrival of more refugees to the continent. It is applying greater political pressure and providing millions of euros to ensure that the sending countries contain in their own territories the thousands of displaced people who dream of the…

Nick Corbishley, Naked Capitalism. (2023-07-22). Latin America Again Refuses To Fall In Line With The Collective West. popularresistance.org Volodymyr Zelensky is accustomed to being the star guest, whether in person or on-screen, at just about every Western international summit, though his shine does appear to be fading. But at the summit that took place in Brussels early this week between the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), the president of Ukraine was nowhere to be seen. This was despite the best efforts of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who is current holder of the EU Council's rotating president, to get his name on the guest list. | At a bare minimum, Zelensky's participation would have requ…

Molly Shah, The Real News Network. (2023-07-22). Louisville's Small Unions Give Boost To UPS Teamsters Strike Prep. popularresistance.org With the possibility of 340,000 Teamsters going on strike next month at United Parcel Service (UPS) seeming more and more likely, the world will be looking to Louisville, Kentucky, where UPS headquarters and UPS Worldport, the largest sorting and logistics facility in America, are located. With over 25,000 employees, 10,000 of whom are members of Teamsters Local 89, UPS is by far the city's largest employer. If the Teamsters and UPS do not reach an agreement by July 31, when the current contract is set to expire, the picket line outside these facilities could be the largest the city has seen in decades.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-07-22). President Díaz-Canel Holds Cuba's Name High at CELAC-EU Summit. orinocotribune.com By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell — Jul 18, 2023 | This week, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel attended the III Summit between the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU) held on July 17 and 18 in Brussels, Belgium. For 48 hours, the Cuban leader and other government authorities put the island in the spotlight and felt the love and respect that authorities and political figures from other regions throughout the world expressed toward Cuba and Cubans. | Díaz-Canel arrived in Brussels after a very welcoming and successful visit to Portugal, where he received th…

Anonymous834 (2023-07-22). Biden's Tech-War Goes Nuclear. southfront.org Written by Mike Whitney; The article was originally published on "Lots of people don't know what happened yesterday. To put it simply, Biden has forced all Americans working in China to pick between quitting their jobs and losing American citizenship. Every American executive and engineer working in China's semiconductor manufacturing…

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-23). The Blak Sovereign Movement on the Voice referendum. greenleft.org.au

Staff (2023-07-23). Peru: Social Movements Demand Resignation of De Facto President. orinocotribune.com The National Unitary Coordination Platform of Struggle (CNUL), composed of several Peruvian social movements, called for a new march on Saturday to demand the resignation of de facto President Dina Boluarte. | The platform of social movements announced that Saturday, July 22, will be a day of peaceful struggle, with marches in working class neighborhoods of the northern, southern and eastern parts of Lima, and in other regions of the country. | On Wednesday, July 19, marchers from all over the country took over the capital and 59 other provinces, and the CNUL plans to continue the same during July 24-29. | La Coo…

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-07-23). Shusha Forum calls for Non-Aligned media platform. plenglish.com Shusha, Azerbaijan, Jul 23 (Prensa Latina) The First Shusha 2023 Global Media Forum concluded today with a parallel declaration on the need to create an information platform of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

Alexander Wolfheze (2023-07-22). "Eagle in the East": The Serbian Nation and Its Courageous Freedom Fight. globalresearch.ca

SAMIR (2023-07-22). Filmmakers withdraw from apartheid Israel's Jerusalem Film Festival. bdsmovement.net

David Starr (2023-07-22). Right-Wing Has Not Tried to Suppress Teaching the History of Anti-Imperialist Movements Because They Are Rarely Discussed in Any Course. covertactionmagazine.com Most Americans Don't Know About the Real Patriots Who Opposed the Nation's Forever Wars Going Back to the 19th Century On February 20, journalist Max Blumenthal gave a powerful address at the Rage Against the War Machine rally across from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in which he emphasized how Ukrainians had been used …

WSWS (2023-07-22). 16-year-old immigrant killed while working in Mississippi poultry plant. wsws.org Duván Robert Tomás Pérez, an immigrant from Guatemala, was killed on the evening of July 14, when his body became trapped on a conveyor belt he was cleaning inside the Mar-Jac plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

WSWS (2023-07-22). Protests resume against US-backed Boluarte regime in Peru. wsws.org The July 19 protests were the largest nationwide since March, but still dominated by indigenous peasant groups and students as the official "left" refuses to mobilize the working class.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-07-22). Putin, Lukashenko to meet in Moscow. plenglish.com Moscow, Jul 22 (Prensa Latina) Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, who will pay a working visit to Moscow, will meet on July 23, the Kremlin informed.

