2023-06-27: News Headlines

Dongsheng Collective (2023-06-27). Socialism 3.0: The Practice and Prospects of Socialism in China. dongshengnews.org Discussions on socialism and its potential future forms, must place socialism in the context of existing historical processes, in the context of industrialised mass production, and analyse the complex interaction between the ideal of equality and the material realities of production. China's socialist project has passed through two phases, under Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping; today, it must construct a 'Socialism 3.0' that builds upon the previous eras and addresses their shortcomings, by advancing working-class interests and combating inequality.

Norman Solomon (2023-06-27). The USA's Systemic Racism Includes Its Wars. indybay.org "The problem of the color line" remains…

Atilio Borón (2023-06-27). Habermas and the war in Ukraine. mronline.org The prevailing rarefied ideological climate that Germany and most European countries are suffering from today makes a very cautious call for prudence and negotiation a criminal offense that deserves to be punished with ostracism.

jamanetwork (2023-06-27). California's State Insurance Gender Nondiscrimination Act and Utilization of Gender-Affirming Surgery. jamanetwork.com To the Editor A recent study investigated the association of California's 2013 Insurance Gender Nondiscrimination Act and utilization of gender-affirming surgery, with the states of Washington and Arizona serving as controls.

jamanetwork (2023-06-27). California's State Insurance Gender Nondiscrimination Act and Utilization of Gender-Affirming Surgery—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply In response to our study, Mr Das and Dr Drolet raise concern that the population was limited to inpatient gender-affirming surgery. Furthermore, they suggest that the period between 2016 and 2019 should be analyzed separately to account for the effects of Section 1557 of the ACA. This is an incorrect representation of the policy. Section 1557 was implemented in 2010 with the ACA. The final rule issued in 2016 by the Department of Health and Human Services clarified the interpretation and enforcement of the original law to include protections based on gender identity but did not issue new language expandi…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-06-27). Cancer and the LGBTQ+ community: Mayo Clinic expert addresses key topics. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Being diagnosed with cancer is a hardship on its own, but it's especially challenging if a person is a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Jewel Kling, M.D., director of women's health at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, explains that stigma and discrimination create barriers to healthcare, placing the LGBTQ+ community at heightened risk for certain forms of cancer due to delayed cancer screenings as well as challenges with survivorship care. Increased cancer risks…


jamanetwork (2023-06-27). The White House's Strategic Plan to Address the Opioid Crisis. jamanetwork.com To the Editor A recent Viewpoint called attention to policy barriers at state and local levels that may hinder implementation of lifesaving strategies outlined in the National Drug Control Strategy (NDCS). Although this Viewpoint proposed cohesive policy objectives and actions, we would like to point out a vulnerable population that was not mentioned in this article: adolescents. It is imperative that harm reduction policy objectives include focused efforts on opioid overdose prevention education among the adolescent population. A December 2022 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report documented a 109% i…

William Paul (2023-06-27). Putting the Squeeze on Hope: Ford Government Hacks Toronto School Budget. socialistproject.ca One hundred and twenty kids are sitting in the Toronto District School Board's (TDSB) Brookview Middle School auditorium listening to Mohamed Ahmed talk to them about possibility and hope. It's happened this way for a few years as his group, Success Beyond Limits (SBL), makes its pitch to students who are considering high schools in the area like Westview Centennial from which SBL operates its program to guide young people through the tough years of secondary school. It's a time — especially post-COVID, that's fraught with tough personal decisions and the likely realization that opportunity is written wi…

ecns.cn (2023-06-26). Ambassador Zheng Zeguang and Chief Executive of the British Council Scott McDonald on China-UK educational cooperation. ecns.cn Ambassador Zheng spoke highly of the efforts made by the British Council over the years in promoting practical cooperation on education and culture between the two countries.

ecns.cn (2023-06-26). Draft law aimed at promoting patriotic education submitted to top legislature. ecns.cn The patriotic education of teenagers is to be highlighted in schools and families, with measures taken to help residents of the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan enhance their sense of identity.

ecns.cn (2023-06-27). Draft patriotic education law viewed. ecns.cn The patriotic education of teenagers is to be highlighted in schools and families, with measures taken to help residents of the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan enhance their sense of identity.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-06-27). U.S. artist arrives in Cuba for a great musical show. plenglish.com Hoard will star in both performances at 7: 00 p.m. local time in two well-known concert halls in Old Havana: the first, at the Martí Theater and the second, at the National Museum of Fine Arts Theater. | He will also participate in exchanges with Cuban musicians and students of the artistic educational system. | Hoard's lyrical capacity is demonstrated through jazz, soul and gospel, which gave him a reputation on the New York scene, with a presence on important stages of his country, along with great groups and musicians, such as Bryan Carter and his Young Swangers Orchestra. | The interpreter's visit to the islan…


Fight Back (2023-06-27). Organizers assemble for major conference to resist DeSantis, establish the Emergency Committee to Defend the Tampa 5. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On June 24, over 130 people packed the Maureen Gauzza Library in Tampa early Saturday morning to join in the fight to defend the Tampa 5, activists charged with felonies, some facing up to ten years in prison for exercising their free speech rights. | An aim of the conference was uniting progressive people and movements to fight for civil liberties in Florida and against the reactionary agenda of Governor Ron DeSantis. | Attendees joined three panel discussions titled: "Florida Students Fight to Save Public Education," "Unions: A Worker's Last Defense Against DeSantis," and "Civil Liberties in the A…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-06-27). Cuba attends sports conference in Azerbaijan. plenglish.com Baku, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) A Cuban delegation is attending the 7th International Conference for Physical Education and Sports, MINEPS VII, taking place in this capital from June 26 to 29, 2023, Cuban Ambassador to Baku, Carlos Valdes, told Prensa Latina.

Dave DeCamp (2023-06-26). Denmark Says Starting Training Ukrainian Pilots on F-16s. news.antiwar.com Denmark's government has said that Copenhagen has started a training program for Ukrainian pilots on US-made F-16s, Troels Lund Poulsen, Denmark's acting defense minister, said his country has "taken the step of starting a training and further education effort for the Ukrainian pilots." | Lund Poulsen also announced that Denmark was pushing up its plans to retire its F-16s by two years. Denmark will now phase out its F-16s and replace them with F-35s by 2025 inst…

ecns.cn (2023-06-27). Campaign aims to purify online environment for minors. ecns.cn A two-month campaign aimed at purifying the online environment to protect juveniles began on Tuesday, according to China's top internet regulator.

Campaign Legal Center watchdog group (2023-06-27). Wednesday 6/28: 10 Years Since Shelby County: How Democracy Advocates Can Fight Back for Voting Freedom. indybay.org Online event…

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-06-27). Saturday 7/15: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

Fight Back (2023-06-27). Organizers assemble for major conference to resist DeSantis, establish the Emergency Committee to Defend the Tampa 5. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On June 24, over 130 people packed the Maureen Gauzza Library in Tampa early Saturday morning to join in the fight to defend the Tampa 5, activists charged with felonies, some facing up to ten years in prison for exercising their free speech rights. | An aim of the conference was uniting progressive people and movements to fight for civil liberties in Florida and against the reactionary agenda of Governor Ron DeSantis. | Attendees joined three panel discussions titled: "Florida Students Fight to Save Public Education," "Unions: A Worker's Last Defense Against DeSantis," and "Civil Liberties in the A…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-06-27). Cuba attends sports conference in Azerbaijan. plenglish.com Baku, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) A Cuban delegation is attending the 7th International Conference for Physical Education and Sports, MINEPS VII, taking place in this capital from June 26 to 29, 2023, Cuban Ambassador to Baku, Carlos Valdes, told Prensa Latina.

