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2023-04-02: News Headlines

Fight Back (2023-04-02). Students rally for diversity at Florida Board of Governors meeting. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On Tuesday, March 28, over 100 students held a rally against Florida House Bill 999, at the Skateable Art Park in the city's Railroad Square. This bill gives the Florida Board of Governors the ability to review curriculum in higher education, review tenure of professors with the power of removal, and provides direction to each university on "removing from its programs any major of minor in Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, or Intersectionality." The bill has passed several committees in the Florida House legislature, with no amendments removing these stipulations. | At the protest, led by th…

Aarathi Prasad (2023-04-01). [Perspectives] Annabel Sowemimo: countering inequities in health care. thelancet.com Annabel Sowemimo is a community sexual and reproductive health (CSRH) registrar in Leicester, UK, working at the Haymarket Health clinic and Leicester Royal Infirmary and Leicester General Hospital. She was born in London to a father who came to England from Nigeria as a medical graduate hoping to become a surgeon, and a mother Sowemimo describes as "an advocate for people", who was a special educational needs teacher and had been raised in 1960s' London in a family of working-class Nigerian migrants.

Brian Lopez, The Texas Tribune. (2023-04-01). Organizations File Complaint Against Texas' Takeover Of Houston Schools. popularresistance.org Civil rights organizations have filed a federal complaint on behalf of several parents against the Texas Education Agency because of its plan to replace the Houston Independent School District's democratically elected school board, claiming the move takes away the rights of Houston voters of color to choose their own school officials. | The complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Justice Friday morning, with a claim by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, the Houston NAACP, the League of United Latin American Citizens and the Greater Houston Coalition for Justice that the state's takeover violates…

Petteri Muukkonen (2023-04-01). [Correspondence] Geography education to help understand discrimination in climate change and health. thelancet.com Thilagawathi A Deivanayagam and colleagues1 have highlighted that the effects of climate change are not equally distributed around the world, creating discrimination related to climate change and health. The authors mentioned briefly that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recognises education as one way to address this issue.2 However, the problem is so large and multidimensional that it should be answered with cross-disciplinary solutions. The effects of climate change vary across countries and regions due to differences in geography, history, and economic development.

Saurav Sarkar, In These Times. (2023-04-01). What Unionized Starbucks Workers Think Of Howard Schultz' Testimony. popularresistance.org The latest round in the fight between Starbucks and its nascent barista network‚Äâ—‚ÄâStarbucks Workers United (SBWU)‚Äâ—‚Äâcame to a head on Wednesday with the appearance of former CEO and current board member Howard Schultz at the Senate Committee on Housing, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). | "It was honestly hard not to laugh out loud at some of the [bald-faced] lies he told," said James Greene, a fired Starbucks shift supervisor in the Pittsburgh area. | "He denied breaking the law repeatedly as senators were listing off mu…

shenby g (2023-04-01). Starbucks' Howard Schultz testifies on "scorched earth union busting" before Senate. liberationnews.org Howard Schultz, board member and former CEO of Starbucks, testified Wednesday the 29th before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee on what Starbucks workers describe as the company's "scorched earth" union busting campaign. Schultz finally agreed to testify one day before a scheduled subpoena vote against him.

Fight Back (2023-04-02). Students rally for diversity at Florida Board of Governors meeting. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On Tuesday, March 28, over 100 students held a rally against Florida House Bill 999, at the Skateable Art Park in the city's Railroad Square. This bill gives the Florida Board of Governors the ability to review curriculum in higher education, review tenure of professors with the power of removal, and provides direction to each university on "removing from its programs any major of minor in Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, or Intersectionality." The bill has passed several committees in the Florida House legislature, with no amendments removing these stipulations. | At the protest, led by th…

Aarathi Prasad (2023-04-01). [Perspectives] Annabel Sowemimo: countering inequities in health care. thelancet.com Annabel Sowemimo is a community sexual and reproductive health (CSRH) registrar in Leicester, UK, working at the Haymarket Health clinic and Leicester Royal Infirmary and Leicester General Hospital. She was born in London to a father who came to England from Nigeria as a medical graduate hoping to become a surgeon, and a mother Sowemimo describes as "an advocate for people", who was a special educational needs teacher and had been raised in 1960s' London in a family of working-class Nigerian migrants.

