Daily Archives: October 2, 2021

2021-10-02: News Headlines

Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sarah Anderson (2021-10-02). Creating a Powerful, Broad-Based Moral Movement. zcomm.org Today's voting rights and economic justice advocates must apply two key lessons from the courageous activists of a half-century ago…

Fight Back (2021-10-01). Dozens of activists, Cubans in Miami rally against Cuban blockade. fightbacknews.org Miami, FL – In the morning hours of Sunday, September 26, roughly 60 protesters gathered outside of Miami City Hall as part of a National Day of Action to demand President Biden end the decades-long blockade of Cuba. The national call was put out by the Cuban solidarity organization Puentes de Amor (Bridges of Love) and was attended locally by Cuban Americans, anti-war activists and community members. | Protesters met outside of the city hall building, holding a large banner that read, "Abajo el bloqueo," and chanting, "Puentes de amor" and "Biden, end the embargo!" They also listened to a lineup of speakers out…

_____ (2021-10-01). Health Advocates Bring Pile Of Bones To Biden Chief Of Staff, Moderna CEO. popularresistance.org Washington — Activists gathered outside the homes of the White House chief of staff and the CEO of Moderna to demand the Biden administration and private drug companies do more to address the global vaccine shortage. | "Really, we're bringing attention to the fact that both Moderna and the U.S. government have been completely inadequate in scaling up vaccine access globally," James Krellenstein, co-founder of the AIDS advocacy group, PrEP4All told Sinclair Broadcast Group. | Activists with PrEP4All, Health GAP, the Global Health Justice Partnership and experts in epidemiology and global health joined the pr…

_____ (2021-10-01). Global Health Advocates Bring Pile Of Bones To Biden Chief Of Staff, Moderna CEO. popularresistance.org Activists gathered outside the homes of the White House chief of staff and the CEO of Moderna to demand the Biden administration and private drug companies do more to address the global vaccine shortage.

sputniknews (2021-10-01). Alleged US Plot to Kill Assange: Activists Ask PM Morrison If They Were on 'Speculative Kill Lists'. sputniknews.com On Sunday, Yahoo News claimed that Trump administration and CIA officials plotted to kidnap or assassinate Julian Assange while he was hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2017.

Workers World Party (2021-10-01). CUBA SÂ: Solidarity against blockades, COVID and empire. workers.org The following excerpted remarks were given during a Philadelphia Workers World webinar promoting the upcoming November Caravan to Cuba sponsored by IFCO/Pastors for Peace. Speakers were Gail Walker, executive directive of IFCO; Dr. Samira Addrey, IFCO's ELAM (Latin America School of Medicine) coordinator; and Vijay Prashad, executive director of Tri-Continental . . . |

Pepe Escobar (2021-10-01). The Pashtun Will Outlast All Empires, but Can They Hold Afghanistan's Center? globalresearch.ca

Eve Ottenberg (2021-10-01). Empire's Sometime Handmaidens: Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. counterpunch.org Chevron's malfeasance in Lago Agrio, Ecuador upended people's lives. Pristine wilderness polluted with hundreds of oil pits. A plague of cancer on Indigenous children. Rivers filled with toxic chemicals. An international uproar and court case, in which Chevron set new records for playing dirty. And where, you may ask is Human Rights Watch on this

Serge Halimi (2021-10-01). The Unrepentant US Empire. counterpunch.org The US is never humble for long: a month after its rout in Afghanistan, the imperial order has been restored. Hence Washington's recent snub to Paris. Not even a month. No sooner had the Taliban taken control of Kabul airport than the neocons re-emerged from the shadows. Now that the West has 'lost' Afghanistan, they

Joe Emersberger (2021-10-01). The Media Myth of 'Once Prosperous' and Democratic Venezuela Before Chávez. orinocotribune.com By Joe Emersberger & Justin Podur — Sep 28, 2021 | Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur look at some of the mainstream mistruths about Venezuela. | The following piece is adapted from the authors' new book, Extraordinary Threat: The US Empire, the Media and 20 Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela, published by In his State of the Union We stand with the Venezu…

_____ (2021-10-01). Hungry for Change? With Sixty Million Americans Going Hungry, the United States Needs to Make Peace Not War. strategic-culture.org The United States cannot afford to maintain a war economy. Such a hyper-militarized economy is inciting dangerous tensions between nuclear powers, as well as eroding the very material foundations of American society. | Food hunger in the United States has reached shocking levels with new Rising food poverty in the U.S. has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic as millions of workers are laid off. A…

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