"Only 40 percent of Harvard undergrads will return to campus this fall" by Deirdre Fernandes Globe Staff, July 6, 2020
All of Harvard University’s undergraduate courses will be taught online this fall and fewer than half the students will be allowed on campus, as the nation’s oldest college undergoes a major transformation that represents among the most restrictive higher education re-opening plans in the coronavirus era.
The university announced on Monday it will allow only first-year students and undergraduates specifically invited for academic reasons — about 40 percent of its undergraduate population — to come to campus in September. Students will be housed in single-room dormitories and they will be tested for the virus every three days. Most of the university’s non-residential buildings will be off-limits.....
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That is what the tuition will be paying for:
"College will be far different this fall, but the price will be largely the same" by Laura Krantz Globe Staff, July 6, 2020
As colleges across the country release plans for the unprecedented fall semester, each campus has its own strategy to bring back as many students as possible while keeping the coronavirus at bay. One thing most of them have in common: Tuition will remain the same.
A significant portion of university instruction will take place online this fall, a setup that officials say will cost them more, not less. As a result, most have not offered to lower the cost, despite acknowledging that the experience will be vastly different.
“The costs of providing a Brandeis-quality educational experience have increased, not diminished, in light of the pandemic,” reads that school’s website after announcing this month that students will be allowed to return to campus this fall, but most courses will happen online.
For the that don't shutter completely.
One exception to this pattern is Williams College, an elite liberal arts college in Western Massachusetts that turned heads last week when it announced it will reduce the cost of attendance by 15 percent this fall.
The move prompted some in higher education to question why more schools aren’t doing the same, but Williams officials said they can only do so because they have the luxury of a nearly $3 billion endowment and can spread the cost of the discount across multiple years in the future.
“The only way that we can do this is drawing more from our endowment than we otherwise would,” said Williams provost Dukes Love.
Despite its wealth, Williams is not totally immune to the effects of the pandemic, he said. This spring the school froze pay and hiring, reduced operating budgets by 10 percent, and paused capital projects. Love said the school does not know exactly how much the discount will cost, but it will mean a 15 percent decline in tuition revenue, which makes up about a third of the school’s operating budget.
Most other schools have not announced tuition cuts, saying that the cost of extra sanitation, individual dorm rooms, online teaching technology, and on-campus testing and tracing programs will cost them more, but some, like Brandeis, which costs about $73,000 per year, said they will forego tuition increases this year. University of Massachusetts president Martin Meehan has also proposed to freeze tuition for all in-state undergraduates of the five-campus system. A year at the UMass Amherst campus costs around $30,000.
UMass president buys Hub waterfront condo for $975,000
Forgive me for huffing and puffing, I gue$$ they are doing you a favor my not rai$ing tuition!
Smith College, which costs around $74,000 per year, announced on Monday that it will also roll back a planned tuition increase and increase financial aid to help families. Room and board charges will be prorated for the shorter fall semester the school has planned, and students on financial aid will have their allowance for personal expenses increased by $2,000 per year at the same time that works-study earning expectations will be reduced by half, the school said, but this generosity is, so far, the exception to the rule and comes at a time when schools are worried about their fall enrollment.....
That's your first le$$on, kids. Condescension from authority. They obviously don't think you are very smart.
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Anyway, you can enroll in Photography 101 and find a posh co-working space for women and nonbinary folks as you enjoy the $y$temic change:
"New rules: Foreign pupils must leave US if classes go online" by Collin Binkley Associated Press, July 6, 2020
International students will be forced to leave the United States or transfer to another college if their schools offer classes entirely online this fall, under guidelines issued Monday by federal immigration authorities.
The guidelines, issued by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, provide additional pressure for campuses to reopen even amid growing concerns about the recent spread of COVID-19 among young adults. Colleges received the guidance the same day that some schools, including Harvard University, announced that all instruction will be offered remotely.
Did you go to the wrong events, kids?
President Trump has insisted schools and universities return to in-person instruction as soon as possible. After the guidance was released, Trump repeated on Twitter schools must reopen this fall.
Under the updated rules, international students must take at least some of their classes in person. New visas will not be issued to students at schools or programs that are entirely online, and even at colleges offering a mix of in-person and online courses this fall, international students will be barred from taking all their classes online.
It creates an urgent dilemma for thousands of students who became stranded in the United States last spring after the coronavirus forced schools to move online. Those attending schools that stay online must “depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction,” the guideines say.
