Monthly Archives: March 2022

2022-03-11: News Headlines

G. Dunkel (2022-03-11). Student-community-labor coalition grows in New York City. workers.org New York City A growing student-community-labor coalition held a large rally March 6 on demands related to New York City educational institutions. After gathering at Brooklyn Borough Hall, participants marched over the Brooklyn Bridge to Foley Square in Manhattan. Brooklyn Borough Hall, March 6 WW Photo: G. Dunkel Key organizers . . . |

Fight Back (2022-03-11). Day two of Minneapolis teachers strike. fightbacknews.org St. Paul, MN – Thousands of striking Minneapolis teachers, education support professionals, along with supporters rallied at the Capitol Building in Saint Paul, March 9. Educators are firm in demanding a decent contract, and state they are ready to stay on strike until their demands are met. There has been widespread support from other trade unions and the community.

Steven Rosenfeld (2022-03-11). Mailed ballots boosted 2020's turnout—will it work in 2022? nationofchange.org New research on the 2020 election confirms that mailed-out ballots boost turnout—especially when there are no bureaucratic hurdles for voters.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-11). COVID-19 mapper reveals symptom variation between countries and health status. imperial.ac.uk Imperial research has unveiled how COVID-19 symptoms varied between country and health condition in 2020 in partnership with symptom mapper Healthily.

WSWS (2022-03-11). US media continues coverup of State Department admission of biological weapons labs in Ukraine. wsws.org For three days, major news outlets in the US have refused to report on the extraordinary acknowledgement by Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland on Tuesday that there are "biological research facilities" in Ukraine.

ecns.cn (2022-03-11). Study reveals why women more prone to Alzheimer's. ecns.cn An international team of researchers has found that follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) may have led to a higher incidence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) among older women, providing a possible treatment target for the disease.

WSWS (2022-03-11). Masking recommendations lifted as COVID-19 continues to ravage Arkansas. wsws.org Despite the continued spread of COVID-19 and an average of 27 deaths per day, mask-wearing recommendations have been lifted in 32 of the 75 counties in the state, where schools have witnessed a particularly sharp increase in COVID-19 cases amongst students and educators.

WSWS (2022-03-11). US educators call for building a mass movement to prevent World War III and end the pandemic. wsws.org Rank-and-file committees of educators, parents and students met across the US last weekend to adopt a resolution opposing the drive to World War III and calling for a mass movement of the working class to stop the pandemic.

Daniel Figueroa (2022-03-11). Oakland communities rally to keep schools open. peoplesworld.org OAKLAND, Calif.—Students, teachers, parents, community members, and local activist leaders are stepping up their struggle to stop school closures and mergers in this city, which are largely affecting Black and Brown students and families. A crowd of nearly 200 rallied at International Blvd. and 66th Ave. on the morning of March 5, on what had …

WSWS (2022-03-11). Australia's state-funded broadcaster pumping out pro-war anti-Russian propaganda. wsws.org ABC's "Media Watch" said nothing about the censorship and removal of a Russian-Australian student from the network's "Q+A" program only four days earlier.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-11). Minister for the Cabinet Office meets cyber security experts at Imperial. imperial.ac.uk Minister for the Cabinet Office, Michael Ellis QC MP, met Imperial academics and students to discuss cybersecurity and resilience.

WSWS (2022-03-11). Striking Minneapolis teachers denounce increased military funding while schools starve: "War fills the capitalists' coffers" wsws.org The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers has already dropped its call for a 20 percent raise in the first year of the contract, bowing before the Democratic Party's demands for austerity as the war drive accelerates.

WSWS (2022-03-11). Chicago-area teachers and staff strike over pay, class sizes. wsws.org After working without a contract since the start of the school year, Proviso Township teachers, just outside Chicago, launch strike action.

Anonymous103 (2022-03-10). Biolabs In Ukraine, A Smoking Gun That White House Dubbed As Fake News. southfront.org Written by Piero Messina | Someone in Washington is telling lies. Is Jen Psaki a liar? The White House spokesperson has branded the existence of chemical and biological research laboratories in Ukraine, also run by the US State Department, as fake news. Jen Psaki, then summoned the press to define the absurd allegations and an obvious ploy to try to justify further future attacks: "We took note of Russia's false claims about alleged US biological weapons laboratories and chemical weapons development in Ukraine. We have also seen Chinese officials echo these conspiracy theories ". | And again: "They are an obvi…

Pavan Kulkarni (2022-03-10). Protests Continue in Sudan; Resistance Committees Release a key Charter. orinocotribune.com By Pavan Kulkarni — Mar 3, 2022 | On February 28, The Khartoum Coordination Of The Resistance Committees Proposed The "Charter For The Establishment Of The People's Authority", Setting Forth A Militant Roadmap To Democracy. | The long-awaited "Charter for the Establishment of the People's Authority" was proposed by the Khartoum Coordination of Resistance Committees (RCs) in Sudan on Monday, February 28. Mass demonstrations against the military coup were reported from at least 14 cities in Sudan on the same day. | The security forces unleashed a violent crackdown against the protests. Two people were killed,…

