Negotiations stall in Chicago amid nationwide campaign to open schools
For the past month, the nationwide, bipartisan effort to force a return to in-person learning has centered on the country’s third largest school district, Chicago Public Schools (CPS). The resistance of rank-and-file educators in the city has inspired educators and huge sections of workers across the US and globally. Every effort is being made by the political establishment and the bourgeois media to vilify Chicago educators and wear down their opposition, to pave the way for mass school reopenings at the most dangerous stage of the pandemic in the interests of corporate profits.
We’ve heard a lot about
the frustrations older Californians have faced in trying to secure their shots of COVID-19 vaccine. Today, we’ll talk about what that reality has looked like for seniors in Los Angeles County.
Take 86-year-old Selda Hollander. She hadn’t been able to navigate the vaccine appointment system, either online or over the phone. But she’d heard about an unofficial standby line at the Balboa Sports Complex in Encino and decided to give it a try.
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“I can’t figure out if it’s worth it,” she said, shivering slightly as she hugged her knees against the cold. “I’m waiting for the vaccine, but I can get sick because of the weather.”
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Biden’s ‘Time to Act’ on Climate Change
President Biden has announced a moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on public lands, one of a slate of executive actions to demonstrate his commitment to fighting climate change, despite opposition from the fossil fuel industry and many Republicans.
The move in effect hit pause on the federal government’s leasing program while the administration considers an overhaul, weighing the climate and public health risks of continued oil and gas development against the government’s legal obligations to energy companies. This review is the first step toward an outright ban on new drilling, one of Biden’s campaign promises.
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One would be hard pressed to imagine a better visual representation of the varying extremes of California weather than these two photos, taken just eight days apart by Santa Rosa Press-Democrat photojournalist Kent Porter.
In the first photo, taken last Monday, the flames of a
wind-whipped wildfire blaze across a hillside in a remote part of northern Sonoma County. In the second photo, taken on Tuesday, that same region is blanketed in snow. Porter said the two images were taken about a mile apart from each other. What a difference a few days makes in California, particularly as climate change intensifies extreme weather events.