Daily Archives: November 2, 2021

2021-11-02: News Headlines

Julio Gumeta (2021-11-02). Milwaukee activists demand citizenship for all. liberationnews.org It is crucial to keep pressure on the Democrats to keep immigration reforms in the infrastructure bill.. At same time, we need to fight to uproot the capitalist system that seeks to exploit us all for profit.

Pablo Manríquez (2021-11-02). Progressive Caucus Chair Jayapal Wavers on Immigrant Relief in Budget Bill. latinorebels.com In recent days, the full-throated support for a citizenship pathway for immigrants in the budget bill has begun to fade from Rep. Pramila Jayapal's public statements.

Alexa Pantuck (2021-11-01). Immigrant rights activists in Los Angeles demand: Ignore the Parliamentarian! liberationnews.org The rally was a reminder that organized mass struggle is the key to liberation and that a diverse, multicultural, and internationalist labor movement is essential for working class gains.

Pablo Manríquez (2021-11-01). Immigrant Rights Group Plans Times Square Protest for Pathway to Citizenship. latinorebels.com New Immigrant Community Empowerment is planning an 11-day protest in Times Square calling on Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) to include a pathway to citizenship in the Build Back Better Act, President Joe Biden's social spending bill.

Ann Brown (2021-11-01). Minister Bernice King Goes In On Biden's $450,000 Border Family Proposal: Why Not Consider Reparations For Black America? moguldom.com Unconfirmed reports that President Joe Biden is considering paying $450,000 each to people separated from their families at the southern border over the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy have upset the daughter of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Immigrant families were separated from their children after crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. seeking …

_____ (2021-11-01). How The US Enabled Ethiopia's Bloodletting. popularresistance.org The World Food Program recently reported that 7 million Ethiopians across three northern states—Afar, Amhara, and Tigray—risk starvation: more than 5 million of whom are in Tigray; a region that borders Eritrea and consists of seven million Ethiopians. The governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea are united against the potentially secessionist Tigrayan People's Liberation Front. As usual in war, ordinary civilians pay the price. | But over the years, the Pentagon has armed and trained the Ethiopian military. While feigning concern for human rights, Washington appears to be taking a "wait-and-see" approach,…

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-01). U.S., NATO accuse Russia of building up troops…on its own territory: Washington Post. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com United States, Europe claim Russia building up troops on border with Ukraine Officials in the United States and Europe in recent weeks have noted a buildup of troops on the border with Ukraine…. "The renewed movements of Russian forces in the area come as the Kremlin embraces a harder line on Ukraine," the Washington Post …

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-01). Syria: 40-vehicle U.S. military convoy reinforces bases with weapons, equipment. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com US occupation vehicles laden with weapons enter Hasaka, Deir Ezzor countryside A convoy of vehicles for US occupation forces laden with weapons and military equipment has entered the occupation's bases in Syrian territory through the illegitimate al-Walid border crossing with Iraq. "A convoy of 40 US occupation vehicles laden with weapons, ammunition, military equipment and …

Jolie McCullough (2021-11-01). Constitutionality of Texas governor's 'catch and jail' immigration policy challenged. peoplesworld.org This story is reprinted from The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans—and engages with them—about public policy, politics, government, and statewide issues. The article originally appeared here. More than two dozen Democratic members of Congress called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. attorney general to investigate legal problems that …

Pablo Manríquez (2021-11-01). Immigrant Rights Advocates Grapple With Senate Parliamentarian's Past as INS Prosecutor. latinorebels.com "As someone who has worked to deport people, [MacDonough] cannot be trusted to rule objectively on immigration issues," the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) said last Thursday in a statement.

_____ (2021-11-01). World Gathering Of Peoples For Our Mother Earth. popularresistance.org The climate crisis is one of the gravest global threats that we face in the defense of life, which places our own existence and of our Mother Earth's at risk. | The current anthropocentric model, which places human beings above nature and other living beings, has produced the current climate crisis and it is modifying the vital cycles of Mother Earth, causing the collapse of many ecosystems, the extinction of species, the change of ways of life of hundreds of millions of people all over the world, expanding hunger and poverty in the world and an increasing climate migration. | We express the urgency of building a…

teleSUR, JCM (2021-11-01). México ofrece a migrantes la atención de personas vulnerables. telesurtv.net Autoridades mexicanas lamentan que la situación de algunos personas de la caravana de migrantes se use con fines mediáticos.

Staff (2021-11-01). Headlines for November 1, 2021. democracynow.org World Leaders, Activists Descend on Glasgow for COP26 as Future of Humanity Hangs in the Balance, G20 Members Agree to Minimum Corporate Tax Rate, Vaccines Push, Make Little Progress on Climate, Global COVID Death Toll Tops 5 Million; FDA Approves Vaccines for 5- to 11-Year-Olds, SCOTUS Rejects Religious Objection to Vaccine for Maine Health Workers; NYC Mandate Takes Effect, Biden Admin Issues New Memo to End "Remain in Mexico" as Migrant Caravan Takes Break on Trek to U.S., Veteran Reporter Fredy López Arévalo Is at Least the Ninth Murdered Journalist in Mexico This Year, 10 People Killed in Marib Fighting as 2…

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