2021-11-03: News Headlines

Jim McMahan (2021-11-03). Prisoners win minimum wage victory. workers.org Incarcerated workers on strike against horrific conditions at the Northwest Detention Center were supported by La Resistencia, Dec. 15, 2020. Seattle After years of hunger strikes, immigrant workers detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., have won the right to be paid for their labor at the same . . . |

Editorial La Jornada (2021-11-03). México — Neoliberalismo eléctrico: Atraco a la nación. globalizacion.ca La Jornada publica hoy una extensa entrevista con el director general de la Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Manuel Bartlett, en la que el funcionario desgrana los múltiples mecanismos de saqueo a la nación implementados en la Ley del Servicio…

WSWS (2021-11-03). Migrant woman drowns in Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego. wsws.org The woman drowned on Friday while trying to cross the US-Mexico border by swimming around the border fence that juts into the Pacific. Her death is a consequence of the Biden administration's criminal anti-immigrant policies.

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-03). Regional crisis worsens: Poland summons Belarus envoy over "armed intrusions" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Poland summons Belarusian envoy over border intrusion Poland's foreign ministry said on Wednesday it had summoned the Belarusian chargé d'affaires after Belarus staged an armed intrusion into Polish territory in a deliberate escalation of a migrant crisis at the two countries' shared border. The foreign ministry in Warsaw said in a statement that "unidentified uniformed …

Joris Leverink (2021-11-03). Defund the global climate wall. roarmag.org This essay was originally published at Photo: US border patrol is detaining immigrants from Latin America. Yuma, Arizona. May, 2021. Ringo Chiu / Shutterstock.com | At a National Security Council meeting in September, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken

Melissa Sanchez (2021-11-03). Afghan kids struggle in an ill-equipped US shelter. asiatimes.com This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Some children who were evacuated from Afghanistan and are being cared for at a Chicago shelter for immigrant minors have hurt themselves, harmed other children or threatened …

Marilyn Bechtel (2021-11-02). Nuclear weapons monitors demand environmental review of new bomb production plans. peoplesworld.org Four public interest groups monitoring the nation's nuclear weapons development sites are demanding the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Agency conduct a thorough environmental review of their plans to produce large quantities of a new type of nuclear bomb core, or plutonium pit, at sites in New Mexico and South Carolina. The …

Anaiz Alegria (2021-11-02). San Diego coalition sets up Día de los Muertos altar for fallen migrants. liberationnews.org The vigil called for the immediate release of all detained immigrants and for the abolition of the prison industrial complex.

_____ (2021-11-02). Yakama Nation Acquires Inaba Produce Farms. popularresistance.org On Monday, November 1, 2021, the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation ("Yakama Nation"), acting through its agricultural enterprise Yakama Nation Farms, purchased Inaba Produce Farms, Inc. from the Inaba family. | "When the Inaba family began farming here on the Yakama Reservation in the early 1900's, Yakama tribal members supported their efforts, leasing land to them when the laws of the United States did not permit Japanese immigrants to be landowners. Today, the Inaba family honors our historic relationship by selling Inaba Produce Farms to the Yakama Nation to support our sovereignty and food se…

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