ecns.cn (2022-04-06). Last words of ancient women central to Chinese scholar's research. ecns.cn A Chinese scholar has collected a total 236 pieces of last words spoken by ancient women of the Sui and Tang dynasties (581-907), trying to make up for the lack of history on both eras.

ecns.cn (2022-04-06). Students develop six-armed robot drummer in Russia. ecns.cn Students of the Kvantorium children's technopark have developed a design and software for a six-armed robot that can play a drum kit, repeat and make the rhythm of any melody.

Staff (2022-04-06). VIDEO: Student raises Palestine flag in graduation ceremony. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 06 (MNA) — At the graduation ceremony of the University of Manchester in the UK, the flag of Palestine was raised by one of the graduates.

Fight Back (2022-04-06). Arlington, TX: Students demand Turning Point USA bigots get out of student government. fightbacknews.org Arlington, TX – On March 24, an email went out to senators of the University of Texas at Arlington student government detailing screenshots from the Turning Point USA discord server that revealed the student government President Caitlyn Burge-Surles and student government Chief of Staff Alyssa Spencer engaging in racist, transphobic and generally bigoted rhetoric. | Some examples of these messages include a screenshot of Caitlyn at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2021 with the caption "twins, but one of us is a woman!" Burge-Surles and Spencer spouting off about the racist conspiracy theory that…

____ (2022-04-06). What is American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten doing in Poland? wsws.org The AFT president traveled to the Polish-Ukrainian border not as a humanitarian but as a long-time operative of the US State Department.

____ (2022-04-06). Sacramento teachers: Vote "NO" on the sellout deal! Form rank-and-file committees to carry the struggle forward! wsws.org The SCTA and SEIU ended the strike of over 5,000 teachers and school workers Sunday and are attempting to rush through an austerity agreement before they have adequate time to review.

Umer Beigh (2022-04-05). Controversial Hijab ban in India a form of "religious apartheid" peoplesdispatch.org The verdict by a court in the Indian State of Karnataka in mid-March against the wearing of headscarves or the Hijab across colleges, preventing Muslim girls from entering educational premises with a certain dress code, has created a political furor in the country. | Since the verdict was announced on March 15, several protest actions have been carried out such as a complete strike in the State of Karnataka on March 17. | For many women activists the verdict is seen as a major disappointment and betrayal by the judicial system. Many fear that the "headscarf ban" will only add to the growing hostility against the…

JANET (2022-04-05). World hunger and the war in Ukraine. iacenter.org By Vijay Prashad April 5, 2022 During this war on Ukraine, No Cold War launched a new publication called Briefings, which will be factual texts on matters of global concern. Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research shared this first briefing: Billions of people around the world will suffer from this hunger crisis. The war in Ukraine, along with sanctions imposed by the United States and Western countries against Russia, have caused global food, fertilizer and fuel prices to skyrocket and endanger the world food supply. This conflict is exacerbating the existing crisis of global hunger and imperils the living…

Prof. Anthony J. Hall (2022-04-05). Canada's War Propaganda, Censorship and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. globalresearch.ca In Canada the CBC has suffered a tremendous loss of audience and credibility by making itself a publicity operation for the COVID officialdom whose key figure heads include Justin Trudeau. Seeking the votes of Ukrainian nationalists in Canada, many of …

_____ (2022-04-05). Higher Ed Labor Unites For Equity For All: Faculty, Staff And Students. popularresistance.org Students swell the picket lines of dining service workers. Staff fight for cancellation of exorbitant graduate student workers' fees. Undergraduate student workers learn about the precarity and low pay behind the title "adjunct" and demand their university administrations do better. Tenured faculty insist that part-time instructors receive benefits. Across higher education, workers are realizing that they depend on each other to get work done, from faculty, academic staff, graduate and undergraduate student workers, to janitors and clerical and technical workers—and the landscape of organizing is changing.

