Chicago Teachers Union authorizes strike
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-09-28
Chicago, IL – The Chicago Teachers Union released totals of the September 24-26 strike authorization vote, on September 26. The CTU Rules and Election Committee reported that as of 9: 30 p.m., the union passed the 75% threshold of members voting "yes." 94% of teachers, clinicians, PSRPs, nurses and librarians voted to authorize a strike to win the schools Chicago's students deserve. | The vote stands as a mandate from CTU members for Chicago Public Schools to uphold promises of equity and educational justice made by Mayor Lori Lightfoot, and that those promises must be in writing in an enforceable contract. This i…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/9/27/chicago-…

SF Forum: The Arnautoff Murals, Identity Politics, Privatization & Public Education
UPWA | indybay.org | 2019-09-28
518 Valencia St. | San Francisco, California…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/27/18826821.php

Air pollution exposure during pregnancy affects children's lung function in early years
Ruth Milka | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-28
Another study has shown more negative health impacts of air pollution particles crossing the placenta and affecting children even before they are born. | Research published by the Center for Environment Health and Sustainability (CESH) at the University of Leicester found that exposure to air pollution from road traffic during pregnancy reduces children's lung function at the age eight. | The data is a result of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) a large long-term study of over 14,000 children born in the former country of Avon between 1991 and 1992. The Avon study is the largest stud…
nationofchange.org/2019/09/28/air-pollution-exposure-during-pregnancy-affects-childrens-lung-function-in-early-years/

Millions March against Climate Change, Capitalism and War
Bryan Dyne | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-28
Four million people participated in the global climate strike across every continent on Friday, many of them students who skipped school on that day. Demonstrations at more than 5,800 locations in 161 countries began in Australia and the Pacific, moved …
globalresearch.ca/millions-march-against-climate-change-capitalism-and-war/5690410

170,000 join climate change protests in New Zealand
wsws.org | 2019-09-28
School students were joined by tens of thousands of workers and university students to demand action to prevent catastrophic climate change.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/28/nzcl…

Berkeley Students Say System Change Needed, Rally and Walk Out from Campus on Global Climate Strike Day
To the Streets | indybay.org | 2019-09-28
Three days before the international Climate Strike of September 20 in which students at UC Berkeley participated on a grand scale, the University of California committed to urgent action to address the climate crisis. Students expressed despair, worry, and shock about the state of the climate already. | [Photos by Bob Shonkoff, Pro Bono Photo. Please credit the photographer]…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/27/18826828.php

UC Berkeley students say 'No tech for ICE'
Zach Chacon | liberationnews.org | 2019-09-28
On Sept. 24, more than 50 UC Berkeley students and faculty members marched across campus and held a rally to protest the school's continuing support of data technology companies that collaborate with ICE, and to celebrate the cancellation of a Palantir Technologies recruitment "info-session" that was to be hosted that day on campus.
liberationnews.org/uc-berkeley-students-say-no-tech-for-ice/

San Jose Students Demonstrate, Ready to Act for Climate Justice
On the Move | indybay.org | 2019-09-28
An estimated 1,000 students expressed their commitment to a clean climate and a more just world…not only that, they have plans to make that happen. | [Photos: Chris Cassell, Pro Bono Photo. Please credit the photographer]…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/28/18826866.php

Chicago teachers vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike
wsws.org | 2019-09-28
The 94 percent authorization vote is a powerful expression of opposition to the conditions imposed by decades of Democratic mayoral administrations.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/28/chic…

Union Members Demand a Voice in Presidential Endorsements
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-09-28
| This story was originally published at Labor Notes.As the first union endorsements for president trickle in, union members and leaders are fighting to shape both the outcomes and the process of how endorsements are made. | Four years ago, by September 2015, seven national unions had made endorsements in the Democratic primary, though the AFL-CIO had requested that affiliates delay action. | Six–the Teachers (AFT), Machinists, Roofers, Plumbers, Bricklayers,…
truthout.org/articles/union-members-demand-a-voice-in-presidential-endorsements/

