Argentines Demand Renewal of Food Emergency Bill
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-01
Activists marched in Buenos Aires on Thursday to demand that Argentina's outgoing conservative government act on lawmakers' vote last month to renew a 17-year-old emergency food law. | RELATED: | Argentina: Fernandez Thanks Maduro For Congratulating Him | Enacted in 2002 as Argentines are suffering from Depression-level unemployment and poverty after a financial collapse and a series of neoliberal economic reforms, the food emergency law was reauthorized every few years until last De…
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Chile: 1 Million Protest Extreme Inequality in Latin America's Richest Country
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-01
counterpunch.org/2019/11/01/chile-1-million-protest-extreme-inequality-in-latin-americas-richest-country/

Although Job Growth Continues, Unemployment Edges Up to 3.6 Percent
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-01
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy added 128,000 jobs in October, while the unemployment rate edged up to 3.6 percent. The unemployment rate for Black people fell to 5.4 percent, another record low. | The job growth for October was depressed by the United Auto Workers strike at General Motors. This reduced manufacturing employment by more than 40,000. This drop will be reversed in November, but it pushed manufacturing employment's share of total employment down to 8.4 percent, the…
truthout.org/articles/although-job-growth-continues-unemployment-edges-up-to-3-6-percent/

Although Job Growth Continues, Unemployment Edges Up to 3.6 Percent
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-01
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy added 128,000 jobs in October, while the unemployment rate edged up to 3.6 percent. The unemployment rate for Black people fell to 5.4 percent, another record low. | The job growth for October was depressed by the United Auto Workers strike at General Motors. This reduced manufacturing employment by more than 40,000. This drop will be reversed in November, but it pushed manufacturing employment's share of total employment down to 8.4 percent, the…
truthout.org/articles/although-job-growth-continues-unemployment-edges-up-to-3-6-percent/

Chile: 1 Million Protest Extreme Inequality in Latin America's Richest Country
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-31
Chile pulls out of two major international summits amid mounting protests against austerity and the privatization of virtually every public good.
therealnews.com/stories/chile-protest-extreme-inequality-richest-country

Despite Stable Costs, More Are Uninsured as 'Obamacare' Sign-Ups Open
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-10-31
The program's complexity was always a problem, and many low-income people still don't understand they can get financial help with premiums.
truthdig.com/articles/despite-stable-costs-more-are-uninsured-as-obamacare-sign-ups-open/

Headlines for October 31, 2019
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-10-31
Tens of Thousands Evacuate as New Blazes Erupt in Fire-Ravaged California, Chile Calls Off U.N. Climate Talks Amid Massive Protests Against Inequality, Protesters Confront JPMorgan Chase CEO Over Fossil Fuel Investments, Youth Climate Activists Stage Sit-In at House Speaker Pelosi's Office, Keystone Pipeline Breach Spills Oil in North Dakota, House Readies Vote to Formalize Impeachment Process, Top Immigration Official Grilled Over Move to Deport Critically Ill Immigrants, "Not Qualified" Rating from Bar Association Draws Tears from Judicial Nominee, India to Split Jammu and Kashmir Into Two Territories Controlle…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/31/headlines

New Study: 300 Million Face Severe Risk of Climate-Fueled Coastal Flooding by 2050
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-10-31
As a shocking new report finds that many coastal cities will be flooded by rising sea levels by 2050, Chile's President Sebastián Piñera announced Wednesday that the U.N. Climate Summit in Santiago has been canceled. Anti-inequality protests have entered their third week in the country with protesters calling for the Piñera government to resign. The U.N. said it is now looking for an alternative venue for the annual climate meetings. Meanwhile, a dire new report has warned 300 million people are at risk from rising sea levels, with the most vulnerable populations concentrated in the Global South. According to the…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/31/chile_cancels_un_climate_summit_after

As Rich Hire Private Firefighters, Housekeepers Go to Work in Fire Zone & Prisoners Fight CA Blazes
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-10-31
As climate-fueled fires rage across California, we look at how the blazes are disproportionately affecting some of the state's most vulnerable communities. As a growing number of wealthy homeowners hire private firefighters to protect their properties for up to $3,000 per day, domestic workers and gardeners who tend to some of the most opulent homes in Los Angeles attended work despite the Getty Fire evacuation order earlier this week. Many of their employers failed to even tell them not to come in. Meanwhile, of the more than 4,000 firefighters currently working across the state, at least 700 are California pris…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/31/california_fires_domestic_workers_prisoner_firefighters

Protests in Chile Were Sparked By a Subway Fare Hike, But Come After "30 Years of a Social Crisis"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-10-29
In Chile, a new set of mass protests took place Monday as President Sebastián Piñera fulfilled the promise to appoint new members to his cabinet. As Piñera addressed the nation Monday, hundreds of protesters had already gathered outside the presidential palace in Santiago, waving flags, honking horns and demanding for Piñera's resignation. The reshuffling of his cabinet came after more than a million people flooded the streets last Friday in massive peaceful demonstrations over inequality, high cost of living and privatization. The protest drew more than 5% of Chile's population and followed days of widespread ci…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/29/chile_protests_subway_fare_hike_neoliberalism

The Widening Gap between the Super-Rich and Other Americans
Lawrence Wittner | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-10-28
Despite the upbeat words from America's billionaire president about the "economic miracle" he has produced, economic inequality in the United States is on the rise. In August 2019, the Economic Policy Institute reported that, in 2018, the average pay of CEOs at America's 350 top firms hit $17.2 million‚Äïan increase, when adjusted for inflation, of …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/10/the-widening-gap-between-the-super-rich-and-other-americans/

Headlines for October 28, 2019
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-10-28
ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi Reportedly Dies in U.S. Raid in Syria, California Declares State of Emergency over Wildfires, Chile: Over One Million Take to Streets in Protest Against Inequality, Dozens Killed in Iraq Amid Latest Round of Anti-Government Protests, Lebanese Form Human Chain Across Country as Protests Continue, Alberto Fernandez Wins Argentine Election in Defeat for Right-Wing Incumbent, Brexit Deadline Extended Until Jan. 31, Trump Booed, Taunted at World Series Game, Pentagon Hands Microsoft a $10 Billion Contract, Chicago Teachers Strike Continues, While Support Staff Reach Tentative Deal, UAW and Gene…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/28/headlines

One Million Take to Streets of Chile in the "Largest Mobilization Since the End of Dictatorship"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-10-28
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera has announced a major cabinet shuffle after more than one million people flooded the streets Friday in massive peaceful demonstrations over inequality, high cost of living and privatization. The protest drew more than 5% of Chile's population and followed days of widespread civil unrest that sparked a violent police and military crackdown across the country. At least 18 people have been killed and hundreds more have been shot and wounded since protests erupted Oct. 19. The protests in Chile began in response to a subway fare hike and have grown into a mass uprising against the g…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/28/chile_massive_protests_sebastian_pinera

Midwest Dispatch: Is Worthington, Minnesota, the Center of the Universe?
Sarah Lahm | progressive.org | 2019-10-25
One Midwestern town finds itself in a race war stoked by the gentry to preserve their own wealth. But there is a glimmer of hope here, too.
progressive.org/dispatches/worthington-minnesota–center-universe-lahm-191025/