2021-05-05: News Headlines

Nyla Ali Khan (2021-05-05). Survivors of Trauma Transform Their Vulnerabilities into Strength. counterpunch.org In 2015, Médecins Sans Frontières or Doctors Without Borders conducted a survey in Kashmir the results of which were as follows: out of "5600 households selected from more than 400 villages in 10 districts 1.8 million adults (45% of the adult population) are experiencing symptoms of mental distress with 41% exhibiting symptoms of probable depression

Martha Grevatt (2021-05-05). May Day 2021 — International Workers' Day! workers.org May Day began in the U.S. in 1884 after labor federations called for worker strikes and protests for the eight-hour day. 400,000 workers answered the call countrywide on May 1, 1886. That year eight worker organizers, some immigrants, were arrested and framed for the May 4 bombing of a Haymarket . . . |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-05-05). Colombian Campesino Leader: This is an Authoritarian Regime. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News Social movements participate in Colombia's national strike demonstrations. April 28, 2021. Photo: Surcando Comunicaciones We interviewed Ernesto Alexander Roa, President of the Coordinador Nacional Agrario de Colombia (National Agrarian Coordinator of Colombia — CNA), an indigenous and Afro-campesino organization that works for the defense and recovery of Colombia's rural areas, dignified life and popular sovereignty. Ernesto spoke to…

The Associated Press (2021-05-05). US Awards Huge Shelter Contracts Amid Child Migrant Increase. latinorebels.com Confronted with a stream of unaccompanied children crossing the border from Mexico, the U.S. government has awarded shelter construction and management contracts to private companies that critics say may not be equipped to adequately care for the minors.

Staff (2021-05-05). Biden's U-Turn on Refugees Aligns With Voter Support for Pro-Immigrant Policies. truthout.org Earlier this week, President Biden, under pressure from his own voter base, executed what might end up being the most consequential political U-turn of his presidency. | Having disappointed refugee rights advocates and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party a few weeks ago by

John Feffer (2021-05-05). Immigrants to the rescue. nationofchange.org It's useful to bear the German experience in mind as the United States once again tackles its own "immigration crisis."

Michael T. Hertz (2021-05-05). California is a garden of Eden. nationofchange.org In case you don't think migrants can benefit the U.S., consider that 200,000 Dust Bowl migrants entered California.

Anonymous007 (2021-05-05). Military Situation In The Lake Chad Area On May 5, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On May 3, the Nigerian Army reportedly repelled Boko Haram attack in Rann town of Kala Balge area. 2 Nigerian Army personnel were killed | On May 3, ‚ÄåBoko Haram attacked a Nigerian Army HQ in Ajiri. 6 Nigerian Army personnel were killed in the attack | On May 4, ISWAP raided the border village of Kanamma. This is at least the fourth incursion by ISWAP terrorist group in recent days | On May 3, Boko Haram terrorists raided the areas of Zaki, Dambam, Darazo,…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-05-05). Torch of Farmers Agitation in Delhi Border Continues to Shimmer Like a Prairie Fire. libya360.wordpress.com Harsh Thakor Gadri Gulab Kaur Nagar stage was launched at Delhi's Tikri Border by the women wing of Bharatiya Kisan Union Ekta (Ugrahan) on May3rd The tempo of farmers movement continues at Tikri border at similar pitch as before with intensity of Coal in a blast furnace. A series of programmes have been launched by…

Kamal Iranidoost (2021-05-05). Expediency Council turns Incheh Borun into free-trade zone. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 05 (MNA) — The governor of the northern province of Golestan said that the bill to create a free trade-industrial zone in Incheh Borun region on the border with Turkmenistan has been approved by the Expediency Council.

Staff (2021-05-05). Four Pakistani soldiers killed on Afghan border: report. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 05 (MNA) — Afghan militants attacked Pakistani troops in the border area, killing four people and wounding six others.

sputniknews (2021-05-05). US Reportedly Set to Join EU Defence Plan for Fast Redeployment of Troops in Europe. sputniknews.com The arrangement is seen as a way to cut delays and red tape at EU borders which so far act as a barrier to foreign troops if they want to redeploy to another part of the bloc — for example, closer to Russia's borders.

