Daily Archives: October 12, 2021

2021-10-12: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-10-12). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Flight attendants at Aeromar airlines in Mexico and transit workers in Mexico City are set to strike, while the Unifor union forced through a contract settlement for 950 workers at Rio Tinto's Kitimat aluminum smelter and the Kemano power plant in B.C., Canada.

Speak Out Now (2021-10-12). Saturday 11/6: "Hacer Pueblo": a narrative of community health from Mexico. indybay.org online meeting, see website for details…

It's Going Down (2021-10-12). This Is America #149: The Mask on Biden Slips. itsgoingdown.org Welcome, to This Is America, October 11th, 2021. On today's episode, we dive into headline and resistance news, before switching to our discussion, where we offer an anarchist critique and analysis of Biden's continuing attacks on migrants and push to expand industrial petrol-capitalism. There's a lot to cover, so let's get to the news! Living…

WSWS (2021-10-12). Behind the right-wing, anti-immigrant marches in Chile. wsws.org The events indict the capitalist state, which has sanctioned and fostered national chauvinism and xenophobia for electoral purposes.

Andrew Moss (2021-10-12). Vice-President Harris: It's Your Turn to Step Up for Immigrant Rights. zcomm.org More than at any time in the recent past, Congress and the Biden administration have the means to open a path to citizenship to millions of undocumented residents…

Staff (2021-10-11). The Red Nation Slams Cooptation of Indigenous Peoples' Day Amid Global Colonial Resource Extraction. democracynow.org We continue our look at Indigenous Peoples' Day with Jennifer Marley, a citizen of San Ildefonso Pueblo and a member of the grassroots Indigenous liberation organization The Red Nation, which helped lead a campaign in 2015 to officially recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Marley slams President Biden's formal recognition of Indigenous Peoples' Day as a federal holiday and discusses how Native lands are disproportionately used for resource extraction and how The Red Nation connects their local struggles to international decolonization campaigns, as well.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2021-10-11). Mexican President AMLO Pleads with Biden to End Failed Trillion Dollar "War on Drugs"—But Powerful U.S. Interests Prefer Deadly Status Quo. covertactionmagazine.com In June 2021, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) told U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in Mexico City that …

teleSUR, JGN (2021-10-11). Tormenta tropical Pamela golpeará estados del Pacífico mexicano. telesurtv.net El ciclón podría llegar a ser categoría 3 el miércoles cuando ingrese a territorio mexicano por las costas de Sinaloa.

teleSUR (2021-10-11). Mexico: Tropical Storm Pamela Could Become a Hurricane. telesurenglish.net Mexico's National Meteorological Service (SMN) reported that tropical storm Pamela broke out on the Pacific coast on Sunday. The storm is expected to produce heavy rains in several States, and there are chances that it could become a hurricane. | RELATED: | "On Sunday at 4: 00 p.m., Central Mexico time, tropical storm Pamela emerged from Tropical Depression 16-E," SMN announced and forecasted that it would become a Category 1 hurricane o…

TASS (2021-10-11). Number of foreigners obtaining Russian citizenship in 2021 exceeds 656,000 — Ministry. tass.com According to Russian Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Gorovoy, such results have been reached thanks to legal regulation introduced within migrant policy…

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