2022-10-23: News Headlines

Labor Video Project (2022-10-23). Labor Speaks Out Port Of Oakland To Defend Rail Workers Health & Safety & Right To Strike. indybay.org

____ (2022-10-23). Director of U.S. CDC tests positive for COVID-19. ecns.cn The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Saturday that its director had tested positive for COVID-19.

____ (2022-10-22). U.S. CDC warns of respiratory syncytial virus outbreak in children. ecns.cn Latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show cases of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), a common respiratory virus, are spiking in the Untied States.

Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2022-10-22). Medicare for All Remains Best Cure for Sick Healthcare System. commondreams.org This broken system consumes hundreds of billions of dollars annually and should be central in every election debate.

Ricardo Gomez (2022-10-22). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: An Immigration Detention Profiteer Faces The Music. levernews.com Good things are happening! A group of formerly detained immigrants can advance a lawsuit against a private corporation that operates detention facilities, while the president moved forward with "the single, biggest thing the Biden Administration can do on its own without Congress to improve the accessibility and affordability of health coverage." The largest federation of unions in the country, meanwhile, is finally pouring money into new worker organizing efforts, while indigenous tribes are recovering thousands of ancestral remains from universities that stole them.All this and much more in this week's editi…

WSWS (2022-10-22). Australian rank-and-file groups call online public meeting: "Unite educators and health workers: Oppose the ending of COVID protection measures! Lives before profit!" wsws.org The Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee and the Committee for Public Education call on all workers, students and professional people to register for the November 20 online public meeting.

Mickey Z. (2022-10-21). AIDS, Covid-19, Confederate Prisoners and a Million More Stories on Hart Island. dissidentvoice.org What if I told you this story connected poverty, Tony Fauci, the Military-Industrial Complex, the Prison-Industrial Complex, crack, the Civil War, Covid, AIDS, Lou Reed, and my grandfather — and that's just for starters? Hart Island is located at the western end of the Long Island Sound, off the coast of the northeastern Bronx. Despite being only …

Editor (2022-10-21). 'Political Fix' Needed for WikiLeaks' Assange—Lawyer. scheerpost.com By Reuters SYDNEY (Reuters) A lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said an "urgent political fix" is needed in his case because legal appeals against his extradition to the United States could continue for another decade and his health is declining. Barrister Jennifer Robinson has been on Assange's legal team for 12 years, and during a visit …

WSWS (2022-10-21). Dangerous new COVID-19 variants threaten massive fall-winter surge. wsws.org The growing wave of COVID-19 infections is unlike anything seen since the start of the pandemic, as multiple highly-mutated "escape variants" are forecast to become dominant throughout the world in the coming weeks.

TeleSUR, jaa, YSM (2022-10-21). Casos de Covid-19 en Chile aumentan un % en la última semana. telesurtv.net La cifra de nuevos contagios, 6.201, es la mayor registrada en 48 días para sumar un total de 13.073 casos activos.

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