2022-03-09: News Headlines

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-03-09). California Assembly Bill 1655 – Juneteenth Paid Holiday for the State of California. indybay.org One block from Old Sacramento Supreme Court Chambers the auction block of "enslaved" prisoners of war were sold. All along the American River Parkway, in the shadow of the early California State Capitol construction, enslavement of people of African Descent, Genocide of Indigenous Nations, Kanakas, Mexicans, Chileans and anybody with melanin pigmentated skin were not a citizen in 1849. Throughout the State same song…

ecns.cn (2022-03-09). Chinese company delivers 800 natural gas buses to Mexico. ecns.cn delivered 800 passenger buses powered by natural gas to Mexico on Tuesday, marking China's largest passenger bus export order to Mexico to date."ÄÄ"ÄÄ…

Dianne Mathiowetz (2022-03-09). Georgia rally demands: 'No prisons for profit!'. workers.org Atlanta March 3 — Immigrant rights groups and other social justice organizations responded to a call from the Detention Watch Network to hold demonstrations at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities across the U.S. today. In Georgia, the Coalition to Shut Down ICE was formed that included dozens of organizations . . . |

Maicol David Lynch (2022-03-08). Entrevista al actor mexicano Axel Arenas. peoplesworld.org CIUDAD DE MÉXICO—Para muchos estadounidenses, el mundo del cine mexicano puede ser algo desconocido fuera del ámbito de las "narcoseries". Verificación de hechos: no todo el gran cine mexicano se basa en temas de drogas, inmigración, violencia y deportación. People's World se reunió con Axel Arenas solo unos días antes de que diera una conferencia …

_____ (2022-03-08). US Officials Meet Maduro, Fail To Drive Wedge Between Venezuela And Russia. popularresistance.org Mexico City, Mexico — A high-level United States (US) government delegation that visited Venezuela on Saturday failed to produce an agreement with the government of Nicolás Maduro. | News of the delegation was first broken by the New York Times, which described the trip as the highest-level visit by US officials in years. Outlets subsequently reported that no agreement was reached. Caracas had not publicly commented on the meeting at the time of writing. | According to Reuters, the US team was led by White House Latin America adviser Juan González and made "maximalist" demands concerning electoral guarantee…

_____ (2022-03-08). Cuba, Nicaragua And Mexico Lead World Gender Parity In Parliaments. popularresistance.org Cuba, Nicaragua and Mexico have been ranked 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the world, having achieved the highest proportion of women in parliament out of 189 countries. What's more, these three along with Rwanda and the United Arab Emirates are the only five countries in the world to have achieved gender parity in their lower or single legislative house (National Assembly, Congress, or Parliament) as of February 2022. | The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) released its 2021 Women in Parliament report of countries with the best gender balance in parliament this week. Cuba, with 53.4% of women holding seats in the National As…

teleSUR, lvm, JL (2022-03-08). Suspenden a barras visitantes tras violencia en estadio en México. telesurtv.net La Liga de México también suspendió toda actividad relacionada con el fútbol en la casa del club Querétaro.

Huitzilopochtli Marron (2022-03-08). San Diego-based coalition marches to close migrant concentration camps. liberationnews.org "The money that is being used in these centers should be going to the community, the arts…instead of the inhumane conditions that exist in the centers," said Salvadoran migrant Hever Alberto Mendoza, incarcerated in the OMDC.

WSWS (2022-03-08). The German state tries to cover its tracks in latest far-right trial. wsws.org Between August 2018 and March 2021, hundreds of threatening letters were sent to artists, lawyers and politicians under the acronym NSU 2.0, which is a reference to the neo-Nazi terrorist group National Socialist Underground responsible for the murder of nine immigrants and a policewoman.

teleSUR, DRL (2022-03-08). Mueren 50 migrantes en naufragio frente a Libia. telesurtv.net En el período del 27 de febrero al 5 de marzo de 2022, 452 migrantes procedentes de Libia fueron interceptados en el mar.

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