Marijuana Goes to House Floor with Landslide Victory for Safe Banking Act
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
For the first time since the war on marijuana was declared by President Richard Nixon, progressive marijuana law reform was considered on the Floor of the House of Representatives, and won by a landslide. Now, it is likely to be …
globalresearch.ca/marijuana-landslide-victory-safe-banking-act/5690319

At UN Session, US Empire in Decline and Global Solidarity on the Rise
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
As the United Nations General Assembly conducts its fall session, Popular Resistance is in New York City for the People's Mobilization to Stop the US War Machine and Save the Planet. Themes of the mobilization are connecting militarism and …
globalresearch.ca/un-session-us-empire-decline-global-solidarity-rise/5690306

The Trump Administration Can't Force Colleges to Further Its Anti-Muslim Agenda
aclu.org | 2019-09-27
We're demanding the administration end its politicized investigation into Duke-UNC's Middle East Studies program, and turn over all related records. | In a move that would make even Senator McCarthy blush, the Trump administration is threatening to pull federal funding from a Middle East Studies program for failing to toe the government's line on Islam and Muslims. | Last week, Betsy DeVos's Department of Education sent a letter to administrators…
aclu.org/blog/religious-liberty/using-religion-discriminate/trump-administration-cant-force-colleges-further

The Good (Free Tuition!), the Bad (Student Debt), & the Ugly (DeVos's DOE) in Higher Ed
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2019-09-27
The Good (Free Tuition!), the Bad (Student Debt), & the Ugly (DeVos's DOE) in Higher Ed…
thenation.com/article/education-debt-devos-loans/

Protest Alone Won't Save Our Planet
Paul Street | truthdig.com | 2019-09-27
We can all use a shot of hope. I got one from 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and the disproportionately youthful masses–4 million across 150 cities worldwide–who came out for climate sanity last week. I listened online to the speech Thunberg delivered to more than 300,000 mostly young people in lower Manhattan on Friday. She spoke eloquently about the supreme ecological danger we face, thanks to the relentless pursuit of profit and to the insincere assurances and pathetic inaction of politicians and policymakers the world over: | We have not taken to the streets, sacrificing our education…
truthdig.com/articles/protest-alone-wont-save-our-planet/

Brazilian Students Take Protest to Next Level, Launch Strike Against Bolsonaro Education Cuts
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-09-27
Brazil's far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has proposed privatization and immediate slashing of the public education budget. Students worried about the future of education in Brazil are beginning to mobilize with a strike at one of the county's main universities. Mike Fox reports from Brazil…
therealnews.com/stories/brazil-students-protest-bolsonaro-education-cuts

Maduro Thinks Russia and Venezuela Can "Overcome Any Difficulties", but Is He Right?
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
During a meeting with Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro held on last Wednesday Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia supports Venezuela's legitimate government against the continued U.S.-backed coup led by opposition leader Juan Guaidó. However, the Russian president also …
globalresearch.ca/maduro-thinks-russia-venezuela-overcome-any-difficulties/5690342

Challenges to US Hegemony: America Will Remain the World's Strongest Nation for Years to Come?
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
It was always an impossible challenge for America to retain the unrivalled power she enjoyed in 1945, when the country controlled both ends of the earth and had a massively powerful economy. At the end of World War II, the …
globalresearch.ca/america-remain-strongest-nation/5690317

Why Didn't Iraq Retaliate Against Israel?
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
The US and Israel are manoeuvring between the internal Iraqi differences in order to hit Hashd al-Shaabi, the "Popular Mobilisation Forces" (PMF). These forces have gathered significant domestic support and created many enemies among the Iraqis. The reason for this …
globalresearch.ca/why-didnt-iraq-retaliate-against-israel/5690357

Washington Sends Arms and Logistic Equipment to Its Occupation Forces in Syria
Basma Qaddour | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
Washington had sent over the past hours new reinforcements to its occupation troops in Syria, according to local sources in Qameshli. | The sources said that a convey composed of dozens of cars and trucks carrying weapons plus military and logistic …
globalresearch.ca/washington-sends-arms-logistic-equipment-occupation-forces-syria/5690315

