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In the U.S.
Dangerous provisions inserted into the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 have created great alarm among civil liberties organizations, Muslim organizations, groups that defend anti-war activists and many activists of the Occupy Wall Street movement who have recently been targeted across the country....
Posted Dec 23, 2011
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On Dec. 15, the U.S. Department of Justice released a report confirming the criminal practices of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his racist department. ...
Posted Dec 23, 2011
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The number of people in the U.S. who are officially poor or “near poor” has become a matter of controversy.
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Posted Dec 21, 2011
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Workers and community activists in Detroit are engaged in a critical struggle to stop the takeover of this majority African-American city by a state-appointed “emergency manager.”
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Posted Dec 21, 2011
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On Dec. 9, the San Diego Coalition to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal held a meeting on the 30th anniversary of his incarceration....
Posted Dec 21, 2011
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A significant legal victory for trans and gender nonconforming workers was recently won in a case brought by Vandy Beth Glenn....
Posted Dec 21, 2011
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The police campaign to wipe out the Occupy Wall Street movement across the country should drive home a truth that has long been experienced by oppressed communities, workers on strike, fighters for civil rights, immigrant workers and many others. The regime of capitalist democracy in the United States has a violently repressive character — side-by-side with its controlled “democratic” institutions.
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Posted Dec 19, 2011
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The Occupy 4 Jobs network is celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day in New York City with a direct action to demand jobs. The Jan. 16 event will begin at 1 p.m. at Union Square.
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Posted Dec 19, 2011
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Thousands of labor, community and student supporters joined a solidarity rally and march on Dec. 10 to support striking members of the International Association of Machinists Local 516. This mass-based progressive activity was a rare occurrence for this city of 32,000 in northeastern Wisconsin....
Posted Dec 19, 2011
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Members of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181-1061 held a press conference on the steps of New York City Hall Dec. 6 to correct Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s false announcement of an impending citywide school bus strike. ...
Posted Dec 19, 2011
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A mobile home in a rural, working-class area of northwest Tennessee burned to the ground on Dec. 5 after a team of firefighters called to the scene were ordered to let it burn. ...
Posted Dec 19, 2011
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Speakers talked about how Artie Rosen always wore a Free Palestine! button on his cap. How he got Workers World newspaper out to newsstands and bookstores for more than 50 years. ...
Posted Dec 18, 2011
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Activists, mostly identified with the Occupy Atlanta movement, responded to a call by the International Action Center and the Campaign to End the Death Penalty for a Dec. 9 evening march and rally at the State Capitol.
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Posted Dec 15, 2011
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African-American lesbian activist, poet and writer Audre Lorde wrote that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” Published in 1984, her statement is a perfect response to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Dec. 6 announcement that the U.S. will supposedly be championing the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people around the world. ...
Posted Dec 15, 2011
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Bronx and Harlem communities united with postal workers have been able to transform recent sham hearings the U.S. Postal Service has held in order to close 34 New York City post offices. ...
Posted Dec 15, 2011
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California prison hunger strikers at Corcoran SHU have drafted a set of 10 core demands that they are proposing be adopted by the Occupy Wall Street Movement. ...
Posted Dec 15, 2011
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Occupy activists from Vancouver, Canada, to San Diego, Calif., disrupted and shut down West Coast ports in solidarity with port workers....
Posted Dec 14, 2011
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After nearly three decades on death row, former Black Panther Party member and world-renowned journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal, was moved Dec. 11, following an announcement by Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams that he would no longer seek Abu-Jamal’s execution....
Posted Dec 14, 2011
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Chanting “Union-busting is disgusting!” Occupy Philly activists barged into the headquarters lobby of Presby’s Inspired Life, a local nursing home chain, on Dec. 9. ...
Posted Dec 14, 2011
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The Occupy Wall Street movement in cities across the United States took part in a National Day of Action to Occupy Our Homes on Dec. 6....
Posted Dec 14, 2011
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From a talk given by WWP youth organizer Caleb Maupin at the Workers World Party National Conference on Oct. 8-9 in New York City....
Posted Dec 10, 2011
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At 4:45 a.m. on Dec. 4, 1969, a special Chicago Police Department/FBI/Illinois State’s Attorney’s Office death squad opened fire with machine guns, shotguns and side arms inside a small apartment at 2337 W. Monroe on Chicago’s West Side.
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Posted Dec 10, 2011
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Tens of thousands of people came to know Troy Anthony Davis through the persuasive and compelling presentations his sister, Martina Davis Correia, made at hundreds of meetings, rallies and media interviews in this country and around the world.
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Posted Dec 8, 2011
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On Dec. 1, dozens of members of the Rhode Island Rosa Parks Human Rights Committee of the RI Peoples Assembly organized a rush-hour, peoples’ tribute to past and present struggles for social and economic rights, equality and freedom. ...
Posted Dec 8, 2011
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While the Occupy Movement has certainly drawn attention to the discontent roiling in the depths of the American heart, they are a small percentage, those who have chosen to hit the streets just as cold weather begins to grip many parts of the nation.
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Posted Dec 8, 2011
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The Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement and Occupy 4 Jobs Network held a “People’s Organizing Meeting” in Milwaukee on Dec. 3....
Posted Dec 8, 2011
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The right-wing radio propagandist known as Rush Limbaugh made an appearance Nov. 29....
Posted Dec 8, 2011
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Battle lines have formed as the West Coast Occupy movements, from San Diego to Alaska, flex their collective muscle against the federally coordinated, brutal attacks targeting the pro-Occupy Wall Street movements across the country. ...
Posted Dec 7, 2011
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Despite all the talk of economic recovery, the plague of unemployment, underemployment, rising poverty, lower wages and general insecurity is still growing.
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Posted Dec 7, 2011
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The New York City Central Labor Council coordinated a Dec. 1 march for “Jobs and Economic Fairness.”...
Posted Dec 7, 2011
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As pressure builds for the Dec. 12 West Coast port shutdown, the capitalist owners and their media began a battle of ideas to blunt this powerful threat to their profits and control — even for a day. ...
Posted Dec 6, 2011
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An exuberant, determined crowd of more than 3,000 people of diverse nationalities gathered here Nov. 21 to launch a national campaign to turn back Alabama’s recently enacted extreme anti-immigrant legislation, known as HB 56. Participants came from all corners of the state — Russellville to Mobile, Oneonta to Montevallo.
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Posted Dec 5, 2011
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From a talk given by WWP organizer in Wisconsin, Bryan G. Pfeifer, at the Workers World Party National Conference on Oct. 8-9 in New York City....
Posted Dec 5, 2011
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U.S. Postal Service officials got several earfuls at hearings in the South Bronx and Harlem last week....
Posted Dec 5, 2011
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Some 1,400 cops attacked the Occupation Los Angeles people and their supporters late on the evening of Nov. 29, eventually clearing the area and arresting as many as 250 that night....
Posted Dec 3, 2011
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The shocking child sex scandal rocking Penn State University in State College, Pa., is an explosion of almost nuclear proportions.
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Posted Dec 3, 2011
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The 30th anniversary of Mumia Abu-Jamal's incarceration and frame up....
Posted Dec 3, 2011
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Organizing is under way for a coordinated mass blockade of West Coast ports on Monday, Dec. 12, targeting “Wall Street on the waterfront.” ...
Posted Dec 3, 2011
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Several actions took place on the “Historic Day of Action for the 99 Percent.”...
Posted Dec 3, 2011
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About 200 members of IAM Local 516 walked off the job Nov. 14 after rejecting a union-busting contract proposal....
Posted Dec 3, 2011
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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has threatened the city of Detroit....
Posted Dec 3, 2011
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A dialogue between a capitalist banker and an unemployed youth....
Posted Dec 3, 2011
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We woke up this morning to the news Nov. 30 that the cops had finally shut down Occupy Philly....
Posted Dec 1, 2011
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Some members of Occupy Philly want to keep insisting that “the police are our friends.” They are “our relatives,” some say. Some of our relatives may be right-wingers who support what the 1 percent does. That makes them politically “right” but not correct — just relatives. There is nothing one can do about who you’re connected to by blood — but any thinking person can choose whom you consider “friends.”...
