WorkWeek on Privatization of Ports & Schools at Oakland Rally + Fire, PG&E & Public Power
WorkWeek Radio | indybay.org | 2019-11-02
WorkWeek looks at a united front rally in Oakland at Mosswood Park against privatization of the port of Oakland, the schools in Oakland and includes the fight in Mexico, Chile and Palestine. WorkWeek also looks at the role of PG&E in the fires and the issue of public power.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/31/18827746.php

Holly Death, Catrinas, Skulls Dance in the Mexican Halloween
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-01
Mexico's Day of the Dead, which is celebrated on November 1 and 2, has its origins in ancient pre-Hispanic cultures. | For this holiday homes and cementeries are adorned with offerings to the souls of the deceased, who are expected to return from the "Mictlan", the "place where the dead live." | In a country where the memory of dozens of different pre-Hispanic cultures is still strong, ceremonies and rituals can be slightly different from town to town. | For instance, in the state of Quintana Roo, where the Mayan culture reached its splendor, people celebrate the "Hanal Pixan," in which children's souls are recei…
telesurenglish.net/news/Holly-Death-Catrinas-Skulls-Dance-in-the-Mexican-Halloween-20191101-0005.html

Children and women lost, people dead in ICE custody
Betsey Piette | workers.org | 2019-11-01
According to a report by the American Civil Liberties Union released Oct. 24, over 5,400 children have been separated from their families by U.S. immigration authorities at the Mexican border since July 2017. While a federal judge in San Diego on June 26, 2018, ordered that the children be reunited . . . | Continue reading Children and women lost, people dead in ICE custody at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/10/44218/

UK General Election and the Chance to Get a Corbyn Government
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-01
Last year, Mexicans elected a leftish leader, López Obrador, who pledged "a Robin Hood institute" (Reuters) to "return everything to the people that's been stolen" by elites and small-time crooks (Obrador). Argentines recently rejected the creeping rightward trend in South America and also elected a leftish President, Alberto Fernández. In the US, Presidential candidate Bernie…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/01/uk-general-election-and-the-chance-to-get-a-corbyn-government/

Migrant Children Trapped in Mexico Are Leaving Their Families and Crossing the Border Alone
Debbie Nathan | theintercept.com | 2019-10-29
Children of asylum-seekers, trapped in Mexico by Trump's migrant protection protocols, are slipping away from their families and crossing the border alone.
theintercept.com/2019/10/29/mexico-migrant-unaccompanied-children-border-crossing/

I Went to Mexico to Meet Asylum-Seekers Trapped at the Border. This Is What I Saw
Ashoka Mukpo | aclu.org | 2019-10-24
Two weeks ago, I traveled to northern Mexico along with Mexican photographer Guillermo Arias to meet with asylum-seekers who've been trapped at the southern U.S. border by Trump Administration policies. Neither of us was prepared for what we saw there. | We visited two cities — Ciudad Juarez and Matamoros — to track down people who had been placed into the deceptively misnamed "Migrant Protection Protocols" that have slammed America's door shut to people fleeing persecution and violence in their home countries. Before we arrived, we wondered whether the stories we'd read of kidnappings, assaults,…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/i-went-to-mexico-to-meet-asylum-seekers-trapped-at-the-border-this-is-what-i-saw

Honduras is ruled by a US-backed drug cartel — and the country's opposition just united to oust it
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-10-24
"The process of uniting the opposition has begun, to oust the DRUG TRAFFICKERS, who rule us with the dictatorship of…
thegrayzone.com/2019/10/24/honduras-us-backed-drug-trafficking-dictatorship-opposition-united/

UNM faculty vote to unionize, blowout union-busting administration
David Myers | liberationnews.org | 2019-10-22
Behind the faculty victory at University of New Mexico.
liberationnews.org/unm-faculty-vote-to-unionize-blowout-union-busting-administration/

Venezuela Denies Guatemalan President-Elect Entrance, Congratulates Ecuadorian People on IMF Defeat
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-10-14
President Nicolas Maduro also called on Chavista forces to prepare to "rescue" the National Assembly in the upcoming elections.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14692