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2021-11-23: News Headlines

_____ (2021-11-22). The Amazon Army And The 1919-1922 Kansas Coal Strikes. popularresistance.org The struggle of the miners and the Amazon Army appears in no major labor history book. I decided to leave it out in my first book When Workers Shot Back (Ovetz, 2019) due to the lack of documentary evidence to write an entire chapter on it. This oversight is a mistake. The Amazon Army has much to teach us today about the interconnected struggle between waged and unwaged workers, immigrant and native labor, productive and reproductive labor, industrial unionism and organizing for power on the shopfloor, and the use of labor law and unions as a strategy for managing and suppressing class struggle.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-22). European Court of Human Rights holds Croatian authorities responsible for death of migrant child. peoplesdispatch.org An Afghan migrant family was forcefully pushed back from the border by the Croatian authorities in 2017. A six-year-old child in the family was later hit and killed by a train while walking on foot near the Serbian border…

2021-11-23 15:38 | 11:38 EST | jz | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 

2021-11-22: News Headlines

teleSUR (2021-11-21). Mexico: 600 Migrants Are Found Crammed In Truck Trailers. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Mexican authorities rescued 600 Latin American, Asian, and African migrants who were traveling crammed into two truck trailers through Acayucan City with the hope to reach the U.S. | RELATED: | "I have never seen so many migrants in a similar event: 145 women and 455 men hid in the trailer," Veracruz State Human Rights Commission Director Tonatiuh Hernandez stated, adding that these people came from Guat…

William rivers Pitt (2021-11-21). From Glasgow to Gulf of Mexico, Fossil Fuel Industry Shows Us Who's in Charge. zcomm.org The infrastructure bill contains billions in fossil fuel subsidies, even as it was stripped of all meaningful climate policy…

Roselena Ramirez (2021-11-21). Lagoon of Seven Colors in Mexico Threatened by Development. america.cgtn.com Mexico ¥s Lake Bacalar, on the border with Belize, attracts tourists from across the world. The lake is famous for its stunning colors. This geographical wonder is also a scientific gem concealing a unique organism. But as tourists come to see its crystal-clear waters, Alasdair Baverstock …

2021-11-22 18:16 | 14:16 EST | jz | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0