Charity warns scrapping TV licence for over-75s risks fraud 'bonanza'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-09-27
More pensioners are at risk from a "bonanza" of fraud following the decision to scrap universal free TV licences for the over-75s, according to new research.The BBC announced earlier this year that it would means-test licence fees for the elderly.Households without someone who receives pension credit…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/09/27/charity-warns-scrapping-tv-licence-for-over-75s-risks-fraud-bonanza/

Turkey Gives the US a Deadline in Syrian 'Safe-zone'
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
The Syrian war ends in Idlib | While most of Syria struggles to recover from 8 years of bloody conflict, Idlib is left as the last hot-spot. The population in Idlib today includes foreign terrorists following the tenets of Al Qaeda. …
globalresearch.ca/turkey-gives-us-deadline-syrian-safe-zone/5690292

Remembering Hisham Ahmed. The Reality of Palestine
Rick Sterling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
Hisham Ahmed was born in Deheisheh refugee camp on the outskirts of Bethlehem, Palestine in 1963. Blind from birth, Hisham somehow surmounted all odds and ultimately earned a PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He taught for …
globalresearch.ca/remembering-hisham-ahmed-the-reality-of-palestine/5690323

5G Cell Phone Transmission Across Poland: Prime Minister Morawiecki Did not Sign the Global 5G Appeal
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
The Polish Ministry of Digitalisation has denied (June 11) that Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki signed the Global Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space.[1] | The refute was put out by the Ministry of Digitalisation, the government department that …
globalresearch.ca/polish-ministry-digitalisation-denies-polish-prime-minister-supported-5g-appeal/5690340

Leaked: Johnson to Use NHS Privatisation Failure as Centre Piece in Snap Election
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
In 2013, the Conservative party famously went about purging its website and the internet of press releases it made about its 2010 manifesto promises. Basically, they lied to get into power and U-turned on the most significant of promises. | In …
globalresearch.ca/johnson-use-nhs-privatisation-failure-centre-piece-snap-election/5690359

Forty Years Ago, the Carter Administration Covered Up a Presumed Israeli Nuclear Test
John Krzyzaniak | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
On September 22, 1979, a US Vela satellite detected a "double flash" signal far off the coast of South Africa. It was the tell-tale sign of an atmospheric nuclear explosion: US Vela satellites, launched to help enforce the Partial Test …
globalresearch.ca/forty-years-ago-carter-administration-covered-up-presumed-israeli-nuclear-test/5690367

The Real Purpose of the Impeachment Investigation against Trump. Political Power Play
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
The Democrats know that there is no impeachable offense. What they intend to do is to use the investigation to look into every aspect of Trump's life and try to make dirt out of things unrelated to his talk with …
globalresearch.ca/democrats-reveal-real-purpose-impeachment-investigation/5690312

Ukraine's Federalization: Lavrov vs. Lukashenko
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Belarusian President Lukashenko are publicly at odds over the issue of Ukraine's federalizaton as a possible outcome of Kiev finally implementing the Minsk Accords in the event of the "New Detente" succeeding, with this serious …
globalresearch.ca/ukraine-federalization-lavrov-lukashenko/5690362

Video: Who Really Benefits from The Alleged 'Iranian Attack' on Saudi Arabia's Oil Facility?
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
In the second half of 2019, the Middle East entered yet another turbulence zone created by a sharpened conflict between Iran and regional Shia groups on the one side and the US-Israeli-Saudi alliance on another. In contrast to the 2015-2017 …
globalresearch.ca/who-benefits-iranian-attack-saudi-arabia/5690300

Official Reforms and India's Real Economy
Sunanda Sen | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2019-09-27
asia-pacificresearch.com/official-reforms-india-real-economy/5628907