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newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-07-22). 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…

Mike Ludwig (2023-07-21). 60 Years After the March on Washington, 1 in 3 Black Children Live in Poverty. truthout.org Conservatives today would have you believe the civil rights movement of the 1960s was so successful that systemic racism is a problem of the past. Every February, white Republicans observe Black History Month by twisting famous lines from Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech to serve their own agendas. The Constitution is "colorblind," they claim, and if this flies in the face of… |

teleSUR (2023-07-21). Lebanon Condemns New Attack on Quran in Stockholm. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Lebanon condemned an attack on Quran in Stockholm, saying "it constitutes a continuous violation of Muslims' feelings and dignity." | RELATED: | A statement released by Lebanon's Foreign Affairs Ministry called on Swedish authorities to take appropriate measures to end all acts that deepen feelings of hatred, Islamophobia and racism, incite violence, and insult religions. | The Lebanese statement comes in…

Editor (2023-07-21). Mandatory Media Literacy Education Could Be Coming to California Schools Soon. scheerpost.com

Nolan Higdon, Mickey Huff, Project Censored. (2023-07-21). Mandatory Media Literacy Education Could Be Coming To California Schools. popularresistance.org California is currently considering two media literacy bills, both of which have sailed through the California State Assembly and are being reviewed by the Senate Education Committee. The first, Assembly Bill 873, authored by Assemblymember Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, requires teaching media literacy in K-12 schools throughout the Golden State. The Second bill, sponsored by Jesse Gabriel (D-Woodland), Assembly Bill 787, mandates schools to implement curriculum at every grade level and relies on a more informed and civically engaged society. As part of these efforts, the bill seeks input from teachers, tech experts…

ecns.cn (2023-07-22). Over 700,000 pieces of fake online content deleted. ecns.cn More than 700,000 pieces of fake information on the internet have been eliminated by Chinese police during a 100-day campaign against rumors, the Ministry of Public Security said on Friday.

Planned Parenthood (2023-07-22). Wednesday 7/19: History of Planned Parenthood and Racial Justice Teach-in. indybay.org Online event | ACCESSIBILITY: Closed captioning will be available.

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-07-22). Saturday 8/19: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: 'End Times' by Peter Turchin. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

Planned Parenthood (2023-07-22). Wednesday 7/19: History of Planned Parenthood and Racial Justice Teach-in. indybay.org Online event | ACCESSIBILITY: Closed captioning will be available.

Editor (2023-07-21). Ecocide, war and the "New American Century" mronline.org Ecocide is the deliberate destruction of an environment so that it can no longer sustain life.

Editor (2023-07-21). Inexcusable Inaction: Manipur's horrific video exposes sexual violence, Govt failure. mronline.org The police only swung to action after a video of the savage incident of two Kuki women being paraded naked on May 4 went viral and sparked political outrage.

Eds. (2023-07-21). Tomorrow: De-linking in Theory and Practice: Commemorating Samir Amin. mronline.org Join us at a conference tomorrow to commemorate the remarkable contributions of Samir Amin, a visionary scholar who dedicated his life to challenging dominant paradigms and advocating for de-linking from oppressive systems.

Anonymous669 (2023-07-22). Ukraine Strikes Crimea Again, Targets Russian Journalists With Cluster Munitions (Videos). southfront.org File image. | On July 22, a Ukrainian drone strike targeted an ammunition depot in the central part of Crimea, according to the peninsula's governor. | Writing on Telegram, governor Sergey Aksyonov said that the ammunition depot, which is located in the Krasnogvardeysky district, had been blown up. Videos of the explosion surfaced online. However, there were no casualties, according to the governor."A decision has been made to evacuate the population within a 5km radius from the site of the emergency and…

