2022-02-04: News Headlines

Liberation Staff (2022-02-04). New Hampshire teachers unions fight state censorship of anti-racist education. liberationnews.org A new bill in the New Hampshire state legislature, HB 1255, would all but explicitly ban the mention of indigenous genocide and race-based chattel slavery in New Hampshire class rooms.

WSWS (2022-02-04). Shooting at suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota school leaves one student dead. wsws.org One student was killed and another critically injured Tuesday afternoon when two students shot at their classmates at the entrance of South Education Center in Richfield, Minnesota.

Jonathan Cook (2022-02-04). Is it already too late to say goodbye? dissidentvoice.org It seems we may have reached the moment when it is time to say goodbye. It has been fun, educational and sometimes cathartic — for me at least. I hope you got something from our time together too. I am not going anywhere, of course. Not for now at least. I love to write. For …

Dr. Micheline Ladouceur (2022-02-04). #Freedom Convoy 2022: "Step Down Trudeau" globalresearch.ca The Freedom Convoy 2022 movement is actively involved in Ottawa, the Nation's capital. | Hundreds and hundreds of trucks are lined up in front of Parliament Hill and in the streets of the capital. | Bridges between Ottawa and Gatineau have been …

Liberation Staff (2022-02-04). University of Illinois students walk out to protest Jeff Sessions. liberationnews.org "Jeff Sessions and his class have put our society into crisis," said Reuben, "and we are here to show the community there is an alternative future and it is socialist."

WSWS (2022-02-04). Students and faculty demand remote learning options at University of California campuses. wsws.org The decision by University of California to reopen its 10 campuses amidst the deadly surge of the Omicron variant has prompted mass student opposition demanding remote learning options.

WSWS (2022-02-04). Growing student opposition to reopening of Australian universities amid COVID surge. wsws.org University students have taken to social media to express their concern over the profit-driven campaign to force students back onto campus amid a surge of the pandemic.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-02-04). Imperial named best in Europe for entrepreneurs as startup competition commences. imperial.ac.uk The hunt for the most promising student businesses continues as part of Imperial's Venture Catalyst Challenge (VCC).

WSWS (2022-02-04). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Strikes across France by healthcare, transport and employment agency workers over staff shortages, workload and pay; protests by teachers across Iran against wages and conditions following protests of retirees demanding a rise in pensions; 5,000 South African food workers on indefinite strike against pay and job cuts for eleventh week…

Global Research News (2022-02-03). Selected Articles: Canadian Officials Who Met with Ukrainian Unit Linked to Neo-Nazis Feared Exposure by News Media. globalresearch.ca Dear Readers, | As everyone faces difficult times, the company which deals with the fulfillment of book sales on behalf of Global Research is no longer able to provide its services. We are unfortunately suspending the sale of print books until …

Vijay Prashad (2022-02-03). Make Noise about the Silent Crisis of Global Illiteracy. dissidentvoice.org Amadou Sanogo (Mali), Je pense de ma tête, 2016. In October 2021, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) held a seminar on the pandemic and education systems. Strikingly, 99% of the students in the region spent an entire academic year with total or partial interruption of face-to-face classes, while …

TASS (2022-02-03). Some 150,000 spectators living outside of 'closed loop' to visit Beijing Olympics. tass.com The spectators mainly include foreigners living in mainland China, members of diplomatic missions, marketing partners, local residents, students of primary and secondary schools…

_____ (2022-02-03). State Standards Misteach One Of The United States' Most Important Eras. popularresistance.org Reconstruction has much to teach us about why our society looks the way it does today — and how it might be positively transformed. However, in the first-ever comprehensive review of state standards on Reconstruction, the Zinn Education Project found that most states do a dreadful job defining the era or outlining for educators its crucial themes. Standards mostly erase the role of Black people striving to execute their vision of freedom, instead favoring a top-down emphasis on government and the role of white people. Black people are included in state standards, but more often as objects than subjects. Eve…

_____ (2022-02-03). The Dangerous Trend Of The 'Parents Rights' Movement. popularresistance.org Given the current political divide and his ambitions to be the next Republican presidential candidate it should not be surprising that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said he supports what has been called the "Don't Say Gay" bill going through the state House of Representatives. Not surprising, no, but disgusting, yes. | One notices in "Parental Rights in Education," a portion of the bill reads "A school district may not encourage classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a manner that is not age appropriate…" While the idea of age appropriateness does not…

Suds Snacks, Socialism forum Committee (2022-02-03). Saturday 2/5: Building an Independent campaign to Put the Public in Public Education. indybay.org

WSWS (2022-02-03). Australian Education Union shuts down Victorian work bans as it enforces COVID-hit school reopening. wsws.org As the schools are forced to reopen amid dangerously high levels of COVID-19 infection in the community, the union bureaucracy will do everything within its power to suppress opposition among teachers and school workers.