Dozens of US colleges have announced plans to provide in-person classes this fall, but some have said it’s too risky.....
Now into the streets, kids, to protest police brutality against Black People, even though 95% of the lives taken are by other Blacks.
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NYC public schools expected to open in September
They will reopen in fall with hybrid learning, and why is the Globe ignoring the explosion of cases, 'er, shooting in all the major cities like New York, Chicago, etc, as they support abolishing police and bans protest song and other political expression at schools?
Here is what they will be teaching:
"The fatal shooting of man in a parked car by Phoenix police officers over the weekend, captured on video in gruesome detail, is fueling a new round of protests against violent policing tactics. The video showed several uniformed officers surrounding a parked car while pointing their guns at the man inside the vehicle. One of the officers shouted at the man, threatening to shoot him. Then, in front of witnesses who were recording the episode, the officers unleashed a volley of gunfire. The victim was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to a statement by the Phoenix Police Department. The shooting in the city’s Maryvale neighborhood comes at a time when cities around the United States are grappling with anger over the deaths of Blacks and Latinos at the hands of the police. Elsewhere in Arizona, the police in Tucson came under scrutiny in June over the killing, also captured on video, of Carlos Ingram Lopez....."
All this stuff conveniently caught on video and being presented now. Timing is everything.
"A white woman who called the police during a videotaped dispute with a Black man over walking her dog without a leash in Central Park was charged Monday with filing a false police report. In May, Amy Cooper drew widespread condemnation for frantically calling 911 to claim she was being threatened by “an African-American man,” bird watcher Christian Cooper. On the video he recorded of the woman, he sounds calm and appears to keep a safe distance from her. District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said in a statement on Monday that his office had charged Amy Cooper with falsely reporting the confrontation, a misdemeanor. She was ordered to appear in court on Oct. 14. After the backlash, Cooper was fired from her job and released an apology through a public relations service, saying she “reacted emotionally and made false assumptions about his intentions.” Cooper’s 911 call inspired New York state lawmakers in June to pass a law that makes it easier under civil rights law to sue an individual who calls a police officer on someone “without reason” because of their background, including race and national origin. The new law, which the governor also signed last month, holds an individual who makes such 911 calls liable “for injunctive relief, damages, or any other appropriate relief” in a civil lawsuit. Cooper was charged under an existing false-report law that’s been long on the books and doesn’t reference race. There was no immediate answer to a message seeking comment on Monday from her lawyer. The confrontation began early one morning when Christian Cooper said he noticed Amy Cooper had let her cocker spaniel off its leash against the rules in the Ramble, a secluded section of Central Park popular with birdwatchers."
The toppling of statues is metaphorically symbolic of the complete overturning of society. Whites will now be treated like Blacks were, as if two wrongs will make a right.
"Georgia’s governor on Monday declared a state of emergency and authorized the activation of up to 1,000 National Guard troops after a weekend of violence in Atlanta left five people dead, including an 8-year-old girl. A statement from Governor Brian Kemp’s office says the troops will provide support at certain locations including the Capitol and governor’s mansion, freeing up state law enforcement resources to patrol other areas. “Peaceful protests were hijacked by criminals with a dangerous, destructive agenda. Now, innocent Georgians are being targeted, shot, and left for dead,” the Republican governor said. “This lawlessness must be stopped and order restored in our capital city,” he added....."
Oddly enough, the mayor has tested positive for the coronavirus and is now out of the running for Biden's VP.
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Pentagon policy would ban Confederate flag displays
Frederick Douglass statue vandalized in N.Y. park
Senseless. Totally senseless.
State Senate unveils sweeping police reform bill, plans to pass it this week
The Senate President says “the time for action is now, [they] must seize this moment,” and the bill proposes a host of new restrictions on the methods and materials police can use.
"Felicity Coleman, watching fireworks on a Dorchester street early Sunday, died in a fight she wasn’t involved in, prosecutors said Monday. She was one of seven people killed in Boston last week in a barrage of violence around the holiday weekend. The man accused of killing her had gotten into an argument with someone else and shot into a crowd of people, hitting Coleman, prosecutors said....."
If you are not killed by police or a white person, your life doesn't matter.
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When it comes to BPD overtime cuts, councilors want detailed plan
That's after "following a much-scrutinized operating budget vote last month, Boston city councilors are looking at ways to change the budget process, including one proposal that would alter the city’s foundational charter and give the body more power over the city’s purse strings of Bo$ton's future Police force.