Dave DeCamp (2023-06-26). Denmark Says Starting Training Ukrainian Pilots on F-16s. news.antiwar.com Denmark's government has said that Copenhagen has started a training program for Ukrainian pilots on US-made F-16s, Troels Lund Poulsen, Denmark's acting defense minister, said his country has "taken the step of starting a training and further education effort for the Ukrainian pilots." | Lund Poulsen also announced that Denmark was pushing up its plans to retire its F-16s by two years. Denmark will now phase out its F-16s and replace them with F-35s by 2025 inst…

ecns.cn (2023-06-27). Campaign aims to purify online environment for minors. ecns.cn A two-month campaign aimed at purifying the online environment to protect juveniles began on Tuesday, according to China's top internet regulator.

Campaign Legal Center watchdog group (2023-06-27). Wednesday 6/28: 10 Years Since Shelby County: How Democracy Advocates Can Fight Back for Voting Freedom. indybay.org Online event…

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-06-27). Saturday 7/15: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

Jews United for Democracy & JCA (2023-06-27). Wednesday 7/5: Voting Rights, Election Laws, Supreme Court & More w/ Rick Hasen, UCLA Law Scholar. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

SBPA, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, Green Foothill (2023-06-27). Monday 6/26: #NoQuarry: Protecting Juristac Sacred Land Forum w/ Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Bilal Zahoor (2023-06-27). Beyond the Greece Boat Disaster: Tracing the Roots of the Migration Crisis. mronline.org Today's immigrant policies and political discourses across most parts of the Global North are reminiscent of a colonial Othering.

Editor (2023-06-27). British Prime Minister renews pledge of loyalty to U.S. imperialism. mronline.org The discussions didn't reap the variety of fruit Sunak had been hoping for; the Tories' long-promised free trade deal remains in deep freeze.

Editor (2023-06-27). Declassified files expose British role in NATO's Gladio terror armies. mronline.org Newly declassified British files shed disturbing light on the origins and internal workings of Operation Gladio, a covert NATO plot deploying fascist terror militias across Italy. Have spies in London applied these lessons in Ukraine?>

Editor (2023-06-27). Journalist Randy Credico has been placed on Ukrainian terrorist "kill-list" via CIA project website. mronline.org Friends are urging Credico to go underground.

Editor (2023-06-27). Late night thoughts from a dialectical transfeminist. mronline.org An economy of representation has done folks like Jordan Neely and Banko Brown an incredible disservice. TERFs have seized upon their deaths to justify carceral deputization among non-police actors, triangulating their respective forms of manhood and their overall embodiments with a threat to public safety and to asset protection.

Editor (2023-06-26). Global warming and water privatization. mronline.org Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou recently declared a state of emergency in the capital, Montevideo, due to water shortages.

Editor (2023-06-26). Learning from the barricade: Marx, Engels and the 1848 June Days uprising. mronline.org 175 years on from the 1848 June Days insurrection, Katherine Connelly explores what Paris' working-class revolutionaries taught Marx and Engels.

Editor (2023-06-26). U.S. woos India's far-right PM Modi to help wage new cold war on China. mronline.org The U.S. government is trying to divide the BRICS bloc and recruit India for its new cold war on China. Biden doesn't care that far-right Prime Minister Modi is closely linked to fascistic Hindu-supremacist groups that violently oppress minorities.

Editor (2023-06-26). U.S. admits defeat in war on Russia and China. mronline.org Confronted with the realities of life the Biden administration has in the last days acknowledged defeat in two on its most egregious and delusional foreign policy games.

Staff (2023-06-27). President Maduro Calls on CELAC to Build a Latin American Bloc With 'Its Own Identity'. orinocotribune.com This Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro called for the construction of a political, economic and social power bloc to unite the region and achieve a long-awaited Latin American identity. | "The construction of a Latin American and Caribbean identity positioned in the spirit of the continent's peoples will be a great opportunity to build a large block of political, social, cultural, economic and integral power in the region that will put us in the rhythm and at the level we need to be able to move forward in this 21st century and the centuries to come," said President Maduro on Monday, June 26, during his…

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-06-27). World Forum on Cities and Territories of Peace begins in Bogota. plenglish.com It is a scenario for dialogue and collaborative work focused on building solutions and institutional and social tools, which may contribute to the construction of sustained peace in cities, territories and communities. | This will be a space for the meeting of local governments, international organizations, civil society, academia and the private sector to advance in a conversation about the conditions that must be in place for peace, based on social justice, environmental justice and human security. | The event will be developed along five thematic axes: Territorial peace, Environmental peace, Women, peace and…

ecns.cn (2023-06-27). 16-MW turbine to be installed off Pingtan. ecns.cn Preparation work for the construction of a wind turbine with an installed capacity of 16 megawatts has been completed at an offshore wind farm in Pingtan, Fujian province, the first in the world with such a large capacity.

Global Research News (2023-06-27). Selected Articles: U.S. Is Arming Taiwan. What About China's Spy Base in Cuba? globalresearch.ca By On the heels of China's weather/spy balloon downed by a US F-22 comes a report of the construction of a Chinese listening …

Dana Sanchez (2023-06-27). Social App That Raised $200 Million Shuts Down After Being Busted For 95% Fake Users. moguldom.com The app was hyped as an event organizing alternative for Gen Z. In real life, 95 percent of unicorn social messaging app IRL's 20 million users didn't actually exist, and the company, which raised $200 million in venture capital, has been shut down after its CEO was the subject of an internal misconduct investigation. IRL's …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-26). Food Is Not a Commodity, It's a Human Right: Pueblo a Pueblo Builds Food Sovereignty. libya360.wordpress.com Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert Pueblo a Pueblo is a grassroots plan for organizing the production, distribution, and consumption of food that connects agricultural producers with urban dwellers. In so doing, the project breaks with the despotic dictates of the capitalist market. In the first of this three-part piece in the Communal Resistance Series,…

Labor Video Project (2023-06-27). SF Castro Starbucks Workers Strike On PRIDE Day "No Contract No Coffee" Fight For Justice. indybay.org Over 150 Starbucks stores were struck on PRIDE day around the country. In San Francisco Starbucks workers at the Castro store talked about their issues.

Labor Video Project (2023-06-27). Ian Masters CIA Operative Protested At KPFA In Berkeley. indybay.org

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-06-27). Italian unions call for a strike of employees at US military bases. plenglish.com Rome, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) Italian unions called for a strike of employees at U.S. military bases in this country, for June 29 and 30, to demand their labor rights, according to a press release.

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-27). Labor breaks election promise with new income management card. greenleft.org.au

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-06-27). ECLAC seminar in Chile to analyze labor inclusion. plenglish.com Santiago de Chile, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) The Third Regional Seminar on Social Integration will be held in Chile from Tuesday to Friday with the purpose of discussing options to achieve labor inclusion, as a way to overcome inequalities and informality.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-06-27). Mayo Clinic and University of Minnesota announce new pathway program for training nurse-midwives. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences and the University of Minnesota School of Nursing are collaborating to create a new academic pathway for nurse-midwives that will expand the nurse-midwifery workforce in the Upper Midwest. The collaboration creates a pathway for students admitted to the University of Minnesota School of Nursing's Doctor of Nursing Practice program to complete the approximately 1,000 hours of required clinical training at Mayo Clinic hospitals in Minnesota and…

WSWS (2023-06-27). Australian union shuts down industrial action by New South Wales health workers. wsws.org The Health Services Union has given workers no information about what, if any, concessions Labor has offered, but they have been told to stand aside while the union bureaucracy continues to hold backroom meetings with the government.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-06-26). Chinese-American Worker and Activist Arrested for Advocating for Peace Between US and China. orinocotribune.com By Natalia Marques — Jun 22, 2023 | Li Tang "Henry" Liang, a hotel worker active in his Boston local union, was suspended from his job after being indicted on federal charges | Labor leaders and organizers are banding together to demand justice for Chinese-American unionized worker and activist Li Tang "Henry" Liang. Liang was indicted and then arrested in early May in Boston in retaliation for exercising his free speech rights. "The federal government has targeted Liang for advocating peaceful relations between the US and China,"

Ben Norton (2023-06-26). Corporate profits were biggest driver of inflation in Europe, IMF admits. geopoliticaleconomy.com Rising corporate profits have caused 45% of inflation in Europe, compared to 40% for rising import prices and just 15% for workers' wages, according to research by IMF economists.