Posted Dec 1, 2011
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Several hundred people came to Plymouth, Mass., on Nov. 24 to commemorate the 42nd annual National Day of Mourning. Celebrated by some as “thanksgiving” Thursday, this is a day when Native people and their supporters stand together and refuse to give thanks for the genocide and theft of lands caused as a result of the European invasion of Indigenous lands, in Plymouth and elsewhere.
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Posted Nov 30, 2011
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The organizers of the National Day of Mourning dedicated the day to Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier. Tiokasin Ghosthorse spoke and read an update from the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee.
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Posted Nov 30, 2011
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After 15 students were beaten and arrested last week for daring to attend a Nov. 21 hearing of the City University of New York’s Board of Trustees where they attempted to tell the board why raising tuition would make their lives much more difficult, 300 students in Students United for a Free CUNY gathered in Madison Square Park on Nov. 28.
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Posted Nov 30, 2011
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Day 53 of Occupy Philly has turned into a showdown between the protesters and the police, since the city threatened to evict activists at 5 p.m. It’s now 10 p.m. and the people’s mic remains strong at Dilworth Plaza outside City Hall.
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Posted Nov 28, 2011
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Excerpts from a talk by Gary Wilson, a managing editor of Workers World, at the Oct. 8-9 Workers World Party National Conference in New York City.
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Posted Nov 27, 2011
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Global warming has hit the Arctic region hard, making the lives of the Native peoples living along the coast of Alaska in isolated communities that depend on hunting and fishing for their survival much, much harder.
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Posted Nov 27, 2011
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Arthur “Artie” Rosen, a founding member of Workers World Party and a lifelong militant communist, passed away at the age of 82 from kidney failure on Oct. 3. A special memorial will be held at the Solidarity Center here on Dec. 4. Artie is survived by his daughter Rebecca.
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Posted Nov 27, 2011
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Here’s a little secret that no one mentions as Democrats and Republicans joust over what to do about the federal budget: Every penny that the government spends, whether it’s on war and repression or on “entitlements” like Social Security and Medicare, comes from the sweat and strain of the workers.
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Posted Nov 23, 2011
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Corporate-backed Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has again threatened to enact massive layoffs and further cuts in city services.
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Posted Nov 23, 2011
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The Occupy Wall Street movement at Zuccotti Park in New York City heard the powerful voices of women activists, the majority of them immigrants from Latin America, at a rally organized Nov. 20 by a broad coalition led by Women Workers for Peace and La Peña del Bronx.
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Posted Nov 23, 2011
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Excerpts from a talk by WWP Secretariat member Sara Flounders at the Oct. 8-9 Workers World Party National Conference in New York City.
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Posted Nov 23, 2011
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If the mayor of New York City thought that he, his judge and his shock troops could put a halt to the Occupy Wall Street movement by raiding Zuccotti Park in the early hours of Nov. 15, he was wrong.
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Posted Nov 22, 2011
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Under a banner reading “Abolish Capitalism! Fight for Socialism! We need a revolution!” the Philadelphia branch of Workers World Party/Mundo Obrero hosted a Socialist Summit in Philadelphia Nov. 19.
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Posted Nov 22, 2011
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Leading up to the Socialism Summit in Philadelphia on Nov. 18, a “Conversation on the Capitalist Economic Crisis” was held....
Posted Nov 22, 2011
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Service Employees Local 721, Occupy LA participants and community organizations marched to Bank of America Plaza in downtown Los Angeles Nov. 17. Police arrested 27 activists at a morning blockdown and 46 more in the afternoon....
Posted Nov 22, 2011
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When the masses of people are in motion, watch out. They may just be chipping away at the foundations of the old established order, while you ain’t looking!...
Posted Nov 22, 2011
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Thousands of demonstrators attached a large banner reading “Occupy Ft. Benning” to the tall barbed-wire fence separating them from base property here on Nov. 19.
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Posted Nov 22, 2011
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Excerpted from a talk by WWP Secretariat member Deirdre Griswold to the Oct. 8-9 Workers World Party National Conference in New York City....
Posted Nov 22, 2011
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The U.S. government has for two decades designated November as “National Native American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month.” According to the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs, it was “established to recognize the significant contributions the First Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S.”
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Posted Nov 20, 2011
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A youth-led Black & Brown Unity march and rally took to the streets of Milwaukee on Nov. 12....
Posted Nov 20, 2011
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Relentless, overused and indeed clichéd, but “Smokin’” is the most suitable word to describe Smokin’ Joe Frazier in the boxing ring. ...
Posted Nov 20, 2011
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Initiative 26 was trounced 58-42 percent by voters in Mississippi on Nov. 8. It would have outlawed all abortions, many forms of birth control, fertility treatments and stem-cell research and possibly have criminalized women who had ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages.
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Posted Nov 19, 2011
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Ohio Senate Bill 5, one of the most far-reaching of the bills that would deny collective bargaining to all public workers, was voted down 2-1....
Posted Nov 19, 2011
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“Bury Racism, Not Workers!” was a main chant as close to 200 unionists and community activists picketed Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, N.Y., on Nov. 12, making life uncomfortable for the plantation-like managers of the sprawling burial ground....
Posted Nov 19, 2011
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From a talk by Steve Millies, railway worker and Workers World writer, at the Oct. 8-9 Workers World Party National Conference....
Posted Nov 19, 2011
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The Philadelphia branch of Workers World Party/Partido Mundo Obrero will hold a Socialist Summit on Saturday, Nov. 19, from 2 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Calvary Church, located in the southwest part of the city at the intersection of 48th Street and Baltimore Avenue.
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Posted Nov 17, 2011
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As the natural gas industry expands hydraulic fracturing — “fracking” — across the U.S., concerns surface almost daily that call into question the safety of this process. At the same time, legislative actions that would pave the way for further industry expansion are being met with a rising number of protests.
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Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Excerpts taken from a talk given by Workers World Party Secretariat member, Monica Moorehead, at the WWP Oct. 8-9 National Conference in New York City....
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Our movement is under attack. We must mobilize to defend it....
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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As the political character of Occupy Wall Street has grown sharper, with its movement increasingly targeting foreclosures and union-busting, the ruling class made a decision: Cut off the movement at the head.
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Posted Nov 16, 2011
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The eyes of the world were on the city of Oakland and the massive people’s march to the nation’s fifth-largest container port on Nov. 2 for the General Strike and Day of Mass Action called by Occupy Oakland....
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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The next time you hear about how terrible things were or are in some socialist country, think about the war being spread right now in the media against the Occupy movement.
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Posted Nov 16, 2011
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On Nov. 9, some 400 students, workers, faculty and their supporters rallied at Harvard University with plans to occupy historic Harvard Yard.
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Posted Nov 16, 2011
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Occupy Rochester won a stunning victory on Nov. 9 when Mayor Tom Richards agreed to let protesters camp in Washington Square Park 24/7. ...
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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Occupy Oakland was temporarily shut down on Nov. 14 after being served eviction notices by the police, as instructed by Mayor Jean Quan. ...
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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In rainy darkness, sleet and snow, Occupy Syracuse marked Veterans Day with a march through downtown Syracuse, N.Y.
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Posted Nov 16, 2011
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On Nov. 11, Occupy Atlanta served a hearty meal in Troy Davis Park to veterans, most of them homeless....
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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Supporters of Palestine organized a successful protest and demonstration against an Israeli Defense Force spokesperson, who spoke at a Zionist forum at the Wayne State University campus in Detroit....
Posted Nov 14, 2011
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On Nov. 5, the auditorium at the Service Employees union Local 1199 building in New York filled with the call to free the Cuban Five at a public event corresponding with a meeting of the National Network on Cuba....
Posted Nov 14, 2011
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On Nov. 7, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed the execution of Hank Skinner pending the results of his legal challenges for DNA testing. ...
Posted Nov 12, 2011
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From a talk given by San Francisco Workers World organizer, Judy Greenspan, at the Workers World Party National Conference on Oct. 8-9 in New York City....
Posted Nov 12, 2011
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From a talk given by John Parker, of the Los Angeles Workers World branch, at the Workers World Party National Conference in New York City on Oct. 8-9....
Posted Nov 12, 2011
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The National Conference of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression was held Nov. 5 at the Kent College of Law in Chicago....
Posted Nov 12, 2011
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Calif. women workers file new bias case vs. Wal-Mart | Nat’l Taxi Workers joins AFL-CIO | Historic contract for carwash workers in L.A. | Latino labor org. calls for new view of immigration | ILWU 21 fined another $65,000...
