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“The best way to protect worker unity is to protest racism, patriarchy and xenophobia,” continued Davis. “Labor united will never be defeated.”
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\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
This is what Melissa Fleischut, president of the New York State Restaurant Association, told a reporter last month.
One estimate proclaimed that 40 percent of restaurants in New York are unlikely to reopen after the pandemic is over.
Over 660,000 people employed in restaurants in New York state alone have been furloughed.
Though Georgia Governor Brian Kemp re-opened much of the state last week, over 120 restaurants in Atlanta are refusing to open their dining rooms until they believe it’s safe.
Many elected officials and civil rights groups are focused on Black owned businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
If you are on a well and septic or non-chlorinated water supply, it is important to first boil the water and then let it cool, or use distilled water to clean your CPAP equipment to minimize introducing other germs into the machine.
It is important to note that while there are many machines that claim to clean CPAP machines, to date none of them have obtained FDA clearance or approval to clean this equipment.
There are two main types of machines used to clean CPAP machines, those using ozone gas and others using ultraviolet light.
The FDA also has not yet received data or evidence for manufacturers that say UV light can clean the inside surface of CPAP hoses or information to confirm that the UV light does not damage CPAP machines.
Despite not having FDA clearance or approval, devices used to clean CPAP equipment are gaining in popularity in part because of accepted use of ozone in the food industry, hotels for sterilization, and for water purification.
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Former US President Barack Obama on Saturday criticised the response to the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging America, in what was widely regarded as a rare public rebuke of his successor Donald Trump.
\"More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing,\" Obama told graduates from several dozen historically black colleges and universities at the first ceremony.
That celebration was followed by a second, star-studded prime-time ceremony for high school students in which Obama continued along the same lines, telling students to step up where leaders had failed.
James echoed Obama's call for the students to step up, urging them to \"Stay close to home\" and help rebuild communities devastated by the virus and shutdowns.
The gravity of Obama's message was underscored by the fact it was the second time in a week he had hit out at the response to the pandemic, having pointedly refused to criticise Trump in public in the three years since leaving office.
Minnie Ripley, known as “Momma Rip”in Issaquena County, was among the first symbolic black members of the Mayersville community to register to vote and was an involved activist at the local, state, and national levels. Ripley was born in 1900 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She was raised in Mount Level, Mississippi, by her grandparents who were […]
In response to the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, NAACP Atlanta is calling for an investigation into the history of inequality in the criminal justice system in the Glynn and Waycross Georgia circuits that have demonstrated racial bias in the application of the law.
A variety of speakers supporting the investigations are calling for immediate action including:
Atlanta 2nd VP Attorney Gerald Griggs
Director Vic Reynolds, Georgia Bureau of Investigations
District Attorney Joyette Holmes, Cobb County
Rev. Timothy McDonald, Past President of Concerned Black Clergy
As the Coronavirus pandemic has focused national attention on income and health disparities among the races, so has the Ahmaud Arbery murder reignited the outcry over the long-standing pattern of unarmed black men being shot to death with impunity by law enforcement officials or rogue vigilantes.
Investigations of these judicial circuits will produce data that can guide lawmakers to take steps that will end this disparate treatment of African Americans at the hands of law enforcement officers and their copycats.
Ahmaud Arbery’s tragic death puts in him in a long line of recent high profile murders across the United States that include Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Philando Castile, Walter Scott, executed by white policemen or vigilantes.
America has built a system of preferential treatment based on race and religion that infects the criminal justice system: Nationally, for every 100,000 African American more than 2,200 are incarcerated.
On Sunday, May 10, Charlamagne Tha God had an interesting interview on MSNBC show “Weekends With Alex Witt” where he joined a discussion about the shooting and killing of Ahmaud Arbery by father and son, Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael.
Alex Witt seemed surprised when the radio personality suggested that black people in the United States should purchase legal firearms for protection.
Sharing his views on the same topic, Rev. Al Sharpton highlighted some of the changes he would like to see in the legal system of the U.S.
Alex Witt asked Charlamagne to also speak on the changes he wants to see in the legal system instead of asking blacks to arm themselves.
“I’m sure you also understand that the prospect of everybody going out there and using guns to make their points or defend themselves or attack, that may not turn out well in the big picture,” Witt told Charlamagne, but the radio personality corrected her.
Additionally, the radio personality told Witt and Al Sharpton that he had no faith in the country’s justice system as he has seen white people go scot-free after killing the blacks.
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Georgia authorities in the United States have arrested a white father and son for the killing of a black man in February.
“Earlier this week I watched the video depicting Mr Arbery’s last moments alive.
