Daily Archives: March 20, 2022

2022-03-20: News Headlines

WorkWeek (2022-03-20). WorkWeek: UESF Teachers Occupy For Back Pay, Covid, Griffin Charter & CNNC Union Busting. indybay.org WorkWeek covers SF UESF Teachers Occupation For Back Pay & Covid Capitalism, Giffin MIT Charter School Teachers Fighting Corruption & Chinese Union Busting at CNNC In Namibia…

_____ (2022-03-19). The Man Who Turned America's Economy Into A Literal Casino. popularresistance.org To anyone paying attention, the American economy sure feels a lot like a casino. The stock market has become increasingly gamified, and the consequences are felt by all of us, every day—even those of us who aren't even invited to play. There's actually a term for our financial system that uses these words: casino capitalism. What many don't know, however, is that behind this new form of capitalism is a flesh-and-bones man with a certain sort of gambling addiction. His name is Bill Gross, and his is the story that Mary Childs, co-host of NPR's "Planet Money" podcast, tells so compellingly in her book, "The B…

Emir Sader (2022-03-19). øLa globalización sobrevivirá a la guerra? globalizacion.ca Desde que el capitalismo adhirió al modelo neoliberal, la globalización se ha encargado de extender el nuevo modelo por todo el mundo. Apertura de mercados, desregulación económica, privatizaciones, prioridad de los ajustes fiscales, promoción del Estado mínimo — todo lo…

Editor (2022-03-19). Toward a third Reconstruction: Lessons from the past for a socialist future. mronline.org Karl Marx wrote to Lincoln in 1864 that he was sure that the "American anti-slavery war" would initiate a "new era of ascendancy" for the working classes for the "rescue…and reconstruction of a social world."

_____ (2022-03-19). A Black-Women-Led And Life-Based Project For A New Colombia. popularresistance.org Francia Márquez Mina, a 40-year-old Black female activist from the predominantly Black and forgotten region of the Colombian Pacific coast, is shifting the terms of political debate in the second 'Blackest' nation in South America. Francia, the first Black woman to run for the Colombian presidency, is leading a collective effort by women, LGBTQ+ communities, Black youth, peasants, and the poor in general to transform Colombia's insidious patterns of violence and socio-racial inequalities. According to Infobae , as many as 54.2% of Colombia's population face food insecurity, 42% are under the poverty line, and 10.

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