Daily Archives: June 16, 2022

2022-06-16: News Headlines

Margaret Kimberley (2022-06-16). The problem with Juneteenth. mronline.org Juneteenth was a people's holiday with deep meaning for the descendants of enslaved people. But the declaration of an official federal holiday has turned it into an opportunity for corporate exploiters and cynical politicians to show pretend concern for Black people. At best Juneteenth provides a history lesson and an opportunity for much needed political education.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-16). Updated Mayo Clinic recommendations for infant formula shortage. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there have been significant shortages of infant formulas in some stores, largely caused by supply chain issues, as well as a recent recall of several contaminated baby formula products. While this unfortunate crisis continues to impact thousands of caregivers needing to feed their babies, Mayo Clinic continues to offer advice on safe alternatives in the short term to patients. Alternative formula options For most infants, it is OK to switch…

SAM (2022-06-16). The Climate Case for Taxing Wealth. inequality.org

Mark Gruenberg (2022-06-16). Union leaders talk with White House on protecting abortion access. peoplesworld.org PHILADELPHIA (PAI)—With a Supreme Court ruling looming abolishing the 49-year-old right to abortion, prominent unionists recently discussed with a top White House aide on how to protect women's access once the Republican-named Supreme Court majority yanks the right. Representatives of the United Teachers of Dade (AFT), the Michigan Education Association, Service Employees 1199, National Nurses …

____ (2022-06-16). Israeli, U.S. researchers develop genetic treatment for HIV by injection. ecns.cn Israeli and U.S. researchers have developed an injection therapy for HIV, using genetic engineering of antibodies inside the body, Tel Aviv University (TAU) said Monday.

____ (2022-06-16). Chinese brands build up strength amid headwinds from COVID-19. ecns.cn Chinese brands have built up strength despite the challenges brought about by COVID-19, according to a report released by the international market research firm Kantar on Wednesday.

____ (2022-06-16). China welcomes overseas investment in R&D: ministry. ecns.cn China welcomes foreign companies to ramp up spending on research and development (R&D) and set up R&D centers in the country, Shu Jueting, spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, said Thursday.

____ (2022-06-16). China to recruit 67,000 rural teachers this year. ecns.cn China plans to recruit 67,000 teachers for compulsory education in rural areas in 2022, the Ministry of Education said Thursday.

David Giesen (2022-06-16). Sunday 7/3: Fulfilling the Promise of America, a symposium. indybay.org ZOOM video meet: | zoom.us/j/94131824284?pwd=RzI0ZEY1eEkrbk…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-16). Mayo Clinic Cancer Center Patients, Executive Director Highlighted in American Association for Cancer Research Cancer Disparities Progress Report. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — The American Association for Cancer Research today released its Cancer Disparities Progress Report 2022. The publication aims to raise awareness of the enormous toll that cancer exacts on racial and ethnic minorities and other diverse and medically underserved populations in the United States while highlighting areas of recent progress in reducing cancer health disparities. The report also provides specific recommendations for achieving health equity, a fundamental human right for all people regardless…

United We Dream (2022-06-16). Wednesday 6/15: DACA Décimo Aniversario – °Antes, Ahora y Más Allá! Celebración y Reuinon para la Acción. indybay.org Virtual celebration & action rally…

United We Dream (2022-06-16). Wednesday 6/15: DACA Tenth Anniversary: Then, Now and Beyond! Celebration & Action Rally. indybay.org Virtual celebration & action rally…

WSWS (2022-06-16). Australia: NSW Teachers Federation complains of no government concessions, after its Term Two strike ban. wsws.org The union bureaucrats want the state Liberal government to come to the "negotiating table" in order to devise yet another sellout industrial agreement.