I know they will be working around the clock to thoroughly and independently investigate Mr Arbery’s death to find the truth.
U.S President Donald Trump expressed his sympathy to the family of 25-year old Ahmaud Arbery.
“By now many of us have seen that harrowing footage of Ahmaud Arbery out on a jog on a beautiful day in February in Florida, sorry, in Georgia, shot down in cold blood, a senseless lynch before our very eyes 2020 style.
May 18 : 5,959 cases, Buhari meets Task Force
\tTotal confirmed cases = 5,959 (new cases = 338)
Total recoveries = 1,544
Total deaths = 182
Active cases = 4,183
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 17, 2020
\tPresident Buhari on Sunday evening met with the COVID-19 Presidential Task Force team at his residence for their weekly briefing.
Other news:
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\t\tKano state officials donate half salaries to COVID-19 response
\t\tHumanitarian Affairs Minister delivers federal food support to Kano
\t\tNigeria impounds UK jet for flouting regulations
\t\tLagos outlines conditions for lockdown lifting
\t\tDelta, Bauchi, Zamfara States distributing food palliatives
May 17 : 5,621 cases, three Dubai returnees infected
\tTotal confirmed cases = 5,621 (new cases = 176)
Total recoveries = 1,472
Total deaths = 176
Active cases = 3,973
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 16, 2020
\tThree people who recently returned from the United Arab Emirates on an evacuation flight have tested positive for COVID-19.
May 16: 5,445 cases, govt on evacuees expenses
\tTotal confirmed cases = 5,445 (new cases = 288)
Total recoveries = 1,320
Total deaths = 171
Active cases = 3,959
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 15, 2020
\tDuring their press briefing on Friday, the presidential task force covered a wide range of issues relative to the spread of the virus and containment efforts.
May 15: 5,162 cases, Canada evacuation hits snag
\tTotal confirmed cases = 5,162 (new cases = 193)
Total recoveries = 1,180
Total deaths = 167
Active cases = 3,815
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 14, 2020
\tSpeaking at the daily briefing of the presidential task force, Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama disclosed that evacuation plans from Canada had hit a glitch.
May 14: 4,971 cases, recoveries pass 1,000
\tTotal confirmed cases = 4,971 (new cases = 184)
Total recoveries = 1,070
Total deaths = 164
Active cases = 3,737
\tOver in north-eastern Yobe State, there are reports of mysterious deaths which authorities say have led to 471 being buried in the past five weeks.
Azar backed up Donald Trump’s insistence that the nation will reopen with or without a vaccine, saying “not everything depends on a vaccine.”
Azar claimed: “We're committed to delivering a vaccine, we'll put the full power of the US government and our private sector towards getting a vaccine… but that's one of a multi-factorial response program.”
Azar blames coronavirus rates on comorbidities, noting that the American population has “significant unhealthy comorbidities” that make “many individuals” in communities, specifying, “African American and minority communities particularly at risk.”
Tapper said he wanted to give Azar a moment to “clear it up,” because it sounded like he was saying “the reason there are so many dead Americans is because we’re unhealthier than the rest of the world?”
This is perhaps a veiled reference to Donald Trump’s latest claim that it’s important to get the economy back up and running because isolation may cause mental health struggles.
WARREN, Mich. (AP) — More than 130,000 autoworkers returned to factories across the U.S. for the first time in nearly two months Monday in one of the biggest steps yet to restart American industry, while an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus yielded encouraging results in a small and extremely early test.
At a Fiat Chrysler pickup truck assembly plant in Warren, outside Detroit, workers entered a giant white tent with a sign that read: “Let’s restart and keep each other safe.”
U.S. health authorities will be watching closely for a second wave of infections over the next few weeks and worry that Americans will disregard social distancing over the coming Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer.
Chinese President Xi Jinping defended China’s record, saying the country provided all relevant outbreak data to WHO and other countries, including the virus’s genetic sequence, “in a most timely fashion.”
But the Trump administration stepped up its attacks at the meeting, with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar accusing WHO of failing to obtain the information the world needed as the outbreak emerged.
Initiative promotes partnership between national grassroots voter empowerment and education nonprofits and nationally syndicated radio shows WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 14, 2020 – As the nation enters the final months of the 2020 presidential election campaign, a major new initiative, “Stand in Soulidarity” has launched, designed to educate and empower Black voters to register to vote and go to vote. The initiative, […]
In February 2010, the military of Niger staged a coup and overthrew the government of President Mamadou Tandja, replacing him with a leader of their own choosing, Salou Djibo. A new government, deemed the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy, was also formed. Djibo promised the people of his country a return to civilian rule and elections to choose a new leader, but he has not said when that event will occur. The overthrow of Tandja, a former military man himself, is evidence that many in Niger were deeply unhappy with his recent abolishment of presidential term limits, seeing it as a threat to the countrys young democracy. Tandja had been in office for over 10 years.
