Chicago cancels classes Wednesday after teacher vote halts in-person learning Chalkbeat
Covid Crisis Hits New York City Schools THE CITY
School attendance plunged to 67% on the first day back to classes, as unvaccinated children fill hospital intensive care units.
TODAY! #SchoolsAreNotSafe #wekeepussafe https://t.co/5OktD7Ejib
— MORE-UFT (@MOREcaucusUFT) January 5, 2022
Low wages
A record-high 1 million restaurant and hotel workers quit in November — and it shows the labor shortage might really be a wage shortage Business Insider
Record 4.5 million ‘Great Resignation’ workers quit their jobs in November – what this means for Biden The Independent
Video shows police dog severely mauls Uber driver who missed car payments Guardian
Evictions
Hochul Signals Aim to Let Eviction Moratorium Expire, Albany Sources Say THE CITY
#COVID19
US tops one million new daily COVID-19 cases – a global record Al Jazeera
CityMD closing 31 clinics in New York metro area during Omicron surge New York Post
UN Official Also on the Board of Shell Consortium News
Indigenous Peoples
American Indian Movement Announces Walk for Leonard Peltier Native News Online
China
China’s Excellent, Very Good Year Godfree Roberts
Amidst global gloom, 2021 was the best year in modern Chinese history. Here’s what they accomplished:
- Eliminated extreme poverty.
- Reached 96% home ownership.
- Kept Covid death rate at 0.6% of America’s.
China reports major drop in virus cases in locked-down Xi’an AP
Gidimt’en Checkpoint
BREAKING – RCMP INVASION EXPECTED ON WET’SUWET’EN TERRITORY#ShutDownCanada#AllOutForWedzinKwa#WetsuwetenStrong
For the fourth time in four years, we have received information that dozens of militarized RCMP are en route to Wet’suwet’en territory… pic.twitter.com/gb913vDydb
— Gidimt’en Checkpoint (@Gidimten) January 2, 2022
Kazakhstan’s government resigns as fuel protests rage CNN
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