Daily Archives: August 12, 2022

2022-08-12: News Headlines

Unitarian Universalist Forum (2022-08-12). Sunday 9/18: The U.S. War with Mexico, Manifest Destiny and the Rise of the U.S. Empire. indybay.org UUSF 1187 Franklin @ Geary, MLK Room or Join the conversation on Zoom: | zoom.us/j/91297649127pwd=eitYTk1nVVFPdVlYK2VoWXQ2TjNHZz09

_____ (2022-08-11). The Migration Crisis is Tearing Europe Apart. journal-neo.org In the past decade, Europe has faced its biggest migration crisis since World War II. It escalated significantly in the autumn of 2015, when the flow of refugees and irregular migrants from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia into the European Union increased dramatically and the EU was unprepared to receive and distribute …

Liberation Staff (2022-08-11). Hyundai Motor Company exposed for using child labor. liberationnews.org In Luverne, Alabama — the self-styled "Friendliest City in the South" — a Reuters report found that a subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Company has used child labor after the disappearance of a young migrant child from her home in Alabama.

W. T. Whitney Jr. (2022-08-11). Climate change has long prompted migration, now it may drive anti-capitalist consciousness, too. peoplesworld.org U.S. government programs for migrants who cross the country's southern border are punitive and disjointed. Left-leaning political groupings may criticize, but they too have fallen short in conceptualizing lives of dignity for migrants in the United States. Nor do they adequately take into account adverse circumstances weighing on migrants' lives in their home countries. First …

Mark Gruenberg (2022-08-11). Republican plan: Take away Social Security, restart Mexican Wall, build Keystone. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Congressional Republicans haven't officially unveiled their legislative agenda should they sweep to power in November, but they gave an ugly preview—including putting Social Security payments at risk—this week on the campaign trail and at a key House committee work session. The Social Security threat came from Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who holds the shakiest seat …

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