_____ (2022-04-05). Debt Collective Day Of Action Urges Biden To Cancel Student Debt. popularresistance.org The Debt Collective is upping the ante in their fight for full federal student debt cancellation with their Pick Up the Pen, Joe! rally and day of action today in front of the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, DC. The event comes roughly a month before the pause on loan repayments is set to expire on May 1. Some White House sources have indicated the Biden administration may move that deadline again or forgive some amount of debt, but regardless, the Debt Collective's focus remains squarely on eliminating federal student debt in full. | A broad coalition of more than 50 community organizations and labor…

Jamal Rich (2022-04-05). D.C. hit by mass student debt protest before payments resume in May. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON, D.C.—On Monday, April 4 at noon, student debtors and allies from across the United States came to the Department of Education to demand that the Biden administration cancel all federally-held student loan debt. The rally and march was held by the Debt Collective, which is a union for debtors. "Just like workers need to …

Mark Gruenberg (2022-04-05). A Poor People's Pandemic Report links poverty, race, coronavirus deaths. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Poverty is inextricably linked with the almost one million U.S. deaths, so far, from the coronavirus pandemic, a new and detailed report says. And the county-by-county statistics also reveal a disproportionate impact on people of color, it adds. A Poor People's Pandemic Report: Mapping The Intersection Of Poverty, Race And Covid-19—the formal name for the …

Dana Sanchez (2022-04-05). Biden Administration Expected To Extend Student Loan Moratorium To Aug. 31. moguldom.com The Biden administration plans to again delay the repayment of federal student loans through the end of August 2022, according to an administration official and people familiar with the matter. The current pause on payments was about to expire on May 1, impacting more than 40 million Americans. The new Aug. 31 extension is shorter than …

_____ (2022-04-05). 'Pausing a Crisis Doesn't End It': Biden to Extend Student Loan Payment Freeze Again. commondreams.org "We have to keep pushing. This isn't enough," said the Debt Collective.

JANET (2022-04-05). Indian unions stage two-day countrywide strike. iacenter.org By Martha Grevatt April 4, 2022 A gigantic countrywide general strike over political demands — known in India as a "bharat bandh" — brought out workers, students and farmers March 28-29. Media reports claim at least 50 million workers participated. Amarjeet Kaur, General Secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress, put the number closer to the 200 million that unions had predicted ahead of the strike. She said more joined the second day. Millions participated in an "All-India Bharat Bandh," a general strike held March 28-29. Nearly all of India's 28 states and eight "union territories" (under fede…

Staff (2022-04-05). 5 suspects detained over deadly stabbing attack on clergymen. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 05 (MNA) — The prosecutor general of the major Iranian city of Mashhad where a man attacked seminary students in Imam Reza shrine earlier on Tuesday said that 5 people have been arrested so far over the stabbing attack.

_____ (2022-04-05). Why the GOP Is Very Afraid of Students Learning the Real History of Reconstruction. commondreams.org This breathtakingly ambitious effort led by formerly enslaved people to eradicate a brutal and centuries-old form of racist exploitation—and to build an entirely new society—is rarely captured in state standards.

____ (2022-04-05). New Zealand student with Long COVID denounces abandonment of public health measures. wsws.org A 22-year-old Wellington student spoke to the WSWS about her experience with Long COVID and her deep concern at the Labour government's decision to lift public health restrictions while infections and deaths are surging.

____ (2022-04-05). Sacramento teachers' strike called off. wsws.org Late Sunday night SCTA and SEIU called off an eight-day strike of teachers and school workers in Sacramento, reaching a sellout deal with the district and leaving workers in the dark about contract details.