Gillian Branstetter (2023-06-27). The Historic New Law Protecting Fairness for Pregnant Workers. aclu.org Today marks a historic moment in the lives of our nation's pregnant workers: after more than a

Ella Fassler (2023-06-27). In Historic First, Workers Unionize at 2 Major Farmers' Market Nonprofits. truthout.org This year, workers from GrowNYC and FRESHFARM, two sustainable food access nonprofits in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metro area respectively, formed unions. Workers who support and organize farmers markets, compost programs, and other initiatives will begin collectively bargaining for higher wages and job security in the coming months for the first time in the history of the industry. |

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-27). NSW hospital workers strike over wages. greenleft.org.au

Leslie Feinberg (2023-06-27). At the Stonewall Rebellion, crowd rage ignites. workers.org Originally published June 15, 2006, this column was part of Leslie Feinberg's series on the connections between LGBTQ2S and socialist history. The 120-part "Lavender & Red," which appeared in Workers World from 2004 to 2008, is available for free download at workers.org/book/lavender-red. A number of accounts of the confrontation between . . . |

Mark Gruenberg (2023-06-27). Republican plans to cut Social Security draw determined fightback. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Republican renewal of party plans to cut Social Security and Medicare are drawing fire from both retirees and the union representing the agency's workers, who say the GOP is short-staffing the Social Security Administration, too. Both cuts—the benefit cuts threatened by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and the cuts in money needed to add more …

teleSUR (2023-06-27). Brazilians Protest Against Privatization of Refinery in Ceara. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Brazilian oil workers will hold protests against the sale of the Lubnor Lubricants and Derivatives Refinery located in the state of Ceara. | RELATED: | Amid unresolved legal disputes, Lubnor was sold to the Grepar Participaàßàµes group in 2022 for US$34 million, a figure that represents a 55 percent decrease from its market value. | "Lubnor is responsible for supplying local distributors with diesel, gasoline, aviation…

WSWS (2023-06-27). Australian media denounce striking warehouse workers for opposing real wage cut. wsws.org Around 190 warehouse workers at an Australian Pharmaceutical Industries plant in Melbourne are striking in opposition to company management efforts to impose a significant real wage cut over the next four years.

WSWS (2023-06-27). Reject National Steel Car's provocative "final offer"! Build the NSC Rank-and-File Committee to lead our strike and mobilize broad working class support! wsws.org We urge all workers to deliver a powerful "No" vote at Wednesday's contact vote and to join the NSC Rank-and-File committee to break from the shackles of the Steelworker union bureaucracy and ensure our strike is prosecuted by and for the rank-and-file.

WSWS (2023-06-27). UPS workers speak out against company demands for massive concessions. wsws.org "We want to be able to support ourselves and our families, without worrying where our next meal is coming from or how we'll put gas in our cars to get to work," one worker wrote.

WSWS (2023-06-27). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Argentine teachers' union, CETERA has called a one day protest over police repression while cargo handlers at LaGuardia, Dulles and Logan International Airport staged one-day walkouts over conditions.

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2023-06-27). Ministro de Defensa ruso se reúne con su homólogo cubano en Moscú. telesurtv.net Rusia y Cuba mantienen una estrecha alianza política y económica, y ambos gobiernos definen su asociación como "estratégica".

teleSUR, JCM (2023-06-27). Presidente de China espera un futuro compartido con Barbados. telesurtv.net El presidente de China, Xi Jinping, se reunió este martes en Beijing con la primera ministra de Barbados, Mia Mottley.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-27). Fatal assault on union leader triggers protests in Bangladesh's Gazipur. peoplesdispatch.org 50-year-old Shahid ul Islam was allegedly beaten to death in an attack on Sunday evening which other union members claim was perpetrated by "mercenaries" of factory owners.

Fight Back (2023-06-27). Negotiations stall between UPS and Teamsters as bargaining moves to economic issues. fightbacknews.org Washington, DC – The International Brotherhood of Teamsters and United Parcel Service wrapped up bargaining on all non-economic issues on Tuesday, June 20. The following day, economic proposals were shared, marking a new phase in negotiations. | The union and the company have been negotiating a new national contract. The existing five-year agreement will expire on July 31. The Teamsters' new General President Sean O'Brien has promised to deliver the best UPS contract in the union's history. On a UPS Teamsters member update webinar, Sean O'Brien spoke on the progress of the contract negotiations. Tentative agreeme…

Press Associates (2023-06-27). Top investigative news website ProPublica goes union with N.Y. News Guild. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK—The 180 staffers at ProPublica, a top investigative news website, are going wall-to-wall union with the News Guild of New York. Management granted voluntary recognition after more than 90% of the news and business staffs signed union election authorization cards. The staffer-organized ProPublica Guild's success continues an accelerating unionization trend in the news industry: …

Staff (2023-06-27). RMT and disabled activists hit back at leaked Tory rail plans to close ticket offices. thecanary.co Leaked government plans have revealed that it's allegedly planning to allow train operating companies to perform mass ticket office closures. Bosses have reportedly been keeping this secret, but the government has been speaking about it for months. The impact of any closures though, not least for disabled people, could be huge. So, the National Union …

teleSUR (2023-06-27). Argentina Recovers the Dictatorship's 'Death Plane'. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner and the Minister of Economy and presidential pre-candidate for the Union for the Homeland Sergio Massa led a ceremony where the Skyvan PA-51 plane, used during the "death flights," was presented. | RELATED: | During the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983), this plane threw twelve illegally detained citizens into the water in 1977, including three of…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-26). Mali and MINUSMA: Pseudo-Science and Imperialism Caught Red-Handed. libya360.wordpress.com Dr Franklin Nyamsi, President, Institut de l'Afrique des Libertés / African Freedom Institute In a study[1] published on June 19, 2023 on the reference site of the Egmont Institute, based in the capital of the European Union and NATO, Brussels, a duo of researchers from this organization set out to analyze the correlation between the action…

Andrew Perez, Nick Byron Campbell, The Lever. (2023-06-26). The Unfolding Medicaid Disaster. popularresistance.org As states have begun clearing out their Medicaid rolls for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly three quarters of the Americans who've lost coverage have been terminated not because they're ineligible for the low-income health insurance program, but due to administrative reasons, such as failing to quickly respond to a piece of mail. | In February, President Joe Biden bragged in his State of the Union speech that "more Americans have health insurance now than ever in history." Biden made that comment six weeks after he set the stage to massively increase the United States' uninsured pop…

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-27). Geelong council under pressure not to cut jobs, libraries. greenleft.org.au

unitedEditor (2023-06-27). The Future of Multipolar World. uwidata.com United World International continues publishing papers that were presented to the Global Multipolarity Confernce held on April 29. The conference was organized by Nova Resistência (Brazil), the New International Order Initiative (Türkiye), the International Eurasian Movement (Russia), the Thinkers' Forum (China) and the International Russophile Movement. Today we present the speech of Doctor Dalbir Singh …