LEPAIO (2022-06-16). The Israeli Histadrut, The AFL-CIO, Zionism & Labor Imperialism With Carol Lang. indybay.org The role of the Israeli Histadrut and the AFL-CIO was the focus of a presentation by CUNY professor Carol Lang. She spoke at a conference of the Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations. The AFL-CIO is tied to the racist Israeli Histadrut and has blocked solidarity resolutions for Palestinian people and workers. | AFL-CIO president Liz Schuler and AFT president Randi Weingarten also met with the leadership of the Israeli Labor Party which is in the Israeli government and supported the murder of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The Israeli minister of Interior is a member of th…

WSWS (2022-06-16). Governments across Canada massively undercount COVID-19 deaths. wsws.org Data compiled by infectious disease researcher Dr. Tara Moriarty at the University of Toronto shows that total excess deaths from February 2020 to April 2022 reached 48,463, which is 15 percent higher than the official figure.

La Peña (2022-06-16). Friday 6/17: Baila Community Dance Party. indybay.org La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-16). Study finds few COVID-19 patients get rebound symptoms after Paxlovid treatment. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers studied the outcomes of 483 high-risk patients treated for COVID-19 with a five-day oral regimen of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir, together marketed as Paxlovid. Only a handful developed COVID-19 rebound symptoms, and the researchers say more studies are needed to determine why. Overall, the treatment benefited everyone in the study. All recovered, including the patients who developed rebound symptoms, which were generally mild. The findings appear in the journal Clinical…

____ (2022-06-16). New careers released by ministry. ecns.cn Eighteen new professions including robotics engineering technician, family education mentor and homestay steward were released on Tuesday, followed by a weeklong campaign soliciting opinions about them from the public until Monday before their official recognition.

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-06-16). Wednesday 6/15: Labor History: A key to unlocking workers' power today. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/FSFD-Labor

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-06-16). 2022 California Juneteenth – National Freedom Day. indybay.org In the coming years over 100 California cities with @100,000+ residents will begin to discover our unique California Juneteenth Legacy, helping manifest equity and greater inclusion throughout the 5th largest economy in the world. Today, "Mining for Freedom" or the authentic "Golden Legacy" of our California USCT who fought, bleed and died for freedom is a fierce debate impacting future generation.

_____ (2022-06-15). The 'Divisive' Ban Whitewashing Virginia's Classrooms. popularresistance.org There's a recent painting that sums up what's happening to public education in Virginia: A white man, white paint roller in hand, is covering up Black historical figures—Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X—their bodies whitewashed, faces stoic. | The piece by Detroit artist Jonathan Harris, titled "Critical Race Theory," stuck with Cassandra Newby-Alexander, a professor at Norfolk State University, a Historically Black University, since she first saw it online. | Newby-Alexander is the former co-chair of the African American History Education Commission (AAHEC), a group of educators and…

Splcenter (2022-06-15). Gun Control in Education: New law requiring armed officers in Florida schools only puts more lives at risk. splcenter.org

____ (2022-06-15). China's industrial output picks up 0.7 pct in May. ecns.cn China's value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, went up 0.7 percent year on year in May, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday.

____ (2022-06-15). China's property investment down 4 pct in January-May. ecns.cn China's investment in property development went down 4 percent year on year in the first five months of 2022, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday.

Kari Polanyi Levitt (2022-06-15). Prof. Kari Polyani Levitt: Regaining Canada's Sovereignty: June 14, 2022 We Celebrate Kari's 99th Birthday. globalresearch.ca On June 14, 2022. Friends and family met up in Montreal to celebrate Kari Polyani Levitt's 99th birthday. | While Kari's health is fragile, she remains firm in her incisive understanding and analysis of World events, committed to national sovereignty and …

Mark Gruenberg (2022-06-15). Teachers union leader Ingram: Conservatives play a long game; progressives don't. peoplesworld.org PHILADELPHIA—If there's another big difference between the nation's progressives—including unions—and far-right conservatives, besides issues and philosophy, it's that the right wing plays a long game, and progressives don't. So says Fedrick Ingram, and he should know. He's battled them in Florida for a decade and is still battling them since he became the American Federation …

