Headlines of the month

30 days after being nominated by President Trump, Amy Coney Barrett was officially sworn-in as a Supreme Court Justice on October On Wednesday, JulyThis past March, off27th. Based on her 29, Mexico’s Supreme Courticers Brett Hankinson, Mylesjudicial record on gun rights (SCJN) halted a tremendous milestone for abortion rights by voting against an injunction in Veracruz. The injunction, approved by a judge in Cosgrove, and Jonathan Mattingly, barged into Breonna Taylor’s house under a “no-knock warrant” as she and her boyfriend, Kenneth and immigration as well as her public statements on abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, it is Xalapa, Veracruz ordered the state’s congress toWalker, were sleeping and fired a barrage of 32clear that Barrett’s nomination will shift the remove bulletsnation’s articles 149,that killedhighest court150, andTaylor. severely 154Thisto thof the localmonth, ae right. The penal code. This decision wouldJefferson County grand jury only indictedbacklash against Barrett’s nominati haveone ofon is decriminalizeed abortionsthe three officers, Hankinstwo-fold: Many Americans within 12 weeks,on, and only chargedare concerned about allowed for abortions due tohim for endangering Taylor’show Barrett’s stance will play health risks, andneighbors. Noneout in court cases abolished the time limit on abortionsof the officers were charged for thedealing with LGBTQ+ rights and for casesdeath ofabortion involving rape. The plan for removing these threeBreonna Taylor. In addition, recently leaked(particularly in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia), articles was originally introduced by the women’sbody-cam footage reveals Brett Hankinson andand people are furious with the Trump rights Mylesadmini organizationsCosgrove retustration for National Commission torning to Taylor’s residencefast-tracking Barrett’s Prevent and Eradicate Violenceand commenting on potentialnomination rather than allowin against Womenevidence afterg the American (Conavim) and thethe incident took people to let their National Institute for Womenplace. Needless to say, folksvote for president influence (InMujeres) across thethe justice in coto 2016.untryfill th Unfortunately, four out ofare furious that Taylor’s e place of the late Ruth five judges voted against upholding the injunction. While this decision would have only affected the state of Veracruz, activists hoped that it would set death occurred at all, and that now, Taylor is being denied justice. Bader Ginsburg, considering Republicans prevented former president, Barack Obama, the precedent for other states to do the same.from replacing Justice Scalia in 2016.

This October, Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis has reached higher stakes after a fatal shooting That e thde ay beforeMother F Newrancis York City publica Internationalc schoolsBilingual Jena Faith, a 43-year-oldwere scheduled to openAcademy in Kumba that trans woman, has just, the Council of Schoolresulted in the deaths made history inSupervisors andof six chil Steuben County,Administrators (Cdren under NY by filing aSA) declared a14-years-old. lawsuit against the county for“No Confidence” vote againstUnfortunately, the shooters h the abuse sheMayor Bill deave not been experienced in jail. Faith wasBlasio and Chancellor Richardidentified yet. The Anglop arrested backCarranza duehone Crisis intoin 2018 for allegedly buying a mealtheir failure to come up withCameroon first emerged with counterfeita safe plan forin 2016 as money. While she was originally placed in a women’s facility, she was abruptly moved to a men’s facility she was misgendered, denied her hormone replacement treatment, and sexually assaulted. The lawsuit Faith filed upon her release, however, has now led to multiple reforms schools in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with the vote, the CSA is calling on de Blasio and Carranza to relinquish control of the city's Department of Education for the remainder of the pandemic and to seek out the assistance of the New York State education Anglophones in Cameroon started to protest their oppression at the hands of the Francophone government. Since then, due to the government’s violent suppression of these protests, tensions have continued to rise and dedicated todepartment. over 5,000 protecting trans inmates. As aAccording to CSA leaders, s soldiers, separatist fighters,resultchooland of theseofficialscivilians reforms, trans inmates inwant to get school’s reohave been killed. Not Steuben Countypened as safelyonly has this will andconfhave access to gender-affirming care,as quickly as possible. lict resulted in immense violence, willit albeso able topreven wear clothing thatted almost one aligns millio with their gender,n children from and legallyattending s mustchool berighreferredt now. to by their correct names and pronouns.

Information on President Trump’s long-awaited tax-returns has finally been released by the New York Times. According to their report, After winning the Democratic nomination this July, Candace Valenzuela could now make history Trump, the only president in recent history to not release his tax-returns, paid $750 the year In a seismic shift in governmental leadership, Samoa’s Deputy Prime Minister, Fiame Naomi by becoming the first Black Latinahe won the presidential electionMata’afa has resigned from her in Congress. and his firstgovernment Valenzuela is an educator, a member of her schoolyear in office. In 10 of the past 15 years,position to run against her former party, the board, and a mother of two. Herhowever, he didn’t pay anyHuman Rights Protection Party ( campaign wasincome taxesHRPP), in the supported by EMILY’sbecause he reportednext election. Fiame’s List, End Citizens United,losing more money thandecision to resign and run the Congressionalhe made. In addition,against her party is a Hispaniche is currenrejection of Caucus, thetly in a disputecurrent Prime Congressional with the IRSMinister, Tuil Black overaepa Caucus, the Congressionalthe legitimacy of a $72.9Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi’s Asian American Pcific American Caucus, andmillion tax refund. Unsurprisingly, Trumprecently established laws that critics cl was hasaim endorsed by the late John Lewis. referred to the report as “fake newsundermine Samoa’s constitution. . ”

Days before a major UN biodiversity summit, 64 In the world pastlead few ers s months,igned th the Greek e Leader’s government Pledge forhas secretly expelled over 1,000 asylum seekers by sending them off in occasionally malfunctioning life rafts. Despite the many Nature, among them Angela Merkel, Justin Trudeau, Jacinda Ardern, and Boris Johnson. The document is a 10-point pledge that plans to North Carolina’s “I Am Change” march began as a peaceful protest to encourage voter turnout but quickly devolved into violence when law outcries against Greece’s illegal actions, the government has denied the allegations. Some experts suggest that this recent humanitarian reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. The pledge warns that humanity is facing a climate crisis enforcement arrived in riot gear and gas masks and demanded that protestors move to the violation and declsidewalk. is a aresDesresult of other European countriesthat it will reduce deforestationpite the fact that the protestors not andhad providing enough assistanceunsustainable fishing practiapplied for the permit to be to Greece forces, eliminatethere, officers taking in a highenvironmentallyquickly resorted influx of Syrian refugees.harmful subsidies,to the use of pepper s Also, andpray, rising tensions between Greece and Turkey haveencourage sustainable food productionharming the children, elderly folks, and disabled led people tosystems. Thefolks that were believe thatpledge alsoin the crowd. bothputs nationspressure are on weaponizing countries th Syrianat con refugees totribute the placemost pressure ongreenhouse one another. gasses like the US, Brazil, China, and Russia.