Daily Archives: January 10, 2022

2022-01-10: News Headlines

Editor (2022-01-10). NYC Enacts Law Allowing Over 800,000 Immigrants to Vote in Local Elections. scheerpost.com Electoral workers wait inside a school in Manhattan during early voting in the New York City mayoral election on October 23, 2021. (Photo: Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images) | By Jessica Corbett / A New York City law granting more than 800,000 lawful permanent residents the right to vote in local elections took effect Sunday after the recently elected mayor, Democrat Eric Adams, declined to veto it. | The New York City Council had voted 33-14—with two abstentions…

teleSUR, SH (2022-01-10). México reporta los primeros tres casos de flurona. telesurtv.net México es el segundo país de América Latina que ha reportado casos de flurona en el 2022.

sputniknews (2022-01-10). Norway Finds Education Gaps Between Immigrants, Ethnic Norwegians. sputniknews.com In Norway, immigrants have been found to do worse on standardised national tests, and a smaller proportion of them pursue an upper secondary education or higher education altogether.

Alasdair Baverstock (2022-01-09). Residents of Mexico City living with extreme weather threats. america.cgtn.com As the world enters 2022, climate change and its effects on the globe are ever more present problems that need facing. And in Mexico, where the effects are already being felt more strongly, the response of the government and society is more vital than …

WSWS (2022-01-09). UK first European country to record 150,000 official COVID deaths. wsws.org Only the US, Brazil, India, Russia, Mexico and Peru have recorded more deaths. The UK has a population of just 68.4 million. Except Peru, other countries recording more deaths than Britain all have substantially larger populations.

Juan Cole (2022-01-09). How New Mexico just became the Saudi Arabia of Wind. zcomm.org Central New Mexico has the potential to be a wind powerhouse…

_____ (2022-01-09). On Contact: Islamophobia, Race And Global Politics. popularresistance.org Islamophobia is not defined solely as anti-Muslim sentiment. It is not limited to hate speech and hate crimes, racial stereotypes, or discrimination against Muslim men and women. Islamophobia, in its most pernicious and deadly form, is embodied in the wars waged by the United States in the Muslim world, as well as the laws and internal security structures that turn Muslims in the United States into "the other." These laws include the criminalization of migrants, allowing Americans to justify the violent and illegal treatment of the undocumented, and the wholesale surveillance of Muslim communities. It includes th…

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