Daily Archives: December 8, 2021

2021-12-08: News Headlines

Staff (2021-12-08). Striking Columbia Student Workers Demand Living Wage as School's Endowment Grows to $14 Billion. democracynow.org In the largest strike happening right now in the United States, 3,000 student workers at New York City's Columbia University are on their fifth week of strike. Today the student workers are calling on others to help them shut down the university. Striking student worker, Johannah King-Slutzky, accuses Columbia's administration of an "illegal form of retaliation" for threatening to replace the striking student workers who do not return to work by Friday. On Monday, many Columbia faculty members walked out of their classes in a show of solidarity. "Graduate student labor is the invisible labor of the university," s…

Michelle Begue (2021-12-08). Colombian company tries to solve the digital gap problem. america.cgtn.com With the world's rapid technological advancement, the deficits in education, especially in developing nations, will only get bigger and put future generations at greater socio-economic risk. One company is trying to help bridge the gap in Colombia. Find out more.

rebekah (2021-12-08). A Strong Economic Case for Federal Investment in Universal Preschool. inequality.org

Fidel Castro Ruz (2021-12-08). Fidel Castro's Message against Nuclear War: "In a Nuclear War the 'Collateral Damage' would be the Life of All Humanity." globalresearch.ca A forceful message calling for World peace and the survival of humankind.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-08). Understanding Germany's 'traffic light' coalition. peoplesdispatch.org Germany's new coalition government is set to be voted in today. Pawel Wargan, organizer, researcher, and coordinator of the International Secretariat of the Progressive International, speaks on the contradictions of the coalition…

The Global Research Team (2021-12-08). This Holiday Season, Be Our Santa! Support Global Research. globalresearch.ca We are into the second year of this whole COVID-19 pandemic and instead of normalcy, "democratic governments" are sleep-walking into tyranny. People are stripped of their rights and freedoms. Those who resist the globalist agenda of mass vaccination suffer from …

imperial.ac.uk (2021-12-08). Firms need to tackle biases to drive research and development. imperial.ac.uk Businesses can make better choices about which R&D projects gain funding by managing bias and involving more people, according to new research.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-12-08). Video: Covid-19: Economic and Social Chaos. globalresearch.ca V the Virus" is said to be responsible for the wave of bankruptcies and unemployment. That's a lie. There is no causal relationship between the (microscopic) SARS-2 virus and economic variables. | It's the powerful financiers and billionaires who are behind …

imperial.ac.uk (2021-12-08). Rare Jurassic fossil reveals never-before-seen ammonite muscles in 3D. imperial.ac.uk For the first time, researchers have revealed the soft tissues of a 165-million-year-old ammonite fossil using 3D imaging.

The Canary (2021-12-08). Omicron R-rate could be three times higher than current infection rate. thecanary.co The R-rate for the Omicron coronavirus (Covid-19) variant could be as high as 3.47, preliminary research suggests. The 'R-rate' High R: | Professor Alastair Grant, from the University of East Anglia, has predicted the reproduction rate of the new variant based on figures from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). He said the high figure for Omicron is due to "a mixture of it being good at transmitting itself and being a partial vaccine escape". A…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-12-08). "Collective Narcissism" and the "Dark Triad": Those Who Protest against the "Official" Covid-19 Narrative are Categorized as "Psychopaths". Is It A Witch Hunt? globalresearch.ca Note: | First published on August 26, 2020. Author's …

Sarah Anderson (2021-12-08). After a Year-Long Strike, Indian Farmers Score a Big Win. inequality.org

imperial.ac.uk (2021-12-08). Boundary-pushing research projects boosted by President's Excellence Fund. imperial.ac.uk Projects making nanomagnetic computers, sustainable packaging, improved vaccine carriers, and cut-and-paste chemistry have won up to £250k each.

WSWS (2021-12-08). As Massachusetts COVID-19 cases rise sharply, public school infections at record high. wsws.org The case of one Boston public school, where 46 cases of COVID-19 were found across multiple grade levels, exposes the dangerous, anti-science approach taken by state officials to rising COVID-19 infection rates among students and staff.