Unicorn Riot (2023-06-27). 'Stop Cop City' Week of Action Day 3: Bike Ride/Rally, Signature Gathering, Discussing Movement History. unicornriot.ninja

Alice Jennings (2023-06-27). Let's Carry on Grace Lee Boggs's Revolutionary Legacy by Continuing Her Struggle. truthout.org To celebrate Grace Lee Boggs — born on this day in 1915 — we should reflect on her concept of "living for change." While she built and strengthened a wide array of intersectional movements throughout her 100 years of life, the challenges facing radical visionaries have only grown more immense since Grace joined the ancestors. War, colonialism, exploitation and pandemics are bound up with climate… |

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-06-27). Ukraine starts new offensive in Zaporizhzhia. plenglish.com Moscow, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) Ukrainian troops have launched a new offensive in the Orekhovsky direction, near the settlement of Rabotino, in the Zaporizhzhia region, Vladimir Rogov, leader of the "We Are with Russia" movement, reported on Telegram Tuesday.

KATIE (2023-06-27). Palestinian civil society demands: end EU complicity in illegal and repressive Israeli surveillance. bdsmovement.net

KATIE (2023-06-27). UN again leaves Israel off "List of Shame" bdsmovement.net

teleSUR (2023-06-27). Guatemalan Next President Will Face a Fragmented Congress. telesurenglish.net The results of the general elections held on Sunday indicate the existence of an upcoming legislature in which there will not be clear majorities for whoever becomes the next Guatemalan president. | RELATED: | The ruling party Vamos will have 39 out of 160 lawmakers, followed by the National Unity of Hope (UNE) with 28 legislators, and the Semilla Movement with 23 representatives. | Among the list of candidates who did not sec…

Gaius Baltar (2023-06-27). A WORKING THEORY ON PRIGO'S COUP. sonar21.com Speculating without all the facts or proper insight is pretty stupid, especially about important issues. Still, people do it all the time. Why do they do it? Well, because it's…

Staff (2023-06-27). The Failed Coup in Russia: Preliminary Assessment [Brian Becker Seminar Preview]. soundcloud.com In this patrons-only Q&A seminar, Brian analyzes the attempted coup in Russia by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his troops from the mercenary Wagner group. Brian discusses who Prigozhin is, why mercenaries are working for Russia, how this happened, how this compares with Trump's efforts to stay in the White House after losing the 2020 election, and …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-26). Lessons in Freedom: Agroecology, Localization and Food Sovereignty. libya360.wordpress.com Colin Todhunter Farmers from across the Americas are working together to envision a new food system based on food sovereignty and political justice. Industry figures and scientists claim pesticide use and GMOs are necessary in 'modern agriculture'. But this is not the case: there is now sufficient evidence to suggest otherwise. It is simply not necessary to have…

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2023-06-26: News Headlines

Tapti Sen, Inequality. (2023-06-26). The Modern Form Of Colonialism: Climate Change. popularresistance.org I am from a disappearing nation. | My country, Bangladesh, is one of several at risk of becoming submerged partially or completely by rising sea levels caused by climate change in the coming decades. 75 percent of the country lies below sea level. | Bangladesh, a tropical country on top of a low-lying delta, is no stranger to flooding, especially during monsoon season. But the extent to which this flooding has taken place in recent years is unprecedented. Flooding in Sylhet and other northeastern districts of Bangladesh between May and June of 2022 displaced an estimated 15 million people — approximately 9…

WSWS (2023-06-26). Australian IYSSE member advances antiwar perspective at pro-establishment "anti-AUKUS" meeting. wsws.org The only challenge to ex-Labor parliamentarian Peter Garrett's militaristic speech came from International Youth and Students for Social Equality member Morgan Peach.

Editor (2023-06-25). The Power of Sports: Tackling Gender Stereotypes in Hong Kong. scheerpost.com The most recent report of the World Economic Forum paints a rather dim picture of gender inequality worldwide. According to current research, it will take 132 years to close the global gender gap. Alicia Lui from the initiative Women in Sports Empowered Hong Kong (WISE) works with youth to approach this problem in Hong Kong and agreed to share a few valuable insights with Pressenza contributor, Chris Hoellriegl.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-06-26). Cancer and the LGBTQ+ community: Mayo Clinic expert addresses key topics. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Being diagnosed with cancer is a hardship on its own, but it's especially challenging if a person is a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Jewel Kling, M.D., director of women's health at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, explains that stigma and discrimination create barriers to healthcare, placing the LGBTQ+ community at heightened risk for certain forms of cancer due to delayed cancer screenings as well as challenges with survivorship care. Increased cancer risks…

Jai Geller, Jia Lee, Left Voice. (2023-06-26). UFT Contract Would Expand Virtual Learning And School Privatization. popularresistance.org As if responding to Betsy Devos' admonition that "K-12 education for too long has been very static and very stuck," Department of Education Chancellor David Banks declared last week that the City's new Tentative Contract Agreement with the UFT fulfilled Mayor Adams' challenge to "reimagine education" and that "the days of simply working … in the four walls of the classroom are over." To this end, New York City will become "the first major public-school system to develop, implement and expand high-quality virtual learning programs for instruction and related services" by creating a centralized virtual learning p…

teleSUR (2023-06-26). World Bank: 110 Mln USD Loan to Enhance Philippines Education. telesurenglish.net On Saturday, the World Bank (WD) announced that it has approved a 110 million U.S. dollars loan to finance a project aiming to boost education quality in the southern Philippines. | Related: | According to WD, nearly 2 million elementary school students from kindergarten to grade 6, as well as over 60,000 teachers and school administrators in three poor regions in western Mindanao, will benefit from the project. | Offi…

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-06-25). Cuba congratulates Mozambique on Independence Day. plenglish.com Through its Twitter profile, the Cuban Foreign Ministry confirmed its willingness to continue strengthening the existing ties of friendship and cooperation in various sectors. | Diplomatic relations between Cuba and Mozambique were established at the very moment when the African nation achieved its independence, on June 25, 1975, and since then, they have developed a close collaboration in areas such as medical assistance, education, agriculture, and in training of human resources. | Finally, Mozambique maintains an unequivocal position against the US blockade on Cuba, which it expresses every year with its vote,…

Campaign Legal Center watchdog group (2023-06-26). Wednesday 6/28: 10 Years Since Shelby County: How Democracy Advocates Can Fight Back for Voting Freedom. indybay.org Online event…

Jews United for Democracy & JCA (2023-06-26). Wednesday 7/5: Voting Rights, Election Laws, Supreme Court & More w/ Rick Hasen, UCLA Law Scholar. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

SBPA, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, Green Foothill (2023-06-26). Monday 6/26: #NoQuarry: Protecting Juristac Sacred Land Forum w/ Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-06-26). Saturday 7/15: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

Anonymous669 (2023-06-25). New Videos Show Recent Strikes On HTS Logistic Bases, Drone Workshops In Syria's Greater Idlib. southfront.org A Russian Su-24 takes off on a combat mission at Hemeimeem airbase, Syria, on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. IMAGE: AP PHOTO/VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | On June 25, videos surfaced online showing some of the recent Russian airstrikes and Syrian artillery strikes that hit positions of al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its allies in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib. | The strikes reportedly targeted logistic bases and drone workshops of the terrorist groups, who escalated their attacks earlier this…