Then they can all go out for ice cream.
Not like the regional capital is any better:
"In Springfield, an Instagram post costs a detective her job" by Dugan Arnett Globe Staff, July 6, 2020
Several members of the Springfield City Council on Monday called for the reinstatement of a local police officer whose recent termination has sparked national criticism, while renewing tensions in a city long struggling to rein in its police department.
Florissa Fuentes, a 30-year-old detective in her first year with the department, was fired on June 19 after a controversial social media post made in apparent support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The whole $oro$-$pon$ored insurgency has now infested a police department.
While some have condemned the post as antipolice, others have quickly moved to support Fuentes, a Latina officer who grew up in the city’s diverse North End neighborhood and joined the police department last July, advancing to the role of detective in less than a year.
Sure was promoted awful fast in a nation of systemic racism and sexism.
“If they’re interested in making strides as it relates to building better relations between the police officers and the community in which they serve, then they will take whatever steps are necessary to rehire this officer,” said Justin Hurst, president of the Springfield City Council.
Is that a threat?
On Monday, three of Springfield’s 13 city councilors told the Globe they were against the decision to terminate Fuentes.....
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Back to Bo$ton for the next day:
"Universities slam Trump administration rules barring international students" by Laura Krantz and Deirdre Fernandes Globe Staff, July 7, 2020
Colleges and universities are in furious upheaval in the wake of strict, unexpected rules announced this week by the Trump administration that would bar hundreds of thousands of international students from studying in the United States this fall.
The new rules, prohibiting international students located here from taking exclusively online courses for the fall semester, come as many colleges are announcing that most classes will have to take place virtually because of the threat of the coronavirus.
Schools are vowing to push back against the federal guidance, which is expected to become binding, calling it harmful for both students and their institutions. Harvard president Larry Bacow called the new policy a “blunt, one-size-fits-all approach to a complex problem.”
Like the $hutdown of the global economy and lockdown quarantines, a$$hole.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said her office is preparing to sue the Trump administration over the new regulations and has been in touch with colleges in the state to help protect students’ ability to study in the United States this fall.
OMG!
I'm sick of her grandstanding while ignoring crime in this state.
What about the freedoms that have been taken from us?
“As our colleges and universities navigate this unprecedented pandemic and grapple with how to continue teaching students, the Trump Administration has found ways to create more uncertainty and disruption,” Healey said in a statement Tuesday. “This decision from [US Immigration and Customs Enforcement] is cruel, it’s illegal, and we will sue to stop it.”
Unbelievable!
It's now as if COVID never existed!
More than a million international students come to the United States every year to earn a degree that will help them land better jobs, and some remain after graduation.
Many pay full tuition, and taking online classes from their home countries is a poor substitute, especially with sometimes-spotty Internet and the time difference. They are paying not just for the American degree, but the chance to network and gain work and research experiences. To save money, many travel home only rarely.
Bacow said Harvard, like many schools, took care to develop a plan for the fall that would keep students safe. He worried the federal plan leaves students few options beyond leaving the country or transferring schools.
“This guidance undermines the thoughtful approach taken on behalf of students by so many institutions, including Harvard,” he wrote.
Colleges said the new rules caught them off guard.
Oh, like the closing of the summer camps.
The new policy, if unchanged, could be especially detrimental to schools like UMass Boston....
And it's $taff:
"Amid an unprecedented financial crisis, the university has hired at least seven people with connections to state government and politics as administrators with salaries between $81,000 and $222,000 in the past year and a half, records show. The hires include the former head of the state Democratic Party, a former legislative aide, and a former state commissioner of environmental protection. Together, the seven people earn nearly $1 million. A UMass campus spokesman said in a statement that hiring is based on merit, and the hires underscore UMass’s reputation as a place where the politically connected of Beacon Hill can land a job with a single phone call. It’s an attractive place to work in part because the UMass system is part of the state retirement system, so state employees can continue to earn toward their pensions, which are based on their three highest years of pay and their number of years of service, and the campus’s location is for many more appealing than traveling to the other campuses in Lowell, Dartmouth, Worcester, or Amherst."
Didn't mean to undermine the outrage, sorry, as students adjust to a new set of hard realities.
