Daily Archives: June 19, 2021

2021-06-19: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-06-19). Responding to WSWS, AFL-CIO official tells Mexican workers that UAW embodies "union democracy" wsws.org A leading official at the Solidarity Center, the government-financed arm of the AFL-CIO, intervened against a WSWS appeal for Mexican workers to support striking workers in the US.

teleSUR (2021-06-19). Mexico To Start the Public Campaign on Ex-Presidents' Trials. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Mexico's National Electoral Institute (INE) unanimously approved the campaign on the public consultation to try five former Presidents for acts of corruption. | RELATED: | The campaign on the referendum will take place from July 15 until Aug. 1 and will cost approximately US$44.5 million. | The campaign intends to inform Mexicans about the consultation's goals, the locations for the voting process, the…

Joris Leverink (2021-06-19). It is time to end illegal pushbacks and abolish Frontex. roarmag.org An informal migrant camp in Serbia. Photo by Abdul Saboor | The European Union's border regime has been rapidly expanding in the past years, especially since the so-called "refugee crisis" of 2015, which put migration at the top of the European political agenda. It seems that there has not been much opposition against this expansion, which ranges from border

Eds. (2021-06-19). Volcano vs. volcano. mronline.org On the anniversary of his birth, we recall the volcanic strength Ernesto Guevara carried within, already evident in the young man who met Fidel in Mexico. | June 19, 2021 | Newswire…

Michael Welch (2021-06-19). Still Unreconciled in Canada: A Century of Residential School Horrors. globalresearch.ca "We had a knowing in our community that we were able to verify. To our knowledge, these missing children are undocumented deaths….Some were as young as three years old." — Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First NationKukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir, …

_____ (2021-06-18). Why We Must Confront The History Of US Native Boarding Schools. popularresistance.org When Patricia Whitefoot learned about the remains of 215 children found in a mass grave at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, she was devastated. | The children's grave shocked the world, but for Whitefoot, the horror hit close to home. | As members of the Yakama Nation in Central Washington, Whitefoot's family experienced firsthand the trauma of the U.S. boarding school experience, where Native American children were ripped from their families and forced to reject Native language and culture. | Whitefoot, who was raised by her maternal grandparents, said her grandmother told Whitefoot ab…

Maria Paez Victor (2021-06-18). PM Trudeau's Donors' Conference on Venezuela: An Exercise in Deception. orinocotribune.com June 16, 2021, Toronto — "Canada must immediately cease its aggression against Venezuelans and stop deceiving Canadians and the world about what the government is truly up to," declared Maria Paez Victor, spokesperson for the Canadian Campaign of Venezuelans and Friends Against Sanctions (CCVFAS). The sanctions have contributed to 100,000 deaths according to former UN Rapporteur Alfred de Zayas, as well as significant outward migration. The New York Times recently determined that those sanctions were a key generator of migrants. | The International Donors' Conference in Solidarity with Venezuelan Refugees a…

Azadeh Shahshahani (2021-06-18). ICE Shut Down One Gruesome Detention Center—Then Transferred Immigrants to Another. progressive.org Georgia's Irwin Detention Center, where immigrant women were subjected to forced sterilization, is finally closing down. Now, ICE is moving detained immigrants to a private prison with a record of human rights abuses.

Staff (2021-06-18). Venezuela Labels Migrants Donor Conference in Canada as a Media Farce: Where is the Money? orinocotribune.com Venezuela condemned Canada's Donors Conference for Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees as a media farce held in its name, and demanded an end to the political, economic and media aggressions against the country. | Through a statement published on the Twitter account of Venezuela's Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Arreaza, Venezuela denounced the interventionist event attended by authorities from Canada, Spain, Colombia, the European Union, and agencies of the United Nations (UN). | "Under the strict Washington script, they exhibit a cynical reading of the situation of migrants of Venezuelan origin, scandalously omitti…

Tony McKenna (2021-06-18). Amazon's "The Boys:" The Superhero as Cypher for the Times. counterpunch.org Our superheroes have always reflected the spirit of the times. Superman first appeared in the 1930s, its creators were the children of Jewish immigrants, and by the time of the Second World War, the Caped-Kryptonian was an avid anti-fascist, battling Nazi sympathisers and even going as far as to throttle Adolf Hitler himself. In the 1960s, the

teleSUR (2021-06-18). Mexico: Economy as of May close to Pre-Pandemic Levels -report. telesurenglish.net Mexico's statistic agency INEGUI reported on Thursday that the economic activity has recovered by more than 20 percent compared to the same period last year, which indicates a promising recovery despite the COVID-19 pandemic forced Latin America ¥s second-largest economy to a standstill. | RELATED: | According to INEGUI, in May, the economy grew by 24.8 percent as the greatest rebound and dynamism would be occurring…

Mouris Salloum George (2021-06-18). México — Debe escucharse con atención a las clases medias. globalizacion.ca Aparte de que las clases medias son el motor de las revoluciones modernas y la base indiscutible para el fortalecimiento del mercado interno, única plataforma de despegue posible, se considera que el éxito de cualquier sistema político en el mundo,…

Mouris Salloum George (2021-06-18). México, en el maremágnum — La sociedad ni enterada, la clase media. globalizacion.ca En medio del maremágnum que asfixia a México en el que lo más identificado es la confrontación política, la sociedad civil observa como un suceso remoto, siendo tan cercana la sucesión presidencial de 2024. La comunidad nacional no beligerante ve…

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