2021-05-01: News Headlines

Fight Back (2021-05-01). El Primero de Mayo 2021: Unir los muchos a vencer los pocos! °Abajo con los multimillonarios! °Necesitamos socialismo! fightbacknews.org El Primero de Mayo empezó como una celebración de la clase obrera y su lucha heroica después de la brutal violencia de la policía en el año 1886. Los trabajadores que manifestaron en Haymarket lucharon en contra condiciones de trabajo bien peor y por una campana de un día de trabajo por ocho horas. Los atacaron la policía, con muchos trabajadores heridos y muertos, muchos de ellos eran inmigrantes, resultado de un evento infamoso llamado la masacre de Haymarket. El estado de Illinois tuvo un juicio y ejecutó cuatro líderes laborales, siempre recordado como los Mártires de Haymarket. Todavía, el espíritu de este d…

Staff (2021-05-01). Nearly 340 illegal migrants rescued off Libyan coast: UNHCR. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 01 (MNA) — The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday said that some 340 illegal migrants have been rescued off the coast of Libya.

Mouris Salloum George (2021-05-01). México: Junio de 2021 será la prueba de fuego. globalizacion.ca En tanto no se reforme la Constitución, un periodo presidencial dura seis años. La misma Carta fundamental dicta: No reelección. El sistema métrico sexenal, es implacable: No hay más allá. | Si mal no calculamos, a la Cuarta transformación le restan…

_____ (2021-04-30). Why Delivery Workers Across The Planet Are Rising Up. popularresistance.org On February 22, 2019, at 6 pm, a car crashed into Servio Hernández's motorcycle. Hernández, a Venezuelan migrant in Chile, was hit while he was in the middle of making a delivery for PedidosYa, a branch of the German multinational company Delivery Hero. When Hernández arrived at the hospital, the first thing he did was ask the medical staff to let his supervisor know about the accident. "There is nothing we can do for him," the supervisor told the doctor. The supervisor turned off his phone and blocked Hernández from being able to access the PedidosYa app. | Servio Hernández is one of the millions of workers arou…

Latino Rebels (2021-04-30). Undocumented Immigrants and Allies Risk Arrest, Deportation to Protest Biden's First 100 Days Without Sufficient Action on Immigration. latinorebels.com Immigrant rights activists —including undocumented immigrants risking deportation— are protesting President Biden's 100 days in office and what they call "the Democratic Party's broken promises to the immigrant community" with a direct action in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

Latino Rebels (2021-04-30). PEW: Asian Americans Will Be Country's Largest Immigrant Group by 2055. latinorebels.com "By then, Asians are expected to make up 36% of all U.S. immigrants, while Hispanics will make up 34%," Pew noted in the analysis.

Dave DeCamp (2021-04-30). US Ends Visa Services for Most Russians, Reduces Moscow Embassy Staff by 75%. news.antiwar.com On Friday, the US embassy in Moscow As part of the cutbacks, the embassy will no longer process non-immigrant visas for Russians. So any Russian citizens that want to travel to the US that aren't seeking a green card would have to obtain a tourist visa through a third country. | The announcement came after Russia put limits on the amount of staff the US embassy could hire l…

Julia Conley, staff writer (2021-04-30). Demanding 'Papers Not Crumbs,' Undocumented Immigrants Risk Arrest Outside Biden White House. commondreams.org "WE will be the ones to define what the 'priorities' on immigration are—not Biden," said Movimiento Cosecha. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/undocumented_protest.jpg

Rebekah Entralgo (2021-04-30). Support for Essential Labor Has Largely Excluded Migrant Women Farmworkers. commondreams.org "Many women farmworkers do not even have access to their own income. Employers will often officially enroll a male employee while his wife and children work off the books." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/laborforce.jpg

The Associated Press (2021-04-30). An Unusual Coalition as Supreme Court Rules for Immigrant. latinorebels.com WASHINGTON (AP) — An unusual coalition of Supreme Court justices joined Thursday to rule in favor of an immigrant fighting deportation in a case that the court said turned on the meaning of the shortest word, "a."

Eve Ottenberg (2021-04-30). Incarcerating Innocents and Migrants in the U.S. counterpunch.org Parallels between U.S. abuse of Hispanic migrants and that of Jews in the very early Nazi years are deeply creepy. They were even creepier when Trump was president. That's because he was happy to demonize this Central American and Mexican minority, to deploy the full power of the state against it and to unleash police

Steve Taylor (2021-04-30). Carbon Colonialism and REDD: Reflections on Resistance. counterpunch.org Amador Hernandez Ten Years Later Ten years after a trip by a documentary team assembled by Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP) to the Lacandon Jungle of Chiapas, Mexico, GJEP is highlighting the resulting film and releasing a new interview with one of the photojournalists that travelled to the region to document the threatened relocation of

teleSUR (2021-04-30). Mexico Stiffens Penalties for Child Sexual Abuse Cases. telesurenglish.net Mexico's Senate on Friday approved a Penal Code reform so that sexual crimes against minors are not subject to the statute of limitations. | RELATED: | Approved unanimously with 117 votes, this reform regulates criminal proceedings regarding child pornography, child sex tourism, corruption of minors, pimping, pederasty, sexual abuse, and rape. | "When any of these crimes are committed by ministers or public of…

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