2018-09-23: News Headlines

Labor Video Project (2018-09-23). Stop The Racist Terror Against City Workers! SF City Workers Speak Out At BOS Meeting. indybay.org

Labor Video Project (2018-09-23). SF City Hall Rally Before Audit Hearing: If We Don't Get No Justice You Don't Get No Peace. indybay.org SEIU 1021 San Francisco city workers rallied at City Hall on 9/19/18 to protest the systemic racism, workplace bullying and illegal discrimination and termination of African American and other workers in the City. The rally was called prior to a audit hearing of the SF Board Of Supervisors to hear from witnesses and the Department of Human Resources run by Micki Callahan. Workers said that she had been personally involved in managing the illegal discrimination and retaliation against African American and other city workers.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2018-09-23). 2018 Pan African Global Trade and Investment Week. indybay.org Members of the California Legislative Black Caucus are considering making mutually beneficial trade and commerce with the Pan African Diaspora a higher priority. Fred Jordan and the African Consortium are helping to lead the way showcasing the past, present and future of the City of San Francisco as an example for the world.

RT (2018-09-22). 'Racially profiled & humiliated': Black candidate busted for dealing politics seeks apology. rt.com An African-American nominee for the Wisconsin State Assembly told RT that she felt hurt and humiliated after being racially profiled and reported to cops as she was canvassing her electorate in a predominantly white neighborhood.

James Munson (2018-09-21). On Climate, the Centrists are the Deplorables. counterpunch.org For most countries, to be poor now is to have been rich before it mattered, like Bolivia or the Congo, or rich when it mattered, like Venezuela and Iraq. Literally torn apart for their timber, ore, labor, or spot on the map by resource-poor or depleted, or simply-gluttonous, rich ones. Terrain, climate, or sensitive agriculture More

wsws (2018-09-21). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.

aclu (2018-09-19). Trump Is Unshackling America's Drones Thanks to Obama's Weakness. aclu.org Obama didn't do enough to curtail America's drones. Now expansion under Trump could have devastating consequences. | The piece was originally published by The Guardian. | For more than a decade, the worst-kept secret in the world has been the fact that the Central Intelligence Agency owns and operates lethal drones outside of recognized battlefields abroad. Newspapers blare it from their Juliana Bolden (2018-09-17). NAACP President to Commemorate African Maafa. naacp.org Event to honor ancestors and mark African holocaust in Brooklyn, NY Baltimore, MD — On Tuesday, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson will speak at the 24th Commemoration of The Maafa at the St. Paul Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York at 7pm EST. President Johnson will address the relevance of the African Maafa and the current […]