Daily Archives: October 13, 2021

2021-10-13: News Headlines

Anonymous Contributor (2021-10-13). El Comedor: Call for Support for Tijuana's Migrant/Refugee Mutual Aid Kitchen. itsgoingdown.org Call to support autonomous and self-organized mutual aid center, El Comedor, amidst a new wave of attacks on migrants along the so-called US and Mexico border. The crisis of borders continues in the "Americas." Xenophobic Trump era policies are still in operation stacked atop the older and fundamental necropolitical logic of the border. Those who make…

The Associated Press (2021-10-13). Federal Immigration Agents to End Practice of Worksite Raids. latinorebels.com CHICAGO (AP) — Federal immigration agents will end mass workplace arrests of immigrant employees suspected of living in the U.S. without legal permission, according to a memo issued Tuesday by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-10-12). Mexican President AMLO Pleads with Biden to End Failed Trillion Dollar "War on Drugs" libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Kuzmarov In June 2021, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) told U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in Mexico City that he wanted to end military cooperation in fighting drug trafficking and to instead promote economic development. "We don't want military cooperation," he said, "we don't want it to be like it was before when they…

Liberation Staff (2021-10-12). As record numbers arrive, unaccompanied migrant youth subjected to abuse, neglect. liberationnews.org As of September 2021, the number of unaccompanied migrant youth crossing the U.S.-Mexico border this year has spiked to 130,000.

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…

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.

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…

_____ (2021-10-12). Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez' Family Demand Justice 9 Years After Murder. popularresistance.org Since the night of October 10, 2012, Taide Elena and Araceli Rodriguez have traveled a long road to access justice for Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez. The road has not been easy. On three occasions, the U.S. government has denied them justice. On countless other events, the same government has violated their rights as victims of a crime that has become tragically common over the years: the murder of people -migrants or not- by U.S. Border Patrol agents. | In the first trial on April 2018, a jury in a federal courtroom in Tucson, Arizona, acquitted Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz of second-degree murder charges fo…

_____ (2021-10-12). Who Will Step Up In Biden's DOJ To Save Julian Assange? popularresistance.org Last month Biden's Haitian envoy resigned on principle. Is there someone in Biden's Justice Department who would push the attorney general to drop the prosecution of Julian Assange? | Last month the U.S. special envoy to Haiti quit in protest over the Biden administration's decision to repatriate thousands of Haitian migrants from the United States. In his letter (pdf) of resignation to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Daniel Foote wrote, ""I will not be associated with the United States' inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees and illegal immigrants to Haiti, a country wher…

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…

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.

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