Staff (2021-05-05). VIDEO: Tashk Wetland hosting migratory cranes. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 05 (MNA) — Tashk Wetland in Fars province is hosting migratory cranes these days.

William rivers Pitt (2021-05-04). COVID Crises Show We Must End the Fiction of Borders. zcomm.org The fictions of borders and "rugged individualism" must be dismissed out of hand, for we are all in this together…

Fight Back (2021-05-04). Hundreds march for essential immigrant workers in Milwaukee May Day. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – In spite of gusts of wind in excess of 50 miles per hour, more than 250 people marched from the office of Wisconsin's premier immigrant rights organization, Voces de la Frontera, to the office of reactionary U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on the afternoon of May 1. The focus of the march was on essential immigrant workers. | The action was kicked off in the streets outside the recently-opened Voces headquarters. A few speeches, a song, and a prayer got the people in attendance ready to march. Marchers then made their way downtown to pay Senator Johnson's office a visit. Along the way, people chanted in…

Fight Back (2021-05-04). Hundreds march for essential immigrant workers in Milwaukee May Day. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – In spite of gusts of wind in excess of 50 miles per hour, more than 250 people marched from the office of Wisconsin's premier immigrant rights organization, Voces de la Frontera, to the office of reactionary U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on the afternoon of May 1. The focus of the march was on essential immigrant workers. | The action was kicked off in the streets outside the recently-opened Voces headquarters. A few speeches, a song, and a prayer got the people in attendance ready to march. Marchers then made their way downtown to pay Senator Johnson's office a visit. Along the way, people chanted in…

Pip Hinman (2021-05-04). Vale George Zangalis (1931—2021). greenleft.org.au Communist, trade unionist and class-struggle fighter for migrant rights George Zangalis died on March 25. Radicalised during the Greek civil war, Zangalis remained a fighter until the end, writes Sue Bolton.

Pip Hinman (2021-05-04). Vale George Zangalis 1931-1921. greenleft.org.au Communist, trade unionist and class-struggle fighter for migrant rights George Zangalis died on March 25. Radicalised during the Greek civil war, Zangalis remained a fighter until the end, writes Sue Bolton.

WSWS (2021-05-04). Four dead, two dozen injured after migrant boat capsizes off California coast. wsws.org The vessel broke apart Sunday after it hit a reef just off the coast of the San Diego's Point Loma peninsula.

Anonymous103 (2021-05-04). Two Russian Military Strongholds Established In Armenia On Azerbaijani, Iranian Borders. southfront.org Russian peacekeepers in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Source: Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS | Two new strongholds of the 102nd Russian military base in the Syunik region, bordering on Azerbaijan and Iran, in the south of Armenia. The announcement was made by Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan on May 3."This is an additional security guarantee not only for the Syunik region but for Armenia," Pashinyan was quoted as saying. | "The external security system of Armenia was not changed either before the war…

Anonymous103 (2021-05-04). Rocket Attack Hit US Al-Asad Airbase In Iraq, IEDs Targeted US Convoys Near Kuwaiti Border — Reports (Updated). southfront.org Update: Colonel Wayne Marotto, spokesman for the US-led coalition forces in Iraq, confirmed the attack. According to the initial report,…

Staff (2021-05-04). US logistic base targeted near Kuwait-Iraq border. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 04 (MNA) — A US military base used for maintaining military equipment has been targeted near the Iraq-Kuwait crossing border.

Paul Goble (2021-05-04). Putin Failed To Achieve His Three Goals In Ukraine — OpEd. eurasiareview.com Moscow's open movement of forces toward the Ukrainian border this spring was intended to achieve three goals, but because it was never intended as the beginning of a thrust that would lead to a major war between Russia and the West, Vladimir Putin failed to achieve any of his three goals regarding Ukraine this time around, Jerzy Targalski says. | In 2014, Putin used stealth to advance Russian forces toward and into Ukrainian territory; but this time, the Polish defense analyst says, he flaunted what he was doing in the expectation that such a display of force would be sufficient to achieve his goals. It wasn't…

Labor Video Project (2021-05-04). On May Day 2021 ILWU Backs Chilean Dockers In San Francisco! Solidarity Has No Borders. indybay.org San Francisco ILWU Local 10 on May Day rallied at the Chilean Consulate to support the strike action by Chilean dockers. Also Chileans spoke about the struggle in Chile.

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