2022-09-21: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-09-21). Key question from today's policy meeting: Where the US Fed is heading? wsws.org The phrase "fighting inflation" is essentially a cover for the Fed's real agenda which is the suppression of wage claims being advance by workers to try to compensate for the biggest price hikes in four decades by contracting the economy and driving up unemployment.

Staff (2022-09-21). Free Hafez Huraini! Call on Canadian diplomats to demand release of imprisoned Palestinian land defender. samidoun.net On 12 September 2022, Hafez Huraini, along with one other local resident of the small Palestinian village of Atuwani and one international, were attacked by armed Israeli settlers while working in the community garden. During the attack, Hafez sustained multiple fractures to his arms and hands. Despite his severe injuries, he was seized and detained …

Staff (2022-09-21). Video: "Exposing Israel's Assassination Policy" event in Vancouver. samidoun.net On Sunday, 28 August, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network in Vancouver organized an event on the Israeli assassination policy in Palestine historically and at present. From the August assassinations of Tayseer al-Jabari and Khaled Mansour in the Unity of the Fields battle in Gaza to the historical assassinations of Abu Ali Mustafa and Naji al-Ali …

Brenda Norrell (2022-09-21). Standing Rock Rattled Legislators into Backdoor Deal: Prison for Peaceful Protesters. indybay.org

Center for Biological Diversity (2022-09-21). Lawsuit Aims to Protect West Coast Fisher. indybay.org Rare Forest Carnivore Threatened by Logging, Climate Change, Poison…

Lynda Carson (2022-09-21). Some Oakland Cops Rake In Half A Million Annually, & Have Millions Of Dollars Stashed Away. indybay.org Despite the Oakland cops having having millions of dollars stashed away at various locations, the City of Oakland remains on the hook to settle lawsuits because of the activities of the Oakland cops.

Benjamin Norton (2022-09-20). FBI spied on and harassed Black revolutionary who was killed and set on fire. multipolarista.com The FBI harassed Black revolutionary Darren Seals and compiled a 900-page report on his organizing against racism and police brutality in Ferguson, Missouri, birthplace of Black Lives Matter. He was shot to death in 2016, then set on fire in his car.

Staff (2022-09-20). Two Palestinian student leaders jailed without charge or trial #FreePalestinianStudents. samidoun.net On Friday, 16 September, Israeli occupation forces seized 23 Palestinian students — part of the Progressive Democratic Student Pole, the leftist student organization at Bir Zeit University, while they were on a group trip to Aboud village west of Ramallah. Occupation forces then kept 11 jailed and under interrogation for several days until Monday, 19 …

_____ (2022-09-20). Domestic workers will now have some of the same labor protections as other employees in Colorado. popularresistance.org Domestic workers — including people who care for children, tend gardens and clean other people's homes — have new rights under a state law that went into effect this summer. | HB22-1367 officially says domestic workers are "employees," just the same as those who work for a boss at an office or a factory. It went into effect Aug. 10. | That means nannies, gardeners and others are now protected by the state's civil rights laws, according to employment attorney Rachel Ellis of Livelihood Law.

Kyle Anzalone (2022-09-20). Guantanamo: The White House Is Making a Quiet Effort at Closing America's Infamous Torture Prison. globalresearch.ca

Sarah Brannon (2022-09-20). National Voter Registration Day is Today: Here's What You Need to Know. aclu.org Today is National Voter Registration Day, and it's important to make sure you are registered at your current address and ready to vote. You can get information about registering to vote or updating your voter registration When every eligible person can register and vote, the promise of democracy becomes more real for all of us. | We need our federal leaders to do everything within their authority to protect and promote the fundamental right to vote. | Last year, the Biden administration put forth…

Owen Fairclough (2022-09-20). U.S. lawmakers call for urgent prison oversight. america.cgtn.com U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday called for urgent reform in prison oversight after a report found deaths are not being accounted for.

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