(2022-02-01). GOP Bans On Teaching About Racism Drive Out Educators. popularresistance.org Date on which the Florida Senate Education Committee gave initial approval along party lines to a bill sponsored by Republican state Sen. Manny Diaz Jr. and championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel "discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress" when teaching about racism: 1/18/2022 | Number of days later that a Florida school district canceled a college professor's seminar for teachers on the history of the civil rights movement, citing in part concerns over critical race theory: 1 | Month in which…
(2022-02-01). Private Equity in Healthcare: Profits before Patients and Workers. cepr.net 
This was originally published in the magazine — Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), Perspectives on Work. | On March 25, 2021, U.S Representative Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), Chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Oversight, held hearings into the growing power of Wall Street firms in the healthcare industry. The hearings focused on recent research documenting higher than average death rates in private equity (PE) owned nursing homes. A rigorous study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), found that mortality rates in PE-owned nursing homes were 10 percen…
(2022-02-01). "Journaille… Canaille!", Media Disinformation: Karl Kraus' Campaign against a "Warmongering Press" globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on May 18, 2019 | Karl Kraus, born in 1874, was one of the most important Austrian writers of the beginning of the 20th century and a sharp critic of the predominant press and inflammatory …
(2022-02-01). Video: Has Justin Trudeau Been Duly Vaccinated? Registered Nurse Expresses Doubt on Authenticity of Trudeau's Vaccine Jab. globalresearch.ca First published …
(2022-02-01). Growing opposition to City University of New York push to cripple remote learning options for spring semester. wsws.org Students, workers and parents denounce moves by the country's biggest urban university system to limit remote learning in the midst of a deadly global pandemic.
(2022-02-01). Growing opposition to CUNY push to cripple remote learning options for spring semester. wsws.org Students, workers and parents denounce moves by the country's biggest urban university system to limit remote learning in the midst of a deadly global pandemic.
(2022-02-01). Texas A&M University students push for COVID safety measures. fightbacknews.org College Station, TX – Students at Texas A&M University gathered in a silent sit-in on January 28 for improved COVID-19 policies on campus. The coalition, consisting of individuals and organizations such as Grad Aggies for Worker Safety (GAWS), Feminism4Aggies and TAMU Students for a Democratic Society, organized the protest in solidarity with the students of the University of North Texas, who were also calling for improved COVID-19 policies at universities across Texas. | Participating students held signs with demands, statements about the TAMU student who died of COVID-19 complications, and a QR code linked to…
(2022-02-01). Detroit students, parents angered as schools open amid COVID surge. wsws.org A WSWS reporting team spoke with students and parents at Cass Technical High School in Detroit after the resumption of in-person classes on Monday, January 31.
(2022-02-01). Expand and unite the global student and teacher walkouts into a mass movement against COVID-19! wsws.org The Southern Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committees stand in solidarity with students and teachers across the US and Europe, and call for a unified mass movement to stop school reopenings.
(2022-02-01). Marxist IQ: Black History Month. cpusa.org 
February is Black History Month. This month is of great importance, as the forces of racism and reaction, led by the Republican Party, are attempting to make Black history once more invisible in the history of the United States. Today we see in Republican-controlled states legislation banning the teaching of critical race theory in …
(2022-02-01). Cal State Poly, Pomona Professor Threatened with "Cancellation" on False Charges of Anti-Semitism. projectcensored.org By Mischa Geracoulis Jaime Scholnick, a Los Angeles-based artist and adjunct professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona may lose her teaching position as a result of unfounded accusations of "anti-Semitism" by a…
(2022-01-31). Selected Articles: Press Stunned as Ukraine President Zelensky Points Finger at West. globalresearch.ca Dear Readers, | As everyone faces difficult times, the company which deals with the fulfillment of book sales on behalf of Global Research is no longer able to provide its services. We are unfortunately suspending the sale of print books until …
(2022-01-31). Pasadena residents demand better housing. liberationnews.org 
Over the last five years, Pasadena residents have come together and organized the Pasadena Tenants Union to combat the city's rising housing costs. PTU was able to quickly mobilize during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to protect tenants by successfully campaigning for an eviction moratorium and are currently fighting for a city charter amendment that would establish rent control, just cause eviction, and a rental housing board.