ILWU Local 10 Presiden Farless Dailey (2022-03-10). What the A's stadium plan will do to Oakland's port, its workers and the CA supply chain. indybay.org Farless Dailey, ILWU Local 10 President in an opinion contribution in the SF Chronicle talks about the privatization of he port of Oakland and it's connection to charters and the privatization of the schools by the billionaire A's and GAP owner John Fisher. He also controls the KIPP and Rocketship charter school chain…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-10). Leading Marxist philosopher and activist Aijaz Ahmad dies at 81. peoplesdispatch.org Leading Marxist philosopher and political commentator Aijaz Ahmad died on Wednesday, March 9, at his home in California, US. He was 81 years old and had been undergoing treatment for some time. He was discharged from hospital a few days before his demise. | Born in 1941 in India, Ahmad's family moved to Pakistan after partition where he completed his education. After completing his Masters in English literature from Lahore, he taught at different universities across the world, including at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and was working with University of California in the US at the time of his death. | A…

Ana Vraƒçar (2022-03-10). 40,000 education workers in Slovenia go on strike. peoplesdispatch.org Forty thousand workers from the education sector in Slovenia went on strike on March 9, after the Ministry of Education failed to act on repeated requests to bring salaries in line with inflation and recognize the contribution of education workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Trade Union of Education, Science and Culture of Slovenia (SVIZ), the strike spread over 652 education institutions, including kindergartens, schools, students' homes, and universities, affecting more than half a million people. | SVIZ has been calling on Simona Kustec, the Minister of Education, to begin collective negotia…

deweylaura (2022-03-10). Let's organize around student debt! cpusa.org While on the campaign trail, Joseph Biden made a lot of promises. One of them was to forgive $10,000 dollars in student debt. His promises paid off big. When election time came around, Biden won roughly 60% of the youth vote. So far, the president has only partially honored his promise. The Education Department …

_____ (2022-03-10). Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has 'Biological Research Facilities'. popularresistance.org Self-anointed "fact-checkers" in the U.S. corporate press have spent two weeks mocking as disinformation and a false conspiracy theory the claim that Ukraine has biological weapons labs, either alone or with U.S. support. They never presented any evidence for their ruling — how could they possibly know? and how could they prove the negative? — but nonetheless they invoked their characteristically authoritative, above-it-all tone of self-assurance and self-arrogated right to decree the truth, definitively labelling such claims false. | Claims that Ukraine currently maintains dangerous biological weapon…

_____ (2022-03-10). Pew Survey: Workers Who Quit A Job In 2021. popularresistance.org The COVID-19 Pandemic Set Off Nearly Unprecedented Churn In The U.S. Labor Market. Widespread Job Losses In The Early Months Of The Pandemic Gave Way To Tight Labor Markets In 2021, Driven In Part By What's Come To Be Known As The Great Resignation. The Nation's "Quit Rate" Reached A 20-Year High Last November. | A New Pew Research Center Survey Finds That Low Pay, A Lack Of Opportunities For Advancement And Feeling Disrespected At Work Are The Top Reasons Why Americans Quit Their Jobs Last Year. The Survey Also Finds That Those Who Quit And Are Now Employed Elsewhere Are More Likely Than Not To Say Their Current…

Edward Curtin (2022-03-10). Let Us Speak of the "Unspeakable" to Prevent its Use: On the Edge of a Nuclear Abyss. globalresearch.ca Two days after Russia attacked Ukraine and the day before Vladimir Putin put Russia on nuclear alert, I wrote a little …

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-10). Imperial awarded £11.3 million for early stage clinical research. imperial.ac.uk Imperial has been awarded £11.3 million by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) to support the delivery of clinical research.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-10). Imperial Lates comes back to South Kensington with mind-bending science. imperial.ac.uk From the wonders of the brain to the science behind sci fi, Imperial Lates will be engaging new visitors with the College's cutting-edge research.

Manlio Dinucci (2022-03-10). How to Destroy Russia. 2019 Rand Corporation Report: "Overextending and Unbalancing Russia" globalresearch.ca Force the adversary to expand recklessly in order to unbalance him, and then destroy him. This is not the description of a judo hold, but a plan against Russia elaborated by the Rand Corporation, the most influential think tank in the USA.

The Global Research Team (2022-03-10). Keep World News Unchained, We Need Your Support. globalresearch.ca Dear Global Research Readers, | As we take stock of our rapidly changing world, it can be easy to get swept along by the fierce tide of disinformation coming from many sources. While we strive for awareness and comprehension in the …

ecns.cn (2022-03-10). Newly discovered species at higher risk of extinction: Australian study. ecns.cn Species that have been discovered recently face a higher risk of extinction than those identified long ago, Australian researchers have found.