Brian Lopez, The Texas Tribune. (2023-04-01). Organizations File Complaint Against Texas' Takeover Of Houston Schools. popularresistance.org Civil rights organizations have filed a federal complaint on behalf of several parents against the Texas Education Agency because of its plan to replace the Houston Independent School District's democratically elected school board, claiming the move takes away the rights of Houston voters of color to choose their own school officials. | The complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Justice Friday morning, with a claim by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, the Houston NAACP, the League of United Latin American Citizens and the Greater Houston Coalition for Justice that the state's takeover violates…

Petteri Muukkonen (2023-04-01). [Correspondence] Geography education to help understand discrimination in climate change and health. thelancet.com Thilagawathi A Deivanayagam and colleagues1 have highlighted that the effects of climate change are not equally distributed around the world, creating discrimination related to climate change and health. The authors mentioned briefly that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recognises education as one way to address this issue.2 However, the problem is so large and multidimensional that it should be answered with cross-disciplinary solutions. The effects of climate change vary across countries and regions due to differences in geography, history, and economic development.

Saurav Sarkar, In These Times. (2023-04-01). What Unionized Starbucks Workers Think Of Howard Schultz' Testimony. popularresistance.org The latest round in the fight between Starbucks and its nascent barista network‚Äâ—‚ÄâStarbucks Workers United (SBWU)‚Äâ—‚Äâcame to a head on Wednesday with the appearance of former CEO and current board member Howard Schultz at the Senate Committee on Housing, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). | "It was honestly hard not to laugh out loud at some of the [bald-faced] lies he told," said James Greene, a fired Starbucks shift supervisor in the Pittsburgh area. | "He denied breaking the law repeatedly as senators were listing off mu…

shenby g (2023-04-01). Starbucks' Howard Schultz testifies on "scorched earth union busting" before Senate. liberationnews.org Howard Schultz, board member and former CEO of Starbucks, testified Wednesday the 29th before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee on what Starbucks workers describe as the company's "scorched earth" union busting campaign. Schultz finally agreed to testify one day before a scheduled subpoena vote against him.

Colin Todhunter (2023-04-02). Stay Home, Save Lives: Uncovering the COVID Deception. globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2023-04-02). Chinese scientists design implantable battery to help kill tumors. ecns.cn Chinese researchers have developed an implantable and self-charging saltwater battery that helps kill tumor cells by regulating the very environment supporting a tumor's growth.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-04-02). Science Saturday: Understanding the speed of brain communication. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org It often was thought that the speed of information transmitted among regions of the brain stabilized during early adolescence. A new study in Nature Neuroscience by Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues from the Netherlands found transmission speeds continue to increase into early adulthood. Because problems such as anxiety, depression and bipolar disorders can emerge in late adolescence and early adulthood, a better understanding of brain development may help clinicians offer therapies to treat these disorders. "A fundamental understanding…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-04-02). $41 million federal grant to help Mayo Clinic, collaborators advance multiethnic Alzheimer's research. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Alzheimer's disease affects people of all ethnic groups. Armed with $41 million in new federal funding, Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues from 13 other institutions around the country are pursuing three multiethnic projects to identify targets for treatment. Alzheimer's disease robs victims of their memories and families of quality time with their loved ones. Deaths from Alzheimer's more than doubled from 2000 to 2019, and the number of people living with the…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-04-02). Mayo Clinic Q and A: Treating colon cancer. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: A family member recently was diagnosed with colon cancer. After researching potential treatment options, I came across intraoperative radiation therapy. What is the difference between this and normal radiation? Is radiation a standard treatment option, or are there other approaches? ANSWER: Colon cancer is one of the most common malignancies in the U.S., with more than 100,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Over a lifetime, it is estimated that 1 in 23 men and…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-04-02). Women in science: Q&A with Martha Grogan, M.D. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Martha Grogan March is Women's History Month and an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women in science and research. Women make up just 33% of the world's researchers, according to the United Nations. That's changing according to Felicity Enders, Ph.D., director of the Office of Research Equity, Inclusion and Diversity. As is their role in the field. Today, there are "more women not only entering the field but also moving into leadership," she says. Among them…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-04-02). Patients with multiple tumors in one breast may not need mastectomy, research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Patients who have multiple tumors in one breast may be able to avoid a mastectomy if the tumors can be removed while leaving enough breast tissue, according to research led by the Alliance in Clinical Trials in Oncology and Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. Patients would receive breast-conserving therapy: a lumpectomy followed by whole-breast radiation therapy, rather than mastectomy. The study is published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Watch: Dr. Judy…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-04-02). ICC Arrest Warrant for Vladimir Putin for "Kidnapping Ukrainian Children" Borders on Ridicule. globalresearch.ca Updated on April 2, 2023 | The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued "there are reasonable …

