Daily Archives: November 6, 2019

2019-11-06: News Headlines

Alan Macleod (2019-11-06). Multi-Millionaire Nancy Pelosi warns "Fellow Leftists": Medicare for All is a Very Bad Idea. mintpressnews.com Pelosi's objections to progressive legislation like a wealth tax or Medicare for All are based not on pragmatic concerns about losing votes (quite the opposite appears to be true) but have more to do with her position as one of America's richest people.

commondreams (2019-11-06). Add Inflation Inequality to Why the US Needs to Update the Poverty Measure. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Shawn Fremstad (2019-11-06). Inflation Inequality and the Poverty Measure. commondreams.org Adjusting for inflation inequality in this fashion, they estimate that 3.8 million more people would be counted as poor in 2018, and that the poverty rate would be 1.0 percentage point higher (12.8 percent rather than 11.8 percent) that same year.(Photo: Becker1999/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/poverty_0.jpeg

Emily Apple (2019-11-06). Jeremy Corbyn nails just how different his government will be in one sentence. thecanary.co On 6 November, Jeremy Corbyn delivered a speech in Telford. But one line in particular summed up exactly how a Corbyn government would be different: I want to seek power for our party in order to share that power out across the country | No silver spoons here: | Corbyn's speech was blistering. He took aim at the politics that is all about "shouting matches in parliament" and stated that he wanted to share "power and wealth with people who don't have a lot of money, don't have friends in high places". He also highlighted the difference between himself and the Conservative Party elite, saying: I was not born…

WSWS (2019-11-06). New York City bus and subway workers speak out against concession demands. wsws.org The Metropolitan Transit Authority wants to introduce part-timers, outsource work to cheap-labor contractors and reduce overtime pay as it funnels more money to the Wall Street banks and wealthy bondholders.

commondreams (2019-11-06). Silicon Valley 'Patriotic Millionaires' Challenge Fellow Wealthy Californians to 'Tax the Rich!'. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Staff (2019-11-05). Protesters in Chile Have Been 'Murdered, Tortured, and Disappeared'. therealnews.com Chile's President Piñera says foreign intervention and a conspiracy are behind the recent protests. But protesters say what's happening is an explosion of long-contained rage against poverty, inequality, and oppression.

Howard Lisnoff (2019-11-05). Wealth and All That Glitters. counterpunch.org The generation of baby boomers gave rise to a stable of cultural heroes who became multimillionaires. They were actors, writers, musicians and some of those took part in protest. There was one major difference about this stable that set them apart from the rest of us during that era of protest, and that was they More

WSWS (2019-11-05). Death toll mounts as Iraqi protests defy repression. wsws.org At least 260 people have been killed and hundreds more wounded since protests against unemployment and social inequality erupted last month.

Ron Ridenour (2019-11-05). Winding Brook Stories. dissidentvoice.org This series of teacher-student stories, interspersed with journalistic materials and writing, is aimed at showing how thousands of mainly white Europeans and Americans from both continents together with millions of Africans and peoples from India struggle to eradicate, or greatly reduce, poverty by "fighting with the poor". They do so out of "solidarity humanism" by …

Fight Back (2019-11-05). Tallahassee public housing tenants face displacement due to redevelopment. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – November 5 marked the due date for 2019 applications to the Florida Housing Finance Corporation. This year the city of Tallahassee has submitted two applications along with $1.3 million to secure funding for the redevelopment of Orange Avenue Apartments, currently the largest public housing community in Tallahassee, a 200-unit complex is on Tallahassee's Southside. | The redevelopment effort is being led in part by Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta non-profit founded by billionaire investors Warren Buffett and Julian Robertson, along with the wealthy Atlanta real estate developer Tom Cousins…

WSWS (2019-11-05). Elizabeth Warren unveils her "Medicare for All" electoral gimmick. wsws.org The ruling elite will resist to the end any infringement, however minimal, on its ability to accumulate wealth at the expense of the working class.

Steve Sweeney (2019-11-04). Iraqi Communists condemn repression, say "moment of real change" has arrived. peoplesworld.org Iraq's Communist Party called for a new type of government and for the momentum of the current uprising to continue until its demands are realized as roads were blocked in Baghdad on Sunday. A party statement branded the current system a "terrible failure at all levels" as mass anti-government protests over unemployment, corruption, and poor …

Staff (2019-11-04). Can Land Value Tax Give Baltimore's Neighborhoods Back To Their Residents? therealnews.com Joshua Vincent of the Center for the Study of Economics talks about how a land value tax could give Baltimore residents relief from the wealth extraction that absentee landlords perpetrate.

Staff (2019-11-04). A Call For Peace, A Demand for Justice. therealnews.com "These are broken people, in a broken city, in a broken system." Baltimore Ceasefire's Youth Ambassadors remember those who have been killed, and are pushing leaders to address the inequality and trauma that leads to violence.

