2022-03-22: News Headlines

UUSF Human Rights Working Group, Forum (2022-03-22). Sunday 3/27: The 1619 Project – Its Significance for Today. indybay.org Join us on ZOOM Sunday, March 27 from 1 to 3 PM Pacific Time…

BARUARC (2022-03-22). Saturday 4/9: Rally and March for Abortion Rights SF Bay Area and Nationwide. indybay.org Rally starts at noon in Sproul Plaza on UC Berkeley Campus (public welcome) | Entrance near Telegraph and Bancroft…

Labor Video Project (2022-03-22). "Thrown Under The Bus" Vaccinations, Terminations & Union Rights With SEIU 1021 SF Member. indybay.org Kimberly Cox an SEIU 1021 SF MTA worker talks about the threat of firing for not getting vaccinated.

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-03-22). Malley to submit report to US Congress on Vienna talks. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 22 (MNA) — US Special Envoy for Iran Affairs Robert Malley intends to present a report on the removal of sanctions imposed against Iran in a close session of the US Congress.

Fight Back (2022-03-22). Minnesota unions rally for striking Minneapolis teachers and education support professionals. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – At least 14 unions from Minnesota held a rally in support of the striking Minneapolis educators, March 20. The rally was organized by the Minnesota Workers United (MWU) Strike Support Committee, which is the sanctioned labor and community strike support committee of the Minneapolis educators' strike. | 12 unions or labor organizations were listed on the event as cohosts to the MWU event, which included MWU, AFSCME Locals 3800, 2822 and 3937, CWA Local 7250, the Minnesota Nurses Association, SEIU Healthcare MN, MN Bookstore Workers United, MACE, UFCW 1189, the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federatio…

Staff (2022-03-21). French president Macron meets apartheid regime president Herzog, boasts of dissolving Palestine organizations. samidoun.net French president Emmanuel Macron, only weeks after ordering the dissolution — effectively, the ban — of two Palestine solidarity organizations, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra and Comite Action Palestine — met with Isaac Herzog, president of the Israeli apartheid regime on Sunday, 20 March. Despite the fact that French-Palestinian citizen, lawyer and human rights defender Salah …

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-21). The UK Supreme Court Won't Listen to Assange, but the Legal Battle Is Still On. transcend.org 19 Mar 2022 – What are Assange's lawyers' options after the Supreme Court refused to listen to his appeal. Why US diplomatic assurances are unacceptable from a human rights point of view.

Joris Leverink (2022-03-21). Reviving the legacy of civil rights leader Anton de Kom. roarmag.org The story of Cornelis Gerhard Anton de Kom might seem one of those hard-to-believe Hollywood-style legends. Born the son of a formerly enslaved Surinamese farmer in 1898, he would go on to lead a national struggle against the ruling Dutch Empire before being imprisoned and banished to the Netherlands. Once in exile, he joined the resistance against German occupation, was captured and died of tuberculosis in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of 47. | The seeming contradiction of a Black anti-imperialist that would come to fight and die on behalf of his oppressor nation, coupled with an unrivaled position as a D…

Ann Brown (2022-03-21). Ben Crump And Former Employees File Racial Discrimination Class Action Lawsuit Against Google. moguldom.com Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has filed a racial discrimination class action lawsuit against Google on behalf of former employees of the search engine giant. The lawsuit, filed on March 18, accuses Google of systemic bias against Black employees. Former Black Google employees claim the Alphabet Inc.-owned company steered them to lower-level jobs, paid them …

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-21). To Be Human—Lives Matter. transcend.org The women, the poor, the marginalised, the ostracised, | What do they have in common? | Their rights are forsaken and forgotten.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-21). United Nations as a Potemkin Institution Faced with Potemkin Crises? transcend.org Potential of AI to Enable a Transformative Dynamic through Meta-Discourse – As noted previously, the current global campaign of sanctions against Russia curiously recalls the psychosurgical procedure of lobotomy — much favoured in the USA and the UK subsequent to World War II during the Cold War period.

Ramzy Baroud (2022-03-21). New Great Game: Can Venezuela Negotiate an End to Deadly US Sanctions? mintpressnews.com Now that Russia's moves in Eastern Europe have re-ignited the 'Great Game' of a previous era, Venezuela, Cuba and others, though thousands of miles away, are finding themselves at the heart of the budding new Great Game…

_____ (2022-03-21). Africa Supports Russia's Operation in Ukraine and Advocates a Revival of the Non-Aligned Movement. journal-neo.org The events in Ukraine and Russia's actions there are perceived differently around the world. While some countries, under Washington's onslaught, impose sanctions against Russia overits operation in Ukraine, others are strengthening relations with Moscow, or at least maintaining the status quo. While the Western world, influenced by the Russophobic policies of Washington and its allies, …

Staff (2022-03-21). EU prepares 5th package of sanctions against Russia: report. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 21 (MNA) — According to the latest reports, the European Union is developing the fifth package of sanctions against Russia due to the situation around Ukraine.

Gefira, Global analysis (2022-03-21). Much wants more and loses all. indybay.org It is the West that cannot imagine a life without money and the resultant luxuries. Sanctions or no sanctions, Western companies will sooner or later (I bet: sooner) resume business with Russia because — as everybody in the West knows — "money makes the world go round".

Staff (2022-03-21). Russia has to stop operation in Ukraine to lift sanctions: US. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 21 (MNA) — Washington believes that Russia has to stop the military operation in Ukraine in order to lift the US sanctions, Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics Daleep Singh said.

JANET (2022-03-21). LIVE THIS WEDNESDAY 3/23 @ 7:30PM Eastern — Biden's Threat: Nuclear War or Sanctions. iacenter.org REGISTER NOW! Join the International Action Center WEDNESDAY MARCH 23rd at 7: 30PM EST for a livestream event. The fires of war have been lit in Ukraine. The U.S. corporate media fans the flames despite the best efforts of anti-war activists around the world attempt to extinguish them. Now President Biden has poured gasoline on an already volatile situation by issuing this ultimatum: there will either be sanctions or there will be nuclear war. This threat means that, no matter what, the U.S. is hell-bent on making Ukrainians and Russians suffer. It means that the U.S. and NATO is holding all of Europe hostage in o…

JANET (2022-03-21). Sign on: End Sanctions & War. iacenter.org SanctionsKill Campaign Statement on Ukraine Conflict END ALL WARFARE — NO SANCTIONS Sign on — click here The SanctionsKill Campaign is a broad coalition of social justice, solidarity, and peace forces focused on exposing the devastating impact of US sanctions on civilian populations globally. Sanctions are not a substitute for war The current regime of sanctions against Russia is not a substitute for war, but a form of warfare. Sanctions kill many thousands just as bombs do. Sanctions create hyperinflation, artificial famines, social upheavals, and health crises that punish civilian populations. As US…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-21). Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death. transcend.org 14 Mar 2022 – The Cold War, 1945-1989, was a Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another, and the global corporations able to equate predatory capitalism with freedom. The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives then–and now.

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