Posted Nov 12, 2011
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Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, activists have launched an Occupy For Jobs Network to demand a massive public works program big enough to provide jobs at union wages for the more than 30 million unemployed and underemployed workers in the country.
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Posted Nov 10, 2011
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Solidarity statement by Clarence Thomas, International Longshore Workers Union Local 10 member and Million Worker March leader, to the People’s Assembly meeting....
Posted Nov 10, 2011
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Across the state of burgeoning Wisconsin Occupy Wall Street encampments, activities and events continue to grow.
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Posted Nov 10, 2011
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The call by Occupy Oakland for a general strike on Nov. 2 came after police from agencies across Alameda County brutally assaulted people trying to return to their encampment on Oct. 25 at Frank Ogawa Plaza (renamed Oscar Grant Plaza) after police had ousted them and ransacked their belongings.
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Posted Nov 9, 2011
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Statement from Occupy Oakland Strike Committee: The Oakland General Strike is a warning shot....
Posted Nov 9, 2011
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President Barack Obama announced with fanfare on Oct. 24 that he was bypassing “an increasingly dysfunctional Congress” and issuing federal rules to offer relief for struggling homeowners who may soon be facing foreclosure. Speaking in Las Vegas, one of the cities in the United States hardest hit by the ongoing foreclosure crisis, Obama outlined a plan that would offer help to an estimated 1 million to 1.6 million homeowners. (Associated Press, Oct. 24)
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Posted Nov 7, 2011
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At its peak, the United Auto Workers union boasted 1.5 million members. Hundreds of thousands of autoworkers were scattered in plants across the country, making parts and building vehicles. Since the high tech revolution of the 1980s, numerous plants have been closed. The UAW now has a mere 112,000 members at Ford, General Motors and Chrysler combined. This shrunken workforce can produce as many cars and trucks as the mighty army of bygone days, with the bosses pocketing huge cost savings.
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Posted Nov 7, 2011
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Ray Krone, the 100th person to be freed from U.S. death row, was one of 20 exonerees with Witness To Innocence who led the 12th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty on Oct. 22 at the Texas Capitol in Austin.
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Posted Nov 7, 2011
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A public memorial and cultural tribute was held for Consuela Lee — an African-American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and teacher — at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem in New York City on Oct. 29. Lee passed away from a long illness associated with Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 83 on Dec. 26, 2009, in Atlanta.
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Posted Nov 5, 2011
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A North Carolina Highway Historical Marker recognizing the 1946 tobacco leaf house workers union campaign was unveiled in Rocky Mount by the Phoenix Historical Society on Sept. 3. The United Electrical Workers union, Local 150 co-sponsored the event.
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Posted Nov 5, 2011
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After a day of struggle by Occupy Oakland that closed some major downtown banks, 10,000 to 20,000 demonstrators marched on this northern California city's huge and usually busy seaport on the evening of Nov. 2. They brought work to a halt as longshore workers refused to cross the mass picket line....
Posted Nov 4, 2011
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On Oct. 18 the Obama administration announced that it had deported almost 400,000 undocumented immigrants during the 2011 fiscal year. “All told, this administration has deported nearly 1.2 million people, leaving a wake of devastation in Latino communities across the nation,” said the American Civil Liberties Union in a press release.
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Posted Nov 3, 2011
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Posted Nov 2, 2011
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Occupy Wall Street, the 24/7 encampment of thousands of people in lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, most of them youth, has become a center of countless acts of resistance to capitalism and its crimes.
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Posted Nov 2, 2011
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Shortly after midnight on Oct. 28, on orders from the mayor, the Rochester police arrested 32 members of the Occupy Rochester encampment at Washington Square Park, making it the first occupation in New York State to be forcibly arrested and evicted.
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Posted Nov 2, 2011
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The People’s Assembly at Hostos College in the Bronx, N.Y., scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 5, has the ingredients for a unifying moment, bringing workers’ and communities’ struggles together with the mushrooming Occupy Wall Street movement. Outreach in the Bronx has focused on postal workers’ unions, parents’ associations and tenants’ groups. People are excited to know they will be encouraged to speak up for themselves as well as hear from others with the same problems....
Posted Oct 31, 2011
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Workers are still voting on a four-year contract between Chrysler and the United Auto Workers....
Posted Oct 30, 2011
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On the day Verizon announced that its third-quarter profits had jumped to $1.38 billion, more than 2,000 members of the Communication Workers union, together with contingents from unions held a vibrant, militant picket line in front of Verizon’s headquarters on Water Street....
Posted Oct 30, 2011
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The Million Worker March organizers and activists call upon all workers, organized and unorganized, and the unemployed to join and defend the Occupy Wall Street movement....
Posted Oct 30, 2011
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A spirited march from the city hall site of Occupy Philly on Oct. 17 focused on joblessness and the trillion dollar student debt crisis....
Posted Oct 30, 2011
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From a talk by Jerry Goldberg, a Detroit WWP organizer, at the Oct. 8-9 Workers World Party National Conference in New York City....
Posted Oct 30, 2011
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Philly office cleaners win contract | AFL-CIO joins OWS in 200+ cities | ILWU Local 21 struggle continues | Ohio women workers say ‘No’ on Issue 2 | History textbooks ignore unions’ role...
Posted Oct 30, 2011
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Researchers in Zurich, Switzerland, have used a powerful computer database to analyze which transnational companies dominate the world economy. Their findings, called “The network of global corporate control,” appeared this summer at arxiv.org, an online publisher of scientific material.
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Posted Oct 27, 2011
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A campaign launched by major business interests in Atlanta, with the active assistance of elected officials, city administrators and other “civic” organizations, is attempting to evict the metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless from its home....
Posted Oct 27, 2011
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Despite all the nice words by U.S. officials in world forums about their support for “peaceful” protests, despite all the sympathy expressed by politicians, from President Barack Obama on down, regarding the dire conditions that have sparked the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, despite all the efforts by many demonstrators to show good will to the authorities, the riot police have now been called out in many cities and the crackdown has begun....
Posted Oct 26, 2011
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Throughout the country, the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to defy the cops, make demands for social and economic justice, and provide spaces for solidarity and anti-capitalist momentum. ...
Posted Oct 26, 2011
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In another example of why the capitalist state can never really quell resistance, the multimillion-dollar poultry industry in Alabama was dealt a heavy financial blow in early October....
Posted Oct 24, 2011
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Activists under attack by the U.S. government for their antiwar and international solidarity work drew a large crowd of supporters at a forum here on Oct. 15. Many of those present had been participating in Occupy Wall Street and let the speakers know they are not alone in standing up to government repression....
Posted Oct 24, 2011
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Dr. Tarek Mehanna is a 28-year-old Muslim, an Egyptian-American and a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. He has been held in solitary confinement 23 hours a day since his arrest in 2009. ...
Posted Oct 24, 2011
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The prisoner hunger strikers at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison called off their protest action on Oct. 13....
Posted Oct 24, 2011
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The billionaire mayor of this city, Michael Bloomberg, is still refusing to sign a “living wage bill” currently before the New York City Council, despite revisions that watered it down somewhat. ...
Posted Oct 23, 2011
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A score of enthusiastic union members and community organizers belonging to the Labor-Community Forum met in the South Bronx on Oct. 13....
Posted Oct 23, 2011
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From a talk by Ben Carroll, a Durham, N.C., WWP organizer, at the Oct. 8-9 Workers World Party National Conference in New York City.
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Posted Oct 23, 2011
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Excerpts from a talk given by Monserrat Alvarez, a Raleigh FIST activist, at the Oct. 8-9 Workers World Party National Conference in New York City....
Posted Oct 23, 2011
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“Now, what else can we do?” to free the Cuban Five, asked the young performers of the National Children’s Theater of Cuba — La Colmenita....
Posted Oct 23, 2011
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It was called as a global Day of Rage that also focused on the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. ...
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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Occupy Boston and the United National Antiwar Committee rocked the city’s business district as 5,000 protesters marched on Oct. 15 with cries of “Whose streets? Our streets!”...
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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The first confrontation between the Occupation Wall Street demonstrators and billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York cops ended in victory for OWS in the early morning hours of Oct. 14....
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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Almost every major national labor union — except in the construction trades — and the AFL-CIO have endorsed Occupy Wall Street....