Mnar Muhawesh (2019-11-04). Media Backs Billionaire President as Chileans Protest Privatization. mintpressnews.com Chile's right-wing President Sebastian Piñera recently declared war. He wasn't referring to a foreign government, but to his own people. He even ordered tanks and the military to the streets. | An estimated 20 protesters have been killed and over 500 injured. | Since October 14th, millions of Chileans have taken to the streets, rocking what is normally one of Latin America's most stable countries. | Chileans are in an uproar over rising taxes on public transportation, growing income inequality, and a broken pension system. | Many are demanding Piñera's resignation, even after he has tried to appease the protes…

Staff (2019-11-04). Pushed Out, Attacked & Criminalized: San Francisco's Unhoused People Speak Out Amid Housing Crisis. democracynow.org Amid skyrocketing housing prices and rising inequality, the number of unhoused people across California is booming. Homelessness in San Francisco has spiked at least 30% since 2017. In Oakland, it's grown by nearly 50%. As more people have been forced onto the streets, encampments have popped up from Los Angeles to the Bay Area and in other city centers. But while advocates push for more affordable housing solutions, instead city governments have been cracking down on unhoused people with increasingly punitive measures that criminalize homelessness. In a special report, Democracy Now! traveled to San Francisco to…

Staff (2019-10-31). Chile: 1 Million Protest Extreme Inequality in Latin America's Richest Country. therealnews.com Chile pulls out of two major international summits amid mounting protests against austerity and the privatization of virtually every public good.

Staff (2019-10-31). As Rich Hire Private Firefighters, Housekeepers Go to Work in Fire Zone & Prisoners Fight CA Blazes. democracynow.org 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…

Staff (2019-10-31). New Study: 300 Million Face Severe Risk of Climate-Fueled Coastal Flooding by 2050. democracynow.org 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…

Staff (2019-10-31). Headlines for October 31, 2019. democracynow.org 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…

Sarah Lahm (2019-10-25). Midwest Dispatch: Is Worthington, Minnesota, the Center of the Universe? progressive.org 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.

CounterSpin (2019-09-27). Shailly Gupta Barnes, Frances Fox Piven on Defining and Ending Poverty. fair.org Media…

2019-11-06: Social Media Postees

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Multi-Millionaire Nancy Pelosi warns "Fellow Leftists": Medicare for All is a Very Bad Idea
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2019-11-06
Pelosi's objections to progressive legislation like a wealth tax or Medicare for All are based not on pragmatic concerns about losing votes (quite the opposite appears to be true) but have more to do with her position as one of America's richest people.
mintpressnews.com/millionaire-nancy-pelosi-leftists-medicare-for-all/262681/

Add Inflation Inequality to Why the US Needs to Update the Poverty Measure
commondreams.org | 2019-11-06
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/11/06/add-inflation-inequality-why-us-needs-update-poverty-measure?cd-origin=rss

Inflation Inequality and the Poverty Measure
Shawn Fremstad | commondreams.org | 2019-11-06
Adjusting for inflation inequality in this fashion, they estimate that 3.8 million more people would be counted as poor in 2018, and that the poverty rate would be 1.0 percentage point higher (12.8 percent rather than 11.8 percent) that same year.(Photo: Becker1999/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/poverty_0.jpeg
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/06/inflation-inequality-and-poverty-measure?cd-origin=rss

Jeremy Corbyn nails just how different his government will be in one sentence
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2019-11-06
On 6 November, Jeremy Corbyn delivered a speech in Telford. But one line in particular summed up exactly how a Corbyn government would be different: I want to seek power for our party in order to share that power out across the country | No silver spoons here: | Corbyn's speech was blistering. He took aim at the politics that is all about "shouting matches in parliament" and stated that he wanted to share "power and wealth with people who don't have a lot of money, don't have friends in high places". He also highlighted the difference between himself and the Conservative Party elite, saying: I was not born…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/11/06/jeremy-corbyn-nails-just-how-different-his-government-will-be-in-one-sentence/

New York City bus and subway workers speak out against concession demands
wsws.org | 2019-11-06
The Metropolitan Transit Authority wants to introduce part-timers, outsource work to cheap-labor contractors and reduce overtime pay as it funnels more money to the Wall Street banks and wealthy bondholders.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/06/nyct-n06.html

Silicon Valley 'Patriotic Millionaires' Challenge Fellow Wealthy Californians to 'Tax the Rich!'
commondreams.org | 2019-11-06
______________________________…
commondreams.org/newswire/2019/11/06/silicon-valley-patriotic-millionaires-challenge-fellow-wealthy-californians-tax?cd-origin=rss

