1. "Ausnahmezustand"
2. The US Trump administration crosses a Rubicon by flagrantly ignoring a federal judge's order to halt deportation flights
3. Germany’s federal parliament, the Bundestag, is voting today on the largest military rearmament program since the fall of the Third Reich-- a sum twice as high as the annual federal budget
4. Unit 29, an unusual collection of writing and artwork by over 30 inmates at the State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi, describes the inhumanity of prison life in riveting and challenging ways:
Just as superfluous working class bodies are warehoused in prisons, so
they are warehoused in dilapidated neighborhoods, housing projects and
trailer parks. Warehoused in overcrowded and run-down schools, then in
the military or low-paying retail or service jobs. Introduce drugs and
alcohol, sexual relationships or just the desire for something more into
these warehoused lives, and the criminogenic character of poverty
becomes obvious. An impulsive act in youth—a result of desperation,
rage, bravura or mental illness—and one can find oneself on Parchman
Farm.
-- James MacDonald at the World Socialist Web Site
5. Rolls-Royce assembly workers in Indianapolis, Indiana express disappointment with a UAW-negotiated sellout contract
6. The Santa Cruz County District Attorney’s Office announces it is filing charges against a University of California Santa Cruz student who participated in anti-genocide protests on the campus... last year
7. The Verdi union won't help German public-sector workers fight exploitation because it supports the government's pro-war, pro-austerity agenda
8. The Indonesian government of President Prabowo Subianto sparks widespread student protests by implementing austerity measures that target education, health, infrastructure,and public services
9. With the school year barely begun, strikes and struggles spread throughout the education systems of several of Brazil’s state capitals
10. The Labour government of Manchester, England forcibly removes a homeless encampment, whose majority of occupants were refugees from war-torn Sudan and Eritrea
11. Toxic Town, a miniseries that deals with the history of a tragic cluster of birth defects among newborns in Corby, England in the 1980s and 1990s is the most viewed Netflix offering in the UK, and deserves a wider audience because it reveals capitalism in its true colors
12. The Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality are holding a public meeting in Chicago on Saturday to discuss to do about the Trump administration’s efforts to destroy public education
13. In the midst of a cyclone and flooding, the premier of New South Wales in Australia orders the removal of “squatters” from vacant houses
14. With the objective of shutting down a strike by VTA transit workers, public transportation officials in Santa Clara County send a letter to California's Governor Gavin Newsom
requesting the appointment of a board to intervene
15. A new report that documents rising numbers of abusive incidents and threats against Muslims in Australia is largely met with indifference from establishment officials and media
Here is a link to that report
16. The
Australian Electoral Commission rejects the Socialist Equality Party’s
challenge to it's earlier decision to keep the party off of federal
election ballots
17. The vicious four-year-old witch-hunt against Sri Lankan plantation workers, aided and abetted by the plantation trade unions, continues
18. Amid international trade war jitters, discussions are underway at the highest levels of the Canadian government to move toward fully privatizing the Crown corporation's control over mail delivery
19. A workers' peaceful sit-in in Chicago, seeking to draw attention to ongoing contract negotiations, draws a ruthless response from the Starbucks Corporation and police
20. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
21. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help
