2022-01-16: News Headlines

Peoples Dispatch (2022-01-16). Following historic strike by French educators, government comes to the negotiating table. peoplesdispatch.org Thousands of teachers and education sector staff struck work across France on January 13 against the French government's erratic rules regarding testing at schools. They also sought better safety measures and working conditions…

Norman Solomon (2022-01-16). Ominous History in Real Time: Where We Are Now in the USA. zcomm.org Corporate power constrains just about everything, whether healthcare or education or housing or jobs or measures for responding to the climate emergency. What prevails is the political structure of the economy…

Luis Feliz León (2022-01-16). Striking Columbia-U workers built a more democratic union and won big gains. zcomm.org After striking for 10 weeks, student workers at Columbia University have a tentative agreement that members will vote on, but they also have a stronger, more democratic union.

Eleanor J. Bader (2022-01-16). Right-Wingers Are Pushing to Take Over School Boards in Leadup to Midterms. truthout.org When Sarah Markey ran for the school board in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, in 2018, the area's right wing paid little attention. That changed when she and three other progressive women won seats on the board. Among their first acts was declaring that the school system would not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). They also put a moratorium on school suspensions to address the system's disproportionate impact on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) students and i…

Jon Skolnik (2022-01-16). Thousands of Students Stage Walkouts, Protest In-Person Classes Amid COVID Surge. truthout.org Thousands of U.S. students and teachers are organizing walkouts and work stoppages over their schools' lack of COVID-19 precautions — a development that comes amid an unprecedented upsurge in coronavirus cases as the the Omicron variant tears through the nation. | On Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of New York City school students

WorkWeek (2022-01-16). SEIU Members On Death Of Ludwig Leota,Chicago Teachers/ Zero Covid vs Permanent Covid. indybay.org WorkWeek covers SEIU 1021 Members On Death Of Ludwig Leota, Chicago Teachers & Zero Covid vs Permanent Covid 19, Vermont AFL-CIO On Rise Of Fascism, Journalist Jeremy Portjo's Assault & Argentina General Strike Against A Mining Company.

Hannah Rose (2022-01-15). Before the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Corona Virus "Vaccines". Nuremberg Code, Crimes against humanity, War Crimes and Crimes of Aggression" globalresearch.ca We bring to the attention of Global Research readers, the full text …

Staff (2022-01-15). Obama adviser pleads guilty to stealing $200,000. rt.com A former White House official was accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars to secure a loan on a multi-million-dollar apartment | Seth Andrew, a former adviser to 44th President Barack Obama, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges after stealing $218,000 from a charter school he founded. | The US Department of Justice

WSWS (2022-01-15). Attend Committee for Public Education meeting to fight the deadly reopening of Australia's schools amid COVID surge. wsws.org Rank-and-file safety committees need to be formed in every school, independent of the unions, to organise the widest discussion on the necessary steps going forward to take up the fight for remote learning, as part of a global fight for the elimination of the virus.

Rhythmix Cultural Works (2022-01-15). Saturday 2/26: Words That Made the Difference: Brown vs the Board of Education, A play written and direct. indybay.org Rhythmix Cultural Works | 2513 Blanding Ave | Alameda, CA…

Brett Wilkins (2022-01-15). After Navient forgives $1.7B, Progressive say cancel all student debt. nationofchange.org "All student loans are predatory because no one should have to go into debt to get an education."

sputniknews (2022-01-15). Imran Khan's Party Accused of Neglecting Pakistani Region Bordering Afghanistan. sputniknews.com For months, Pakistani PM Imran Khan's government has been battling criticism from all quarters. While thousands of students protested in October on the issue of rising educational costs, the opposition has been on the offensive over the state of the nation's economy. But Khan appears to have found a new enemy in the form of his own party now.

James Baratta (2022-01-15). Activists Are Challenging Laws That Enable Vulture Funds to Exploit Global South. zcomm.org Solidarity, education and direct action are needed to mount pressure on lawmakers to establish a multinational framework that either improves upon or goes beyond the prevailing contractual approach…

WSWS (2022-01-15). Attend Committee for Public Education meeting to fight the deadly reopening of Australia's schools amid COVID surge. wsws.org Rank-and-file safety committees need to be formed in every school, independent of the unions, to organise the widest discussion on the necessary steps going forward to take up the fight for remote learning, as part of a global fight for the elimination of the virus.

Dr. Roxana Bruno (2022-01-15). 57 Top Scientists and Doctors Release Shocking Study on COVID Vaccines and Demand Immediate Stop to All Vaccinations. globalresearch.ca Important article first published …

Staff (2022-01-15). Forgetting is form of learning — study. rt.com Not remembering certain things may be a beneficial, functional feature of the brain | Denying us access to certain cells in the brain that store memories might be a practical feature of the human organism that helps us upgrade decision-making abilities, new research suggests. | Not being able to recall specific memories in certain environmental conditions does not indicate decay of the brain, but rather shows it's developing to promote learning and flexible behavior, according to a theory put forward by a team of international scientists. | To better interact with the changing world, the brain switches parts i…

Press For Truth (2022-01-15). 33 Million Canadian Devices Monitored, 87% of Canadians Movements Spied On. This is Covid 19, (1984)? globalresearch.ca On Parliament Hill, John Brassard, the Conservative critic for ethics and accountable government discussed the Public Health Agency of Canada's decision to collect data from millions of mobile devices to understand travel patterns during the COVID-19(84) pandemic. | This is being …

Michael Welch (2022-01-15). Count-Down to Apocalypse: Are the US and Russia Finally on Course toward World War III? globalresearch.ca