(2022-01-31). Video: Justin Trudeau Accuses Freedom Convoy 2022 of Propagating Hatred, Racism and Violence. globalresearch.ca
(2022-01-31). Klaus Schwab's WEF "School for Covid Dictators", a Plan for the "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca Economist Ernst Wolff believes that a hidden alliance of political and corporate leaders is exploiting the pandemic with the aim of crashing national economies and introducing a global digital currency. | How is it that more than 190 governments from all …
(2022-01-31). El gabinete de Boric y el equilibrio político del país. globalizacion.ca El equilibrio político del país se encuentra en constante movimiento. La definición del gabinete del futuro gobierno se inscribe precisamente en esa lógica. Aparte de calmar ciertas ansiedades, la definición de los futuros ministros vino a sentar las bases político-sociales…
(2022-01-31). COVID-19 vaccines, a 'testament' to capitalism? greenleft.org.au There was no altruism in the speed in which pharmaceutical companies developed successful vaccines. The very future of capitalism relied on science's ability to keep the wheels turning, argues William Briggs.
(2022-01-31). COVID-19 vaccines a 'testament' to capitalism? greenleft.org.au There was no altruism in the speed in which pharmaceutical companies developed successful vaccines. The very future of capitalism relied on science's ability to keep the wheels turning, argues William Briggs.
(2022-01-31). Union Membership Resumes Its Fall. popularresistance.org Union membership fell by almost 2% in 2021 as employment rose by over 3%. That took union density—the share of the workforce belonging to unions—down from 10.8% in 2020 to 10.3% last year, where it was in 2019. Density rose in 2020 because more nonunion workers lost their jobs in the covid crisis than their unionized counterparts, but 2021's return to employment undid that. | For the private sector, just 6.1% of workers were unionized last year, down from 6.3% in 2020, an all-time low for a series that goes back to 1900. (Official numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics began in 1983; I've assembl…
(2022-01-31). Top Reparations Scholar And Economist Dr. Darity: Black Students May Be Less Damaged By Stereotypes At HCBUs. moguldom.com Renowned economist and Duke University Professor Dr. William "Sandy" Darity Jr. co-authored a study that shows negative racial stereotypes have little to no impact on the performance of Black students who attend historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, the study relied on data from lab experiments …
(2022-01-31). Detroit teachers denounce resumption of in-person classes for 50,000 students. wsws.org Public schools are reopening in Detroit on Monday after a month of virtual-only classes because of the high rates of COVID-19 throughout state's largest school district.
(2022-01-31). Detroit teachers oppose resumption of in-person classes for 50,000 students. wsws.org Public schools are reopening in Detroit on Monday after a month of virtual-only classes because of the high rates of COVID-19 throughout state's largest school district.
(2022-01-31). Mass school reopenings in Australia amid record COVID deaths. wsws.org Governments admit that the reopening of schools in NSW and Victoria this week will result in mass transmission among teachers and students.
(2022-01-31). Teachers denounce forced reopening of Australian schools amid COVID explosion. wsws.org An educator in Melbourne, where classes return today, said: "It is COVID roulette for teachers."
(2022-01-31). Former Guerilla Fighters Bring Tourism to the Jungle. america.cgtn.com 
The rainforest and mountains in southern Colombia are home to stunning scenery and unique species. But for decades tourists weren't able to go there because of the armed conflict. Now former FARC guerrillas have become tour guides and are teaching others about the land that …
(2022-01-31). North Carolina District Bans Book on Racism After Just 1 Parent Complains. truthout.org 
A North Carolina school district has banned from its English curriculum a best-selling novel that depicts the life of a fictional Black teenager who struggles to deal with racism in his community while trying to follow the teachings of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. | Haywood County School District superintendent Bill Nolte