Staff (2023-07-21). US Government Creates MORE Online Spying Agencies. trofire.com The federal government keeps creating new offices to allegedly combat misinformation in the US and abroad, but are any of these agencies actually doing anything good? The answer to that question is fairly obvious, and it is clear what these government agencies are actually doing. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a …

Natalia Marques (2023-07-21). 4 things to know before 340,000 UPS teamsters potentially strike. peoplesdispatch.org It is now less than two weeks until the contract covering 340,000 UPS workers, organized by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), expires. UPS workers have spent the past several months organizing to show their employer that they are 100% As the July 31 expiration date nears, here are five major news items to keep in mind for the upcoming potential strike. | 1. UPS releases misleading claims on part-…

Labor Video Project (2023-07-22). UC UAW Workers & Unite Here 11 Strikers Protest Union Busting By UC Bosses At UC Regents. indybay.org Hundreds of UC UAW members and Unite Here Local 11 strikers from Southern California rallied at the UC Regents meeting against the flagrant union busting tactics including felony arrests for chalking at UCSD.

Michael Hudson (2023-07-22). Is the US a Failed State with Michael Hudson. indybay.org It's a failed state because its economy is paralyzed and we're in a debt deflation, an economic polarization, that is just transferring all wealth and income away from labor, away from industry, into really the financial sector and what I call the finance, insurance, and real estate sector.

WorkWeek (2023-07-22). Tuesday 7/18: Labor Report on Argentina With High School Teacher Luciana Alterleib, member of ADEMYS tra. indybay.org Labor Report on Argentina With High School Teacher Luciana Alterleib, member of ADEMYS trade union and a member of the workers organization Tribuna Docente, Partido Obrero in the Left Workers Front in Argentina…

_____ (2023-07-21). U.S. Military Sought to Experiment on Africans for Big Pharma: Kremlin. strategic-culture.org The allegations involve Metabiota, a firm with links to US President Joe Biden's son, Hunter | Join us on , , and . | The Pentagon planned to use its biolaboratories in Africa to test unregistered medicines on local populati…

Editor (2023-07-21). Michigan Amazon Workers Stage Largest Delivery Station Strike Yet. scheerpost.com By Luis Feliz Leon / Labor Notes In the middle of Amazon's Prime Day promotional sales rush, 60 warehouse workers walked out for more than three hours at its delivery station in Pontiac, Michigan—bringing the facility to the brink of a total shutdown. A delivery station is the last warehouse an Amazon package passes through …

Pavel López Lazo (2023-07-21). Cuban President calls to strengthen local productive systems. plenglish.com At the First Ordinary Sessions of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP), the Cuban leader said major productive forms must make up robust and efficient systems subordinated by municipalities. | "Where are the workers from? Who discusses the problems? Who takes care of labor force?", the President asked as he urged for provincial and municipal autonomies to boost local development. | By empowering the municipalities, provinces and the entire country are empowered. It ¥s necessary to order, structure and transform, he added during discussions on the implementation of the Food Sovereignty and Food and N…

Zara Jemuel (2023-07-21). Militant Black Unionism Offers Best Resistance to Growing White Nationalism. truthout.org The United States economy keeps Black labor at the bottom because when bosses conceded on slavery, they settled on poverty wages. While white nationalism's most visible soldiers are terror organizations and politicians, the quest for racial purity is made possible by Sears, General Motors, Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, Chase Bank, and other so-called job creators. Corporate benefactors fund extremist… |

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-07-22). Science Saturday: Mayo Clinic discovery leads to diagnoses of 9 people with rare form of muscular dystrophy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Nine people around the world who have been living with unexplained, muscular dystrophy-like symptoms may now have an answer for what is causing the progressive muscle weakness in their body's mid-section, arms and legs. In a new discovery, a collaborative team of scientists led by researchers at Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine has pinpointed alterations in a single gene deep inside these people's genetic blueprint as the root cause of their ultra-rare disorder, known as limb-girdle muscular…

Judy Greenspan (2023-07-21). Bay Area activists launch new anti-APEC coalition. workers.org San Francisco A broad coalition of Filipino progressive organizations, anti-imperialist groups, labor and other supporters gathered on July 11 in front of San Francisco City Hall. This was part of a countrywide push to demand "No to APEC! People Before Profits!" Demonstration against APEC, San Francisco, July 11, 2023. Photo: . . . |

teleSUR (2023-07-21). Wind Power Reaches Antigua and Barbuda. telesurenglish.net This ambitious project is the result of collaboration between the Department of the Environment and the West Indies Oil Company, with financing of US$15 million from the Abu Dhabi Development Fund. | The government of Antigua and Barbuda has joined the management of renewable energy generation on several fronts. Jul. 21, 2023.

