Daily Archives: August 27, 2021

2021-08-27: News Headlines

Strike Debt Bay Area (2021-08-27). Saturday 9/25: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Origins of Wealth. indybay.org

SAM (2021-08-26). Our 'Trillion-Dollar Seven': Can We Summon the Courage to Tax Them? inequality.org

WSWS (2021-08-26). As contract battle heats up, Dana workers describe working through the COVID pandemic. wsws.org Dana workers are battling poverty wages, sweatshop conditions and the sacrifice of their health and lives for corporate profit during the pandemic.

_____ (2021-08-26). Wealthy Countries Weigh Boosters; Fewer Than 2% Of Africans Vaccinated. popularresistance.org The highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus is sweeping Africa in a deadly third wave of the pandemic. Over the last month, there has been an 80-percent increase in cases across the continent, with South Africa alone reporting more than 14,000 new cases in a single day. Despite the fact that fewer than 2 percent of Africans have been fully vaccinated, wealthy countries such as the United States are making plans for booster shots for their populations, continuing to hoard doses in a stunning show of vaccine imperialism and capitalist irrationality. | The current wave is Africa's deadliest so far, and is…

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