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Time to take the test:
"‘I feel disappointed and blindsided’: Boston Public Schools moves forward with new exam school test, despite calls to suspend it" by Meghan E. Irons Globe Staff, July 7, 2020
On a Zoom call early last week, a Boston Public Schools task force focused on equity and opportunity unanimously voted to recommend suspending the city’s exam school admissions test this year because of the pandemic, which has disproportionately hurt Black and brown communities, but two days later Superintendent Brenda Cassellius, who joined a portion of the meeting and did not speak as the task force voted, announced plans to create and administer a new exam school test this fall.
“I feel disappointed and blindsided,‘' said Ayele Shakur, one of the cochairs of the task force. “Why would you rush to finalize a decision that we know is going to be really harmful and put loads of students at a disadvantage — in the midst of a pandemic?”
The task force’s mission is to help the district focus on closing the achievement gap for Black and brown students, who are often edged out of an entrance ticket into the exam schools, Boston Latin Academy, Boston Latin School, and the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science.
The racial disparities perpetuated by the entrance exam are particularly stark at Latin School, where Black enrollment hovers around 8 percent, and Hispanic enrollment at 13 percent. The district’s overall enrollment is about 30 percent Black and 42 percent Hispanic.
The disruption created by the pandemic only makes it more difficult for some students and their families.
“Kids are literally doing homework in a closet, because they don’t have any room to study,” Shakur said. “Those are not normal conditions and we should not be treating it as such for taking a test.”
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If only you could get into that high-ranked charter school without the test.
Someone who failed:
"President Trump on Tuesday launched an all-out effort to reopen schools this fall, arguing that some are keeping schools closed not because of the coronavirus pandemic, but for political reasons against the will of families....."
"President Trump demanded on Tuesday that schools reopen physically in the fall, pressing his drive to get the country moving again even as the coronavirus pandemic surged through much of the United States. In a daylong series of conference calls and public events at the White House, the president, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and other senior officials opened a concerted campaign to lean on governors, mayors, and others to resume classes in person months after more than 50 million children were abruptly ejected from school buildings in March. Trump and his administration argued that the social, psychological, and educational costs of keeping children at home any longer would be worse than the virus itself....."
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, and he's right, damage done.
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Democrat raises nearly $14m to unseat Graham
It's the latest sign of the party’s increasing strength as it tries to take control of the chamber in November’s elections.
CDC voting safety guidelines endorse mail, early balloting
So they can throw out all the Trump ballots!
Better hurry to class:
"Movement for Black Lives seeks sweeping legislative changes" by Kat Stafford Associated Press, July 7, 2020
DETROIT — Proposed federal legislation that would radically transform the nation’s criminal justice system through such changes as eliminating agencies like the Drug Enforcement Administration and the use of surveillance technology was unveiled Tuesday by the Movement for Black Lives.
Dubbed the BREATHE Act, the legislation is the culmination of a project led by the policy table of the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of more than 150 organizations. It comes at an unprecedented moment of national reckoning around police brutality and systemic racism that has spurred global protests and cries for change after several high-profile killings of Black Americans, including George Floyd.
Oh, so the Marxist BLM are now de facto legislators!
“We stand on the shoulders of giants and there has been 400 years of work that Black people have done to try to get us closer to freedom,” Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Cullors said. “This moment is a watershed moment. I think this moment calls for structural change and transformative change in ways that we haven’t seen in a very long time. We see this opportunity to push for the BREATHE Act as a part of what we’re calling the modern-day civil rights act.’’
This country has never been more diverse with an increasing number of leaders women and minorities as it slowly evolved, but we are now seeing a massive push to erase historical memory and upend our societal structures.
The proposed changes are sweeping and likely to receive robust pushback from lawmakers who perceive the legislation as too radical.
From an increasingly under threat Republican Party, which doesn't seem to be aware of it at all.
University of Michigan professor and criminal justice specialist Heather Ann Thompson acknowledged the uphill battle, but noted that the legislation is being introduced at a highly opportune time. “I think those programs that they’re suggesting eliminating only look radical if we really ignore the fact that there has been tremendous pressure to meaningfully reform this criminal justice system,” said Thompson, author of “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.” “Every radical piece of legislation that we’ve ever passed in this country, it has passed on the heels of the kinds of grass-roots protests that we saw on the streets.”
There is some truth to that, but it ignores whether their radical legislation is correct or right.
No members of Congress have yet said they plan to introduce the bill, but it has won early support among some of the more progressive lawmakers, including Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, who participated in Tuesday’s news conference.
