2024-09-10: News Headlines

Joshua Frank (2024-09-10). Cal State Professors Targeted for Exposing School's Ties to Israel's Genocide in Gaza. counterpunch.org Last month, in a tangible victory for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement, San Francisco State University (SFSU) agreed to pull its investment from four companies tied to weapons manufacturing and Israel's genocide in Gaza. The four include Lockheed Martin, aerospace company Leonardo, military contractor Palantir, and construction equipment maker Caterpillar, whose bulldozers have

Fight Back! News. (2024-09-10). Milwaukee Unionists And Others Stand With Palestine During LaborFest 2024. popularresistance.org Milwaukee, WI — On Monday, September 2, the Milwaukee Area Labor Council (MALC) and other unions such as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association (MTEA) hosted LaborFest, an annual celebration held in commemoration of Labor Day. Hundreds of workers and union supporters turned out for the occasion. | The first portion of the day's events saw the traditional mass march featuring rank-and-file workers mobilized by unions spanning the spectrum of organized labor, from trades workers to letter carriers to communications workers and everything in between.

WSWS (2024-09-10). Australian Labor government's international student cuts hit thousands of university jobs. wsws.org Major public universities have had their enrolment numbers slashed for 2025, particularly targeting those with the highest numbers of Chinese students.

Sarah Anderson (2024-09-10). Low-wage corporations spent half-a-trillion on CEO pay and stock buybacks. peoplesworld.org Why aren't low-wage workers better paid? After 30 years of research, I can tell you it's not because employers don't have the cash. It's because profitable corporations spend that money on their stock prices and CEOs instead. Lowe's, for example, spent $43 billion buying back its own stock over the past five years. With that …

Alina Ramos Martin (2024-09-10). Inter-annual inflation grows in Panama. plenglish.com Panama City, Sep 10 (Prensa Latina) Up to last June, the inter-annual inflation in Panama, had a variation of 0,9%, in relation to the same stage of 2023, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC) appreciated.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2024-09-10). Election Year Talk of Open Borders is a Joke in Light of Dramatic Increase in Border Spending. covertactionmagazine.com Sadly, Democrats Are Vowing to Be as Tough as Republicans and Support Draconian Surveillance Apparatus During the GOP convention in Milwaukee in July, speaker after speaker made it seem like the U.S.-Mexico border was as porous as a leaking sieve and that the Biden administration had allowed the U.S. to be overrun by illegal immigrants. …

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