ecns.cn (2023-04-02). China's first high-temperature superconducting maglev system completes trial operation. ecns.cn China's first high-temperature superconducting maglev system completed its first trial operation on Friday, which verified a number of core technologies, marking another breakthrough in China's research and development (R&D) of ultrafast maglev transportation system.

Asad Ismi (2023-04-01). Sri Lanka's Neoliberal Nightmare, Widespread Famine Triggered by Covid-19 Lockdown and an Unpayable External Debt. globalresearch.ca

Children's Health Defense (2023-04-01). RFK, Jr. : Airline Safety Is 'Not a Partisan Issue,' FAA Must Investigate Spike in Pilot Health Emergencies. globalresearch.ca

David Skripac (2023-04-01). Our Species Is Being Genetically Modified. Are We Witnessing Humanity's March Toward Extinction? Viruses Are Our Friends, Not Our Foes. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Emanuel Garcia (2023-04-01). Deliberately Engineered Confusion: The Hallmark of the Greatest Biopsychosocial Operation in History. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels (2023-04-01). Why America Needs War, The Project for The New American Century (PNAC). globalresearch.ca Introductory Note on America's "Long War": The Project for The New American Century (PNAC) : | This incisive and carefully documented article by renowned historian and political scientist Dr. Jacques Pauwels was published by Global Research almost 20 years ago on April …

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2023-04-01). Mask Study: "Makes little or no Difference" in COVID-19 Transmission" globalresearch.ca

Dr. Rosalie Bertell (2023-04-01). Dr. Rosalie Bertell: Zero Tolerance for the Destructive Power of War. globalresearch.ca

Dragan Vujicic (2023-04-01). Uranium Dossier. "Yugoslav Scenario" globalresearch.ca

Eric Zuesse (2023-04-01). The U.S.'s 'Democratic' Model for Dictatorships. globalresearch.ca

F. William Engdahl (2023-04-01). Global Planned Financial Tsunami Has Just Begun. globalresearch.ca Green Energy mandates are driving this inflation crisis: global shortages of fertilizers, soaring prices of natural gas, grain supply losses, coupled with the global snowballing of defaults, bankruptcies, amid a soaring inflation.

F. William Engdahl (2023-04-01). NATO's Doomsday Seed Vault in the Arctic. globalresearch.ca First published on September 22, 2008. | Of relevance to the ongoing restructuring of agriculture under the helm of NATO, the Gates Foundation, Monsanto and the Rockefellers. | *** | The controversial 'Doomsday Seed Vault', a nuclear-bomb-proof vault deep into the side of …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-01). Reviving Regionalism in the Age of US Decline. libya360.wordpress.com Tanupriya Singh The Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961 (Photo: Museum of Yugoslavia, CC BY-SA 3.0 RS, via Wikimedia Commons) A new dossier by the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research and Cuba's Center for International Policy Research examines the decline of the US-led "rules-based international order" in favor of a decided shift towards regionalism…

J. Michael Springmann (2023-04-01). Modern Iran's Advanced Information and Communication Technology. globalresearch.ca

James A. Lucas (2023-04-01). The U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 "Victim Nations" Since World War II. globalresearch.ca

James G. Rickards (2023-04-01). Biden to Order US Dollar Replaced with Trackable "Spyware" Version? globalresearch.ca

Jean Toschi Marazzani Visconti (2023-04-01). History of US-NATO Military Campaigns (1991-2023). globalresearch.ca

Jocalyn Clark (2023-04-01). [Perspectives] Equity for women in science: the role of gatekeepers. thelancet.com A new book by Cassidy Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière, Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement, is aptly timed given concerns about the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic damaged women's productivity, visibility, and recognition within the research—publishing ecosystem. Equality within systems of knowledge production is not only right, as this book shows, denying such equality is also harmful.