Peninsula Peace & Justice Center (2023-06-25). Thursday 6/22: Pride, Prejudice & Corporate P.R: Corporate Capitalism and Anti-LGBTQIA+ Hate. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

ecns.cn (2023-06-26). Cutting-edge deep-sea vessel begins construction in Guangzhou. ecns.cn Construction of China's first deep sea multi-functional scientific research and archaeological vessel officially began in Guangzhou's Nanshan district on Sunday.

ecns.cn (2023-06-26). No.6 Luzhou Yangtze River Bridge connected in Sichuan. ecns.cn Construction of the No. 6 Luzhou Yangtze River Bridge, world's largest road-rail three-tower cable-stayed bridge, was successfully completed on Monday.

teleSUR (2023-06-25). Barbados PM Mottley Holds Talks With Chinese Premier Li. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Chinese Premier Li Qiang held talks with Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, who is on an official visit in Beijing. | RELATED: | "Barbados is a good friend and partner of China in the Caribbean region," he pointed out, noting that the Asian nation is ready to work with Barbados to promote the joint construction of a high-quality Belt and Road, and enhance exchanges and cooperation related to the economy,…

teleSUR, SH (2023-06-26). Avanzan elecciones para elegir a nuevo presidente en Guatemala. telesurtv.net 9.3 millones de guatemaltecos están convocados a participar en unos comicios donde también quedarán definidos el vicepresidente y 160 diputados al Congreso.

In Defense of Liberation! (2023-06-25). Morning Commute 6/25/2023. podcasters.spotify.com What's up folks, little check in episode a bit more laid back, talking about some workplace stuffs and some general organizing ideas…

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-26). Labor breaks election promise with new income management card. greenleft.org.au

Labor Video Project (2023-06-26). Ian Masters CIA Operative Protested At KPFA In Berkeley. indybay.org

LaborNet (2023-06-26). Friday 6/23: Hands Off Korean Independent Journalist Jan Jin-young-Drop The Charges NOW! indybay.org San Francisco Korean Consulate | 3500 Clay St. | San Francisco…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-06-26). Mayo Clinic and University of Minnesota announce new pathway program for training nurse-midwives. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences and the University of Minnesota School of Nursing are collaborating to create a new academic pathway for nurse-midwives that will expand the nurse-midwifery workforce in the Upper Midwest. The collaboration creates a pathway for students admitted to the University of Minnesota School of Nursing's Doctor of Nursing Practice program to complete the approximately 1,000 hours of required clinical training at Mayo Clinic hospitals in Minnesota and…

teleSUR, JDO, SH (2023-06-26). Premian en Cuba trabajo colaborativo entre Telecristal y TeleSUR. telesurtv.net La Unión de Periodistas de Cuba destaca la serie de reportajes Incendio en Pinares de Mayarí, de Yordanis Rodríguez Laurencio y Eddi de la Pera.

WSWS (2023-06-26). Australian central banker openly calls for higher unemployment. wsws.org Now stated blatantly, the aggressive offensive by the Reserve Bank and the Labor government means destroying up to 150,000 jobs in order to induce an economic slump and further drive down workers' real wages.

WSWS (2023-06-26). Official US intelligence report finds no evidence for laboratory origin of SARS-CoV-2. wsws.org The release of the ODNI findings only corroborates what principled scientists have stated before: that the WIV did not possess SARS-CoV-2 or a close ancestor and there is no evidence that the virus emerged from the laboratory to cause the COVID pandemic.

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-25). Environment coalition protests NT Labor's plans for more gas. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-26). NSW hospital workers strike over wages. greenleft.org.au

WSWS (2023-06-26). Police locate more bodies in New Zealand's Pike River mine. wsws.org The police investigation into the 2010 disaster that killed 29 mineworkers has been dragged out until at least the end of 2023, with no guarantee that anyone will be charged over the avoidable deaths.

WSWS (2023-06-26). Virginia UPS worker speaks out on conditions in the company's warehouses. wsws.org "A lot of the warehouse workers are part-time. UPS needs to create more full-time jobs," he said. "The young people are poor, and work second jobs, but they get too tired, and it's too much gas money. It's just not worth it."

WSWS (2023-06-26). 6,000 workers strike Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kansas. wsws.org Six thousand workers struck at Spirit Aerosystems in Wichita, Kansas, after an overwhelming rejection of the sellout tentative contract recommended by the IAM.

WSWS (2023-06-26). Sri Lankan SEP wins strong support for its campaign against government austerity and privatisation measures. wsws.org "The unions are no use for workers because they are carrying out management requirements, not ours. We can't depend on the unions to fight against privatization."—National Water Supply and Drainage Board worker.

WSWS (2023-06-26). After union contract betrayal, Los Angeles school district presses ahead with additional cuts. wsws.org Less than two months after the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) forced a concessionary contract on 35,000 educators and three months after a similarly rotten deal was reached with 30,000 school support staff represented by SEIU Local 99, the Los Angeles Unified School District is pressing ahead with even more cuts.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-06-25). High suicide rate among Uruguayan police officers. plenglish.com In the Police, the suicide rate is 63 per 100,000 inhabitants and the general rate in the country is 21 per 100,000, according to the local press. | The sources themselves point out that so far this year eight uniformed officers have committed suicide. Last Thursday it was an officer and on Friday a policewoman, making four so far in June. | In this situation, the police unions assure that the phenomenon is closely related to the harassment of the commanders, threats and pressures to return to work, despite the fact that they are under medical certificate. | The Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, cons…

teleSUR (2023-06-25). Earth Has Two Swinhoe's Softshell Turtles Left. telesurenglish.net Many wept for the death of Lonesome George, the last known survivor of the Pinta Island tortoise subspecies, about a decade ago. Yet, here comes an even more desperate truth: the Earth's last two Swinhoe's softshell turtles (Rafetus swinhoei) are both males, starting a cruel countdown on the species' extinction. | RELATED: | Critically endangered as listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)…

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-26). Geelong council under pressure not to cut jobs, libraries. greenleft.org.au

WSWS (2023-06-26). Ford Australia to axe 400 more jobs as part of global cost-cutting strategy. wsws.org The announcement, on top of 500 job cuts at Geelong and Broadmeadows over the past year, means Ford has slashed close to half of the small product design and development workforce it maintained after shuttering its Australian factories in 2016.

Ryan Cristián (2023-06-25). The "Wagner Coup" Failure, The Transparent Misinformation Complex & The Transgender Movement Facade. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (6/25/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

ALEX (2023-06-26). Hospital Doctors In England Plan To Go On Strike In July. popularresistance.org On 23 June, hospital doctors in England announced the longest strike in the 75-year history of the NHS. As ever, it's part of the ongoing row over pay and working conditions. | The British Medical Association (BMA) stated that Junior doctors — those below consultant level — will stage a walkout. They'll start on 7: 00 on July 13, and continue until the same time on July 18. | The stoppage follows a 72-hour strike earlier this same month. It was in opposition to the government's refusal to budge on its offer of just a 5% pay increase.

Jeremy Kuzmarov, Covert Action Magazine. (2023-06-26). 'If You Challenge The FBI, They Will Crush You,' Says Whistleblower. popularresistance.org Being an FBI agent was Stephen Friend's dream job. For eight and a half years working there, the Notre Dame graduate and Iraq War veteran investigated around 200 violent crimes, including human and sex-trafficking cases, and served five years as part of an FBI SWAT team. | Friend did his job so well that he won an FBI performance award. | Then one day this past fall, his top-secret security clearance was revoked by his superiors at the Jacksonville, Florida, field office, and he lost his job. | The reason was that he had expressed concern about a) the inflation of statistics regarding Domestic Violent Extremism (…

Global Research News (2023-06-25). Prigozhin's Wagner PMC Rebellion against Vladimir Putin. How it All Started. globalresearch.ca In an important "as a concerted effort between Wagner, the Ukrainian intelligence service, and their Western sponsors … | Prigozhin is working on behalf of foreign intelligence Services carrying out their …

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ecns.cn (2023-06-25). CPC official says China, UK have common responsibility. ecns.cn Despite having different views on a number of issues, China and the United Kingdom share a common responsibility to shun group politics and bloc confrontations, and China welcomes genuine discussion based on equality and respect to expand mutual understanding, a senior official of the Communist Party of China said.