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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Just the very name — Occupy Wall Street! — has struck a chord with millions of people across the United States who are suffering from the often capricious devastation wreaked by the capitalist crisis, which has meant a job destroyed here, a family evicted there, until whole communities are left in tatters....
Posted Oct 19, 2011
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These are hard times. There doesn’t appear to be any respite coming soon. The political atmosphere has shifted in response to the greatest economic calamity since the Great Depression. This crisis, because of how the changes in technology, communication and production have made the world smaller, is global in its impact....
Posted Oct 19, 2011
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Thousands rallied and marched in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 15 to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. one day prior to the dedication of his memorial statue on the National Mall....
Posted Oct 19, 2011
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While demonstrations against austerity were going on in so many places, an unusual thing happened at the United Nations on Oct. 4....
Posted Oct 17, 2011
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On Oct. 4, a federal judge in Detroit ordered the state of Michigan to stop implementing the elimination of welfare to an estimated 40,000 people....
Posted Oct 17, 2011
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Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a leading figure in the Civil Rights movement, passed away on Oct. 5 in Cincinnati....
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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Aiyana Stanley Jones, a 7-year-old African-American girl, was shot to death during a police raid on a home on Detroit’s east side on May 16, 2010....
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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Community stands with ILWU | Tacoma, Wash., teachers strike | Demanding justice for immigrants | Study shows U.S. does not protect workers’ rights...
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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Billionaire Bloomberg has announced that tomorrow he wants to “clean” Zucotti Park, the site of Occupy Wall Street....
Posted Oct 13, 2011
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Excerpted from a talk given by WWP Secretariat member Teresa Gutierrez at the WWP National Conference held in New York City Oct. 8-9....
Posted Oct 13, 2011
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Excerpted from a talk given by WWP Secretariat member Larry Holmes at the WWP National Conference held in New York City, Oct. 8-9....
Posted Oct 13, 2011
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Excerpted from a talk given by Larry Hales, WW contributing editor, at the WWP National Conference in New York City, Oct. 8-9....
Posted Oct 13, 2011
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Excerpts from a talk by a Durham, N.C., WWP branch organizer Cathey Stanley, at the Workers World Party National Conference on Oct. 8....
Posted Oct 13, 2011
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Excerpts from a talk given by Fred Goldstein, WWP Secretariat member, at the Workers World Party National Conference held in New York City, Oct. 8-9....
Posted Oct 13, 2011
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Arthur “Artie” Rosen, one of the first members of Workers World Party when it was founded in 1959 and a lifelong militant communist, passed away at the age of 82 Oct. 3 from kidney failure....
Posted Oct 13, 2011
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Under a banner that outlined the theme of the 2011 Workers World Party national conference, “Expand Occupy Wall Street, Shut Down Capitalism and Fight for Socialism,” activists of all ages and nationalities gathered at the Paul Robeson Auditorium in the South Bronx Oct. 8 and 9. They discussed the significance of the rapidly expanding Occupy Wall Street movement and the role workers and oppressed must play to bring a genuine anti-capitalist direction to this struggle....
Posted Oct 12, 2011
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The United States Supreme Court rejected a request from the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office to overturn the most recent federal appeals court decision declaring Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence unconstitutional....
Posted Oct 12, 2011
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Following the lead of Occupy Wall Street, occupations are growing in size and number across the country, with actions taking place in hundreds of cities. ...
Posted Oct 12, 2011
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When you’re worth $8.3 billion, it’s only natural that you get endless, gushing tributes in every capitalist media outlet when you die....
Posted Oct 12, 2011
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René González, one of the Cuban Five, was released from prison in Marianna, Fla., on Oct. 7....
Posted Oct 12, 2011
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The struggle to free the Cuban Five from unjust U.S. imprisonment is now in its 14th year. Attempts by the U.S. government to undo the gains won by Cuban workers through the 1959 socialist revolution — including its targeting of the Five Cuban heroes — have been increasingly exposed over these years. ...
Posted Oct 10, 2011
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René González Sehwerert, one of Cuba’s five anti-terrorist heroes, will be released from prison Oct. 7, having served in full the brutal and unjust sentence he was given....
Posted Oct 10, 2011
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People started lining up outside the Jonesville Baptist Church on Sept. 21 more than two hours before the Celebration of Life service for Troy Anthony Davis was scheduled to begin. ...
Posted Oct 10, 2011
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The police have once again proved to their bosses at JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs that they can be relied upon to bust heads to protect Wall Street....
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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Thousands of union members and their supporters attended a total of 492 local rallies on Sept. 27. They all spoke in one voice and demanded, “Save the U.S. Postal Service.”...
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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“Don’t dis our ability” summed up the message of Warriors on Wheels and supporters....
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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After years of protest and struggle by the lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer communities and their allies, on Sept. 20 the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy of legal discrimination against LGBTQ people in the military was repealed. ...
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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How much is the life of a person with HIV/AIDS worth? It’s not worth much to the big drug manufacturers, choking on the billions of dollars in profits made from the illness of others....
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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Hundreds of protesters of many nationalities and ages came together on Sept. 26 for a spirited march and rally in the West Hollywood area of Los Angeles....
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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Before workers even began to vote on the four-year contract between General Motors and the United Auto Workers, accolades were streaming in from finance capital....
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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On Oct. 7 a Haitian community group will march from Brooklyn across the Brooklyn Bridge and join the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Liberty Plaza in downtown Manhattan’s financial district....
Posted Oct 5, 2011
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People of all ages and nationalities, mostly from Baltimore but also Maryland’s Prince Georges County and Washington, D.C., spent the afternoon and early evening of Sept. 24 in lively discussion examining the current capitalist economic crisis....
Posted Oct 5, 2011
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The people are rising up. The anti-corporation sentiments that galvanized the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City are spreading across the U.S. and the world....
Posted Oct 5, 2011
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Thousands of demonstrators marched on Bank of America in Boston on Sept. 30....
Posted Oct 5, 2011
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Enraged anti-war activists are being asked to pack the courtroom on Oct. 11 in support of Paul Bergrin, an attorney who has attempted to hold military and government officials accountable for the torture administered at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq....
Posted Oct 2, 2011
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The Workers World Party national conference in New York City is the place for you to be on the weekend of Oct. 8 and 9.
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Posted Oct 2, 2011
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On Sept. 21, as the hour of Troy Davis’ legal murder grew closer, people across the country expressed their outrage at the U.S. government and the state of Georgia. Their numbers and militancy exposed the lie that is the so-called U.S. “justice” system....
Posted Oct 1, 2011
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Seven undocumented youths blocked traffic in front of Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 6. This civil disobedience was protesting the inaction of the Democratic Party, the harsh anti-immigrant agenda of the Republicans and Tea Party, and the outrageous out-of-state tuition imposed on undocumented students to attend community college....
Posted Sep 29, 2011
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“No more slaves! Pay a living wage!” demanded a strong and spirited Brooklyn, N.Y., rally at the entrance of a Trader Joe’s grocery store...
Posted Sep 29, 2011
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ILWU Local 21 continues to defend jobs | So. Calif. grocery workers win contract | D.C. commercial cleaners demand raises | Hyatt workers end strike, escalate boycott | N.J. public workers fight pension cuts | Robeson committed to equality, unions ...
Posted Sep 29, 2011
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The capitalist class killed Troy Davis. That’s not a rhetorical statement. The U.S. Supreme Court could have stopped the execution. They let it go forward with a one-sentence statement. ...
Posted Sep 29, 2011
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The outrage over the state of Georgia’s execution of Troy Davis at 11:08 p.m. on Sept. 21 has not abated. Rather, his name has become a code word for resistance and struggle....
Posted Sep 28, 2011
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Troy Davis was put to death by the state of Georgia with the complicity of the federal government of the United States. This was done even though millions of people came out in his defense across the country and around the world....
Posted Sep 28, 2011
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Events of the past week have made it easy to see who is considered a criminal under the for-profit system known as capitalism....
Posted Sep 28, 2011
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During an
interview with WOR radio on Sept. 16, New York City’s billionaire mayor, Michael
Bloomberg, stated that the conditions of high employment in the U.S. could lead
to social unrest on a par with what has occurred throughout parts of North
Africa, the Middle East, Britain, Spain, Greece and elsewhere. His specific
comment was, “You have a lot of kids graduating college can’t find jobs. That’s
what happened in Cairo. That’s what happened in Madrid. You don’t want those
kinds of riots here.”...