145,000 Tons of Indian Oil at Risk after US Blacklists Chinese Shipping Companies
Great Game India | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
The US has put sanctions on several Chinese companies and their top officials for allegedly shipping Iranian oil, putting dozens of supertankers off limits to western energy traders. As a direct impact of the blacklisting of Chinese shipping company Cosco, …
globalresearch.ca/145000-tonnes-indian-oil-risk-us-blacklists-chinese-shipping-companies/5690370

Just How Swampy Are U.S-Saudi Arms Deals?
Andrew Cockburn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
The old maxim that "the U.S. government exists to buy arms at home and sell arms abroad" was never truer than today. Our defense budget is soaring to previously undreamed-of heights and overseas weapons deals are setting new records. | Indeed, …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-saudi-arms-deals/5690355

Longstanding US Electoral Dirty Tricks. Ukrainegate is a Russiagate Spinoff
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
Along with clear evidence of US meddling in scores of foreign elections, wanting ruling authorities serving its interests installed, the US political process was rife with fraud and other dirty tricks time and again since early in the 18th century. …
globalresearch.ca/longstanding-us-electoral-dirty-tricks-ukrainegate-is-a-russiagate-spinoff/5690347

US War on Russia by Other Means
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
The US under both militant wings of its war party is an unparalleled global menace. | For the first time in world history, one nation threatens everyone everywhere at home and abroad. It risks destruction of planet earth to own it, …
globalresearch.ca/us-war-russia/5690345

Hong Kong Protests: Fading Foreign Tantrum, Not Genuine Revolution
Joseph Thomas | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
Just as unfolded in 2014 during the so-called "Umbrella protests" or "Occupy Central" movement, a growing backlash has begun across Hong Kong against US-funded protests that have attempted to disrupt governance and commerce as part of a floundering movement to …
globalresearch.ca/hong-kong-protests-fading-not-genuine-revolution/5690335

Laid off Wrightbus workers 'face struggle to house families'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-09-27
Wrightbus workers face a struggle to house their families, one former employee has said. | Ryan Price, a supervisor aged 29, is married and his two children share a bedroom in a rental property. | He was bidding to buy a house and had saved a deposit but will find it difficult to access state benefits because of his savings. | The musician picked up his guitar and sang a song by Irish performer and social conscience Christy Moore about the impact of factory closures on ordinary men. | Mr Price said: "A lot of people are down and out, it is not just us, it affects other companies too. | "Morale still seems good bu…
thecanary.co/breaking-news/2019/09/27/laid-off-wrightbus-workers-face-struggle-to-house-families/

With a Planet on Fire, This Is What It Means to Enter Emergency Mode
Margaret Klein Salamon | commondreams.org | 2019-09-27
School students, Local Citizens, Environmental Activists shout slogans as they participate in a global climate strike to protest against governmental inaction towards climate breakdown and environmental pollution, part of demonstrations being held worldwide in a movement dubbed "Fridays for Future" in Kolkata, India, September 27, 2019. (Photo: Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2019/09/27/planet-fire-what-it-means-enter-emergency-mode?cd-origin=rss

Mandarin announcement of Australian lecture series on 70th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution
wsws.org | 2019-09-27
The lectures, which are being held on university campuses across the country, have been organised by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/27/mand…

As Climate Crisis Threatens to Put More Homes 'Literally Underwater,' Study Warns Big Banks Offloading Risky Mortgages Onto Taxpayers
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-09-27
New research first reported on Friday by The New York Times suggests banks are shifting mortgages made riskier by the climate emergency over to financial institutions backed by U.S. taxpayers—findings that "echo the subprime lending crisis of 2008, when unexpected drops in home values cascaded through the economy and triggered recession." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/09/27/climate-crisis-threatens-put-more-homes-literally-underwater-study-warns-big-banks?cd-origin=rss

Mirrored classroom display highlights scale of massive education crisis
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-26
A non-profit dedicated to exposing the severity of the global education crisis has been inviting delegates to the UN General Assembly inside a compact mirrored installation this week, to drive home the reality that around 260 million children are missing from classrooms around the world.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1047772