The ungrateful squad. If racism (and sexism) where systemic they wouldn't have a seat in Congre$$.
The bill is broken into four sections, the first of which specifically would divest federal resources from incarceration and policing. The other sections lay out a detailed plan to achieve an equitable future, calling for sweeping changes that would eliminate federal programs and agencies “used to finance and expand” the US criminal-legal system.
Don't divest from Israel, though.
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"The FBI is investigating as a hate crime the assault of a Black man by a group of white men at a southern Indiana lake, the victim’s attorney said Tuesday. Vauhxx Booker, a civil rights activist and member of the Monroe County Human Rights Commission, said the men pinned him against a tree and shouted racial slurs, and one threatened to “get a noose” at Monroe Lake over the Fourth of July weekend. Much of the assault was captured on cellphone video by Booker’s acquaintances. Katherine Liell, his attorney, said the FBI is questioning witnesses and charging decisions could be made soon. The FBI declined to comment....."
I sure hope that is not another Jussie Smollett, Bubba Wallace situation and coverup.
"The state’s chief advocate for the deaf and hard of hearing allegedly told staff members that he wore robes resembling Ku Klux Klan garb and made apparent Nazi salutes while he was a member of a controversial college fraternity three decades ago, according to employees and union officials....."
Was he in blackface like Northam, and what do they means the robes and salutes "looked like" that stuff?
I mean, the closed fist representing Black Power could be viewed in the same context, could it not?
"The US attorney in Oregon announced federal charges against seven protesters accused in court papers of defacing a federal courthouse and assaulting federal officers during protests in Portland against racial injustice and police brutality. The protesters are charged with offenses ranging from disorderly conduct to destruction of federal property and assaulting a federal officer and were released pending trial after a brief court hearing Monday. The protester facing the most charges, 19-year-old Rowan Olsen, has pleaded not guilty. His federal public defender, Susan Russell, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday. Protesters in Portland have demonstrated for 40 consecutive nights since the death of George Floyd and are increasingly focusing their actions on federal properties in the city’s downtown core, including the Hatfield Federal Courthouse."
Is that the one they graffitied?
"When Confederate General Robert E. Lee died in 1870, the faculty of Washington College called for its name to be changed to reflect the contributions Lee made as president. Trustees agreed and renamed it Washington and Lee University. On Monday, the faculty again asked trustees of the prestigious Virginia university to change its name; 79 percent favored a resolution that said: ‘‘The Faculty of Washington and Lee calls for the removal of Robert E. Lee from the name of the University.’’ In 1870, ‘‘Lee was a symbol of who that faculty wanted to be, and who they were,’’ said Alison Bell, who leads the Faculty Affairs Committee. ‘‘The faculty is back 150 years later, asking the university for a name change because Lee does not represent who we are and who we want to be . . . Lee just cannot symbolize our community anymore.’’ It was another sign of the increasing pressure on the private liberal arts school to reconsider its name as institutions nationwide confront their history amid protests against racial injustice and police brutality. Monuments have been toppled and traditions upended as people question the symbols and narratives of their collective past."
That's what led to Soviet-style communism before they came down.
All comes back to the $chools:
"The US Department of Education is attempting to take pandemic relief funds away from K-12 public schools and divert the money to private schools, California and four other Democratic-led states argued in a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the Trump administration. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the lawsuit, which was joined by Maine, New Mexico, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia. The suit also names Education Secretary Betsy DeVos as a defendant. Becerra said the department unlawfully interpreted the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which established guidelines to distribute $13.2 billion in aid to schools nationwide using Title I funds earmarked for students from low-income families. The department’s interpretation will instead allow school districts to get funds based on their total student population, leading tens of millions of dollars to be diverted from public schools in the poorest districts to private institutions with tuition similar to that charged by private colleges, the lawsuit says. “Today’s announcement is about stopping the Trump administration’s latest effort to steal from working families to give it to the very privileged,’’ Becerra said. Department of Education press secretary Angela Morabito said that while the department does not comment on pending litigation, “the secretary has said many times, this pandemic affected all students, and the CARES Act requires that funding should be used to help all students.” On a call Monday with Vice President Mike Pence and the nation’s governors, DeVos said governors have not taken advantage of the funding and so far only $195 million has been used."
Like the trillions in bailout loot?
Meanwhile, the kid went off to school alone and.....
