Sunday, December 8, 2019

30th Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, French General Strikes, Free Transit & more -- The Week in News, Opinion and Videos December 1 - 8

This week's list of articles, news items, opinion pieces and videos that I see as a must if you are looking for a roundup that should be of interest to The Left Chapter readers.

This list covers the week of  December 1 - 8.


We have changed the format of the round-up so that the links, videos and photos are presented in sections related to topic.

30th Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre:

- Thirty years after the Montreal Massacre, are women really any safer?

- Consensus comes 30 years later that Montreal massacre was an anti-feminist act

- At least 118 women, girls murdered across Canada so far in 2019, annual report shows

- Let’s Finally Call ‘Violence Against Women’ What It Really Is

- ‘Hate is infectious’: how the 1989 mass shooting of 14 women echoes today

- Montreal Massacre: Still fighting for our daughters, one generation later

- 30 Years After Surviving Polytechnique, My Pain Is Starting To Resurface


Canada:

- OSSTF announces another 1-day school strike on Dec. 11

- Build solidarity with teachers in their fight to defend public education!

- End of co-operative rental subsidies could displace 200 Sask. families, advocates say

- Donated warming huts for Winnipeg homeless torn down for violating by-laws

- Province has sold off 94 Manitoba Housing properties since 2016, documents show

- Manitoba’s NDP and unions are helping advance a police state

- Rental market is expected to get even more dire in Montreal

- U.S. Neo-Nazi Terror Group Harboring Missing Ex-Canadian Soldier: Sources

- Watchdog calls for RCMP to investigate firing of Alberta's election commissioner

- Why Sweden’s Central Bank Divested from Alberta and Reinvested in BC


United States:

- Are the Republicans trying to get Ilhan Omar killed?

- Revealed: Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib targeted in far-right fake news operation

- GOP yanks support for George Buck after death threat against Ilhan Omar

- Bernie Sanders Tops New California Poll—But You Wouldn't Have Known It By Reading This LA Times Headline

- “Manufacturing Consent” In Action

- NestlĂ© cannot claim bottled water is 'essential public service', court rules

- KAMALA HARRIS’S CRIMINAL JUSTICE RECORD KILLED HER PRESIDENTIAL RUN

- 'What Cruelty Looks Like': Trump Finalizes Plan to Strip Food Aid From 750,000 Low-Income People by 2020

- As news outlets were shutting down for Thanksgiving, the University of North Carolina quietly gave white nationalists $2.5m to settle a lawsuit that hadn't even been filed

Caribbean: 

- Dominica's Labor Party Wins Landslide Victory

South and Central America:

- Brazil: Attack on Guajajara Indigenous People Leaves 1 Dead

- Argentina's Fernandez Calls for the End of Poverty and Misery

- Colombia: Social Unrest Against Duque Begins 3rd Week in a Row

- Disapproval Rating for Colombia's Duque Reaches 70 Percent

- Berta Cáceres murder: 50 years in jail for activist's killers

Bolivia Coup:

- Leaders of Bolivia's right-wing coup will oversee -- and control -- new elections

- Evo Morales Vows to Return to Bolivia After Right-Wing Coup

- Bolivia: Chamber of Deputies Approves "Guarantees Law"

- Bolivia: MAS Appoints Morales as Director of its 2020 Campaign

- Pepe Mujica Condemns OAS After Visiting Evo Morales

India:

- Delhi gripped by anger and grief after dozens killed in factory fire

- India's communists vow to fight Modi's sectarian citizenship law to the end

- 'If you saw her body, you will never sleep again': despair as India rape crisis grows

Israel / Palestine:

- From Now On, Every Palestinian Is an anti-Semite

- Israeli Occupation Cost Palestine $48b Between 2000-2017: UN

Middle East:

- Egypt continues biggest wave of arrests of journalists since 2014

- Iraq's communists given new life by protests

Climate Emergency: 

- Oceans losing oxygen at unprecedented rate, experts warn

- Dead sperm whale had 220 pounds of garbage in its stomach, including rope, plastic and gloves

UK Election:



- Another world is possible

- General election 2019: Tories probe candidates over anti-Semitism claims

- Reopening Auschwitz – The Conspiracy To Stop Corbyn

- Michael Rosen: as a Jew, I am voting Labour

- The problem with Nancy Astor

- Tory election candidate says disabled people should be paid less as they ‘don’t understand money’

- Brexit: Corbyn releases leaked government documents that show Boris Johnson ‘lied about deal’

- Israel's foreign minister says he hopes Corbyn loses British election

- Jeremy Corbyn will give up Chequers to the homeless if he comes to power

- Jo Swinson apologises for backing coalition's austerity policies

- Tory sidekick’s spectacular memory loss

- British PM Johnson to Be Investigated for Conflict of Interest

- London Bridge victim’s father condemns ‘beyond disgusting’ Boris Johnson for using son’s death for political gain

French General Strike:

Huge crowds out in Paris for the national general strike!:



General Strike in Marseille:



- France Is Hit by Second Day of Pension Strikes as Unions Dig In

- France paralysed by mass strikes against Macron's pension raid

- More than 800,000 people march against Macron as strikes grip France

- Opponents work for referendum on Macron's plan to privatise Paris Airports

Europe: 

- Grenade thrown at migrant children's centre in Madrid

Africa: 

- Garment workers in Ethiopia need strong unions

Free Transit:




- ‘I Got Tired of Hunting Black and Hispanic People’

- KANSAS CITY CHOOSES FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT

- Kansas City becomes first major American city with universal fare-free public transit

- The policing of fare evasion reveals the twisted agenda of our politicians

- Climate Activists Demand Free, Expanded Public Transit System

Ideas:

- Alexia Isais: Why I am a communist

- It’s No Surprise that Canada’s Life Expectancy Has Plateaued

- T.I., virginity checks and what fathers don't understand about girls' #MeToo experiences

Porn and Prostitution: 

- 20 Years On – Scotland learning from Sweden’s Sex Purchase Act

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