2021-11-06: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-11-06). Rank-and-File Committee for Safe Education gathered educators and parents from around Brazil in critical online meeting. wsws.org The event presented a comprehensive analysis of the situation of the pandemic and the class struggle in Brazil and around the world.

Sam Pizzigati (2021-11-06). Why We Need to Keep Our Super Rich 'Occupied'. zcomm.org Grand fortunes won't start fading, new research suggests, so long as millions of us buy into billionaires as individuals of rare talent and genius…

WSWS (2021-11-06). Science summit warns of escalating pandemic disaster. wsws.org The two-day summit consisted of 22 different sessions on the pandemic, including on airborne transmission, inequities in global vaccine distribution, the effects of Long COVID and the development of new variants of SARS-CoV-2.

WSWS (2021-11-06). Reject Howard University's attempts to blame students for cafeteria layoffs! wsws.org The attempt by administrators to blame student protesters for the layoff of school cafeteria workers is a provocative attack on the rights of workers and students alike and must be actively opposed.

WSWS (2021-11-06). Open letter exposes difficult conditions imposed on final year Australian high school students amid pandemic. wsws.org The letter gives voice to the sentiments of students and young people, especially year 12 students, who are being forced to sit major exams as COVID continues to spread, with students being provided no additional support.

WSWS (2021-11-06). Columbia University student workers strike for the second time this year. wsws.org More than 3,000 student workers are back on the picket line, after the UAW sabotaged an earlier strike this spring.

WSWS (2021-11-06). Peru's Castillo wins confidence vote after ordering army into the streets. wsws.org Putting troops in the streets follows a steady lurch to the right by the Peruvian president, a former rural teachers union leader hailed by the pseudo-left as a revival of the "Pink Tide."

WSWS (2021-11-05). Pseudo-left and Labor promote unions, oppose socialist perspective at University of Sydney meeting. wsws.org International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia) and the Committee for Public Education members called for a unified movement of students and staff on an independent socialist perspective.

_____ (2021-11-05). US Peace Prize Awarded To World Beyond War. popularresistance.org Above photo: US Peace Prize. The 2021 US Peace Prize has been awarded to World BEYOND War "for exceptional global advocacy and creative peace education to end war and dismantle the war machine." Michael Knox, Chair of the US Peace Memorial Foundation, thanked World BEYOND War and its members "for years of outstanding and prolific antiwar actions and extensive peace educational projects involving …

G. Dunkel (2021-11-05). Rally demands CUNY budget increases. workers.org The Professional Staff Congress (AFT 2334) represents 25,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York. CUNY is an unusual higher education public institution, since it is funded by both the state and city of New York. A rally called by the PSC at the CUNY Board of . . . |

Geoffrey Jacques (2021-11-05). Things Youngkin didn't mention about the history of education in Virginia. peoplesworld.org The institution of universal public education in Virginia is a product of Reconstruction. It was authorized by the 1870 Constitution, which was written by an 1869 convention in which one-fourth of the delegates were Black, in a state that was, at the time, 40% African American. (Today, Virginia is 19.9% Black.) It's unclear how many …

MEE staff (2021-11-05). UK more than halves donations to UN Palestinian refugee agency. middleeasteye.net UK more than halves donations to UN Palestinian refugee agency | UNRWA boss warns of a total collapse after the funding cuts, which are hitting health and educational services to Palestinian refugees | Fri, 11/05/2021 – 14: 00 | A Palestinian volunteer pushes a trolley of food rations outside an aid distribution centre run by UNRWA at the al-Shati camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City, 2 October 2021 (AFP…

The Canary (2021-11-05). Young people defy education secretary's plea for pupils not to miss school for climate protests. thecanary.co Youth climate protesters have defied the education secreatry's plea to demonstrate at the weekend rather than in school time. | Nadhim Zahawi urged young people not to miss school to protest about climate policies. | His plea came as youth activists are taking to the streets of Glasgow to demand action on climate change from leaders as the COP26 talks continue. | Campaigner Greta Thunberg, fellow activist Vanessa Nakate are among the young campaigners will speak to crowds at the end of the march through the city. | Asked on Times Radio whether he had been invited to join the marches, Zahawi said: No… I have to s…

Ann Brown (2021-11-05). Report: A New Paradigm Is Needed To Achieve Racial Justice And Move Beyond The Failures Of Neoliberalism And Racial Liberalism. moguldom.com Republicans are advocating violence. Democrats are running on policies that are going nowhere. It would seem obvious to most that change is needed. Almost one in three Republicans polled in a recent study from the Public Religion Research Institute agree with this statement, "Because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-11-05). The Covid-19 Timeline. No Evidence of a "Pandemic" globalresearch.ca

rebekah (2021-11-05). The United States of Tax Havens. inequality.org

The Global Research Team (2021-11-05). Protect Our Children Against the COVID Jab, Support the Constitutional Rights of Parents. globalresearch.ca Big Pharma with the support of national governments is waging a Worldwide crusade to enforce the inoculation of our children, despite ample evidence that the Covid-19 experimental "vaccine" is resulting in a wave of injuries and deaths. | Global Research has …

Peter Koenig (2021-11-05). The Global Genome Bank: Total DNA Control of the World Population. globalresearch.ca Image: Rockefeller Center, NYC | To receive Global Research's Daily Newsletter (selected articles), …

Natasha Anderson (2021-11-05). Pfizer Has Secret Government Contracts for COVID Vaccines: Advocacy Group Says Company Puts Profits over Public Health and Reveals Seven of Its Contracts Are Worth $5 Billion. globalresearch.ca

Global Research News (2021-11-05). Selected Articles: An Australian Horror Story. globalresearch.ca By Can you imagin…

C.J. Atkins (2021-11-05). Republicans prepare transphobic offensive for 2022 elections. peoplesworld.org A new record was set in 2021 for the filing of anti-transgender legislation, with more than 110 bills put forward by right-wing lawmakers in at least 37 states. From Hawaii to Alaska, Texas to Maine, Republicans went on a full-court press to target trans people—especially trans female student athletes. Most state legislative sessions have ended, …

Staff (2021-11-05). "Please Open Your Hearts": Kenyan Activist Elizabeth Wathuti Urges Leaders to Act on Climate Crisis. democracynow.org Youth activists are taking to the streets outside the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow to demand world leaders do more to avert a climate catastrophe. The protest is being organized by Fridays for Future, an international movement of students which grew out of Greta Thunberg's climate strike outside the Swedish parliament in 2018. We hear from Elizabeth Wathuti of Kenya. "Over 2 million of my fellow Kenyans are facing climate-related starvation," Wathuti said earlier this week. "The decisions you make here will determine whether the children will have food and water."

WSWS (2021-11-05). Student protest at Howard University over abysmal living conditions enters fourth week. wsws.org Students expressed frustration with the university's leaders, who have refused to address their demands, and instead subjected them to hours of "campus renovation" PowerPoint presentations.

WSWS (2021-11-05). Teachers must form rank-and-file committees to fight Australia's dangerous school reopenings. wsws.org "The unions' modus operandi on school reopenings is to say as little as possible, post nothing on social media about the issue, present COVID safety as a matter for individual schools and teachers and attempt to silence and intimidate opposition."

WSWS (2021-11-05). The way forward for striking Scranton teachers. wsws.org Our committee issues a call-to-action to mobilize the support of the working class behind over 800 striking educators in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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