Mark Gruenberg (2022-03-16). Tefere Gebre leaves AFL-CIO for Greenpeace. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —Tefere Gebre, the one-time teenage Ethiopian refugee, and the first local central labor council official to attain one of the top three posts at the AFL-CIO, has left the labor federation for a top job at Greenpeace. The federation announced his departure, which occurred at the end of February, in an Executive Council statement …

PANEL: Race, Class,, the Struggle for Reproductive Rights (2022-03-16). PANEL: Race, Class, and the Struggle for Reproductive Rights. peoplesworld.org "We're Not Going Back" — CLASS, RACE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS The stakes could not be higher as reactionary attacks on reproductive rights intensify. Over 30 states are ready to outlaw legal abortion access if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade. African Americans, Latinas, and other people of color, as well as …

Staff (2022-03-16). Cuba sin casos de zika y chikungunya, pero alerta ante circulación de dengue y covid, señala el Minsap. cubadebate.cu Cuba se mantiene libre de chikungunya y de zika, pese a los elevados índices de infectación del agente transmisor de estas enfermedades, el mosquito Aedes aegypti, divulgó hoy el Ministerio de Salud Pública (Minsap). En el caso del dengue, también provocado por el insecto, un total de nueve provincias fueron afectadas durante el año anterior.

teleSUR, DRL (2022-03-16). Malí reporta 16 terroristas abatidos en varias operaciones. telesurtv.net Sucede en medio de denuncias internacionales sobre violaciones a DD.HH. por parte del ejército y los terroristas.

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-03-16). Muhoozi returns home after successful meeting with Rwanda's Kagame. plusnews.ug The UPDF Commander Land Forces, Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has Wednesday returned from Rwanda after a successful three day visit. Muhoozi travelled to Rwanda on Monday morning to Kigali to resolve all outstanding issues between Rwanda and Uganda. While in Rwanda, he held talks with President Paul Kagame, paid respects to genocide victims at the …

SF015 (2022-03-16). Mass Grave In Mariupol. Who May Buried There And Why. southfront.org An official representative of the DPR said at an urgent briefing on the morning of 16 March that information had been received from various sources that another falsification had been carried out by the Ukrainian leadership in the city of Mariupol. | This time, the office of the Ukrainian President set the task for the Ukrainian armed forces' command to discredit the actions of the Russian forces by showing the Western public the mass graves of civilians allegedly killed as a result of artillery shellin…

Ramona Wadi (2022-03-16). Not all Refugees are Equal: Plight of Palestinians Displaced by Israel Worsening. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — Financial support for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is dwindling, despite the renewed mandates and financial contribution pledges by world leaders. "The almost unanimous political support expressed by the UN General Assembly to the Agency is not translated into matching financial resources," UNRWA's Commissioner-General, …

Juan Cole (2022-03-16). Top 7 Ways Iran evaded US Sanctions that Putin could Follow. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The sorts of sanctions and boycotts the United States and its allies are placing on Russia resemble those applied by Washington to Iran off and on in the past decade, though so far the measures in place against Tehran are still far more severe than what has been done to …

Human Rights Watch (2022-03-16). Saudi Arabia: Mass Execution of 81 Men: Rampant Abuses in Criminal Justice System, lack of Fair Trials. juancole.com Human Rights Watch — (Beirut) — Saudi authorities' execution of 81 men on March 12, 2022 was its largest mass execution in years despite recent promises to curtail its use of the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said today. Rampant and systemic abuses in Saudi Arabia's criminal justice system suggest it is highly unlikely that …

ecns.cn (2022-03-15). China urges US to stop malicious cyber activities. ecns.cn The numbers show that the US is truly the "hacking empire" of the world. China is gravely concerned about cyberattacks against other countries that originate from the US and use China as a springboard. This is further evidence that China is the target of attacks launched by hackers from many countries.

Ann Brown (2022-03-15). Actual Facts And Stop The Spooky Stuff: Debunking 'They Came Before Columbus' And 'Africans Were Already In America' Myth. moguldom.com There is a heated online debate about how Black Americans came to America. Some believe that Blacks were already in America and have more Native American ancestry than African. They also claim slave ships are a myth. Others hold true to the story of the American slave trade in which enslaved Africans were brought to …

Editor (2022-03-15). Many Africans reject Washington's position on Ukraine crisis. mronline.org HALF OF THE COUNTRIES ABSTAINING FROM THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION CONDEMNING MOSCOW WERE AFRICAN UNION MEMBER STATES…

Brittani Banks (2022-03-15). Fossil Fuel Extraction Threatens Africa's Remaining Elephants. independentmediainstitute.org Click here for photos that you may use to accompany the article (captions and credits can be found in each image's description field). The growing global outcry against the destruction caused by the oil and gas industry has pushed leaders to address their actions to fight the resulting climate and ecological crisis. Yet, the divergence …

Staff (2022-03-15). Con Patria y Martí contra el colonialismo mental del siglo XXI. cubadebate.cu Casi puede sentirse aquí, como un eco de nuestra historia, la emoción de José Martí, al anochecer del sábado 14 de marzo de 1892, cuando tuvo entre sus manos, manchadas por la tinta fresca, y el calor del impreso regocijándole el alma, el primer número del periódico "Patria". Era tanta su fe y la del equipo que le acompañó en el parto de aquel hijo pródigo de ideas para la revolución, que nadie se retiraba o descansaba hasta que los paquetes nos estaban listos para la distribución…

Staff (2022-03-15). Zelenski dice a los ucranianos que se olviden de una posible entrada de la OTAN. cubadebate.cu El presidente de Ucrania, Volodomir Zelenski, ha lamentado este martes que a pesar de haber escuchado "durante años" que "las puertas" de la OTAN estaban "supuestamente abiertas" en realidad no lo están y ha pedido a sus compatriotas que confíen en ellos mismos. Ha quedado claro que Ucrania no es miembro de la OTAN, dijo el presidente ucraniano.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-15). Imperial pioneer wins UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize. imperial.ac.uk An Imperial Regius Professor of Engineering has won the UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences.

WSWS (2022-03-15). Spanish truckers mount nationwide strike against rising fuel prices. wsws.org As strikes spread in Italy, Morocco and beyond, an international movement is emerging against the rise in prices now accelerated by NATO-EU sanctions against Russia.

Joris Leverink (2022-03-15). Women and labor: key struggles in the MENA region. roarmag.org Woman holding signs against gender violence at a protest to denounce violence against women in Tunis, Tunisia. November 30, 2019. Photo: Mohamed Krit / Shutterstock. | This essay is published in collaboration with Public Services International | | How do women and gender equality measures advance in a context of conflict, climate change, high unemployment, low labor force participation, limited democratization and a pandemic? These are challenges facing the Arab region as many citizens, women's rights organizations, some governments and external…