Food Empowerment Project (2023-07-22). New Video Examines How Amy's Kitchen Impacted the Lives of More Than 300 of Its Workers. indybay.org One year after the layoffs of more than 300 employees at the Amy's Kitchen factory in San José, California, Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice organization, has released a video on the lives that the company impacted.

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-22). Finance union urges NAB workers to vote up improved agreement. greenleft.org.au

Revolutionary Workers United Front (2023-07-22). Friday 7/21: POA: Shut it Down! indybay.org On the sidewalk in front of the San Francisco Police Officers Association: 800 Bryant @ 6th Street in San Francisco…

UAW 2865 (2023-07-22). Wednesday 7/19: Stop Union Busting UAW 2865 and 5810 academic workers rally outside the UC Regents UCSF. indybay.org Rutter Center in San Francisco | UCSF Mission Bay Campus…

WSWS (2023-07-22). 10,000 airport ground workers strike across Italy. wsws.org Almost 1,000 flights had to be cancelled and an estimated quarter of a million passengers were affected.

David Sirota (2023-07-21). Workers Demand The Jordan Rule That Amazon Touted. levernews.com

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-21). Thousands of Peruvians partake in 'Third Takeover of Lima', revive struggle against Boluarte regime. peoplesdispatch.org Tens of thousands of Peruvians took to the streets across the country on Wednesday, July 19, to revive the struggle against the coup-installed regime led by de-facto President Dina Boluarte who took office after democratically elected left-wing President Pedro Castillo was removed in a legislative coup and subsequently arrested in December 2022. Boluarte, who was elected on a progressive ticket alongside Castillo, has been fiercely criticized by the people for betraying them and entering into a political alliance with the country's right-wing forces to govern. | Workers, peasants, students, members of various Ind…

WSWS (2023-07-21). Illinois and Kentucky UPS workers speak on conditions and approaching strike deadline. wsws.org "A lot of times big companies look down on the little guys, but this time we really mean it and we want it. I one hundred percent support the strike."

WSWS (2023-07-21). Striking National Steel Car worker on the need for rank-and-file committees: "All the USW bureaucrats have made their peace with the system a long time ago" wsws.org A leading member of the National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee explained why workers' took the decision to establish the NSC-RFC in opposition to the United Steelworkers bureaucracy.

ecns.cn (2023-07-22). Xi writes back to academicians and experts, encouraging more sci-tech workers to participate in science popularization. ecns.cn Xi on Thursday wrote back to representatives of academicians and experts who have participated in the lecture tours "Science and China". In the letter, he expressed his sincere hope that sci-tech workers will support, and participate in science popularization.

Editor (2023-07-21). Organized crime in Vilnius. workers.org To evaluate the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, this July it helps to observe it in the framework of what this military alliance's meeting really is: an international gathering of the heads of criminal gangs and some local stooges. If that argument seems to stretch reality, consider these points: Downtown . . . |

Fidel Castro (2023-07-21). Our right to be Marxist-Leninists. workers.org This commentary, reprinted from Havana Times, was given May 7, 2015, by late Cuban President Fidel Castro Ruz. We share this now in honor of the 70th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks, which launched the Cuban Revolution. This 2021 graphic honors the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Hospital, opened . . . |

Joe Piette (2023-07-21). 'If we don't get it, shut it down!'. workers.org With the expiration of the United Parcel Service contract with the Teamsters union fast approaching, dozens of Teamsters Local 623 members and supporters from other unions and progressive organizations held a "practice" picket line and rally on July 13. The picket, held at the main gate of the Hog Island . . . |

Jonah J. Lalas (2023-07-21). California Hotel Workers Are Fighting to Simply Afford to Live. progressive.org Many of these mostly Black and brown workers have to drive an Uber or sleep in their cars during back-to-back work days, just to afford rent.

