NYU Response To Grad Student Sickout Puts Fall Semester In Question
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-27
On May 6-8, NYU's graduate students held a three-day sickout to try and force the administration to commit to additional financial support for students in the wake of the novel coronavirus. | The students of NYU are echoing the demands of students at other universities: summer funding, a one-year extension of current funding packages, committing to not have a hiring freeze, and support for undocumented students. But NYU's refusal to engage with the graduate students is especially galling given the university's endowment is, by its own accounting, $4.3 billion. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (C…
therealnews.com/columns/nyu-response-to-grad-student-sickout-puts-fall-semester-in-question

International Women Day_8M in Mexico City
hanna quevedo | indybay.org | 2020-06-01
El 8M (8 de Marzo) del 2020, alrededor de 100000 mujeres tomaron las calles de la Ciudad de México para expresar su rabia y su fuerza al mundo.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/31/18833516.php

The Heat: COVID-19 in Mexico and Global Impact
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-05-22
Latin America is seeing a surge in cases with Mexico emerging as one of the hotspots. More than 54,000 people have been infected and over five thousand people have died.
america.cgtn.com/2020/05/22/the-heat-covid-19-in-mexico-and-global-impact

Nicaragua Battles COVID-19 And A Disinformation Campaign
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-01
Every country in the world is trying to balance its fight against the virus with the need to have a functioning economy, and there is plenty of debate about what the balance should be. The world's poorer countries face the toughest challenge, because a high proportion of their populations engage in a daily struggle to earn enough to eat, whether in small businesses or the informal economy. In Nicaragua, around 80% of people make their living in this way. | But there are two more problems uniquely affecting Nicaragua in tackling the pandemic. One is that its economy and social life had already been attacked only t…
popularresistance.org/nicaragua-battles-covid-19-and-a-disinformation-campaign/