Labor Video Project (2022-06-15). WCCUSD Union Busting Attack On Adult School Teachers United Leadership. indybay.org The WCCUSD school district terminated the president and vice president of the Adult School Teachers United in a union busting attack. The president Ken Ryan and vice president Kristen Pursley discuss their termination, the reason behind it and the attack on adult education and ESL by not only the District by the Democrats in the legislature and governor.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-15). Mayo Clinic Orthopedics and Sports Medicine to offer sports participation physicals for local high school athletes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic Orthopedics and Sports Medicine will offer sports physicals for area students who are entering seventh to 12th grades and want to participate in school sports programs. The exams, which follow the protocol set by the Minnesota State High School League, are open to all athletes from Southeast Minnesota. Exams will be available by appointment only on July 30 from 8 to 11 a.m. CDT. Exams will be performed at Mayo…

____ (2022-06-15). China's surveyed urban unemployment rate down to 5.9 pct in May. ecns.cn China's surveyed urban unemployment rate stood at 5.9 percent in May, down 0.2 percentage points from April, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday.

____ (2022-06-15). China's fixed-asset investment up 6.2 pct in January-May. ecns.cn China's fixed-asset investment went up 6.2 percent year on year in the first five months of this year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday.

____ (2022-06-15). China's retail sales down 1.5 pct in January-May. ecns.cn China's retail sales of consumer goods went down 1.5 percent year on year in the first five months of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday.

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-06-15). Shining a light on Imperial's world-leading medical research. imperial.ac.uk Following the College's excellent REF 2021 results, we take a look at some of the Faculty of Medicine's work.

Amarynth (2022-06-15). Andrei Martyanov: Admiral Rickover or how American education was killed. thesaker.is Please visit Andrei's website: smoothiex12.blogspot.com/ and support him here: www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=60459185

____ (2022-06-14). Sulfate aerosols contribute to terrestrial extinction 250 mln yrs ago: study. ecns.cn Chinese researchers have found that the global diffusion and settlement of sulfate aerosols generated by large volcanic eruptions was an important factor in the terrestrial extinction in the end-Permian about 250 million years ago.

____ (2022-06-15). China's economy shows good recovery momentum in May: statistics bureau. ecns.cn China's economy has gradually overcome the negative impacts of the epidemic, with main indicators showing marginal improvement in May, Fu Linghui, spokesperson for the National Bureau of Statistics, said Wednesday.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-06-15). Venezuela and Iran sign 20-year cooperation agreement. peoplesdispatch.org The governments of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi signed a 20-year strategic cooperation agreement on June 11 during President Maduro's two-day visit to Iran. The agreement focuses on increasing cooperation in the fields of agriculture, energy, defense, science, technology, communications, transport, tourism, health and education. | The deal prioritizes energy and food security in both the countries. According to the deal, Iran will help Venezuela in the recovery of its oil industry which is severely impacted by the unilateral sanctions by the US. The recovery efforts incl…

WSWS (2022-06-15). Pandemic profiteers prey on the crisis in education, while US schools are increasingly riven by class divide. wsws.org A bullseye has been placed on the American public education system. Edubusinesses have seized on the pandemic and the crisis within schools to extract record profits and deepen the drive to privatize schooling.

Organize Now! (2022-06-15). "Young and Loud" Marches in Mountain View. indybay.org The newly formed group Young and Loud is a coalition of students that organize events and mobilize youth across the state of California.

____ (2022-06-14). Former English teacher an online sales sensation. ecns.cn On Dec 28, New Oriental launched the livestream channel Dongfang Zhenxuan, or Oriental Select, on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, to sell products after it ended its tutoring business targeting primary and high school students at the end of last year.

Larkin HD. (2022-06-14). Urine Test Detects SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies. jamanetwork.com An experimental test detects SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in urine, researchers recently reported in a preliminary study in Science Advances. If further validated, the new test could be a safe, noninvasive tool to identify resolving or prior infections.

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-06-14). Ultrafast lasers used to probe next-generation cells. imperial.ac.uk Researchers have tracked the first fractions of a second after light strikes cells, providing insights into how they produce electricity.

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