In the first round of 2011 presidential elections which saw 51.6% voter turnout, Mahamadou Issoufou of the Niger Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS) won 36.2% of the vote while Seyni Oumarou of the National Movement for the Development of Society (MNSD) tallied 23.2%, triggering a runoff, which was held in March. After capturing 58% of the runoff vote, Mahamadou Issoufou assumed the presidential office. He appointed Brigi Rafini as prime minister.
See also Encyclopedia: Niger .
U.S. State Dept. Country Notes: Niger
Former President Barack Obama released a statement on Monday, June 1 encouraging protesters of the George Floyd murder to further their activism once they leave the streets.
Released via online publishing platform Medium, Obama touched on the ways that activists can create real change in their communities when the protesting ends.
“… the elected officials who matter most in reforming police departments and the criminal justice system work at the state and local levels,” he explained.
Obama went on to say that activists need to get specific about their demands for criminal justice and police reform, as well as find the best ways to educate their community members about what needs to be done.
Obama ended his public posting on Monday by sharing a video of George Floyd’s brother, Terrence Floyd, encouraging protesters to be nonviolent and vote.
By BlackPressUSA Dr. William Busa, founder of EQV Analytics, a ‘North Carolina-focused campaign consulting firm serving Democratic candidates with advanced campaign analytics, analyzed student voter turnout from ten North Carolina campuses, three of them HBCUs N.C. AT University, in Greensboro, Winston-Salem State University and North Carolina Central University in Durham. A GDN Student Continued
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Black Voters Have Won a Seat at the Table From voter registration, to grassroots organizing, to shaping the issue environment across the country, Black voters are flexing political muscle up and down the ballot Black voters have spoken. Across the country, from the industrial midwest to the Northeast to the deep south, Black votes were … Continued
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With Republican-led voter suppression efforts ramped up, one could make a legal argument of gross negligence about our election system. But can anyone prove it?
BLACK AND ethnic minority voters in the US are actively being discouraged from voting, according...
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Your vote is your voice. We need you to use it this November to achieve real change. We need you to use it to create the beloved community John Lewis dreamed of.
Addressing voting rights issues has been a core responsibility for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights since the Commission was founded in 1957. The Commission has broad authority over voting rights. It has general jurisdiction to examine allegations regarding the right of U.S. citizens to vote and to have their votes counted. These allegations may include, but are not limited to, allegations of discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin.
Pursuant to its authority, and fulfilling its obligations, members of the Commission staff conducted a preliminary investigation and discovered widespread allegations of voter disenfranchisement in Florida in the 2000 presidential election. The Commissioners voted unanimously to conduct an extensive public investigation into these allegations of voting irregularities. Toward that end, the Commission held three days of hearings in Miami and Tallahassee and, using its subpoena powers, collected more than 30 hours of testimony from more than 100 witnesses—all taken under oath—and reviewed more than 118,000 pages of pertinent documents.
The Commission carefully selected its subpoenaed witnesses to ensure that it heard testimony on the wide range of issues that had come to light during its preliminary investigation. The Commission also acted to ensure that it heard a broad spectrum of views. It subpoenaed a cross section of witnesses, including Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, members of Governor Bush’s Select Task Force on Election Procedures, Standards and Technology, and Florida’s attorney general. The Commission staff’s research also led it to subpoena the state official responsible for oversight of motor voter registration, the general counsel for Florida’s Elections Commission, the director of the Division of Elections (part of the secretary of state’s office), the director of Florida’s Highway Patrol, and numerous local elections officials, county supervisors, poll workers, and local
By TAMARA LUSH and EMILY SCHMALL, Associated Press
Arizona’s Republican governor shut down bars, movie theaters, gyms and water parks Monday and leaders in several states ordered residents to wear masks in public in a dramatic course reversal amid an alarming resurgence of coronavirus cases nationwide.
In New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday that he’s postponing the restarting of indoor dining because people have not been wearing face masks or complying with recommendations for social distancing.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said she will issue an executive order mandating the use of masks in stores and shops, restaurants, and in any situation where social distancing of 6 feet (2 meters) cannot be maintained, including outside.
In Texas, a group of bar owners sued on Monday to try to overturn Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s order closing their businesses.
One of Cuomo’s Republican counterparts, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, on a conference call with Vice President Mike Pence and members of the White House coronavirus task force, also asked Pence and Trump to issue a national call to wear masks.
