Monthly Archives: April 2022

2022-04-30: News Headlines

SAM (2022-04-29). Bulldozing Away the Right to Tax the Rich. inequality.org

Travis Nell (2022-04-29). "We make poverty wages and we wanted more:" Chicago grad students strike, win major gains. liberationnews.org GEO began their second strike in three years on April 18 for a fair contract, citing low pay, excessive fees, and lack of protection from harassment and discrimination as major issues.

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (2022-04-29). Josmar Trujillo on Hyper-Policing. fair.org (image: Copwatch Media) | This week on CounterSpin: There are reasons that so much news media is consumed with crime. Not just any crime, not wage theft, not lethal pollution—but street crime, random, individual crime. "If it bleeds, it leads" journalism draws eyes to the set, doesn't bother advertisers, is cheap to produce and lets news outlets look as though they're tracking an important event in real time, and pretend as though they're protecting real people…as they forcibly distract from actual humane efforts to respond to the ongoing crises—homelessness, poverty, addiction—that lead to c…

2022-04-30 18:29 | 14:29 EST | jz | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 

2022-04-29: News Headlines

rebekah (2022-04-28). Pressure Mounts on Biden to Take Action on Student Loan Debt. inequality.org

WSWS (2022-04-28). SEP (Australia) election campaigners find widespread opposition to inequality and cost of living crisis in Queensland. wsws.org Asked about what Labor and the Coalition were saying in the election campaign, Andrew, a Brisbane construction worker said with disgust: "I don't listen to them any more. It's all about money."

2022-04-29 14:42 | 10:42 EST | jz | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0