Lyn Neeley (2023-07-21). Portland Pride weekend: visibility and protest. workers.org Portland, Oregon Tens of thousands of Portland's LGBTQ2S+ community and supporters attended a weekend of events during Portland Pride July 14 and 15. On July 14, the Trans March ended at the waterfront festival in front of the main stage. An hour later, the Dyke March, four blocks long, took . . . |

Monica Moorehead (2023-07-21). Workers World Party remembers Minnie Bruce Pratt. workers.org Minnie Bruce Pratt was already a renowned lesbian poet, author and anti-racist activist even before she joined Workers World Party over 20 years ago. She became a managing editor of Workers World/Mundo Obrero newspaper following the death of her longtime partner and spouse, Leslie Feinberg, in 2014. Minnie Bruce Pratt . . . |

Press Associates (2023-07-21). Union-backed coalition throws weight behind effort to revive Freedom to Vote Act. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (PAI)—Four big unions—the Teachers (AFT), the Communications Workers, the Service Employees, and AFSCME—plus Pride at Work and the Working Families Party, were among 260 groups who renewed their support for a wide-ranging pro-voting rights bill in D.C. this week. The Freedom to Vote Act, pushed by congressional Democratic leaders, was expected to come up …

Richie Merino (2023-07-21). Don't fall for the traps in the humongous military budget. workers.org The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a record-breaking military budget of $886 billion for the coming fiscal year. The National Defense Authorization Act was passed by lawmakers on July 14 by a slim margin of 219 to 210, with the majority of Democrats opposing it. However, the bill is . . . |

Sara Flounders (2023-07-21). As Yellen dictates terms to China What we defend, what Wall Street wants to destroy. workers.org What is the material basis of the growing hostility on every level of the U.S. ruling class toward China? No great struggle is based on the personalities or aspirations of individuals. At the root is a very concrete, material basis that drives the conflict. Otherwise, meetings, discussions and diplomacy would . . . |

_____ (2023-07-21). Historical Falsification in the Service of Pro-War Propaganda. strategic-culture.org In its latest foray into the realm of historical falsification, the New York Times on Tuesday published a news analysis pinning the blame for World War II on the Soviet Union. The lengthy article authored by Andrew E. Kramer, entitled "A Current War Collides with the Past: Remnants of World War II in Ukraine," makes no mention of either the Holocaust or the Nazi war of annihilation against the Soviet people.

midwesternmarx (2023-07-21). Africa's path to socialism By: Tanupriya Singh. midwesternmarx.com 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 On Monday, July 17, 200 delegates from progressive organizations, political parties, people's movements, and trade unions across the African continent will gather in Bel …

Molly Shah (2023-07-21). 'Strike City': Louisville's small unions give boost to UPS Teamsters strike prep. therealnews.com With the possibility of 340,000 Teamsters going on strike next month at United Parcel Service (UPS)

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-21). Belgium hosts movements from across Latin America and Europe in People's Summit. peoplesdispatch.org We bring you glimpses of the People's Summit in Brussels which brought together people's movements, trade unions, and left parties from across Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe…

Teddy Ostrow (2023-07-21). Union Freight Has Hit Rock Bottom. Can the Teamsters Turn it Around? therealnews.com In the In the early minutes of the film, M…

WSWS (2023-07-21). Australian entertainment union opposes industrial action to support striking US actors and writers. wsws.org The Media Entertainment Arts Alliance has made clear to the US entertainment corporations that there will be no disruption to their productions in Australia during the strike.

WSWS (2023-07-21). Reject management-union privatisation and job destruction program at Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation. wsws.org Appeals for increased retrenchment payouts is a cynical manoeuvre by union bureaucrats who are simply asking for a higher price for the destruction of jobs that they have no right to sell.