Mother mourns shooting of 15-year-old son
Boston, MA - 5/28/2020 - BPD Commissioner William Gross, foreground, speaking at a May event, while Walsh listens in the background - (Barry Chin/Globe Staff) Barry Chin/Globe Staff
Maybe I'm wrong, for he looks like a mobster.
Time to build some bridges to the back of the bus:
"Though new bridges would cost more than $1 billion, the Army Corps decided that was preferable to massive rehabilitation of the aging structures, which would cost hundreds of millions of dollars and require roads to be closed for significant periods of time, but two key decisions have yet to be reached, however: When will construction start, and where will the money come from?"
Couldn't get to the other side after all:
"One of French President Emmanuel Macron’s new government ministers has been accused of rape. Another is a lawyer who ridiculed the #MeToo movement and defended a top official accused of rape. Women’s rights groups are angry and confused, and on Tuesday staged two protests in Paris over the appointments they see as burying Macron’s promises to make equality between women and men the “Great Cause” of his five-year term. “It’s a slap in the face,” said Pauline Baron of feminist group NousToutes, which campaigns against sexual violence. “We are once again celebrating people who are accused of rape or say things that negate the voice of victims. It stifles victims and feeds sexual violence and rape culture.” The French government said it remains committed to equality and defended the new ministers, stressing the presumption of innocence...."
Did Epstein ever make his way through France?
"..... The #MeToo movement had a mixed reception in France, where many celebrate the art of seduction and resented what they saw as American political correctness encroaching on French society. French feminists, who have long sought to battle women’s oppression in a macho culture, welcomed the movement as a breakthrough that allowed victims to speak out at last — though no powerful French figures lost their jobs as a result. At Tuesday’s first protest, near the president’s Elysee Palace and the Interior Ministry, about 20 mostly masked demonstrators waved sparklers, raised their fists, and chanted for the resignations of the new interior and justice ministers. A group of male police officers pushed them back. Several dozen protesters gathered later in front of the columned Madeleine Church near the Justice Ministry for a symbolic “burial” of Macron’s promises to fight sexism and sexist violence. “No rapist in the Interior Ministry, no accomplice in the Justice Ministry!” the activists shouted. They described age-old challenges confronting women who are raped or sexually abused: Most are afraid to report what happened out of fear of their attacker or of being stigmatized. Some women who waited years to speak out were accused of opportunism. Only a small minority of cases reported to police reach trial, and much fewer result in convictions. The government appointments are “a very bad message to all women,” said protester Karma Duquesne from Les Colleuses, a group that plastered the names and portraits of women killed by their partners around France and prompted Macron to order new measures against domestic violence. After the new Cabinet’s first meeting Tuesday, government spokesman Gabriel Attal defended Macron’s staffing choices. “We can’t on the one side make the presumption of innocence sacred . . . and (on the other) consider that there are people who, by the function they occupy, cannot benefit from the presumption of innocence,” Attal said. Early in his presidency, Macron replaced ministers who were targeted by corruption investigations. Responding to the protests over the new ministers, Attal said: “There are investigations, they are ongoing, and that’s normal, we’re in a state of law. We cannot take it a step farther and say that because there are investigations, it will be impossible to serve in a government.”
That means one must prove their innocence, so forget the centuries old concept of western jurisprudence, and if only you ladies had a black skin:
"The recent Black Lives Matter protests are the largest movement in US history, say scholars and crowd-counting experts. While it’s possible that more people said they protested than actually did, even if only half told the truth, the surveys suggest more than 7 million people demonstrated. The Women’s March of 2017 turned out 3 million to 5 million people on a single day, but it was a highly organized event. Collectively, the Black Lives Matter protests, more organic in nature, appear to have far surpassed those numbers....."
They are the ones who get the front seats, ladies.
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"President Trump on Wednesday threatened to withhold funding for schools that do not reopen in the fall and assailed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for returning to the classroom as “very tough & expensive” — a condemnation that prompted Vice President Mike Pence to announce the CDC would soon change them. Trump’s focus on schools is his latest attempt to cajole the country back to normalcy — and, crucially for him, to reboot the struggling economy ahead of the November election — even as the virus tears through parts of the South and West, breaking records for daily new cases in California and threatening to overwhelm hospitals in Texas and Arizona. With Education Secretary Betsy DeVos also ramping up pressure on all schools to open five days a week, a battle is shaping up between the administration and local officials who have been poring over reopening plans. In many cases, the local officials have concluded that it is not possible for school — one of society’s most basic public services — to reopen normally in a matter of weeks....."
