Biden attacks political rights as bosses cut jobs and wages By Terry Evans February 15, 2021
The Advertiser-TribuneJan. 27 picket line at Borgers USA auto parts plant in Norwalk, Ohio. Workers went on strike Jan. 21 in fight to improve pay, benefits, and win recognition of their union.
Working people in the U.S. face an economic and social crisis with millions of jobs closed down and bosses attacking the hours, wages and working conditions of those still on the job in a drive to crush their competitors and defend their profits. President Joe Biden is doing nothing to reverse this.
What he
is doing is issuing reams of executive orders diktats not debated or voted on by anyone aimed at regulating working people more closely.
Democrats in Congress are eyeing statehood for Puerto Rico, despite the commonwealth s huge debt and systemic public corruption. Pictured: Not everyone is sold on the idea. Some in the Puerto Rican community in New York City, seen here on Sept. 28, 2017, advocate independence for the Caribbean island. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Julia Canzano is a student at Boston College and a Heritage Foundation Academy Fellow.
Puerto Rico has long been stuck in limbo between becoming the 51st state and remaining an unincorporated U.S. territory. But now, with Democrats in control of Congress and the White House, the issue of Puerto Rican statehood is back on the table.
Ervin keynote speaker for WIU Black History Month event Feb. 2
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Weatern Illinois University
MACOMB As part of the 2021 celebration of Black History Month at Western Illinois University, University of Missouri-Columbia Associate Professor Keona Ervin will deliver the keynote address, Reimagining Liberation: Black Feminism from the Combahee River Collective to the Movement for Black Lives, virtually from 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2.
The address will provide an overview of the organizing work of radical Black feminists from the 1970s to present. It will include a discussion of the ways Black feminism has uniquely shaped and critiqued movements for social democracy.
January 20, 2021 MACOMB, IL – As part of the 2021 celebration of Black History Month at Western Illinois University, University of Missouri-Columbia Associate Professor Keona Ervin will deliver the keynote address, Reimagining Liberation: Black Feminism from the Combahee River Collective to the Movement for Black Lives, virtually from 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2.
The address will provide an overview of the organizing work of radical Black feminists from the 1970s to present. It will include a discussion of the ways Black feminism has uniquely shaped and critiqued movements for social democracy.
The virtual address can be accessed Feb. 2 at https://wiu.zoom.us/j/99652421131, and the event is open free to the public.
Union wants Amathole Municipality to be placed under administration Updated
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The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) in the Eastern Cape has called for the cash-strapped Amatole District Municipality to be placed under administration.
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Samwu said it was shocked and angered by a circular last week from Municipal Manager Thandekile Mnyimba, informing workers and councillors that they would not be paid for a period of four months.
A memorandum was issued by the municipality advising the employees, councillors and traditional leaders would not be paid for February, April, May and June due to “strained financial resources”.