Mark Gruenberg (2023-07-21). Young organizers talk unions with Biden and Bernie at the White House. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Ordinarily, Kumbar Nambiar, a young Yale grad, would be spending his Mondays off before relief pitching for the rest of the week for the Lansing Lugnuts, a Detroit Tigers minor league baseball farm club in outstate Michigan. Not on July 17, though. Instead, Nambiar spent it at the White House telling Democratic President Joe Biden, …

teleSUR (2023-07-21). African Union: STC New Economic Objective. telesurenglish.net This July 21 culminates the sixth Specialized Technical Committee of the African Union, with new economic objectives raised and agreed upon. | Related: | Russia Ready to Supply Free Grain to African Countries -Kremlin | After several days of sessions between ministers, central bank presidents, specialists in economic issues, and investors, the meeting has managed to specify several areas of work and understanding. The central purpose is to implement the collective development…

teleSUR (2023-07-21). An Attack on Belarus Will Mean an Aggression on Russia: Putin. telesurenglish.net On Friday, President Vladimir Putin warned Poland that an attack on Belarus will mean "aggression" against Russia. These statements occurred after Poland announced the deployment of military units near the Belarusian border. | RELATED: | "As for Belarus, it is part of the State Union. An aggression against Belarus will mean an aggression against the Russian Federation. We will respond to it with all the means at our dispos…

thecommunists (2023-07-21). Donetsk communist leader: 'No democracy in Ukraine'. thecommunists.org Steve Sweeney interviews Boris Litinov, head of the Donetsk republican branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Topics discussed range from Comrade Litinov's views on the split in the international communist movement over the war in Ukraine, his thoughts on the effect of western propaganda on the communist and trade union organisations in …

SAMIR (2023-07-22). Filmmakers withdraw from apartheid Israel's Jerusalem Film Festival. bdsmovement.net

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-22). The Blak Sovereign Movement on the Voice referendum. greenleft.org.au

Alessandra Bergamin (2023-07-21). How suing the US government can empower the climate movement. nationofchange.org

Natalia Marques (2023-07-21). Ruchell Magee wins his release after 67 years in shackles. peoplesdispatch.org Black liberation fighters across the US rejoice with the news that the longest-held political prisoner in the US, Ruchell "Cinque" Magee, who fought bravely behind bars in the 1960s and 70s liberation movement, will be released. | "We must be clear that Ruchell has been the main driver of his own release. This release will allow him to spend the rest of his life outside of prison walls, with his loved ones,"

Susana Khalil (2023-07-21). Judaism Is a Religion, Not a People; Palestine Is Not a Religion, It Is a People. orinocotribune.com By Susana Khalil — Jul 19, 2023 | The epitome of artificial secularism and the true Euro-Zionist colonial anachronism: Israel. | Honor and glory to Europe; its secularism cost it centuries of blood, cruelty, horror, and terror. With its so-called secularism nowadays, it atrociously defends and venerates its fictional "nation-state" Israel, which does not hold its origins in a people, but in a religion. | The European Zionist movement succeeded in 1948 in imposing a colonial regime in Palestine. It makes aesthetic use of Judaism, the mere religious semitic legacy that is part of Arab ancestry and heritage, f…

Brandon Sanchez (2023-07-21). Guatemalans remember 1954 U.S.-backed coup as they battle today's right-wing election theft. peoplesworld.org On June 25, Guatemala held presidential elections that saw some 22 candidates in the running. To the surprise of many in the ruling class, Bernardo Arévalo of the center-left Semilla (Seed) Movement advanced to the second round due on August 20. Their response? Do everything possible to try to block Semila. Previous polls showed Arévalo …

krish-rad_ind (2023-07-21). When The Welfare Rights Movement Was Force For Uplifting The Poor. popularresistance.org

teleSUR (2023-07-21). Guatemalan Prosecutor's Office Raids Seed Party's Headquarters. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the Guatemalan Prosecutor's Office raided the headquarters of the Seed Movement (Semilla) as part of the proceedings for a case of alleged corruption against this party. | RELATED: | According to local media, however, the Prosecutor's Office seeks to cancel the legal status of the progressive party that supported presidential candidate Bernardo Arevalo, who unexpectedly came second in the June 25 elections. | This social…

teleSUR (2023-07-21). Peru: Mobilizations Continue, So-Called Takeover of Lima. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Peruvian social organizations, movements and demonstrators continue with the mobilization in Lima to demand the resignation of the current president Dina Boluarte and the closing of the Congress. | Related: | The Peruvian Ombudsman's Office said that they are deployed in different points of the city of Lima and also in the Central 105 of the Peruvian Police in order to monitor the development of the curren…

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