Daily Archives: July 12, 2022

2022-07-12: News Headlines

Minnie Bruce Pratt (2022-07-12). Workers mobilize against Amazon — across borders. workers.org Despite ferocious union-busting attacks, Amazon workers continue to organize and move forward — with recent noteworthy progress from the U.S. South to the Mexican border. On July 7, More Perfect Union broke the news on Twitter that workers at Amazon warehouse SDF1 in Campbellsville, Kentucky, are affiliating with the Amazon . . . |

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-07-12). Presidente de México viaja a EE.UU. para reunirse con Biden. telesurtv.net Tema migratorio ocupa lugar central en la reunión. Abordarán las acciones para enfrentar la coyuntura inflacionaria y la seguridad.

TeleSUR -HIM (2022-07-12). Destaca presidente mexicano legado de Fidel como líder mundial. telesurtv.net El jefe de Estado mexicano elogió el liderazgo a nivel mundial de Fidel, Nelson Mandela, Chávez, Winston Churchill, Roosevelt y De Gaulle, entre otros.

Staff (2022-07-12). AMLO a Biden: "La salida no está en el conservadurismo, sino en la transformación" (+ Video). cubadebate.cu En un mensaje conjunto, previo a la reunión de trabajo bilateral que sostuvieron minutos después en la Casa Blanca, el mandatario mexicano hizo a su anfitrión cinco propuestas que, consideró, pueden ayudar a superar la actual crisis financiera, política y social derivada de la pandemia y la guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-07-11). Alina Duarte on AMLO's efforts to defy US imperialism. peoplesdispatch.org Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been charting a fresh, bold course in Mexican foreign policy and taken important stances to challenge US efforts in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean and globally. AMLO is set to meet US President Joe Biden on July 12 in Washington DC to discuss key issues such as migration, inflation, the US role in the region, the embargo against Cuba and more. | Peoples Dispatch spoke to Mexican journalist and researcher Alina Duarte to learn more about what is behind AMLO's tough stance against the US and what to expect from his upcoming meeting with Biden.

_____ (2022-07-11). The CIO Was One of the Most Successful Anti-Racism Movements in U.S. History. popularresistance.org In the 1930s, a new type of union, an "industrial" union that welcomed all workers in a single workplace emerged as the cutting edge of working-class struggle. Previously, unions and employers both had a long history of racism and support for white supremacy. Certain jobs were reserved for whites, and Black workers were kept out of factories and union halls. This had catastrophic consequences for the working class. For example, in the 1919 Steel Strike, employers brought in 30,000 Black and immigrant workers to break the strike staged by white workers and their racially exclusive unions. Long prevented from joini…

____ (2022-07-11). Angola Mourns Ex-President Jose Eduardo dos Santos. transcend.org 9 022 – Angolans eulogized former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos who died yesterday in Spain. He was 79 and ruled Angola for 38 years. Born 28 Aug. 1942 to immigrant parents from the archipelago of Sà£o Tome, dos Santos was raised in the poor Luanda neighborhood of Sambizanga. His father was a builder, his mother a maid.

WSWS (2022-07-11). Biden administration's continuation of Trump border wall will destroy Friendship Park, a historical site. wsws.org Ever since its creation, Friendship Park has been used as a location for workers and families on opposite sides of the border to see each other and spend time together. Its very creation, however, was bound up with the increased crackdown on migrants and the building of a militarized border.

WSWS (2022-07-11). Texas governor sends National Guard, state police to deport immigrants at the border. wsws.org The move comes days after former Trump officials called on Governor Abbott to declare an "invasion" across the southern border.

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