Jamal Rich (2022-04-05). D.C. hit by mass student debt protest before payments resume in May. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON, D.C.—On Monday, April 4 at noon, student debtors and allies from across the United States came to the Department of Education to demand that the Biden administration cancel all federally-held student loan debt. The rally and march was held by the Debt Collective, which is a union for debtors. "Just like workers need to …

Mark Gruenberg (2022-04-05). A Poor People's Pandemic Report links poverty, race, coronavirus deaths. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Poverty is inextricably linked with the almost one million U.S. deaths, so far, from the coronavirus pandemic, a new and detailed report says. And the county-by-county statistics also reveal a disproportionate impact on people of color, it adds. A Poor People's Pandemic Report: Mapping The Intersection Of Poverty, Race And Covid-19—the formal name for the …

____ (2022-04-05). New Zealand student with Long COVID denounces abandonment of public health measures. wsws.org A 22-year-old Wellington student spoke to the WSWS about her experience with Long COVID and her deep concern at the Labour government's decision to lift public health restrictions while infections and deaths are surging.

____ (2022-04-05). Sacramento teachers' strike called off. wsws.org Late Sunday night SCTA and SEIU called off an eight-day strike of teachers and school workers in Sacramento, reaching a sellout deal with the district and leaving workers in the dark about contract details.

Shane Quinn (2022-04-04). The Alarming Rise of Ukraine's Neo-Nazi MPs Since the 2014 "Pro-democracy Revolution" globalresearch.ca Over elapsing time from the February 2014 US-instituted "pro-democracy revolution", an ever expanding group of neo-Nazis has been elected to office in the Ukrainian parliament. Over the past five years of what the Washington Post calls "fledgling democracy"

Staff (2022-04-04). Betsy DeVos and Her Family Are Flooding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis With Cash. truthout.org Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her family have donated more than $280,000 to back Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' re-election effort amid his crackdown on discussions of race and sexual orientation in schools. | DeVos, who served four years as former President Donald Trump's education chief, personally contributed $5,500 to a super PAC backing DeSantis' re-election bid last month, according to state

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-04-04). Bombshell Document Dump on Pfizer Vaccine Data. globalresearch.ca What is contained in Pfizer's confidential report is detailed evidence on the impacts of the "vaccine" on mortality and morbidity. This data which emanates from the Horse's Mouth can be used to confront as well formulate legal procedures against Big Pharma, the governments, the WHO and the media.

Doctors for COVID Ethics (2022-04-04). J'Accuse! The Gene-based "Vaccines" Are Killing People. Governments Worldwide Are Lying to You the People, to the Populations They Purportedly Serve. globalresearch.ca The Signal of Harm is now indisputably overwhelming, and, in line with universally accepted ethical standards for clinical trials, Doctors for Covid Ethics demands that the 'Covid' vaccine programme be halted immediately.

F. William Engdahl (2022-04-04). "We are Human Guinea Pigs": Alarming Casualty Rates for mRNA Vaccines Warrant Urgent Action. globalresearch.ca Official US and EU data confirm alarming numbers of deaths and permanent paralysis as well as other severe side effects from the experimental mRNA vaccines. It is now clear that we are being asked to be human guinea pigs in an experiment that could alter the human gene structure and far worse.

Reynard Loki (2022-04-04). Kids Are Really Worried About the Climate Crisis. independentmediainstitute.org Middle school student activists write their elected representatives to urge climate action. By Reynard Loki, Independent Media Institute 17 min read In 2019, Earth | Food | Life writing fellow Lucy Goodchild van Hilten, a science writer and mother of a young child, wrote a piece titled, "How to Talk to Kids About Climate Change." …

Leonid Savin (2022-04-04). L'Ukraine et la cyberguerre. thealtworld.com Dans sa récente interview avec la chaàÆne de télévision japonaise TBS, le président de la Biélorussie Alexandre Loukachenko a déclaré que les cyber-armes sont plus dangereuses que les armes nucléaires. Il a expliqué que ces armes sont difficiles à détecter et que "nous ne sommes pas prêts à avoir peur de la cybercriminalité et des cyberarmes". Il y a de la logique dans ses propos. Si nous considérons l'informatique comme la science de la rétroaction et de l'interaction homme-machine, alors les armes nucléaires font également partie des cyber-armes, bien que nous ayons l'habitude de considérer le "cyber" uni…