Posted Sep 26, 2011
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“Occupy Wall Street” was a demonstration rooted in tweets, Facebook messages, and email exchanges....
Posted Sep 24, 2011
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Workers World Party will discuss crucial issues at its annual national conference on Oct. 8 and 9 at the Paul Robeson Complex in the Bronx, N.Y. The theme is “The Global Capitalist Economic Crisis: What it will take to fight it.”...
Posted Sep 24, 2011
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Protesters gathered at noon in front of the State of Michigan building on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit on Sept. 15 as part of ongoing Thursday “resurrection marches” demanding justice for low-income people....
Posted Sep 24, 2011
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The Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland, Calif., cancelled an exhibit of artwork created by Palestinian children living in the occupied Gaza Strip. The exhibit, entitled “A Child’s View from Gaza,” features artwork made during Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli assault on Gaza from December 2008 until January 2009....
Posted Sep 24, 2011
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The North Carolina House of Representatives voted 75-42 on Sept. 12 to place a constitutional ban on gay marriage on the ballot for the 2012 state elections....
Posted Sep 24, 2011
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It is the morning after the cold-blooded, premeditated murder of Troy Anthony Davis by the state of Georgia. The internet and other forms of social media — as well as newspapers, radio and television — are filled with images of the thousands of people who gathered in cities across the U.S., around the world and outside the walls of the Jackson, Ga., prison that houses the death chamber....
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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The fact is that four years after the housing bubble burst and started a financial crisis, there has been no jobs recovery. Now the markets are heading down again and the prospects are even more ominous for workers....
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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It was nearly midnight on Sept. 16 when negotiators for General Motors and the United Auto Workers reportedly reached agreement on a new four-year contract. With only rough details made public, the deal is being hailed as “a win for all.” It looks like it is a win-win — for the banksters and the auto bosses, that is!...
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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The San Francisco Labor Council passed a resolution unanimously on Sept. 12 to save the public postal service, which is the latest target of right-wing attacks on organized labor....
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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Currently on a nationwide tour to promote his new jobs bill, President Barack Obama made one of his first stops at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., on Sept. 14....
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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On Sept. 16, Judge Joan Lenard refused to allow René González, one of the five Cuban heroes unjustly held in U.S. prisons, to return to Cuba and his family when he is released on Oct. 7. ...
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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I want to thank all of you for your efforts and dedication to human rights and human kindness, in the past year. ...
Posted Sep 21, 2011
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Sept. 20 — The Georgia State Board of Parole and Pardons denied clemency to death-row inmate Troy Davis this morning. With this latest decision and all other legal channels seemingly exhausted, Davis faces imminent execution on Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Ga. ...
Posted Sep 21, 2011
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At more than 300 rallies across the country and others around the world, activists, students and community members converged on Sept. 16 to defend Troy Davis from the imminent threat of execution imposed by the racist U.S. “justice” system. The rallies were in response to an international day of action called by several organizations....
Posted Sep 21, 2011
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When the historic rebellion at Attica Prison erupted forty years ago, many Buffalo, N.Y., activists were intensely involved with support and solidarity for the righteous demands of the prisoners....
Posted Sep 21, 2011
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Outside the death house at Texas’ Huntsville prison on Sept. 15, what began as a hot, humid afternoon filled with apprehension and fear, protests and praying, ended with shouting, cheering, hugging, kissing and singing hymns. Open racism in trial proceedings had lost the day....
Posted Sep 21, 2011
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Dozens of poor and working people from Milwaukee, Kenosha, Racine and other
cities in Wisconsin came out to protest U.S. Congressperson Paul Ryan on Sept.
6 in Greenfield, a suburb of Milwaukee. ...
Posted Sep 17, 2011
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On Labor Day Sept. 5 in Milwaukee, thousands of multinational and
intergenerational union and community members, youth and students marched from
Zeidler Park (named after former socialist Milwaukee mayor, Frank Zeidler) down
the city’s main thoroughfare....
Posted Sep 17, 2011
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On Sept. 6, the North Carolina Dream Team, an immigrants rights group led
by undocumented youth, held a rally and march on the campus of Central Piedmont
Community College in Charlotte, N.C., of more than 200 people....
Posted Sep 17, 2011
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Over 200 union workers gathered on Sept. 5, Labor Day, in downtown San
Diego to support United Food and Commercial Workers Local 135 in its efforts to
defend its members’ wages and health care benefits....
Posted Sep 17, 2011
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Hyatt Hotel workers strike in four cities | Victory for locked-out Honeywell workers | Int’l support for postal Verizon workers | Nurses demand: ‘Tax Wall Street to Heal America’ | LIU locks out striking faculty, cancels health coverage...
Posted Sep 17, 2011
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Abdul-Muhaymin Nuruddin, a prisoner convicted as James Bell, died this past
week of an apparent heart attack while in custody....
Posted Sep 17, 2011
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President Barack Obama, facing formidable challenges to his re-election bid in
2012 as well as the potential further erosion of the Democratic Party base in
the Senate and House of Representatives, unveiled the American Jobs Act during
a special address to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 8. On Sept. 12 he
announced the submission of a $447 billion proposal to Congress that is
purportedly designed to create jobs amid the worst economic downturn since the
Great Depression of the 1930s. Yet will this plan actually create jobs without any specific goals or
timetables?...
Posted Sep 15, 2011
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Early on Sept. 8 hundreds of longshore workers charged through the gates of the
new, contested grain export terminal at Longview, Wash., and dumped corn from a
107-car train attempting a first shipment. This struggle in the Pacific
Northwest has brewed since the multinational conglomerate EGT began
constructing the $200 million facility two years ago. It only became
“newsworthy” nationally when the corporate media could bash workers
as “violent.”...
Posted Sep 15, 2011
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The State of Georgia has scheduled Troy Davis’ execution for Sept.
21. Millions of U.S. and global activists are engaged in a massive effort to stop
this legal lynching. They are signing petitions, organizing rallies and
meetings, and contacting elected officials and other influential individuals. A
Twitter account at hash tag Too Much Doubt is rapidly informing millions
more....
Posted Sep 14, 2011
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People from every sector of the regional New York City progressive movement,
including representatives of various religious communities, gathered at City
Hall Park near the World Trade Center site on Sept. 11 to show solidarity with
the Muslim community. That group has focused over the past month on condemning
the racism and bigotry whipped up by the ultra-right, which was holding what
turned out to be a small anti-Muslim rally a few blocks to the west....
Posted Sep 14, 2011
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Homeowners from five counties packed the courtroom here on Sept. 2 to support a
Pittsburg, Calif., family facing eviction in a foreclosure scam....
Posted Sep 11, 2011
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Anti-imperialist activists Ahlam Mohsen, 23, and Max Kantar, 24, were sentenced
Aug. 30 by federal Judge Robert Holmes Bell to 30 days’ imprisonment for
an anti-war action last year in which U.S. Sen. Carl Levin was pied in the
face....
Posted Sep 11, 2011
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More than 2,000 protesters came out in Wisconsin in the pouring rain on Sept. 3 to tell
about 20 Nazis and their big-business and banking backers that their hatred,
racism and anti-union stance are not wanted....
Posted Sep 11, 2011
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It may not be apparent to those just happy that the winds have died down, but
for thousands whose homes and lives were damaged and destroyed in epic flooding
following Hurricane Irene’s arrival, the storm’s aftermath is a
prolonged struggle to survive....
Posted Sep 11, 2011
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“As we fight mass layoffs and evictions, we can’t afford to be
divided by racism or bigotry,” Larry Holmes of the Bail Out the People Movement said. “And New Yorkers
can’t allow the anniversary of September 11 to be used to promote an
anti-Muslim frenzy. This is the time for thousands to come out as they did last
year for solidarity, respect and jobs.”...
Posted Sep 8, 2011
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In September 2001, this writer and 1,800 other employees of a health-insurance
company worked in World Trade Center #1. Our department was on the 31st floor.
Our official starting time was 8:45 a.m., and the first plane struck that
building at 8:48 a.m on Sept. 11. ...
Posted Sep 8, 2011
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Some 15,000 children and thousands more adults will be cut off cash assistance
in Michigan on Oct. 1 due to draconian legislation adopted in the state in
recent months. These cuts were passed by the conservative state Legislature and
signed into law by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder....