Education Dept says Middle East Studies program has to advance the security interests of the United States in order to receive further funding
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-09-26
The U.S. Department of Education has determined the Duke-University of North Carolina Consortium for Middle East Studies misused Title VI funds and they're requiring the program to provide a revised list of activities that will use these funds over the coming year. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/09/25/education-dept-says-middle-east-studies-program-has-to-advance-the-security-interests-of-the-united-states-in-order-to-receive-further-funding/

No Justification for the Existence of Charter Schools
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-26
One of the main claims to fame of privately-operated non-profit and for-profit charter schools is that they will deliver bigger and better results than public schools in exchange for greater flexibility and autonomy to operate than public schools. Two recent reports, however, build on extensive previous research which shows that academic performance in privately operated …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/no-justification-for-the-existence-of-charter-schools/

Will China's Belt and Road (BRI) Diplomacy Facilitate a Rapprochement Between Myanmar and Bangladesh?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-26
China's active diplomatic efforts in trying to resolve the "Rohingya" issue can facilitate a rapprochement between Myanmar and Bangladesh that strengthens their trilateral cooperation through the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) and secures a second corridor for Beijing to the …
globalresearch.ca/will-chinas-belt-and-road-bri-diplomacy-facilitate-a-rapprochement-between-myanmar-and-bangladesh/5690233

Shadow Politics and the "Kremlin's Hand", To Whom Does It Belong? The Historic Role of Sergei Shoigu
Michael Kim | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-26
A fair face may hide a foul heart. This idea will never lose its relevance, especially when it comes to the appearance of public officials — senior executives, businessmen and presidents. Their appearance, or rather their image, is what we …
globalresearch.ca/shadow-politics-and-the-kremlins-hand-to-whom-does-it-belong-the-historic-role-of-sergei-shoigu/5690224

Trumpsters: Grad Students Are Not Workers, Have No Rights
Michelle Chen | progressive.org | 2019-09-26
The National Labor Relations Board just proposed a rule returning to their Bush-era position, undermining years of steady gains in graduate worker organizing.
progressive.org/dispatches/trumpsters-grad-student-no-rights-chen-190926/

Mark Taliano's "Voices from Syria": An Antidote to Anti-Syria Propaganda
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-26
Taliano talks and listens to the people of Syria. He reveals the courage and resilience of a Nation and its people in their day to day lives, after more than six years of US-NATO sponsored terrorism and three years of US "peacemaking" airstrikes. "Voices from Syria is a powerful account of a message from the Syrian people telling the West to stop killing innocent civilians…"
globalresearch.ca/mark-talianos-voices-from-syria-new-book-from-global-research/5606787

School strikers take aim at Morrison, vow to continue
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-09-26
Climate Strike climate action Pip HinmanIssue 1239 AustraliaSeptember 26, 2019″The student strikes have been phenomenal — surreal at times," Sydney high school student Chloe Russell-Alexander told Green Left Weekly reflecting on the huge Climate Strike that saw…
greenleft.org.au/content/school-strikers-take-aim-morrison-vow-continue

'We are a wave of change,' say New York climate strikers
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-09-26
climate action Barry SheppardIssue 1239 United States student strike for climate SS4CSeptember 26, 2019I had no idea that September 20 would be so huge. Greta Thunberg said to a reporter as she…
greenleft.org.au/content/we-are-wave-change-say-new-york-climate-strikers

Postcards From the Global Climate Strike
StudentNation | thenation.com | 2019-09-25
Postcards From the Global Climate Strike…
thenation.com/article/postcards-from-the-global-climate-strike/

Baltimore's New Teachers Union President Says Schools are in a "State of Emergency"
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-09-25
"There has been a culture of fear and retaliation created in the Baltimore City Schools," says the new president of the Baltimore Teaches Union in episode 10 of Real Talk Tho…
therealnews.com/stories/baltimore-teachers-union-president-schools-state-emergency