Matt Kennard (2021-12-08). Assange Judge is 40-Year 'Good Friend' of Minister who Orchestrated his Arrest. orinocotribune.com By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis — Dec 2, 2021 | Julian Assange's fate lies in the hands of an appeal judge who is a close friend of Sir Alan Duncan — the former foreign minister who called Assange a "miserable little worm" in parliament. | Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett, the judge that will soon decide Julian Assange's fate, is a close personal friend of Sir Alan Duncan, who as foreign minister arranged Assange's eviction from the Ecuadorian embassy. | The two have known each other since their student days at Oxford in the 1970s, when Duncan called Burnett "the Judge". Burnett and his wife attended Dunc…

WSWS (2021-12-08). Sri Lankan educators defend Lisa Diaz. wsws.org The Teachers-Students-Parents Safety Committee (TSPSC) in Sri Lanka condemns the threatening of Lisa Diaz in Britain with prosecution and the Family Court over her daughter's school attendance. These actions must be denounced by parents, teachers and students all over the world as they are a major attack on fundamental democratic rights and the basic parental instinct to protect one's children.

WSWS (2021-12-08). Detroit teachers organize sickouts to demand school safety and Covid protections. wsws.org Teachers and support staff at The School at Marygrove have been conducting a sickout since Monday to demand improved health and safety after the recent school shooting in Oxford, Michigan and the explosion of Covid cases in the state.

WSWS (2021-12-08). Australia: NSW teachers hold first strike in ten years. wsws.org One teacher said: "I don't know why they have proceeded with the full reopenings. I think it has just been to get people back into work and kids back to schools for child-minding. We can't properly teach."

WSWS (2021-12-08). COVID-19 spreads through New Zealand schools and childcare centres. wsws.org More than 145 schools and early childcare centres in New Zealand have reported COVID-19 cases since August, and a new survey shows half of preschool teachers do not feel safe at work.

Shagul Othman (2021-12-07). Understanding the student protests in Iraqi Kurdistan. zcomm.org Countless student protesters took to the streets of Iraqi Kurdistan to demand better living conditions and denounce political corruption among the ruling elites…

Jeff Bryant (2021-12-07). How community schools are helping a hard-hit city dig out of tough times. nationofchange.org Rocked by vanishing industries and charter school expansions, Erie public schools are fighting back with a "transformative" education approach.

Staff (2021-12-07). Most children's classic books are 'sexist' & 'racist' — study. rt.com The majority of popular children's books should be removed from shelves, as they are "outdated," "sexist," "racist," and written from a "white male" perspective, a new study suggests. | "The world represented in children's books reflects predominantly middle class, heterosexual, male heroes and characters," reads the report of Dr Helen Adam and Laurie Harper from Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. | According to the research, published recently in The Australian Educational Researcher, 90% of the books read in Australian and US day-care centers "promoted traditional, binary and stereotypical viewpoin…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-07). Abya Yala Soberana: Expression of the Popular Sector. libya360.wordpress.com Ollantay Itzamná Moment of the spiritual invocation. International Encounter Abya Yala Sovereign Abya Yala from the Social Movements It was clear that the plurinational State is not enough, it is also necessary to transform the cultural imaginary of the citizens through educational processes that aim to create a conscious subject, capable of fighting for the…

The Canary (2021-12-07). Education watchdog says nearly all children have fallen behind with education during pandemic. thecanary.co Nearly all children in England have fallen behind in their education and suffered as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills ( Chief inspector Amanda Spielman warned that many of the youngest children's progress and development "faltered" amid the pandemic, with some regressing in basic language…

Shriya Singh (2021-12-07). Solidarity march shows rising strength of student movement in Pakistan. peoplesdispatch.org The annual Student Solidarity March, which was held on November 26, sought the withdrawal of the ban against student unions, as well as the reversal of fee hikes and an increase in the education budget…