Editor (2023-06-25). The Power of Sports: Tackling Gender Stereotypes in Hong Kong. scheerpost.com The most recent report of the World Economic Forum paints a rather dim picture of gender inequality worldwide. According to current research, it will take 132 years to close the global gender gap. Alicia Lui from the initiative Women in Sports Empowered Hong Kong (WISE) works with youth to approach this problem in Hong Kong and agreed to share a few valuable insights with Pressenza contributor, Chris Hoellriegl.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-06-24). Addressing cancer concerns in the LGBTQ+ community. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org During June, many cities and towns around the U.S. and the world celebrate and raise awareness of the LGBTQ+ community's accomplishments and the ongoing fight for equality and acceptance. When it comes to health, the LGBTQ+ community faces increased cancer concerns. Stigma and discrimination create barriers to health care, placing the LGBTQ+ community at heightened risk for certain forms of cancer. Being aware of cancer risks and finding ways to overcome these challenges can be lifesaving. Mayo…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-06-25). Cancer and the LGBTQ+ community: Mayo Clinic expert addresses key topics. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Being diagnosed with cancer is a hardship on its own, but it's especially challenging if a person is a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Jewel Kling, M.D., director of women's health at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, explains that stigma and discrimination create barriers to healthcare, placing the LGBTQ+ community at heightened risk for certain forms of cancer due to delayed cancer screenings as well as challenges with survivorship care. Increased cancer risks…


Ping-Tao Tseng, Bing-Syuan Zeng, Chih-Sung Liang (2023-06-24). Correspondence] We are human, not artificial intelligence—medical teaching innovation in Taiwan. thelancet.com We appreciated Sandro Vento's Correspondence addressing the merit of a conducive environment in medical learning.1 With artificial intelligence development booming in recent years, there is a lot of interest in applying artificial intelligence to medical education to quickly produce many new doctors to resolve the problems of insufficient medical resources. However, lots of arguments have emerged about whether quickly produced new doctors have sufficient humanity in clinical practice. Here, we provide alternative experiences of medical education in Taiwan, which might be helpful for medical education providers ar…

WSWS (2023-06-24). Detroit teachers and students take their fight against layoffs to the auto plants. wsws.org On Thursday members of the Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee spoke to Stellantis autoworkers at Warren Truck to build unity against education cuts.

Greg Kerwood , Left Voice. (2023-06-24). 'We Must Strike': A Message From A Rank-And-File UPS Worker Activist. popularresistance.org It has become almost cliche to say that nobody wants a strike, as if it were somehow uncouth to stand up for one's humanity without a qualifier. But wanting a strike is truly not the question. The question, rather, is do we NEED a strike? And the answer is an unequivocal YES! | We NEED a strike to unite our members at UPS, and our Teamsters Union as a whole. We NEED a strike to create a generation of militant Unionists, whose education will be the picket line, and whose graduation will be the launch of a new Labor movement. We NEED a strike to create the bonds that hold Labor together, that unite workers; those t…

Peninsula Peace & Justice Center (2023-06-25). Thursday 6/22: Pride, Prejudice & Corporate P.R: Corporate Capitalism and Anti-LGBTQIA+ Hate. indybay.org Online via Zoom…


SBPA, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, Green Foothill (2023-06-25). Monday 6/26: #NoQuarry: Protecting Juristac Sacred Land Forum w/ Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

ELEL (2023-06-24). Department of Error] Department of Error. thelancet.com Jasper J Brugts, Sumant P Radhoe, Pascal R D Clephas, et al. Remote haemodynamic monitoring of pulmonary artery pressures in patients with chronic heart failure (MONITOR-HF): a randomised clinical trial. Lancet 2023; published online May 20. doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00923-6—In this Article, the upper limit of the 95% CI for the between-group comparison for urgent visits in table 2 has been corrected. This correction has been made to the online version as of June 22, 2023, and the printed version is correct.

Yasiel Betancourt Clavijo (2023-06-24). Census 2023 advances in Uruguay. plenglish.com The director of the National Statistics Institute (INE), Diego Aboal, informed that a total of one million addresses have been visited out of a total of approximately 1,700,000. | Aboal detailed that around 70 percent of the private homes have already been censused and in some 30 localities of the country the progress of the survey is higher than 99 percent. | The INE director said that the possibility of responding to the census online is still active, using the housing code established in the digital document for this purpose. | Data on housing and other data related to daily life, as well as data on the inhab…

Editor (2023-06-24). And then Biden blew it … mronline.org The Biden talk, made official by posting it on the White House site, is an insult to China. Whatever Blinken has said or done to smooth the relations is now gone. It was already known that the U.S. can not be trusted with anything that it says. What counts is what the U.S. does and there it has so far shown no positive move towards China.

SBPA, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, Green Foothill (2023-06-25). Monday 6/26: #NoQuarry: Protecting Juristac Sacred Land Forum w/ Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

ELEL (2023-06-24). Department of Error] Department of Error. thelancet.com Jasper J Brugts, Sumant P Radhoe, Pascal R D Clephas, et al. Remote haemodynamic monitoring of pulmonary artery pressures in patients with chronic heart failure (MONITOR-HF): a randomised clinical trial. Lancet 2023; published online May 20. doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00923-6—In this Article, the upper limit of the 95% CI for the between-group comparison for urgent visits in table 2 has been corrected. This correction has been made to the online version as of June 22, 2023, and the printed version is correct.

Yasiel Betancourt Clavijo (2023-06-24). Census 2023 advances in Uruguay. plenglish.com The director of the National Statistics Institute (INE), Diego Aboal, informed that a total of one million addresses have been visited out of a total of approximately 1,700,000. | Aboal detailed that around 70 percent of the private homes have already been censused and in some 30 localities of the country the progress of the survey is higher than 99 percent. | The INE director said that the possibility of responding to the census online is still active, using the housing code established in the digital document for this purpose. | Data on housing and other data related to daily life, as well as data on the inhab…

Editor (2023-06-24). And then Biden blew it … mronline.org The Biden talk, made official by posting it on the White House site, is an insult to China. Whatever Blinken has said or done to smooth the relations is now gone. It was already known that the U.S. can not be trusted with anything that it says. What counts is what the U.S. does and there it has so far shown no positive move towards China.

Editor (2023-06-24). Argentina: Repression against indigenous people in Jujuy (+human rights in Venezuela). mronline.org Police repression of mass protests regarding provincial constitution reforms—threatening the right to protest and land workers' rights—have led to at least 68 people being arrested and 170 injured this Tuesday, June 20.

Editor (2023-06-24). Canadian sanctions on Russia: Powerless rage with a boomerang effect. mronline.org Canada's recent seizure of a Russian an-124 cargo plane, which had been delivering COVID supplies when it was grounded in February 2022 at Pearson Airport (it was forced to pay a fee for every minute, despite being trapped there), is another sanction among many others.

Editor (2023-06-24). Dark history: How the U.S. experimented on its own people. mronline.org For years, government-related institutes have experimented on their own citizens, mainly minorities, to serve their own interests. Infamous and not entirely disclosed, here are some of the most unethical operations done by the U.S. on its own people and soil.