Oliver Ressler (2022-03-10). Climate breakdown affects all dimensions of life. zcomm.org Was I an activist by virtue of this activity, or was I rather a sympathetic observer positioned in solidarity with the object of research?>

WSWS (2022-03-10). Six teens charged with first-degree murder after fatal shooting outside Des Moines, Iowa high school. wsws.org The shooting which left one student dead and two others critically wounded Monday is only the latest in a long, bloody string of school shootings in the United States.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-10). Imperial graduation celebrates student achievements during COVID-19 pandemic. imperial.ac.uk Over 2,400 students will receive their undergraduate degrees in three in-person ceremonies taking place at the Royal Albert Hall.

Our Reporter (2022-03-10). The way forward for Busoga University. plusnews.ug By Oscar Rwigyema At present, the University of choice for any Ugandan secondary school student is Makerere University. Whether it is still the best university in Uganda is conjecturable. Over the last few years, other universities have invested in a number of programs to raise their stakes and lay a decent claim on this huge …

ecns.cn (2022-03-10). Chengdu pupils paint wall with colorful designs. ecns.cn Recently, a wall on a back street has been painted with colorful patterns by over 120 teachers and students from a nearby primary school in Chengdu, south China's Sichuan Province.

Chris Walker (2022-03-10). Georgia Republicans Propose Their Own Version of Florida's "Don't Say Gay" Bill. truthout.org Republicans in Georgia have proposed their own version of Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill, days before the deadline to submit new proposals in the legislature. | Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill passed the state Senate this week. If Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signs the bill, it will ban primary school teachers from discussing LGBTQ issues in classrooms, and restrict the ways that gender and sexuality can be discussed in high schools. LGBTQ advocates say that the bill will have disastrous outcomes [mda…

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2022-03-10: News Headlines

Pavan Kulkarni (2022-03-10). Protests Continue in Sudan; Resistance Committees Release a key Charter. orinocotribune.com By Pavan Kulkarni — Mar 3, 2022 | On February 28, The Khartoum Coordination Of The Resistance Committees Proposed The "Charter For The Establishment Of The People's Authority", Setting Forth A Militant Roadmap To Democracy. | The long-awaited "Charter for the Establishment of the People's Authority" was proposed by the Khartoum Coordination of Resistance Committees (RCs) in Sudan on Monday, February 28. Mass demonstrations against the military coup were reported from at least 14 cities in Sudan on the same day. | The security forces unleashed a violent crackdown against the protests. Two people were killed,…

ILWU Local 10 Presiden Farless Dailey (2022-03-10). What the A's stadium plan will do to Oakland's port, its workers and the CA supply chain. indybay.org Farless Dailey, ILWU Local 10 President in an opinion contribution in the SF Chronicle talks about the privatization of he port of Oakland and it's connection to charters and the privatization of the schools by the billionaire A's and GAP owner John Fisher. He also controls the KIPP and Rocketship charter school chain…

deweylaura (2022-03-10). Let's organize around student debt! cpusa.org While on the campaign trail, Joseph Biden made a lot of promises. One of them was to forgive $10,000 dollars in student debt. His promises paid off big. When election time came around, Biden won roughly 60% of the youth vote. So far, the president has only partially honored his promise. The Education Department …

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-10). Imperial awarded £11.3 million for early stage clinical research. imperial.ac.uk Imperial has been awarded £11.3 million by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) to support the delivery of clinical research.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-10). Imperial Lates comes back to South Kensington with mind-bending science. imperial.ac.uk From the wonders of the brain to the science behind sci fi, Imperial Lates will be engaging new visitors with the College's cutting-edge research.

ecns.cn (2022-03-10). Newly discovered species at higher risk of extinction: Australian study. ecns.cn Species that have been discovered recently face a higher risk of extinction than those identified long ago, Australian researchers have found.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-10). Imperial graduation celebrates student achievements during COVID-19 pandemic. imperial.ac.uk Over 2,400 students will receive their undergraduate degrees in three in-person ceremonies taking place at the Royal Albert Hall.

WSWS (2022-03-10). Six teens charged with first-degree murder after fatal shooting outside Des Moines, Iowa high school. wsws.org The shooting which left one student dead and two others critically wounded Monday is only the latest in a long, bloody string of school shootings in the United States.

ecns.cn (2022-03-10). Chengdu pupils paint wall with colorful designs. ecns.cn Recently, a wall on a back street has been painted with colorful patterns by over 120 teachers and students from a nearby primary school in Chengdu, south China's Sichuan Province.