Yasmine Sherif (2021-12-07). Education Must Come First in Cameroon: Yasmine Sherif calls for an end to attacks on schools. moderndiplomacy.eu The future of humanity hangs in the balance. Acute threats of conflict, COVID-19, climate change, poverty, displacement, hunger and other factors are pushing millions more people — with children the most vulnerable and hardest hit — to the edge in humanitarian crises around the world. We can save humanity from these vast interconnected crises, including …

Staff (2021-12-07). Pentagon to tell commercial firms how to tailor products for military use. rt.com The Pentagon wants to get involved with the design of new civilian products, instructing commercial firms how to meet the military's demands, so that the final result can land on DoD procurement lists. | The new approach was touted by Heidi Shyu, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, during a panel In "a lot of these commercial companies, their product is commercial. But if we can work with them upfront early in the design stage, we can leverage their capability for a commercial product in…

Staff (2021-12-07). Biden Restarts & Expands Trump-Era "Remain in Mexico" Policy Despite Widespread Abuse, Kidnappings. democracynow.org In a controversial move, the Biden administration has resumed and expanded the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" policy that forces non-Mexican asylum-seekers who arrive at the southern U.S. border to wait in Mexico while their cases are resolved in U.S. courts — a process that can take months or even years. We speak with Kennji Kizuka, associate director of research and analysis for refugee protection at Human Rights First, who documented how this puts asylum seekers in grave danger.

Manlio Dinucci (2021-12-07). La tragica farsa del Summit per la democrazia. globalresearch.ca Il 9-10 dicembre il Presidente Biden ospiterà il ´Summit per la Democrazia ª che riunirà , in collegamento mondiale online, ´leader di governo, società civile e settore privato ª. | La lista degli invitati comprende 111 paesi. Tra questi 28 dei 30 membri della …

Staff (2021-12-07). Professor investigated for criticizing 'pathetic' students. rt.com A British university professor is under investigation after he called a student walkout, which was staged over a guest speaker's allegedly racist and transphobic address, "pathetic." | Professor Tim Luckhurst, who heads Durham University's South College, made the remark when the students walked out during the controversial speech by right-wing journalist Rod Liddle on Friday. He also reportedly shouted "at South College, we value freedom of speech!" | Liddle, who works for The Spectator magazine, had accused the political left of ignoring science when it came to transgender issues. According to The Telegraph,…

Isheka N. Harrison (2021-12-07). Fact Check: Homeschooled Black Children Score Much Better On Standardized Tests. moguldom.com Black children that are homeschooled score significantly higher than their public school counterparts on standardized tests, a study shows. "Black homeschool students score 23-42 percentile points above Black public school students across all standardized tests," Classic Learning Test CEO Jeremy Tate tweeted on Dec. 4. "No wonder homeschooling among Black families has grown faster than …

WSWS (2021-12-07). Columbia student workers: Expand the strike and oppose UAW sabotage! wsws.org In order to counter the United Auto Workers' attempts to shut down and sell out their strike, it is imperative that Columbia students draw the correct lessons from the ongoing and past struggles.

Diego Sanchez (2021-12-07). Three days of student protests expose sexual assault, bullying at LA County high school. liberationnews.org More than a month since a protest against anti-LGBTQ bullying, Hacienda La Puente Unified School District (HLPUSD) has shown again their lack of protection for students' well-being in schools.

Jim McIlroy (2021-12-07). NSW teachers strike, rally against staff shortages. greenleft.org.au Tens of thousands of teachers went on strike across New South Wales against staff shortages and for sustainable workloads and better wages. Jim McIlroy reports.

WSWS (2021-12-07). The Omicron COVID-19 variant and the reckless endangerment of children. wsws.org Despite the deepening wave of infections, hospitalizations and deaths among children, which Omicron threatens to intensify, the entire political establishment, corporate media and the teachers unions insist that schools must stay open.

Tom H. Hastings (2021-12-07). Critical race—to the bottom. nationofchange.org Let teaching our children be based on our efforts to help educate future leaders who are both sensitive and pragmatic.

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