Posted Sep 8, 2011
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After a hot summer, and with winter coming soon, people with disabilities
are organizing to improve public transportation. They are taking a step that
will help all Detroiters — especially the majority who rely on the
Detroit Department of Transportation bus system....
Posted Sep 8, 2011
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The capitalist economy lurched toward renewed crisis as the U.S. government
announced that no new jobs were created in the month of August. This disastrous
news for the 30 million unemployed and underemployed workers in the U.S. comes
against a background of a menacing world economic slowdown...
Posted Sep 7, 2011
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Georgia is moving to execute Troy Davis,
an African American from Savannah, Ga., whose
case has brought worldwide attention to
the discriminatory legal system in the U.S....
Posted Sep 7, 2011
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This Sept. 13 is the 40th anniversary of the Attica massacre, which
followed a rebellion by 1,000 prisoners against horrendous conditions in that
New York state prison. Below is a slightly abridged version of an article in
the Workers World of Sept. 17, 1971. It was part of an eight-page supplement to
the newspaper written by members of the Prisoners Solidarity
Committee....
Posted Sep 7, 2011
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This is part of a report about what went on inside Attica Prison
during the rebellion written by Tom Soto of the Prisoners Solidarity Committee,
who was invited by the prisoners to witness their negotiations with the
authorities. Soto’s full report was published in the Workers World of
Sept. 17, 1971....
Posted Sep 7, 2011
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“We don’t go to retirement parties. We go to funerals!”
shouted Steelworkers Local 8751 Vice President Steve Gillis as he rallied more
than 500 members of the Boston School Bus Drivers Union and their supporters in
Boston Teachers Union Hall on Aug. 24. The occasion was the
Community/Student/Labor Solidarity Rally, part of the union’s Fight for
Retirement with Dignity and Contract Justice....
Posted Sep 2, 2011
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As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, activists and community members are
organizing to confront a racist rally being planned by anti-Muslim forces on
that day....
Posted Sep 2, 2011
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Cynthia McKinney and her international delegation put themselves in harm’s way in order to uncover the truth about the imperialist war and disprove the many lies
emanating from the White House and corporate media....
Posted Sep 2, 2011
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Police barricades held back angry protesters as a smiling Dominique
Strauss-Kahn, escorted by privately hired security and city police, entered the
New York State Supreme Court on Aug. 23, where charges against him for sexual
assault were dropped....
Posted Aug 31, 2011
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The bosses, bankers and their politicians, such as Gov. Scott Walker, thought
their attempted union-busting and austerity measures would demoralize and
defeat the poor and working people of Wisconsin....
Posted Aug 31, 2011
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Is there a connection between the controversial natural gas drilling process
known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the extremely rare
5.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Washington, D.C., and significant sections
of the U.S. East Coast on Aug. 23?...
Posted Aug 31, 2011
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A war is going on across the world right now....
Posted Aug 31, 2011
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Nearly 500 people gathered Aug. 20 in Clark Park in Detroit for a
“March Without Fear” aimed at speaking out against Immigration and
Customs Enforcement raids, harassment of immigrants, racial profiling and
police brutality....
Posted Aug 31, 2011
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Three hundred and seventy-five young adults from around the world paid between
$3,000 and $6,000 to come to the United States for three months to work, learn
English and experience this country’s culture. What they experienced
instead was crass exploitation of their labor. What they learned was how to
fight back — with a sit-in and a strike....
Posted Aug 25, 2011
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Protesters gathered outside the Center City offices of Hill International, Inc.
in Philadelphia Aug. 17 to demand funding for schools not prisons, and to tell
Gov. Tom Corbett to stop building new prisons and Hill to stop profiting from
prison construction....
Posted Aug 25, 2011
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When United Auto Workers Local 2359, representing workers who make brass horns
in Eastlake, Ohio, sat down at the negotiating table this year they were face
to face with the company’s lead negotiator, attorney Larry Hall. “I
decertified the union in Elkhart,” Hall immediately boasted....
Posted Aug 25, 2011
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Freedom Road Socialist Organization activist Carlos Montes appeared for his
Aug. 12 hearing in the Los Angeles Criminal Court....
Posted Aug 25, 2011
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On Aug. 13 more than 200 workers, labor leaders and community activists came
together in Los Angeles to participate in an event in
solidarity with the Cuban Five....
Posted Aug 25, 2011
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The 45,000-strong, two-week strike of Verizon workers in nine states along the
East Coast and mid-Atlantic regions is over. For now....
Posted Aug 24, 2011
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If Verizon management was present at the Aug. 17 meeting of New York
City’s Panel on Education Policy, where a $120 million contract with
Verizon was voted on, it might have helped them to see that they had to sit
back down and start negotiating with the Communications Workers of America and
the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. These unions represent the
Verizon workers, who went on strike on Aug. 7....
Posted Aug 24, 2011
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A progressive coalition is building in metro Milwaukee and beyond to
counterprotest a planned Nazi rally set for Sept. 3....
Posted Aug 24, 2011
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Calif. farm workers march for union rights | AFL-CIO interns learn what it takes to organize | Ohioans defy governor, defend unions...
Posted Aug 24, 2011
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A decade ago the phrase “low-wage United Auto Workers member” would
have sounded like an oxymoron. It would have been hard to imagine a scenario of
two autoworkers working side by side, doing the same job and the same amount of
work, with one making half the wage of the other....
Posted Aug 21, 2011
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Across the world, as capitalism adjusts to its newly strengthened ability to
force workers to accept wages lower than ever, “call centers” are a
growing area of employment....
Posted Aug 21, 2011
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The largest recall campaign in U.S. history has shown the potential political
strength of a progressive coalition of labor unions, women, high school
and college students, immigrant communities, African-American and Latino/a
communities, recipients of social welfare programs and their advocates, farmers
and others....
Posted Aug 21, 2011
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Some thousands of people, many from New York City’s African-American
community, gathered on Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem on Aug. 13 to protest the
U.S./NATO bombing campaign against the Libyan people....
Posted Aug 19, 2011
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Sara Flounders, co-director of the International Action Center,
discusses a series of meetings where former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney has
spoken against the U.S./NATO war on Libya....
Posted Aug 19, 2011
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The heroic 45,000-strong strike against Verizon continues throughout the
Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, as workers, including many women, African
Americans and Latinos/as, rail against the corporate monolith’s fierce
anti-union assault....
Posted Aug 17, 2011
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The next phase of the campaign to stop the deportation of Victor Toro, a
69-year-old Chilean activist and revolutionary, is being launched....
Posted Aug 17, 2011
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The deadline for the habeas corpus appeal for Cuban Five hero Gerardo
Hernández is imminent, yet the U.S. government continues to withhold
essential information and access to the legal documents required for his
extraordinary appeal, according to Cuba’s National Assembly of Peoples
Power....
Posted Aug 17, 2011
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The revolutionary movements abroad for national liberation and the rebellions
in major urban cities in this country in the 1960s inspired a revolutionary
development within the prisoners’ movement that rocked the foundations of
the most repressive apparatus of the state. California’s Pelican Bay
prisoners are continuing that struggle today....
Posted Aug 14, 2011
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A People’s General Assembly near Wall Street on Aug. 2, organized by New
Yorkers Against Budget Cuts and others, responded to the debt-ceiling deal
signed that day in Washington after a weeks-long game of political
“chicken.”...
Posted Aug 14, 2011
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Dozens of demonstrators gathered in front of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Office
Building in New York on Aug. 5 to protest cuts of $127 billion to food stamps and the
Women, Infants and Children program....
Posted Aug 14, 2011
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Workers World Party held a forum Aug. 6 in New York City on the theme
“Eyewitness: Building Solidarity in the Philippines.” ...
Posted Aug 14, 2011
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Native California Indigenous people have stopped the planned destruction and
desecration of an ancient Coastal sacred burial site by the City of Vallejo,
Calif....
Posted Aug 14, 2011
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Hundreds of PATH train riders, who commute from New Jersey to New York
City, joined in protesting a huge fare hike....
Posted Aug 14, 2011
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On the same day that Congress passed the so-called “deficit
reduction” austerity bill, North Carolina residents were in the streets
calling out the legislation for what it is: an attack on working people....