Even if he is doing it for himself, it is for the right reason. The sick local officials who hate him don't care about damaging the kids social development, although the trauma of the last four months has undoubtedly left them vulnerable to sexual predators and ideal slaves of compliance for the coming dystopia.
That's what the social-distancing and mask mandates for school reopening are doing. They are simply conditioning the kids for the future.
Of course, the Globe isn't concerned about those students:
"As tension with Trump grows, Harvard, MIT sue to protect foreign students studying in US" by Deirdre Fernandes Globe Staff, July 8, 2020
Harvard University and MIT filed a lawsuit Wednesday to block a Trump administration plan that could bar hundreds of thousands of international students from studying in the United States — the latest front in what has become a ferociously combative relationship between the president and Harvard.
“Harvard is a soft target,” said Jeffrey Berry, a political science professor at Tufts University.
President Richard Nixon railed against the East Coast liberal elite establishment more than half a century ago, and in the Trump era that’s been condensed to mean Harvard, Berry said.
“It represents privilege and evokes resentment for working class white people,” Berry said.
What a piece of work is that guy?
Makes it sound like Trump has them in the crosshairs and compares him to Nixon!
As for the resentment of white people and the deplorables, that has only increased as the Democrats kneel before BLM.
Criticizing Harvard plays to Trump’s voters, many of whom believe that the elite establishment is dismissive of their concerns, he said, but Doug Wead, a conservative commentator and author of “Inside Trump’s White House: The real story of his presidency,” said the hypocrisy of powerful institutions, such as Harvard, is what riles the president.
He noted that Harvard’s students were critical of Trump’s response to hurricane devastation in Puerto Rico a few years ago, but that the university’s endowment has also benefited from the island territory’s debt, Wead said. Many of Harvard’s professors and intellectuals have mocked and derided Trump’s policies, Wead said.
For example, former Harvard president and economist Lawrence Summers described Trump’s budget forecasts as inflated and compared them to believing in tooth fairies, Wead said, yet the economy has done well through most of Trump’s presidency, he said.
Not only that, Larry Summers himself is a racist:
"On December 12, 1991, while serving as chief economist for the World Bank, Summers authored a private memo arguing that the bank should actively encourage the dumping of toxic waste in developing countries, particularly "under populated countries in Africa," which Summers described as "UNDER-polluted."
Why has he not been called out?
“He was especially amused and contemptuous of the hypocrisy,” Wead said. “The president’s relationship with lots of institutions and power centers is contentious. Not just Harvard,” but Harvard, in particular, offers Trump an easy opportunity to send a message to both his supporters and other institutions, said Theda Skocpol, a professor of government and sociology at Harvard.....
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"College life will be markedly different this fall, and many students are wondering whether a downscaled semester that falls far short of the classic campus experience is worth it. After widely shutting down in March, many colleges are still in flux for the fall term as they weigh how best to combat the coronavirus. Some are inviting a limited number of students back to campus, many are offering only remote learning, and still others are planning a combination of the two scenarios. For soon-to-be freshman Jaiden Edelman of Vineyard Haven, the pros and cons of attending Harvard University has been weighing heavily on his mind as the starting date for fall semester closes in....."
The Globe calls it an irrational assault on higher education and a callous plan that would cause great economic harm.
Speaking of assaults:
Boston’s police review board was primed to push for reforms, but years later its impact is negligible
\Protesters decrying police violence marched past Boston Police Headquarters while en route to the State House on June 22 (Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff)
Now Boston councilors want to see meaningful change.
From front page to back:
New transcripts detail last moments for George Floyd
As translated by the New York Times.
Justice Department moves ahead with execution plan next week
I have a long list for you, with Bush, Cheney, the Clintons, and the Obamas at the top it -- although I doubt the Army (or anyone, for that matter), will help.
"AP Exclusive: ‘Strike for Black Lives’ to highlight racism" by Aaron Morrison Associated Press, July 8, 2020
A national coalition of labor unions, along with racial and social justice organizations, will stage a mass walkout from work this month, as part of an ongoing reckoning on systemic racism and police brutality in the United States.
I'm sure there will be plenty of Americans ready to take their place.
How ungrateful!
Dubbed the “Strike for Black Lives,” tens of thousands of fast food, ride-share, nursing home, and airport workers in more than 25 cities are expected to walk off the job on July 20 for about eight minutes — the amount of time prosecutors say a white Minneapolis police officer held his knee on the neck of George Floyd in May — in remembrance of Black men and women who died recently at the hands of police.
