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2020-06-01: Social Media Postees

Please be social by posting these 'POSTEES' on social media! (Copy the text of the postee below, then paste it on social media and the story images will also appear.)

NYU Response To Grad Student Sickout Puts Fall Semester In Question
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-27
On May 6-8, NYU's graduate students held a three-day sickout to try and force the administration to commit to additional financial support for students in the wake of the novel coronavirus. | The students of NYU are echoing the demands of students at other universities: summer funding, a one-year extension of current funding packages, committing to not have a hiring freeze, and support for undocumented students. But NYU's refusal to engage with the graduate students is especially galling given the university's endowment is, by its own accounting, $4.3 billion. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (C…
therealnews.com/columns/nyu-response-to-grad-student-sickout-puts-fall-semester-in-question

International Women Day_8M in Mexico City
hanna quevedo | indybay.org | 2020-06-01
El 8M (8 de Marzo) del 2020, alrededor de 100000 mujeres tomaron las calles de la Ciudad de México para expresar su rabia y su fuerza al mundo.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/31/18833516.php

The Heat: COVID-19 in Mexico and Global Impact
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-05-22
Latin America is seeing a surge in cases with Mexico emerging as one of the hotspots. More than 54,000 people have been infected and over five thousand people have died.
america.cgtn.com/2020/05/22/the-heat-covid-19-in-mexico-and-global-impact

Nicaragua Battles COVID-19 And A Disinformation Campaign
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-01
Every country in the world is trying to balance its fight against the virus with the need to have a functioning economy, and there is plenty of debate about what the balance should be. The world's poorer countries face the toughest challenge, because a high proportion of their populations engage in a daily struggle to earn enough to eat, whether in small businesses or the informal economy. In Nicaragua, around 80% of people make their living in this way. | But there are two more problems uniquely affecting Nicaragua in tackling the pandemic. One is that its economy and social life had already been attacked only t…
popularresistance.org/nicaragua-battles-covid-19-and-a-disinformation-campaign/

Last Process: 4 Postees: 2020-06-02 04:05 GMT (00:05 EST)

2020-05-31: News Headlines

Vijay Prashad (2020-05-29). If you do not feel for humanity, you have forgotten to be human. mronline.org The coronavirus continues its contagious march across the planet: almost 350,000 known deaths and over 5.4 million people infected. Meanwhile, in the Bay of Bengal, Cyclone Amphan makes its fierce landing, its immense energy tearing a corridor through Bangladesh and India (Odisha and West Bengal).

Stephen Sefton (2020-05-29). The US Violent Failed Coup against Nicaragua. The Falsity of Western Media. globalresearch.ca On May 28th 2018, the organizers of that year's violent failed coup attempt executed a carefully planned, well coordinated attack to destroy the pro-government Sandinista radio station Nueva Radio Ya. During the attack,

yenisafak (2020-05-31). COVID-19 death toll in Mexico nears 10,000. yenisafak.com A total of 364 people have died in the past 24 hours from the novel coronavirus in Mexico, bringing the total fatalities to almost 10,000, health officials said Sunday.The number of confirmed cases climbed to 87,512 with new 2,885 infections, and the death toll rose to 9,779 in the country.Mexico confirmed its first case on Feb. 28 and the first death from COVID-19 on March 19.Globally, more than 6 million cases have been confirmed in 188 countries and regions since the virus emerged in China last year.The pandemic has killed nearly 370,000 people worldwide, while over 2.57 million people have recovered so far, a…

Last Process: 3 Citations: 2020-05-31 14:54 GMT (10:54 EST)