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2023-04-01). U.S. "Not Ready for War" Against Both Russia and China. globalresearch.ca

Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition (2023-04-01). Expertos en derechos humanos piden la retirada de un informe sesgado de la ONU sobre Nicaragua. globalizacion.ca Alfred de Zayas, ex Experto Independiente de la ONU sobre el Orden Internacional, se unió a otros especialistas en derechos humanos para condenar un informe de "experto" sobre Nicaragua publicado el 2 de marzo por ser poco profesional, parcial, incompleto…

Patrick Pasin (2023-04-01). What Kind of Ukraine Do We Support? globalresearch.ca

Prof Denis Rancourt (2023-04-01). Parental Authority for Covid Vaccination of Young Children: Ontario Law Case. globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-04-01). Nuclear War. "90 Seconds to Midnight": The Pentagon's 1945 "Doomsday Blueprint" to "Wipe the Soviet Union off the Map" globalresearch.ca

Sarah L Chellappa (2023-04-01). [Correspondence] Intersectional inequities in academia. thelancet.com Gender equality in academia still faces enduring challenges globally, with under-representation of women in leadership and decision-making positions. However, most universities and research institutions actively implement gender equality plans and undertake activities aimed at increasing it. Despite this remarkable progress, intersectionality lags behind. This term, first coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, corresponds to the "lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects".

Shane Quinn (2023-04-01). 750 U.S. Military Bases Globally, $7.2 Trillion US Nuclear Weapons Expenditure Since Hiroshima, Nagasaki. globalresearch.ca

The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute (2023-04-01). The Rockefeller Way: The Family's Covert 'Climate Change' Plan. globalresearch.ca First published in December 2016, this article is of relevance to an understanding of the ongoing debate on Climate Change as well the Green New Deal, largely controlled by the financial establishment. The Rockefellers also play a key role in …

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute For Social Research. (2023-04-01). China's Historical Destiny Is To Stand With The Third World. popularresistance.org On 20 March 2023, China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's President Vladimir Putin spent over four hours in private conversation. According to official statements after the meeting, the two leaders talked about the increasing economic and strategic partnership between China and Russia — including building the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline — and the Chinese peace initiative for the war in Ukraine. Putin said that 'many of the provisions of the peace plan put forward by China are consonant with Russian approaches and can be taken as the basis for a peaceful settlement when the West and Kiev are ready fo…

WSWS (2023-04-01). Preview release of ChatGPT shows potential of artificial intelligence. wsws.org ChatGPT, released as a free prototype by the research laboratory OpenAI last November, is a powerful artificial intelligence technology with socially transformative potential that is being used under capitalism to eliminate jobs, increase exploitation and automate warfare.

Yuri Rubtsov (2023-04-01). History: Hitler was Financed by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. globalresearch.ca Note to readers: please click the share buttons above | feature image: Hitler, Schacht and Prescott Bush | First published by Global Research in May 2016, Minor edits by Global Research. Title as in the original. | Incisive historical analysis. | From World War …

ecns.cn (2023-04-01). China's efforts reduce carbon emission intensity in agriculture: report. ecns.cn The carbon emission intensity of major agricultural products in China is on a downward trend, according to a report released by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) on Friday.

ecns.cn (2023-04-01). Chinese telescope LAMOST reaches new milestone in spectral data. ecns.cn The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) has become the world's first sky survey telescope to release more than 22 million spectra, said the National Astronomical Observatories under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC).