____ (2022-04-04). Hinduism — The Secrets of the Vedas. transcend.org "One finds two theorems in modern science which have a profound spiritual echo, wrote in 1926 Sri Aurobindo, India's avatar of the Modern Age: "First that atoms are masses of swirling structures, like the solar system; and then that all the atoms are constituted of the same elements… (read on)…

Fight Back (2022-04-04). Red theory: Dialectics or metaphysics, two methods of analysis. fightbacknews.org In our last article we saw that Marxism-Leninism bases itself on a materialist worldview. But we saw, at the same time, that materialism as it came to be understood with the rise of bourgeois society was still metaphysical in its method of analysis. At this point, let's look at the difference between the metaphysical and dialectical method. Then we can better understand how Karl Marx established the philosophical basis of revolutionary science, dialectical materialism. | Metaphysics is a subject of philosophy that really begins, at least in the West, with Aristotle in ancient Greece, and is intended to look at th…

Mark Gruenberg (2022-04-04). Government numbers show depression virtually over, for now. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The coronavirus-caused economic Depression is apparently over, at least for workers, for now, Bureau of Labor Statistics data show. But the public mood is different, and that's a problem for the Biden administration. And with Republicans in Congress hamstringing further funds to battle the modern-day plague—despite the threat of yet another variant—that could quickly change, …

_____ (2022-04-04). Parents And Students Organize Sit-In In Solidarity With Striking Sacramento Teachers. popularresistance.org In an incredible show of solidarity, Sacramento parents and students have organized a sit-in to support striking teachers and support staff. Parents have been camping out at district headquarters in the Serna Center, calling for the school board to meet with teachers and reach an agreement. They are watching movies and playing board games, and have vowed to continue the sit-in until the district takes action. These community-led tactics demonstrate the interconnectedness between teachers and their communities. | Since March 23, 4,000 educators in Sacramento have been on strike demanding higher pay in pace with in…

_____ (2022-04-04). Parents And Students Sit-In In Solidarity With Striking Teachers. popularresistance.org Sacramento, California – In an incredible show of solidarity, Sacramento parents and students have organized a sit-in to support striking teachers and support staff. Parents have been camping out at district headquarters in the Serna Center, calling for the school board to meet with teachers and reach an agreement. They are watching movies and playing board games, and have vowed to continue the sit-in until the district takes action. These community-led tactics demonstrate the interconnectedness between teachers and their communities. | Since March 23, 4,000 educators in Sacramento have been on strike demanding h…

____ (2022-04-04). Sacramento teachers: No return to work without seeing the contract! wsws.org The SCTA and SEIU are ordering teachers back to work on 12-hours notice without providing any details of the contract. Teachers must reject this effort to sell out teachers and their students!

_____ (2022-04-04). 'Pick Up the Pen, Joe': DC Protest Calls on Biden to Cancel Student Debt. commondreams.org "If Biden restarts payments on May Day we know that nearly eight million people will be pushed into default," said one Debt Collective organizer. "We don't need to pause this crisis, we need to end it."

Peoples Dispatch (2022-04-04). Educators up in arms in Belgium demanding pay rise, smaller classrooms. peoplesdispatch.org Schools teachers across Belgium are suffering due to the combined effect of the COVID-19 crisis, harsh workloads, crippling infrastructure, inconsistent sectoral agreements and the insensitivity of the government. Now, the worsening cost of living crisis marked by higher energy prices has pushed teachers to the brink…

Editor (2022-04-04). Briefing: World hunger and the war in Ukraine. mronline.org The New Cold War is rapidly heating up, with severe consequences for people around the world. Our new series, Briefings, provides the key facts on these matters of global concern.