PDF of July 21 issue

Download the PDF. Economic crisis deepens Young workers show way forward Also: SCOTUS attacks Native nations Tamir Rice remembered No contract, no coffee! Who’s to blame for inflation? Safe consumption sites Also: Enslaved ‘Mothers of Gynecology’ honored Abortion and women with no regrets In the crosshairs Editorials: Beyond Democrats; Middle . . .

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Women charge abuse at Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center

Activists march to shut down Stewart Detention Center, Lumpkin, Georgia, November 2014. Atlanta July 17 — Once again, a privately-operated immigrant detention center in Georgia is the focus of abuse charges by several women detainees. A male nurse employed by CoreCivic at the Stewart Detention Center (SDC) in Lumpkin, Georgia, . . .

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In Middle East visit, oil access trumps human rights

No Palestinians living under Israeli occupation benefitted one iota from President Joe Biden’s brief Middle East visit. Biden had the executive power to reverse the damage done when former President Donald Trump moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israel’s control over the disputed capital. Biden chose to not do . . .

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As COVID-19 variant hits, Cuba leads in health and vaccination rates

In October 2021, Cuba announced that 100% of its then-eligible population had received at least one dose of its COVID-19 vaccine. Credit: Granma As the most dangerous COVID-19 variant hits with full force, almost all precautions and mandates in the U.S. have ended — business must continue at all costs. . . .

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‘Cleveland: no contract, no coffee!’

WW Photo: Martha Grevatt Starbucks workers, union and community supporters demonstrated outside the University Circle Starbucks store in Cleveland July 15. In addition to showing solidarity with the workers trying to unionize that store, demonstrators were protesting the firing of a member of the union organizing committee by Starbucks the . . .

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