Posted Aug 12, 2011
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Immigrants, lots of students and youth, throngs of people from the lesbian,
gay, bi, transgender and queer community, church-and-state-separation
activists, teachers and parents furious about education cuts, death penalty
abolitionists and atheists, as well as religious activists, came out to Reliant
Stadium in waves all day long on Aug. 6 to protest Texas Gov. Rick Perry and
the religious right....
Posted Aug 12, 2011
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Two important focal points are at hand in the struggle to free the Cuban Five.
First is the pending habeas corpus appeal for a new trial for Gerardo
Hernández. The other is the anticipated release and parole of René
González....
Posted Aug 12, 2011
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A multinational audience packed the hall of St. Katherine Drexel Church in
the heart of Boston’s African-American community in Grove Hall on Aug. 6
to rally against the U.S./NATO war on Libya....
Posted Aug 12, 2011
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The downgrade of U.S. government credit and the gyrations of the stock market
signal greater budget cuts, another downturn in the economy, and more
unemployment and suffering unless there is a strong, mass fightback....
Posted Aug 10, 2011
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In the largest U.S. strike in four years, 45,000 union members took to the
picket lines from Massachusetts to Virginia on Aug. 7 after their contract with
Verizon Communications expired. The courageous strikers, who belong to the
Communication Workers union and the International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, refuse to go back to work until they have a decent contract....
Posted Aug 10, 2011
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General Motors announced its second quarter results on Aug. 4. For just the
months of April, May and June the company’s profits were a whopping $2.5
billion....
Posted Aug 10, 2011
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Cynthia McKinney painted a picture of the real Libya at two events in Los
Angeles on Aug. 7 where she exposed the U.S./NATO terrorist bombing campaign
against Libya....
Posted Aug 10, 2011
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The founding meeting of the new Detroit chapter of Fight Imperialism, Stand
Together — FIST — was held on July 22....
Posted Aug 8, 2011
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The food stamp program — SNAP — is under attack....
Posted Aug 6, 2011
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Amalgamated Transportation Local 1181-1061 and Teamsters Local 854,
representing drivers, escorts and mechanics in the New York City school bus
system, are fighting to defend and expand Employee Protection Provisions....
Posted Aug 6, 2011
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S.F. Labor Council: ‘Hands off social safety net’ | 35,000 Verizon workers set to strike | Hyatt housekeepers rally in Texas | IKEA workers vote union...
Posted Aug 6, 2011
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The Wisconsin AFL-CIO and other labor, community and student organizations are
mobilizing for the next recall elections on Aug. 9. They are aiming to oust six
union-busting, pro-austerity Republican state senators....
Posted Aug 4, 2011
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“It’s the elderly, stupid.” That’s who Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson is blaming for the $14.3 trillion U.S. government debt. That’s a big lie. This debt is covered with blood. It includes trillions of dollars spent killing millions of people in U.S. wars and occupations abroad....
Posted Aug 4, 2011
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Houston’s Black Panther leader Carl Hampton was assassinated by
the Houston police 41 years ago....
Posted Aug 4, 2011
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Texas DREAM students — advocates and activists for the Development,
Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act — won a major victory on July
25 as Marlon Arboleda, a University of Houston student, turned himself in to
Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities and came out with a deferred
action on deportation....
Posted Aug 4, 2011
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The resolution of the debt-ceiling crisis shows the growing strength of the
right wing in capitalist politics and the bankruptcy of President Barack Obama
and the Democratic Party leadership. It also guarantees that the economic
crisis of the workers and the people in general will get worse at a time when
capitalism is sliding toward a new crisis....
Posted Aug 3, 2011
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The destructive bombing attacks on Libya by the Pentagon and NATO are highly
unpopular in the United States, although you wouldn’t know it from
corporate media coverage. Proof of this could be seen in a 15-city speaking tour, sponsored by the International Action Center, in which former Congressperson Cynthia McKinney is reporting on her June fact-finding trip to Libya with the Dignity delegation. McKinney has attracted large audiences in cities across the country....
Posted Aug 3, 2011
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Johnnie Stevens of Workers World Party: Attacking Libya is attacking Africa! The war against Libya is a colonial war against all of Africa!...
Posted Aug 3, 2011
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Guests from all over Los Angeles and Southern California began to arrive early
on the evening of July 26 to celebrate and demonstrate their solidarity with
socialist Cuba. The occasion was the anniversary of the guerilla assault, led
by Fidel Castro, on the Moncada garrison in 1953, which paved the way for the
triumph of the Revolution in 1959. July 26 is a national holiday in socialist
Cuba....
Posted Aug 3, 2011
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Raising their fists in triumph, the 42nd Venceremos Brigade travel-ban
challengers marched across the Peace Bridge from Fort Erie, Ontario, into
Buffalo, N.Y., in open defiance of the U.S. blockade of Cuba....
Posted Aug 3, 2011
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In June the state legislature passed a bill allowing City University of
New York and State University of New York to raise their tuition....
Posted Jul 30, 2011
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Organizers of the three-week-long Bloombergville encampment in New York during
June and July are calling for a General Assembly on Wall Street Aug. 2 to
launch a campaign against the debt ceiling deal due that day....
Posted Jul 29, 2011
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The candidate for senator who was endorsed by the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO won a
landslide victory on July 19 in the first of nine summer recall races....
Posted Jul 29, 2011
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The untimely death of Geronimo ji Jaga Pratt has hit me very hard because it
reminds me of all the work yet to be done....
Posted Jul 29, 2011
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“He looked right at me and said, ‘Babe, help me I’m
dying.’” These were Alonzo Ashley’s last words to his
companion, Elaina, words she said in tears....
Posted Jul 29, 2011
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As the massive budget cuts agreed upon this spring by New York Gov. Andrew
Cuomo and the New York legislature are imposed on workers and the oppressed
throughout the state, those who seek justice through an already massively
unjust court system are finding themselves at an even greater disadvantage....
Posted Jul 29, 2011
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This July 26 is the day of the traditional handshake across the table —
when contract negotiations begin between Ford, General Motors and Chrysler, and
the United Auto Workers. UAW President Bob King is trying to convince the
membership that asking for raises is a bad idea at this time....
Posted Jul 29, 2011
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Whether or not a deal is reached in Washington on how to raise the debt ceiling
and avoid a government default, the workers and the oppressed have no
independent voice in the debate. The process gives them no choice but to accept
the result of venomous political warfare in the capitalist establishment....
Posted Jul 27, 2011
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Leaders of the hunger strike in the Security Housing Unit at California’s
Pelican Bay State Prison accepted an offer July 20 from the California
Department of Correction and Rehabilitation and have ended their weeks-long
action....
Posted Jul 27, 2011
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Kenneth Harding, a 19-year-old African-American man, was shot and killed by San
Francisco police in the Bay View neighborhood June 16. His “crime”?
Not having a transfer pass from the Muni public transit system to show that he
had paid his $2 fare. When approached by the police, Harding took off running
and was shot at least 10 times by the police....
Posted Jul 27, 2011
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The historic Shrine of the Black Madonna in Atlanta’s West End community
was the venue for a packed house on July 24. More than 500 people were eager to
hear the truth about the U.S./NATO war on Libya from former Georgia Rep.
Cynthia McKinney and other members of the Dignity Delegation....
Posted Jul 27, 2011
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One woman hotel worker, a housekeeper, a woman of color,
an immigrant — in the midst of one of the most vicious
anti-immigrant climates ever in this country — dared to
stand up to the head of a global multibillion-dollar agency.
She may have known nothing of his role as head of the IMF
at the time, but her instincts must have told her he was
on the other side of the class barrier....
Posted Jul 24, 2011
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Robert Meeropol is one of the two sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were
executed in 1953 as alleged “atomic bomb” spies during the period
of the 1950s U.S. McCarthyite anti-Communist witch hunt. Meeropol says: “Last week, I joined the Advisory Board of the Bradley Manning Support
Network.”...
Posted Jul 24, 2011
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We are very concerned about the possible execution of Mumia since the
prosecutor and the State of Pennsylvania are aggressively demanding more
serious consideration of execution. This has not happened since 2001 when a
federal judge ruled that Mumia should be sentenced to life in prison without
parole rather than face execution because of faulty instructions to the jury in
the original trial....
Posted Jul 22, 2011
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Parents and relatives of loved ones who have been killed by police stood
up at the Stolen Lives induction ceremony, held on July 17 in New York
City’s Lower East Side...
