2023-05-18: News Headlines

Labor Video Project (2023-05-18). Banko Brown Murder & License To Kill: SF Press Conference At DA Brook Jenkins Office. indybay.org The murder of Banko Brown by a Walgreen security guard in San Francisco and the failure to prosecute by the District Attorney Brook Jenkins backed up by Mayor London Breed has led to fury among people in San Franicsco. Many Democratic Party officials organized a rally at Jenkins office to protest and call for prosecution. There are over 61 billionaires in San Francisco and speakers charged that there is massive ethnic cleansing going on in San Francisco with Blacks being driven out of San Francisco by a Black Mayor, District Attorney and police chief. | There is also a campaign to drive Black workers from their p…

teleSUR (2023-05-17). Racism Tool for US Politicians to Pursue Greedy Interests. telesurenglish.net U.S. politicians have been exploiting racism to pursue their "greedy" capitalist interests while encouraging inequalities between races in every sphere of life, said Baris Doster, a professor of communication and journalism with Istanbul-based Marmara University. | RELATED: | "White people have privileges over blacks in many domains like courts, political life, private sector and bureaucracy," the Turkish scholar said…

WSWS (2023-05-18). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org National strike in Belgium against "social dumping" by Delhaize and other companies to drive down wages and conditions; continuing strikes and protests across Iran over cost of living, pay and conditions involving pensioners, Haft Tappeh sugarcane workers as strike leaders of offshore gas workers arrested; Nigerian doctors give union mandate for indefinite stoppage over pay, unions call five-day warning strike…


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