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-01). Fred M'membe: "If We Struggle for the World We Want We Will Win" libya360.wordpress.com Fred M'membe I gave a speech in Beijing at the opening ceremony of The Second International Forum on Democracy — The Shared Human Values, organised jointly by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and think tanks from Cambodia, Chile, Nigeria, Spain and Tonga. More than 300 guests, scholars, and experts from over 100 countries and…

Fight Back (2023-04-02). New Orleans: Franklin HS students hold walkout against Louisiana's anti-LGBTQ bills. fightbacknews.org New Orleans, LA – On Friday, March 31, close to 300 students at Benjamin Franklin High School walked out of school during last period. They demanded a stop to bills in the Louisiana legislature that target LGBTQ kids. Students gathered on the school's front lawn to hear speeches by their trans classmates. The event coincided with national Trans Day of Visibility. | Students chanted "These bills kill!" and "We say gay!" | "Conservatives are not trying to protect children, they just say that to justify what they are doing. Conservatives just want something that will distract people from how they do not better socie…

Destiny Spruill (2023-04-01). Students at Little Village Lawndale High School walk out against Vallas. peoplesworld.org CHICAGO — Most of the students at Little Village Lawndale High School (LVLHS) are too young to participate in Chicago's upcoming mayoral election, and many of those old enough are barred from participating because of their immigration status. Nevertheless, scores of high school students protested outside of LVLHS on March 30 to condemn mayoral candidate …

Staff (2023-04-01). Collectif Palestine Vaincra presents on Palestinian youth resistance and international solidarity in Toulouse. samidoun.net On Wednesday, 29 March, the Mirail Struggle Committee invited the Collectif Palestine Vaincra to lead a discussion and presentation at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès in Toulouse, France about the resistance of Palestinian youth, historically and at present. This marks the third time that Palestine solidarity events have been organized as part of the student mobilization …

Taylor Giorno (2023-04-01). Gun Rights Groups Continue to Target Assault Weapons Bans Amid Mass Shootings. truthout.org A fatal shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday left three students and three adults dead and reignited a contentious political debate around gun policy. Following reports that the shooter used legally-obtained AR-style weapons, President Joe Biden once again called for a ban on assault weapons. But a federal ban is unlikely to pass a divided Congress, in part due to the… |

WSWS (2023-04-01). University of Michigan grad students remain defiant as university seeks injunction against strike. wsws.org The grad students and their supporters braved cold and rain on their third day on the picket line.

WSWS (2023-04-01). Protesting French students denounce trade union "mediation" with Macron. wsws.org Students demonstrated in Paris against Macron and his pension reform, and against the indifference of university administrations to neo-Nazi attacks targeting them.

MomsRising (2023-04-02). Thursday 4/6: Debunking the Parents Bill of Rights Teach-in. indybay.org Online teach-in…

Derek Seidman (2023-04-01). Florida Teachers' Unions Are Front Line of Resistance Against DeSantis's Fascism. truthout.org Beset with reactionary attempts to curtail their academic freedom and bust their unions, college and university professors have become a key target of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's far right regime — in no small part because they represent one of the few organized statewide forces ready to fight back against his increasingly repressive administration. There are few people better positioned to speak… |

Global Voices (2023-04-01). Legacy of a Palestinian Educator: Honoring Saniya Nusseibeh's Journey as a Teacher on Land Day. juancole.com Sanaiyeh's story: The unwavering pursuit of educating Palestinian girls. Written byŸÖÿØŸàŸÜÿ© ÿÆÿ≤ÿßÿ¶ŸÜ khazaaen Translated bySarah Khaled ÿ≥ÿßÿ±ÿ© ÿÆÿߟÑÿØ Translated byMariam A. Translation posted 30 March 2023 0: 34 GMT Read this post in ÿπÿ±ÿ®Ÿä Saniyeh wrote on this photo: At Schmidt College after before the Nakbah, I'm in 7th grade." Saniyeh Nusseibeh Collection, Khazaen Archive. U…

Kelly Hayes (2023-04-01). April 4 Runoff May Determine Whether Chicago Remains Playground for the Wealthy. truthout.org Tensions are high in Chicago, where early voting is underway in a hotly contested mayoral runoff. Incumbent Lori Lightfoot was roundly rejected by voters in the first round of voting on February 28, leaving Brandon Johnson, a progressive school teacher and Chicago Teachers Union organizer, to square off with neoliberal favorite Paul Vallas, who was CEO of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) from 1995 to… |

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