Ann Brown (2022-02-03). ABC Releases Special On Exonerated Norman 3X Butler: Here's Why Researcher Karl Evanzz Says He Was Part Of A Conspiracy To Kill Malcolm X. moguldom.com The ABC News network is airing a special on Feb. 3, 2022 about one of the two men who was recently exonerated in the murder of civil rights icon Malcolm X after decades of imprisonment. "X/onerated: The Murder of Malcolm X and 55 Years to Justice" will focus on Norman 3X Butler (known as Muhammad …

The Global Research Team (2022-02-03). Global Research Will Pull You Out of the Rabbit Hole of Deception. globalresearch.ca Big Tech in coordination with Big Pharma is categorically zeroing in on dissidents who are critical of the official COVID-19 narrative. | Independent voices are the object of censorship, shadowban and smear campaigns. If these voices get silenced, it will be …

Peter Koenig (2022-02-03). The Coronavirus Vaccine: The Real Danger is "Agenda ID2020". Vaccination as a Platform for "Digital Identity" globalresearch.ca What is the infamous ID2020? It's an electronic ID program that uses generalized vaccination as a platform for digital identity. The program harnesses existing birth registration and vaccination operations to provide newborns with a portable and persistent biometrically-linked digital identity.

Joachim Hagopian (2022-02-03). Reaching Covid-19 "Turning Point of Critical Mass": Is Nuremberg 2 Next? London Metropolitan Police Criminal Investigation. globalresearch.ca Not only is Britain's largest police force actively involved in the probe, the Hammersmith Police alongside the ICC are working together in what's being called the world's largest international crime investigation.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-02-03). The 2020-22 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d'État and the "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca We are at the crossroads of one of the most serious crises in modern history. We are living history, yet our understanding of the flow of events since January 2020 has been blurred. Worldwide, people have been misled both by their governments and the media.

Liz Kimbrough (2022-02-03). Plants face tough climate challenges as seed-dispersing animals decline. nationofchange.org Animals that eat fruit and spread the seeds in their droppings offer an all-inclusive transportation service for half the world's flora. But as more seed-dispersing birds and mammals die off globally, some of these plant species will lose their ability to shift their locations to keep pace with escalating climate change, says new research. "When you …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-02-03). Bombshell Document Dump on Pfizer Vaccine Data. globalresearch.ca What is contained in Pfizer's confidential report is detailed evidence on the impacts of the "vaccine" on mortality and morbidity. This data which emanates from the Horse's Mouth can be used to confront as well formulate legal procedures against Big Pharma, the governments, the WHO and the media.

William Denselow (2022-02-03). NYC mayor declares gun violence a public health crisis. america.cgtn.com New York City's mayor Eric Adams, a former police officer, has released a blueprint to end gun violence. Officials say New York is statistically still the safest big city in the U.S. but shootings have spiked over the past few years. CGTN's William Denselow reports.

Fight Back (2022-02-03). Florida: Students demand justice for Aramark Starbucks workers. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On February 2, around 80 Florida State University (FSU) students, representing FSU Against Aramark, FSU Students for a Democratic Society, FSUDems, and JStreet, marched across campus from Strozier Library to Dirac Library protesting Starbucks working conditions and standing in solidarity with Aramark workers on campus. | Aramark, a multibillion-dollar corporation, is known for consistently underpaying its workers at universities around the country. The protest, spearheaded by FSU Against Aramark, was the culmination of a three-day boycott of all campus Starbucks locations. The essence of this s…

Kerry Cardoza (2022-02-03). "Nobody's Listening": Teachers Raise Alarm Over COVID Testing Delays. truthout.org Though the United States is well into its third school year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest surge still seems to have caught many districts off guard. School systems across the country are reporting some of the highest numbers of positive cases since the pandemic began. | During the first week of classes following the winter break,

Chris Walker (2022-02-03). Lawmaker Wants Teachers Punished for Lessons Contradicting Students' Religion. truthout.org An Oklahoma state lawmaker is proposing a new bill that could levy fines on teachers whose lessons promote positions that are in opposition to a student's religious beliefs. | The bill would allow parents and guardians of students in Oklahoma's public schools to file comp…

WSWS (2022-02-03). Fertilizer plant fire in North Carolina threatens to ignite massive explosion, putting thousands at risk. wsws.org Authorities have called for the evacuation of about 6,000 people, including Wake Forest University students and more than 200 inmates from a nearby prison and urged residents to stay indoors as the fire continues to burn.

WSWS (2022-02-03). Detroit educator denounces unsafe school reopenings. wsws.org In this interview, a Detroit teacher details the daily trauma and long term consequences of face-to-face schooling during a deadly pandemic.

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