2022-03-21: News Headlines

WorkWeek (2022-03-21). WorkWeek: UESF Teachers Occupy For Back Pay, Covid, Griffin Charter & CNNC Union Busting. indybay.org WorkWeek covers SF UESF Teachers Occupation For Back Pay & Covid Capitalism, Giffin MIT Charter School Teachers Fighting Corruption & Chinese Union Busting at CNNC In Namibia…

WSWS (2022-03-21). University of Michigan social work students strike to win pay for internships. wsws.org Matt Dargay, one of the organizers of the Payment for Placement movement at the University of Michigan, spoke with the World Socialist Web Site about Monday's demonstration and the demands of the P4P organization.

WSWS (2022-03-21). Why teachers should oppose the Minneapolis Public Schools-MFT "Educators of Color" memorandum. wsws.org The "Educators of Color" MOA and related proposals have absolutely nothing to do with a struggle against racism or for social justice, whatever the MFT and the proponents of the MOA may think.

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-03-20). BREAKING: Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah is dead. plusnews.ug The Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah is dead, confirms President Yoweri Museveni. Oulanyah has been receiving specialised treatment at a Seattle based hospital where he was rushed on February 3, 2022 aboard a chartered Uganda Airlines' Airbus A330-800 neo. "Countrymen and Countrywomen.It is with a lot of sadness that I announce the death of the …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-03-20). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: New cases of COVID-19 continue downward trend. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org New cases of COVID-19 are down 90% from the peak, with under 75,000 new cases reported last week across the U.S. "What we're observing is a pretty dramatic suppression of cases," explains Dr. Gregory Poland, head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "This is good news, but we need to be cautious." Dr. Poland warns that there are still people who are vulnerable to COVID-19 infection, including people who are immunocompromised; children under 5 who cannot yet be…

Linda Evans (2022-03-20). "Prisons are Big Business": The Prison-Industrial Complex and the Global Economy. globalresearch.ca Editor's Note: From our archives. This was one of the first articles published by Global Research on October 18, 2001 Over 1.8 million people are currently behind bars in the United States. This represents the highest per capita …

Felicity Arbuthnot (2022-03-20). The Nightmare: The Iraq Invasion's Atrocities, Unearthing the Unthinkable. globalresearch.ca They promised that the invasion of Iraq would be without a bloodbath…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-03-20). Mayo Clinic researchers recommend investments in vaccine safety in Nature commentary. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The leaders of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group are emphasizing the need for increased long-term study of vaccines and their mechanisms with future safety of patients in mind. Gregory Poland, M.D., and Richard Kennedy, Ph.D., write in their commentary in the scientific journal Nature Reviews Immunology that greater focus on understanding vaccines' downstream effects, not only on immunity but also on all the other biological systems will provide information that can help make vaccines safer…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-03-20). US Never Ending Wars: Thirty-one Years Ago, America's "First War" against Iraq. globalresearch.ca The War on Iraq was launched 19 years ago on March 20, 2003. (Baghdad time) | The US-NATO led invasion of Iraq started on 20 March 2003 on the pretext that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). | The 1991 Gulf …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-03-20). Video: Covid-19: Engineered Destruction of Civil Society: Prof Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca Destabilizing the social, political and economic structure of 190 sovereign countries cannot constitute a "solution" to combating the virus. But that was the imposed "solution" which was implemented in several stages from the very outset of the corona crisis in …

Fidel Castro Ruz (2022-03-20). 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.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-03-20). Science Saturday: Mayo Clinic develops automated system to accelerate diagnoses for patients with rare diseases. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic researchers are working to accelerate the diagnoses of rare diseases and renew hope for patients whose symptoms have defied an explanation ‚Äï‚ÄØsometimes for years or even decades.‚ÄØ The team of genomics experts has developed an automated system called RENEW for tracking new scientific knowledge from around the world of pathogenic genetic variants and applying it to Mayo Clinic patients with rare and undiagnosed diseases. RENEW stands for reanalysis of negative whole-exome/genome data. "We're…

ecns.cn (2022-03-20). China greenlights three sci-tech innovation IPOs. ecns.cn China's securities regulator has approved the initial public offerings (IPOs) of three companies on the science and technology innovation board."ÄÄ"ÄÄFortior Technology Co., Ltd., Suzhou Delphi Laser Co., Ltd. and CellWise Microelectronics Co., Ltd.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-03-20). Science Saturday: Big data helps in understanding asthma biologic use, outcomes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 25 million Americans have asthma, and that number is increasing every year. In the last 10 years, a number of new medications have become available. Collectively referred to as 'biologics,' these therapies are made to target very specific parts of the body and its immune system. Although they each have different targets, they all are designed to prevent the inflammation that leads to asthma exacerbation. However, it appears…

Newsclick (2022-03-20). Vaccines don't block transmissions but reduce hospitalization & deaths. peoplesdispatch.org Immunologist Dr. Satyajit Rath and NewsClick's Prabir Purkayastha looks at the rising cases in Europe and South-East Asia, as well as wider topics of science, technology and health…

Our Reporter (2022-03-20). Makerere University Special Needs Students Equipped With Technical Skills. plusnews.ug Makerere university students with disabilities, through a mentorship training organized by the Ministry of PWD's were equipped with life practical skills to enable them start up projects that will help them survive. The training that began on Saturday 5th March, 2022 and ended on Saturday 19th March, 2022 leaving the lives of these students transformed. …

Marzieh Rahmani (2022-03-20). VIDEO: US Police puts knee on 12-year-old student's neck. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 20 (MNA) — School officials in Kenosha, Wisconsin, released surveillance footage that shows an American police officer putting his knee on a 12-year-old girl's neck to restrain her amid a lunchtime fight.

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