Monthly Archives: March 2021

2021-03-23: News Headlines

Al Neal (2021-03-23). Case before Supreme Court may be definitive for farmworker rights. peoplesworld.org Before the sun rises over the green hills and steep valleys of California, migrant farmworkers' feet have already touched the rich dark soil found on farmland. Their hands and feet will remain there, threshing and picking the fruit and vegetables adorning the supper table of U.S. households, long after the sun begins to set. On …

Fight Back (2021-03-23). Minnesota protest demands end to the war on immigrants. fightbacknews.org Saint Paul, MN – On March 20, around 60 people protested outside the Whipple Federal Building, which houses Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to demand an end to the war on immigrants. The protest was organized by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) to mark two months since President Biden was inaugurated. | After several speakers outside the perimeter of the Whipple Federal Building, the protesters marched to the building's main entrance for a rally. There were speakers from Mexican and Filipino immigrant communities, two powerful Black spoken-word artists, as well as speakers expres…

teleSUR (2021-03-23). Mexico Dispatches Its First Batch of CanSino COVID-19 Vaccines. telesurenglish.net Mexico's Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard Monday informed that 940,022 CanSino vaccines were packaged in his country and began to be distributed. | RELATED: | These doses were packaged at the Drugmex plant in Queretaro where Birmex laboratories are in charge of the distribution. Previously, Mexico purchased 35 million doses from China. | Ebrard noted that this vaccine is highly effective and it avoids hos…

Staff (2021-03-23). Border Invasion? Mexican MAGA Influencers Push "Damaging" Conspiracy Theories About Asylum Seekers. democracynow.org As thousands of asylum seekers continue to wait in Mexico for a chance to enter the United States, investigative journalist Jean Guerrero says Mexican social media influencers connected to right-wing U.S. media outlets and political figures are whipping up "hysteria" about the southern border. She says they are spreading false conspiracy theories about an orchestrated "invasion" and "child trafficking" funded by Democrats that are endangering vulnerable people. "It's been incredibly damaging," says Guerrero.

Anand Naidoo (2021-03-23). The Heat: U.S. politics. america.cgtn.com Thousands of migrants are arriving at the U.S. southern border, in what some are calling a crisis. We will take a look at the situation there, the COVID-19 pandemic and also at the Biden administration's foreign policy.

Greta Anderson (2021-03-23). Another Dead Wolf in Arizona. counterpunch.org You might not have seen the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service news release this week that announced the illegal killing of another Mexican wolf in Arizona. Authorities are looking for information on "a vehicle that was stopped or driving slowly near the Saffel Canyon Trailhead on the evening of February 18, 2021," or anything else

2021-03-22: News Headlines

Dr. Anthony Fauci (2021-03-22). The Fauci Interview on the Pandemic You Won't See on Mainstream Media. Mexico's Eugenio Derbez. globalresearch.ca

Jim Hightower (2021-03-22). A Mob Is Coming for Your Voting Rights. juancole.com ( Otherwords.org ) — In February, Texas Senator Ted Cruz ran off to a luxury resort in sunny Cancún, Mexico during the deep freeze that devastated millions of his constituents. But I wasn't mad that Ted fled. What upset me was that the government let him back into our country. Cruz is, after all, the …

Luis Manuel Arce Isaac (2021-03-22). Juez opositor incendia sector eléctrico de México. globalizacion.ca Un juez distrital de México, Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro, cumplió con transnacionales extranjeras como Iberdrola, Walmart y Bimbo, al ordenar suspensión definitiva a la reforma a la Ley de la Industria Eléctrica, para favorecerlas. | El magistrado echó así gasolina al…

Aram Aharonian (2021-03-22). Joe Biden, otro presidente patotero (y van…). globalizacion.ca A veces, las formas cambian, pero en el fondo Estados Unidos sigue siendo el mismo, al menos para nosotros, los latinoamericanos y caribeños. Algunos pensaron que en vez del garrote, el muro, las restricciones a los inmigrantes y el discurso…

Mouris Salloum George (2021-03-22). México — El manual sobre cómo perder un país. globalizacion.ca La oportuna aparición en México del libro de la periodista turca Elce Temelkuran, " Cómo perder un país ", es también un llamado de atención a las bases mismas de la convivencia. Significa un llamado urgente de alerta, porque previene…

commondreams (2021-03-22). Private Prison Company Poisoned Immigrants at Adelanto for A Decade. commondreams.org ______________________________…