Protesters in Chile Have Been 'Murdered, Tortured, and Disappeared'
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-11-05
Chile's President Piñera says foreign intervention and a conspiracy are behind the recent protests. But protesters say what's happening is an explosion of long-contained rage against poverty, inequality, and oppression.
therealnews.com/stories/chile-protesters-murdered-tortured-disappeared

Death toll mounts as Iraqi protests defy repression
wsws.org | 2019-11-05
At least 260 people have been killed and hundreds more wounded since protests against unemployment and social inequality erupted last month.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/05/iraq-n05.html

Wealth and All That Glitters
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-05
The generation of baby boomers gave rise to a stable of cultural heroes who became multimillionaires. They were actors, writers, musicians and some of those took part in protest. There was one major difference about this stable that set them apart from the rest of us during that era of protest, and that was they…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/05/wealth-and-all-that-glitters/

1,000 take NYC streets and trains in outrage over police attacks on teens
Jay August | liberationnews.org | 2019-11-05
"Poverty is not a crime!"
liberationnews.org/1000-take-nyc-streets-and-trains-in-outrage-over-police-attacks-on-teens/

Winding Brook Stories
Ron Ridenour | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-05
This series of teacher-student stories, interspersed with journalistic materials and writing, is aimed at showing how thousands of mainly white Europeans and Americans from both continents together with millions of Africans and peoples from India struggle to eradicate, or greatly reduce, poverty by "fighting with the poor". They do so out of "solidarity humanism" by …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/winding-brook-preface/

Tallahassee public housing tenants face displacement due to redevelopment
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-05
Tallahassee, FL – November 5 marked the due date for 2019 applications to the Florida Housing Finance Corporation. This year the city of Tallahassee has submitted two applications along with $1.3 million to secure funding for the redevelopment of Orange Avenue Apartments, currently the largest public housing community in Tallahassee, a 200-unit complex is on Tallahassee's Southside. | The redevelopment effort is being led in part by Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta non-profit founded by billionaire investors Warren Buffett and Julian Robertson, along with the wealthy Atlanta real estate developer Tom Cousins…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/11/5/tallahassee-public-housing-tenants-face-displacement-due-redevelopment

Elizabeth Warren unveils her "Medicare for All" electoral gimmick
wsws.org | 2019-11-05
The ruling elite will resist to the end any infringement, however minimal, on its ability to accumulate wealth at the expense of the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/05/medi-n05.html

A Call For Peace, A Demand for Justice
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-11-04
"These are broken people, in a broken city, in a broken system." Baltimore Ceasefire's Youth Ambassadors remember those who have been killed, and are pushing leaders to address the inequality and trauma that leads to violence.
therealnews.com/stories/call-for-peace-demand-justice-baltimore-ceasefire

Iraqi Communists condemn repression, say "moment of real change" has arrived
Steve Sweeney | peoplesworld.org | 2019-11-04
Iraq's Communist Party called for a new type of government and for the momentum of the current uprising to continue until its demands are realized as roads were blocked in Baghdad on Sunday. A party statement branded the current system a "terrible failure at all levels" as mass anti-government protests over unemployment, corruption, and poor …
peoplesworld.org/article/iraqi-communists-condemn-repression-say-moment-of-real-change-has-arrived/

Media Backs Billionaire President as Chileans Protest Privatization
Mnar Muhawesh | mintpressnews.com | 2019-11-04
Chile's right-wing President Sebastian Piñera recently declared war. He wasn't referring to a foreign government, but to his own people. He even ordered tanks and the military to the streets. | An estimated 20 protesters have been killed and over 500 injured. | Since October 14th, millions of Chileans have taken to the streets, rocking what is normally one of Latin America's most stable countries. | Chileans are in an uproar over rising taxes on public transportation, growing income inequality, and a broken pension system. | Many are demanding Piñera's resignation, even after he has tried to appease the protes…
mintpressnews.com/chile-protests-battling-privatization-corporate-media/262647/

Can Land Value Tax Give Baltimore's Neighborhoods Back To Their Residents?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-11-04
Joshua Vincent of the Center for the Study of Economics talks about how a land value tax could give Baltimore residents relief from the wealth extraction that absentee landlords perpetrate.
therealnews.com/stories/land-value-tax-baltimore-neighborhoods-back-to-residents

Pushed Out, Attacked & Criminalized: San Francisco's Unhoused People Speak Out Amid Housing Crisis
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-11-04
Amid skyrocketing housing prices and rising inequality, the number of unhoused people across California is booming. Homelessness in San Francisco has spiked at least 30% since 2017. In Oakland, it's grown by nearly 50%. As more people have been forced onto the streets, encampments have popped up from Los Angeles to the Bay Area and in other city centers. But while advocates push for more affordable housing solutions, instead city governments have been cracking down on unhoused people with increasingly punitive measures that criminalize homelessness. In a special report, Democracy Now! traveled to San Francisco to…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/4/san_francisco_homelessness_crackdown_special_report

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

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

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/