The national strike will also include a handful of worker-led marches through participating cities, organizers said Wednesday.
I'm thinking Europe and Russia, I'm thinking the early 1900s, and how did that all result?
According to details shared with the Associated Press, organizers are demanding sweeping action by corporations and government to confront systemic racism in an economy that chokes off economic mobility and career opportunities for many Black and Hispanic workers, who make up a disproportionate number of those earning less than a living wage. They also stress the need for guaranteed sick pay, affordable health care coverage, and better safety measures for low-wage workers who never had the option of working from home during the coronavirus pandemic.
“We have to link these fights in a new and deeper way than ever before,” said Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, which represents more than 2 million workers in the United States and Canada.
What does that mean, and a whole bunch of us are out of jobs now, no matter what color. You guys at least have them!
“Our members have been on a journey . . . to understanding why we cannot win economic justice without racial justice. This strike for Black lives is a way to take our members’ understanding about that into the streets,” Henry told the Associated Press.
What a conundrum, huh?
Among the strikers’ specific demands are that corporations and government declare unequivocally that “Black lives matter.” Elected officials at every level must use executive and legislative power to pass laws that guarantee people of all races can thrive, according to a list of demands. Employers must also raise wages and allow workers to unionize to negotiate better health care, sick leave, and child care support.
Communism always sounds good until it is implemented!
The service workers union has partnered with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the American Federation of Teachers, United Farm Workers, and the Fight for $15 and a Union, which represents fast-food workers.
Oh, they finally got some muscle behind them.
Social and racial justice groups taking part include March On, the Center for Popular Democracy, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of more than 150 organizations that make up the Black Lives Matter movement.
Same ones that wrote the legislation above!
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, a strike organizer with the Movement for Black Lives, said corporate giants that have come out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement have also profited from racial injustice and inequity.
“Corporate power is a threat to racial justice, and the only way to usher in a new economy is by tackling those forces that aren’t fully committed to dismantling racism,” she said in a statement.
Not part of the Great Global Reset, sorry.
Trece Andrews, a Black nursing home worker for a Ciena Healthcare-managed retirement home in the Detroit area, said she feels dejected after years of being passed over for promotions. The 49-year-old believes racial discrimination played a part in her career stagnation.
“I’ve got 20 years in the game and I’m only at $15.81” an hour, she said in a phone interview.
As the single mother of a 13-year-old daughter and caregiver to her father, a cancer survivor, Andrews said inadequate personal protective gear makes her afraid of bringing the coronavirus home from her job.
At least they kept COVID out of your $y$tem, right, and as for the PPE....?
“We’ve got the coronavirus going on, plus we’ve got this thing with racism going on,” Andrews said. “They’re tied together, like some type of segregation, like we didn’t have our ancestors and Martin Luther King fighting against these types of things. It’s still alive out here, and it’s time for somebody to be held accountable.”
Yeah, there they go, tying agendas together that have nothing to do with each other.
The strike continues a decades-old labor rights movement tradition, dating to the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike. At the end of that two-month strike, some 1,300 mostly Black sanitation workers bargained collectively for better wages.
And King was dead!
“Strike for Black Lives’’ organizers say they want to disrupt a multigenerational cycle of poverty perpetuated by antiunion and other policies that make it difficult to bargain collectively for better wages and working conditions.
But not if you are white?
Systemic poverty affects 140 million people in the United States, with 62 million people working for less than a living wage, according to the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, a strike partnering organization with many members who are people of color.
“If in fact we are going to take on police violence that kills, then certainly we have to take on economic violence that also kills,” the Rev. William Barber II, cochair of the Poor People’s Campaign, said in a telephone interview.
What will he do when they close down his church?
In Missouri, participants will rally at a McDonald’s in Ferguson, a key landmark in the protest movement sparked by the death of Michael Brown, a Black teenager who was killed by police in 2014. The strikers will then march to a memorial site located on the spot where Brown was shot and killed.
In Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed on May 25, nursing home workers will participate in a caravan that will include a stop at the airport.
They will be providing a safety net.
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If you are lucky, you can live the life of Pariss Chandler, kiddo.
Also see:
Ivy League to place sports seasons on hold until at least January amid coronavirus pandemic
They will be shutting down sports this year, probably forever.
