(2022-10-18). Scabby the rat tours U of MN campus, Teamsters ready to strike. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — Scabby the rat has become a familiar figure on the University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus as the contract fight between Teamsters Local 320 and the administration intensifies. Teamsters voted by a 93% margin to strike if the university does not agree to their demands to end poverty wages. The university brought in a company called "Chefs On the Fly" to scab on the potential strike and has put them to work in dining facilities. They are being housed in a hotel near campus, the Hilton Garden Inn. | On October 17 Teamsters took Scabby the rat to Middlebrook, Comstock, Sanford and the 17t…
(2022-10-17). Africa, the Looted Continent. transcend.org 10 Oct 2022 – Africa. The birthplace of "Homo Sapiens." The land of plenty. The home of over 1.3 billion humans, with 0 million plus living in extreme poverty, continues to be looted. It is a sort of graveyard for half of the world's victims of terror and the land with the highest suicide rate on Earth. Why?>
(2022-10-17). Chris Hedges: They Crush Our Song for a Reason. scheerpost.com The powerful keep those they exploit from knowing who they are, where they came from and the crimes of the ruling class. As social inequality mounts, so does the campaign to keep us in darkness.
(2022-10-17). UN chief calls for renewing commitment to better world for all. ecns.cn UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for efforts to renew the commitment to a better world for all in his message for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, which falls on Oct. 17 annually.
(2022-10-17). New Zealand local elections highlight growing opposition to Labour government. wsws.org The turnout dropped to a record low of 36 percent, reflecting widespread hostility to the entire political establishment amid soaring inequality, poverty and a bipartisan policy of mass COVID-19 infection.
(2022-10-16). Over a million excess deaths in Britain due to decades of social inequality. wsws.org There is no genuine separation between the policies enacted by the ruling class in the years preceding the pandemic, leading to such a vast loss of life, and the social murder carried out during three years of the pandemic since.