Dr. Pascal Sacré (2022-01-15). The COVID-19 RT-PCR Test: How to Mislead All Humanity. Using a "Test" To Lock Down Society. globalresearch.ca The misuse of the RT-PCR technique is used as an intentional strategy by some governments, supported by scientific safety councils and by the dominant media, to justify the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, the destruction of the economy with the bankruptcy of entire active sectors of society,…

John C. A. Manley (2022-01-15). Twenty Reasons Mandatory Face Masks are Unsafe, Ineffective and Immoral. globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on January 23, 2021 | Nine Potential and Proven Dangers to Muzzling Yourself: | 1. Cavities: New York dentists are reporting that half their patients are suffering decaying teeth, receding gum lines and seriously sour breath from …

Staff (2022-01-15). Study reveals first recorded animal hybrids. rt.com Kungas were created in ancient Mesopotamia by breeding domestic donkeys with Syrian wild asses | Donkey-ass hybrids pulled Mesopotamian battle wagons more than half a millennium before horses were bred for the same task, a new scientific report has revealed. | The research published in

Doctors for COVID Ethics (2022-01-15). J'Accuse! The Gene-based "Vaccines" Are Killing People. Governments Worldwide Are Lying to You the People, to the Populations They Purportedly Serve. globalresearch.ca The Signal of Harm is now indisputably overwhelming, and, in line with universally accepted ethical standards for clinical trials, Doctors for Covid Ethics demands that the 'Covid' vaccine programme be halted immediately.

Richard Horton (2022-01-15). [Comment] Offline: The incontestable moral value of health. thelancet.com In March, 2020, chief science advisers from 12 countries, including the US, the UK, and Germany, issued a call to scholarly publishers "to voluntarily agree to make their COVID-19 and coronavirus-related publications, and the available data supporting them, immediately accessible in PubMed Central and other appropriate public repositories." That same month, over 30 publishers, including The Lancet, signed up to this request. The call reflected the urgency of the pandemic and "the associated global health crisis." We have made all of our coronavirus-related content freely available through a COVID-19 Resource Cent…

Fight Back (2022-01-15). Inflation hits a 40-year high as record corporate profits roll on. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On Wednesday, January 12 the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that prices of consumer goods rose 7% in 2021. This is the highest rate of inflation in 40 years. With workers' wages only up by 4.7% last year, the purchasing power of workers' earnings fell by more than 2%. | One important cause of higher prices was the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. While spending on services, which involve more human contact and a greater possibility of infection lagged, spending on goods surged. This was the case for used cars, where prices went up 37.3% last year, as travel on mass transit decli…

WSWS (2022-01-15). Students and teachers in Oakland, California, speak on planned strike against unsafe schools. wsws.org High school students in Oakland are threatening to strike if school is not taken online or conditions made safer.

WSWS (2022-01-15). Seattle students and teachers stage walkouts over lack of COVID-19 safety protocols in schools. wsws.org As infections rise throughout Seattle and Washington state, students and teachers have initiated sickouts at two high schools in defiance of the local, state and federal governments' policy of mass infection and death.

WSWS (2022-01-15). German student Yasmin's protest against unsafe in-person teaching sparks wave of solidarity. wsws.org The case of 13-year-old Yasmin from North Rhine-Westphalia shows the growing opposition to government pandemic policies.

WSWS (2022-01-15). German student Yasmin's protest against unsafe in-person teaching sparks wave of solidarity. wsws.org The case of 13-year-old Yasmin from North Rhine-Westphalia shows the growing opposition to government pandemic policies.

WSWS (2022-01-15). Thousands of Chicago students walk out to protest unsafe return to schools. wsws.org Thousands of Chicago students walked out across more than 30 schools to protest the unsafe return to classrooms enforced by Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

WSWS (2022-01-15). Hundreds of Boston students walk out to protest lack of remote learning option amid COVID-19 surge. wsws.org Hundreds of Boston public school students walked out of classes Friday morning to protest the state of Massachusetts' policy that all classes must be held in person. The lack of a remote option for students comes as the state sees a dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.

WSWS (2022-01-15). Hundreds of Boston students walk out to protest lack of remote learning option amid COVID-19 surge. wsws.org Hundreds of Boston public school students walked out of classes Friday morning to protest the state of Massachusetts' policy that all classes must be held in person. The lack of a remote option for students comes as the state sees a dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.

WSWS (2022-01-15). Thousands of Chicago students walk out to protest unsafe return to schools. wsws.org Thousands of Chicago students walked out across more than 30 schools to protest the unsafe return to classrooms enforced by Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

WSWS (2022-01-15). Students and teachers in Oakland, California, speak on planned strike against unsafe schools. wsws.org High school students in Oakland are threatening to strike if school is not taken online or conditions made safer.

WSWS (2022-01-15). Seattle students and teachers stage walkouts over lack of COVID-19 safety protocols in schools. wsws.org As infections rise throughout Seattle and Washington state, students and teachers have initiated sickouts at two high schools in defiance of the local, state and federal governments' policy of mass infection and death.

WSWS (2022-01-15). Baton Rouge, Louisiana teachers stage sickout as COVID-19 ravages the South. wsws.org At least 760 teachers and school staff in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, called out sick Wednesday to protest the alarming spread of COVID-19 and the district's refusal to offer virtual learning.

WSWS (2022-01-15). Baton Rouge, Louisiana teachers stage sickout as COVID-19 ravages the South. wsws.org At least 760 teachers and school staff in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, called out sick Wednesday to protest the alarming spread of COVID-19 and the district's refusal to offer virtual learning.

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