Editor (2023-06-24). Glastonbury's cancelling of a powerful film about Jeremy Corbyn. mronline.org When Truth Becomes Silence…

ecns.cn (2023-06-25). 50 Pandas to settle in Beijing's New Research Center by 2024. ecns.cn Construction for a Beijing base of the China Conservation and Research Center for Giant Panda is currently underway in the capital's Fangshan district.

teleSUR, SH (2023-06-25). Guatemala celebra elecciones generales para elegir a nuevo presidente. telesurtv.net 9.3 millones de guatemaltecos están convocados a participar en unos comicios donde también quedarán definidos el vicepresidente y 160 diputados al Congreso.

In Defense of Liberation! (2023-06-24). Why is Mass Organizing so important? podcasters.spotify.com In this we discuss in brief some examples and ideas of what organizing is and can look like among people everywhere, and why it is so important !

Anonymous349 (2023-06-25). Details Of Agreement With Wagner Which Put End To Rebellion Attempt. southfront.org ILLUSTRATIVE IMAGE | Late on June 24, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian President, revealed details on the agreement which put an end to the rebellion attempt by Evgeny Prigozhin and the part of Wagner units that supported him. | According to Peskov, the criminal case opened by FSB against Prigozhin will be halted and he will leave Russia.The spokesman revealed that Prigozhin "will go to Belarus." He did not elaborate what the public fonder of Wanger will do there. | Wagner's fighters that supported Pr…

Labor Video Project (2023-06-25). Ian Masters CIA Operative Protested At KPFA In Berkeley. indybay.org

LaborNet (2023-06-25). Friday 6/23: Hands Off Korean Independent Journalist Jan Jin-young-Drop The Charges NOW! indybay.org San Francisco Korean Consulate | 3500 Clay St. | San Francisco…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-06-25). Mayo Clinic and University of Minnesota announce new pathway program for training nurse-midwives. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences and the University of Minnesota School of Nursing are collaborating to create a new academic pathway for nurse-midwives that will expand the nurse-midwifery workforce in the Upper Midwest. The collaboration creates a pathway for students admitted to the University of Minnesota School of Nursing's Doctor of Nursing Practice program to complete the approximately 1,000 hours of required clinical training at Mayo Clinic hospitals in Minnesota and…

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-25). Environment coalition protests NT Labor's plans for more gas. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-25). Labor breaks election promise with new income management card. greenleft.org.au

Jonathan Kissam, Labor Notes. (2023-06-25). Moranda Smith, Food And Tobacco Workers Fight To Expand Democracy. popularresistance.org June is Pride Month, which celebrates and commemorates the struggles of LGBTQ+ people for freedom. It is held in June to commemorate the Stonewall Riots, several days of protests that began on June 28, 1969, and launched the modern movement for LGBTQ+ rights. | This June also marks the 80th anniversary of a remarkable strike at the giant R.J. Reynolds tobacco plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, which established Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers (FTA). One of those strikers, a sharecropper's daughter named Moranda Smith, would be elected to the national union's executive committe…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-24). Bill protecting workers against union-busting advances in US Congress. peoplesdispatch.org The legislation, celebrated by labor leaders, organizers, and workers, would protect the right to organize a union. Practices such as captive audience meetings that are meant to dissuade workers from forming unions will be banned under this proposed law…

Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. (2023-06-24). Chinese-American Worker And Activist Arrested For Advocating For Peace. popularresistance.org Labor leaders and organizers are banding together to demand justice for Chinese-American unionized worker and activist Li Tang "Henry" Liang. Liang was indicted and then arrested in early May in Boston in retaliation for exercising his free speech rights. "The federal government has targeted Liang for advocating peaceful relations between the US and China," say labor activists in the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance of the AFL-CIO, the largest trade union in the US. | As a hotel worker, Liang was an active member in his union, UNITE HERE Local 26. He is also an activist in the Chinese-American community, ral…

United Electrical, Radio, Machine Workers of America. (2023-06-25). UE Locals Strike Wabtec Locomotive Plant, Demand Green Jobs. popularresistance.org Erie, PA – After rejecting the company's last, best and final offer today, the 1400 members of UE Locals 506 and 618 are on strike at Wabtec's locomotive plant in Lawrence Park. | "Building green locomotives is essential to the future of our country, and will benefit the local economy here in Erie," said UE Local 506 President Scott Slawson. "Unfortunately, Wabtec's unwillingness to work with us to resolve problems, either through the grievance process or through contract negotiations, is a major impediment to that bright future." | Slawson also denounced the company's announcement during bargaining that they are…

Keerti Gopal (2023-06-24). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Amazon Under Fire. levernews.com Good things are happening! Workers and regulators are holding some of the country's biggest corporations accountable for workers' rights violations. Plus, an Arkansas judge makes a landmark gender-affirming ruling, NYC tenants get a climate break, and more.Amazon Takes Some Hits: Amazon is in the hot seat. On Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

WSWS (2023-06-24). West Coast dockworkers speak out against White House-backed tentative agreement. wsws.org In interviews and comments with the WSWS, dockworkers expressed anger over the proposed tentative agreement and denounced the involvement of the Biden administration.

WSWS (2023-06-24). Workers at Wabtec locomotive plant in Erie, Pennsylvania walk out after decisive rejection of company's "final offer" wsws.org The 1,400 striking workers want an end to tiers and significant wage gains after enduring a 4-year pay freeze.

WSWS (2023-06-24). Senate bill would criminalize work slowdowns on US ports. wsws.org The recent series of job actions on the West Coast, in defiance of a union-backed "no strike pledge," has prompted the ruling class to develop open legal repression against workers as the next line of defense.

WSWS (2023-06-24). UPS demands new tiers, massive wage concessions in next contract with Teamsters union. wsws.org The American logistics giant is throwing down the gauntlet to its 340,000 workers, who voted earlier this month to strike by 97 percent.

Yasiel Betancourt Clavijo (2023-06-24). Panamanian workers condemn US interference. plenglish.com In a communiqué, the largest trade union center stressed that the current administration of Laurentino Cortizo and the previous ones follow the guidelines dictated by the State Department, the US embassy and the Southern Command. | In this sense, the CNTP rejected that in this way the Government yields the sovereignty achieved by the struggle and sacrifice of several generations of Panamanians. | The text points out that the collective will continue to firmly denounce those who sell out the country and will be in the safeguard of national interests and natural resources, and urged to prepare for the struggle in…

A Guest Author (2023-06-24). Letters from behind the walls. workers.org The following letters from prisoners were recently sent to Workers World newspaper. "Remember Trans Power — Fight For Trans Freedom! Trans freedom means a world free from violence that separates us from our bodies, spirits, communities + the earth. Trans freedom means a world without borders and deportation. Trans freedom . . . |

Monica Moorehead (2023-06-24). Global solidarity with Writers Guild strike. workers.org The International Affiliation of Writers Guilds (IAWG), Federation of Screenwriters in Europe (FSE) and UNI Global Union (UNI-MEI) organized global in-person and social-media protests June 14 in a "Screenwriters Everywhere: International Day of Solidarity" with the Writers Guild (WGA) strike that began on May 1 — International Workers Day. Many . . . |

Will Hodgkinson (2023-06-24). Issues behind the Indian Child Welfare Act. workers.org Bulletin: In a major victory for Native nations and Tribal Sovereignty, the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in a June 15, 2023, decision. Had SCOTUS failed to uphold ICWA, the results would have been disastrous. The article below was . . . |

Revolutionary Workers United Front (2023-06-24). Friday 6/23: Bridge Bannering for Peace and Justice. indybay.org We'll be on the pedestrian bridge over Geary at Webster near Japantown in San Francisco.