Fight Back (2022-03-09). Minneapolis teachers and education support specialists begin open-ended strike with no deal in sight. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – Teachers and education support professionals in Minneapolis began striking at 7: 30 a.m., March 8, with pickets held at public schools all over the city. | At Lyndale Community School in South Minneapolis spirits were high on the first day of the strike. MFT members said that 100% of the teachers at the school had signed in and were out on their picket line. The line marched back and forth around the two street sides of the school for about an hour before they began moving and the crowd of around 100 people marched over to Lyndale Avenue, a major street in the area. There they proceeded up and do…

Mike Ludwig (2022-03-09). Florida's "Don't Say Gay" Bill Compounds Trauma for LGBTQ Students of Color. truthout.org The Florida State Senate passed legislation dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by critics on Tuesday as part of a broader attack on lessons about LGBTQ identity, sex education, racial justice, and other subjects that are routinely exploited by right-wing media outlets and politicians to galvanize their base. | The legislation, known officially as HB 1557, would ban teachers from discussing sexual and gender identity in all classrooms below the fourth grade and require lessons for older students be "a…

_____ (2022-03-09). Massive Turnout On Day One Of Minneapolis Teachers' Strike. popularresistance.org For the first time in 50 years, Minneapolis public school teachers and educational support professionals (ESPs) went on strike yesterday to demand better wages, smaller class sizes, mental health support for students, and retention of educators of color. The last time Minneapolis teachers went on strike was in 1970 when it was illegal for public employees to strike. | The strike began at seven o'clock in the morning on Tuesday. Teachers, students, parents, and their supporters picketed outside their schools and made speeches. Supporters brought coffee, snacks, and hand warmers. Many of the picketers carried signs…

Monthly Review Editors (2022-03-09). Public Education is Under Attack. zcomm.org Public education is now experiencing a combined assault that in sheer scale, level of organization, and long-term implications is unlike anything seen before in this sphere…

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-03-09). Today's City of Folsom debates if "Negroes" from 1849 have basic human rights today. indybay.org Early California Negro Pioneer Trailblazers are clearly document in the works of Deliah Beasley. Our California State Archives, California State Library and California State Educational System has a plethora of primary source documentation. The question is methodology and process for the 1849, "Negro" without legal standing then or today in some quarters.

Dog Rights (2022-03-09). Research Dogs, War Dogs, Shelter Dogs, Eaten Dogs, Vegan Dogs Etc. indybay.org many areas in which dogs need better protection…

Marzieh Rahmani (2022-03-09). US-funded biolabs in Ukraine producing biological weapons. en.mehrnews.com Moscow officials say Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency has been involved in the operation of more than 30 biological laboratories across Ukraine engaged in the storage of and research into a number of deadly agents.

Saheli Chowdhury (2022-03-09). Restoration of Archaeological Structures Continues in Palmyra, Syria (+Russia). orinocotribune.com Restoration work of the archaeological site in the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, is on going within the framework of a collaboration between Syria and Russia, with the support of UNESCO. The project started in October last year after UNESCO approved the 3-D models of the structures and monuments of the UNESCO World Heritage site that were prepared by experts from the Russian Academy of Sciences. | Palmyra, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, located in the Syrian province of Homs, was taken over by the Islamic State in 2015, which then carried out massacres, and damaged, demolished, or…

WSWS (2022-03-09). Academic boycott of Russia: Science in the service of German war policy. wsws.org Punishing Russian academics and students for a government policy that is rejected by a large proportion of them has no progressive content whatsoever. On the contrary, it is an aggressive act, accompanied by a furious anti-Russia campaign in culture and public life, designed to demonise everything Russian and to put science at the service of foreign and war policy.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-09). German military spending up 36% in 20 years, ‚Ǩ100 billion to be added. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Xinhua News AgencyMarch 9, 2022 German defense spending increases by 36 pct in 20 years Germany's defense expenditure rose by 35.8 percent to 38.7 billion euros (42.6 billion U.S. dollars) between 1991 and 2021, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said on Wednesday. However, total government spending increased four times as fast during this period…. *** …

Catherine Henchek (2022-03-09). Parents speak out against Chicago Public Schools' decision to lift mask mandate. liberationnews.org "Once again it's dollars and cents over people. The pandemic does not go away just because you want it to," said Bridgett White, a parent of two CPS students and a member of Parents 4 Teachers.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-03-09). Large classes, low pay, force Minneapolis teachers to strike. peoplesworld.org MINNEAPOLIS—Low pay for support staff, up to 50 students in a class, and more mental health aid for kids buffeted by racial tensions in the Twin Cities and distance learning due to the coronavirus pandemic forced 4,000 teachers and support staff to strike the Minneapolis Public Schools, starting at 7 am on March 8. The …

WSWS (2022-03-09). Striking Minneapolis teachers express support for united struggle across Twin Cities. wsws.org Picketing teachers on Tuesday described the intolerable conditions in the schools, saying, "This is how the district treats our kids?"

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