(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…
(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.
(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.
(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?"
(2022-03-08). Here Is A Detailed Breakdown Of The $2.7 Billion In Fed Money Given To HBCUs By State. moguldom.com The White House has released a detailed breakdown of the $2.7 billion in funding allocated for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in President Joe Biden's covid-19 stimulus package, the American Rescue Plan. The numbers were released by the U.S. Department of Education on Monday, March 7, showing the funds that were provided by the …
(2022-03-08). Transcript of 'Inflation Today' Webinar with Economists Joseph Stiglitz, Dean Baker, and Jason Furman. cepr.net On March 3, 2022, the Center for Economic and Policy Research convened three leading economists to look at some of the major issues relating to current inflation in the United States. The event can be viewed via the video directly below. A transcript of the event is also available below. Dean Baker is Senior Economist …
(2022-03-08). 'Reckoning' with the Economic Marginalization of Native Americans. inequality.org
(2022-03-08). The Doomsday Project, Deep Events, and the Shrinking of American Democracy. Prof. Peter Dale Scott. globalresearch.ca Militarization, the progressive shrinking of public politics, the rule of law and the requirements of covert U.S. operations abroad.
(2022-03-08). Women's Rights and Social Justice: Julia Ward Howe's 1870 Anti-War Mother's Day Proclamation, A Day of Peace. globalresearch.ca Julia Ward Howe was a humanist who cared about suffering people, a feminist, a social justice activist & suffragette, and it was because of her anti-war commitment that she wrote the famous "Mother's Day Proclamation" 5 years after the Civil War, which resulted in 600,000 dead American soldiers…
(2022-03-08). Since 9-11 America's Insane Foreign Policy — Continued Under Obama — Has Killed a Million and Created ISIS. globalresearch.ca This article was first published in September 2014 following the launching of Obama's bombing campaign against Syria and Iraq. | These are the US-NATO led wars which are upheld by the media as peace-keeping operations. Double standards with regard to the …
(2022-03-08). Women's Day 2022: Women's Rights in Afghanistan, "A Justification for War" globalresearch.ca Remember the deluge of political concern over the subjugation of Afghan women at the time of the October 2001 invasion? The tsunami of documentaries, articles, books on their plight, contributing to the justification of another invasion…
(2022-03-08). From Afghanistan to Syria: Women's Rights, War Propaganda and the CIA. globalresearch.ca Western heads of state, UN officials, military spokespersons will invariably praise the humanitarian dimension of the October 2001 US-NATO led invasion of Afghanistan, which allegedly was to fight religious fundamentalists, help little girls go to school, liberate women subjected to the yoke of the Taliban.
(2022-03-08). Florida To Officially Break With CDC, Recommend No Vaccines For Healthy Children. moguldom.com Driven by a desire to look presidential among a Republican base that hates the idea of all power emanating from Washington, D.C., Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis convened a 90-minute discussion Monday of 10 doctors and researchers who rejected the benefits of coronavirus mitigation such as vaccine mandates, masks and school closures. During the discussion, Florida …
(2022-03-08). Ucraina, era tutto scritto nel piano della Rand Corp. globalresearch.ca Il piano strategico degli Stati uniti contro la Russia è stato elaborato tre anni fa dalla Rand Corporation (il manifesto, Rand Corp: come abbattere la Russia, 21 maggio 2019). La Rand Corporation, il cui quartier generale ha sede a …
(2022-03-08). An interview with Yaneer Bar-Yam on Omicron, BA.2 and the ongoing dangers of the coronavirus pandemic: Part 1. wsws.org Bar-Yam is a co-founder of the World Health Network, a global coalition of scientists and researchers and community groups that have come together to protect individuals and societies from harm caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
(2022-03-08). New degree in economics, finance and data science is first of its kind in the UK. imperial.ac.uk Imperial has launched the UK's first degree to allow students to study economics and finance, combined with data science.
(2022-03-08). PREVIEW: What to Look for in the February Consumer Price Index. cepr.net (The monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) is scheduled for release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday, March 10 at 8: 30 AM Eastern Time.) | Both the overall and core CPI rose by 0.6 percent in January. This brought the year-over-year inflation to 7.5 percent and 6.0 percent in the overall and core CPI, respectively. | While this continued the pattern of high monthly inflation rates, there is a reason for expecting some moderation in February. Most notably, we may finally be seeing vehicle prices beginning to level off and come down. In January, new vehicles prices were flat for the first time since March…
(2022-03-08). 500 Students Walk Out of Florida School in Protest Against "Don't Say Gay" Bill. truthout.org 
On Monday, hundreds of students staged a walkout at a high school in Orange County, Florida, demonstrating against a proposed bill that would limit discussion of LGBTQ issues in schools throughout the state. |
(2022-03-08). Over 600 students at Australian National University test COVID-positive one week after return to campus. wsws.org "Is the 'vibrant on campus experience' worth the health of the #ourANU community? It's only Day 2 of semester! We are not meeting our duty of care for students."
(2022-03-08). Prime Minister of Slovakia meets student tech entrepreneurs at Imperial. imperial.ac.uk The Prime Minister of Slovakia, Eduard Heger, met with Imperial students to discuss entrepreneurship, technology and innovation.
(2022-03-08). Slovakian Prime Minister meets student tech entrepreneurs at Imperial. imperial.ac.uk The Prime Minister of Slovakia, Eduard Heger, met with Imperial students to discuss entrepreneurship, technology and innovation.
(2022-03-08). Kentucky GOP moves to gag teachers and whitewash history. peoplesworld.org 
Kentucky state Sen. Max Wise (R-Campbellsville) evidently figured rubbing a smidgen of whitewash off Senate Bill 138 would convince critics that his legislation isn't really aimed at gagging teachers and whitewashing history. It still is, of course. SB 138, like its companions (House Bills 14, 18, and 487), limits classroom discussion of systemic racism. As such, all …
(2022-03-08). Teachers, AAUP boards approve 'historic affiliation'. peoplesworld.org 
(2022-03-08). Minneapolis educators launch first strike since 1970, as St. Paul teachers union blocks joint walkout. wsws.org The decision to call off one of the two walkouts is a betrayal of educators' desire for a joint struggle and is aimed at weakening the position of teachers in both cities.