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-06-24). Presidente Lula rechaza imposiciones de la UE para acuerdo con Mercosur. telesurtv.net "Es inadmisible que tengamos una asociación estratégica y exista una carta adicional amenazando a un socio", subrayó el mandatario.

teleSUR, MER (2023-06-24). Unión por la Patria anuncia fórmula presidencial en Argentina. telesurtv.net Unión por la Patria expresó que han decidido conformar una lista de unidad que los representará en las próximas elecciones.

unitedEditor (2023-06-24). Pseudo-science and imperialism caught red-handed. unitedworldint.com By Dr Franklin Nyamsi President, Institut de l'Afrique des Libertés / African Freedom Institute In a study[1] published on June 19, 2023 on the reference site of the Egmont Institute, based in the capital of the European Union and NATO, Brussels, a duo of researchers from this organization set out to analyze the correlation between …

teleSUR (2023-06-24). EU Introduces 11th Package Of Sanctions Against Russia. telesurenglish.net After four months of deliberations, the European Union agreed on the 11th package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, which for the first time in the EU's history includes the principle of extraterritorial restrictions. | RELATED: | This means that the EU has given itself the right to impose sanctions against third countries and their businesses that ignore sanctions against Russia. The major purpose of the new package, ac…

teleSUR, hvh, JDO (2023-06-24). Rusia rechaza undécimo paquete de medidas de presión de la UE. telesurtv.net Moscú apuntó que las sanciones socavan las prerrogativas jurídicas internacionales del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU.

WSWS (2023-06-24). New Zealand sinks into recession. wsws.org With international financial institutions paying close attention, the country's Labour-led government is carrying out a far-reaching assault on jobs and living standards.

Jalil Muntaqim, Black Agenda Report. (2023-06-25). Report From Venezuela On The Case Of Political Prisoner Alex Saab. popularresistance.org I was invited by Camilla Saab, the spouse of the kidnapped Venezuelan Diplomat, Alex Saab, to attend the international conference titled: "Lawfare Against Venezuela: Three Years After the Kidnapping of Diplomat Alex Saab." This conference, sponsored by the Free Alex Saab Movement, brought activists and revolutionaries from as far as Canada, Slovenia, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Spain, Nigeria, England and the United States, to name a few. | On June 14th, 2023, a public forum was held at the Jose Felix Ribas Hall, Teatro Teresa Carreno, where invited speakers presented their support for the immediate release of Ale…

People's Dispatch. (2023-06-25). Anti-War Groups In Ireland Disrupt Security Conference. popularresistance.org Irish anti-war groups disrupted discussions over militarization and membership of military alliances at the government's first national security consultation meeting that began at the University College Cork (UCC). On June 22, activists from the Connolly Youth Movement (CYM) disrupted the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy meeting with anti-war slogans and raised a red banner that read "NATO Wars! Millions Dead." | Deputy head of government and foreign and defense minister Micheál Martin from the Fianna Fail of the ruling liberal-conservative coalition, was set to address the gathering, only to b…

Anonymous349 (2023-06-24). Armed Munity In Russia Seems To Be Ended Before Its Real Start. southfront.org Wagner members in Rostov-on-Don | It seems that the armed munity in Russia has reached its end before its real start. | In the evening of June 24, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced that he had arranged an agreement whereby Wagner Group head Evgeny Prigozhin will abandon his mutiny and stop the movement of Wagner units towards Moscow in exchange for "security guarantees" for his fighters."As a result, the parties agreed to the inadmissibility of unleashing a bloody massacre on Russian…

Anonymous349 (2023-06-24). Armed Munity In Russia. Situation In Second Half Of June 24. southfront.org Police in Moscow | In the second half of June 24, the situation with the armed munity announced by the public head of PMC Wagner, Evgeny Prigozhin, reached to what could be described as the first breaking point. | According to reports, forward detachments of the Wagner units loyal to Prigozhin are about to reach Moscow Region (unconfirmed reports claim that Wagner units entered Tula Region). The movement of Wagner units took place amid little clashes with security forces. | Russian security forces and military mostly…

Anonymous767 (2023-06-24). In Videos: Wagner Members Return To Their Field Camps. southfront.org A screenshot from the video | Members of PMC Wagner have been leaving their positions taken in the city of Rostov-on-Don and turning around their columns returning to their field camps. | Earlier, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced that he had arranged an agreement whereby Wagner Group head Evgeny Prigozhin will abandon his mutiny and stop the movement of Wagner units towards Moscow in exchange for "security guarantees" for his fighters. Lukashenko's talks with Prigozhin, said to have stretched…

John Wojcik (2023-06-24). Communists meeting in New York have a plan to defeat the MAGA fascists. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK — The National Committee of the Communist Party, USA, that organization's top leadership, launched a meeting this morning here in New York with a declaration that the nationwide party organization is putting its full force behind a movement it expects will inflict a strategic defeat upon the MAGA right and its leader, "the …

Julie Bowen (2023-06-24). 1 Year After "Dobbs," We Must Build Movements to Defeat Anti-Abortion Extremists. truthout.org It's been one year since Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the ruling that ended federal protections for abortion rights by overturning the almost 50-year precedent of Roe v. Wade. The ruling was the culmination of decades-long work by the anti-abortion right, which has chipped away at abortion access at the state level, lined up "trigger bans" and mobilized to reignite the clinic… |

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-24). Anti-war groups in Ireland disrupt security conference at Cork University. peoplesdispatch.org Irish anti-war groups disrupted discussions over militarization and membership of military alliances at the government's first national security consultation meeting that began at the University College Cork (UCC). On June 22, activists from the Connolly Youth Movement (CYM) disrupted the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy meeting with anti-war slogans and Deputy head of government and foreign and defense minister Micheál Martin from the Fianna Fail of the ruling liberal-cons…

Alastair Crooke (2023-06-24). BRICS++: The West tries playing 'catch-up', but it's too late. thealtworld.com Until recently, the West has largely derided the BRICS project. But it finally is awaking to the fact that the BRICS initiative possesses the potential to turn both geo-politics, and the international monetary system, upside-down. | The seismic Geo-Political event of this era is the explosion of BRICS membership, and of even bigger potential BRICS membership. This movement has crossed a key threshold. It has transited from 'vanilla' multipolarity to being an anti-colonial expression — a shift that should not be underestimated. It is an ethos drawing energy from deep layers of passionate feeling that was sti…

Stansfield Smith (2023-06-24). Liberal and Left Silence on National Security Police State When Used Against Trump and His Supporters. orinocotribune.com By Stansfield Smith — Jun 21, 2023 | The National Security police state now regards the Democratic Party as a more useful tool to criminalize opposition to US wars and maintain their control over the US government. We see this in the attack on the Uhuru Movement as being in the pay of Russia, in the imprisonment and torture of Julian Assange, in the jailing of numerous whistleblowers, in the censoring of hundreds of anti-war websites, claiming they spread Russian "disinformation." Unfortunately, not a few who consider themselves on the left or liberals acquiesce to these attacks. Many actually repeat them.

Yasiel Betancourt Clavijo (2023-06-24). Cuba works in recovery of areas affected by rains. plenglish.com During last week, after visiting the provinces of Granma and Camagàºey to check the strategies to restore normality in that area (the most damaged by the rainfall), Prime Minister Manuel Marero affirmed that they are working hard for that purpose and that there is a good follow-up of the situation. | He assured that the country will continue to support the recovery process there. | Marrero pointed out that the meetings held with authorities and inhabitants of the region allowed the identification of other problems that hinder local development strategies. | The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy…

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