Posted Jul 22, 2011
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An important national meeting on stopping repression, human rights abuses and
the curtailing of civil freedoms in the U.S. took place July 16 at the Shrine
of the Black Madonna Cultural Center and Bookstore in Detroit....
Posted Jul 22, 2011
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The most remarkable thing about the debate over the debt ceiling crisis is not
what will result if the U.S. government defaults.The startling thing is that here, in the heart of world capitalism, with a ruling class of unparalleled wealth and power, the political representatives of this system are stumbling along unable to fashion a solution. Nothing more clearly shows how out of control the capitalist system is than this fact....
Posted Jul 22, 2011
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Lockout ends with contract for BCBS workers | Teamster reformers win ballot status | Celebration of Justice for Janitors Day | Walmart workers take demands to HQ | Study shows jobless recovery is also ‘wageless’...
Posted Jul 22, 2011
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Former U.S. Congressperson Cynthia McKinney spoke to an overflow crowd at the
historic Friends Meeting House in Northampton, Mass., on July 14....
Posted Jul 21, 2011
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Even the most rabid budget cutters on Wall Street are now pushing for an
increase in the debt ceiling. The bankers and bosses were happy to see the
Republican extreme right wing play chicken with default in order to get cuts in
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. They have already gotten President
Barack Obama to agree to put cutting Social Security and other entitlements on
the bargaining table....
Posted Jul 20, 2011
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The Wisconsin AFL-CIO’s “Truth Tour,” which kicked off July
16 at the Teamster’s Hall in Green Bay, is traveling throughout the state
until at least Aug. 2....
Posted Jul 20, 2011
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The Durham, N.C., branch of Workers World Party hosted a forum June 29
titled “Rebel Against Capitalism.” The meeting drew connections
between the major struggles of workers, students and oppressed peoples going on
in Greece and Spain and those occurring across the U.S....
Posted Jul 20, 2011
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Members of the Milwaukee Transit Riders Union and the Wisconsin Bail Out
the People Movement held a noon-time informational speak-out at
Milwaukee’s Summerfest on July 9....
Posted Jul 18, 2011
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The Summer Organizing Brigade hit the streets of the South Bronx, N.Y., to begin a campaign to defeat cutbacks....
Posted Jul 18, 2011
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Monica Shay was a revolutionary who spent four decades fighting for poor
people....
Posted Jul 18, 2011
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Rev. Luis Barrios of IFCO/Pastors for Peace and other caravanistas made a
stop in Milwaukee, Wis., on July 8....
Posted Jul 17, 2011
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Wall Street is coming for us. The people who rule this society are taking aim at every gain we and generations before us have won. Their rallying cry is “cutbacks!” and their butcher knives are sharp and ready....
Posted Jul 17, 2011
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Rallies in Washington and San Francisco on July 9 demanded an end to the
U.S./NATO bombing of Libya....
Posted Jul 17, 2011
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The latest economic reports show a dismal outlook for workers, students, youth
and communities. The numbers show that there is not now, nor will there be, a
genuine recovery from the capitalist crisis that began in 2007. The only way
out for workers is mass struggle....
Posted Jul 14, 2011
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The right to education is under attack across the United States....
Posted Jul 14, 2011
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On July 13 it is reported by the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity coalition
that 200 of the Pelican Bay hunger strikers are experiencing life-threatening
health conditions according to an urgent update received by the coalition from
medical personnel at the prison....
Posted Jul 13, 2011
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Even California prison authorities acknowledge that 6,600 prisoners were
participating in the hunger strike called by inmates in Pelican Bay State
Prison’s Security Housing Unit over the “Fourth of July”
weekend....
Posted Jul 13, 2011
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Humberto Leal Garcia was executed July 7 in Huntsville, Texas, despite a
firestorm of worldwide opposition and outrage. His execution is symptomatic of
the deep and ongoing crisis of U.S. capitalism, characterized by criminality
abroad and racism, brutality and economic terror at home....
Posted Jul 13, 2011
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Gov. Tom Corbett’s first state budget, with its massive draconian cuts in
programs that have benefitted working and poor families in Pennsylvania, leaves
little doubt: The corporations that poured millions of dollars into his
campaign coffers got their money’s worth....
Posted Jul 9, 2011
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Workers call it “Bloody Thursday.” On July 5, 1934, San Francisco port bosses pulled out all stops trying to break a two-month West Coast dock strike. The workers fought back...
Posted Jul 9, 2011
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Political activist Emily Good was awakened by police lights flashing in front
of her home in an oppressed community on May 12. Concerned about previous cases
of Rochester police profiling, she went outside and began videotaping....
Posted Jul 9, 2011
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Wisconsin nurses | Massachusetts nurses | Union charges Target | National Writers Union...
Posted Jul 9, 2011
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Tens of thousands of immigrants and their supporters filled blocks of
Atlanta’s downtown streets on July 2 wearing white, carrying beautiful
banners and hand-printed signs, and chanting nonstop in English and
Spanish....
Posted Jul 7, 2011
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At a press conference held June 29 outside Minute Men Staffing in the
predominantly Latino/a neighborhood of southwest Detroit, current and former
workers at Mastronardi Produce in Livonia, Mich., spoke of their dual
exploitation by the company and the Minute Men temporary agency....
Posted Jul 7, 2011
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The hotel housekeeper who accused then-head of the International Monetary Fund
Dominique Strauss-Kahn of raping her is fighting back after a media barrage
meant to defame her character and undermine her credibility. This brave woman
has filed a libel suit against the New York Post for a series of articles in
which the paper, in vulgar and demeaning terms, openly claimed she was a
prostitute....
Posted Jul 7, 2011
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Just as the right of public sector workers to collective bargaining has been
attacked this year in state legislatures from New Hampshire to California, so
too have there been widespread legislative attacks on women’s right to
legal, safe, accessible abortion....
Posted Jul 7, 2011
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The 22nd Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan sendoff on June 30 from New
York’s renowned Riverside Church included a memorial tribute
commemorating the life of the Rev. Lucius Walker, IFCO/Pastors for Peace
founding director, who passed away last year shortly after returning from the
caravan to Cuba....
Posted Jul 7, 2011
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“This is a formal complaint and request for action to end 20-plus years
of state-sanctioned torture in order to extract information from or cause
mental illness to California inmates incarcerated indefinitely in punitive
isolation at Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Units (PBSP-SHU).
...” Thus begins the eloquent legal complaint and human rights indictment
written by prisoners incarcerated in one of California’s most notorious
torture and isolation prisons — Pelican Bay State Prison....
Posted Jul 6, 2011
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Prisoners in California’s Pelican Bay State Prison Security
Housing Unit plan to go on hunger strike beginning July 1 to protest the cruel,
inhumane conditions there....
Posted Jul 4, 2011
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Albert Woodfox, now 64, and Herman Wallace, 69, have been held in solitary
confinement in Louisiana State Penitentiary for 40 years....
Posted Jul 4, 2011
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On June 28, as the New York City Council was scheduled to vote on a pro-banker,
anti-people budget deal, more than 100 residents of the
“Bloombergville” encampment marched around City Hall. They had been
sleeping on the sidewalk nearby for 16 days trying to stop Mayor Michael
Bloomberg’s impending cuts....
Posted Jul 1, 2011
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The U.S. Supreme Court recently dealt a brutal blow to women workers employed
by Wal-Mart. On June 20 the justices dismissed the Dukes v. Wal-Mart lawsuit,
decreeing that these workers cannot sue their employers as a class for sex
discrimination....
Posted Jul 1, 2011
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Women retail union workers protest the Supreme
Court’s decision a day earlier disallowing the class
action suit against Wal-Mart for discrimination against women....
Posted Jul 1, 2011
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Arizona State Superintendent of Schools John Huppenthal held a press conference
June 15 where he announced that the popular Tucson Ethnic Studies Program
violated state law HB2281....
Posted Jul 1, 2011
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Just days after hundreds of state workers rallied in Philadelphia and
Harrisburg, Pa., state workers represented by the American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees Council 13 and the Service Employees union came
to a tentative agreement with Pennsylvania government officials....
Posted Jul 1, 2011
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More than 500 militant Boston school bus drivers from Steelworkers Local
8751 and supporters achieved 100-percent shutdown of First Student,
Inc.’s union-busting “summer bid” and ramped up the struggle
for contract justice...
Posted Jul 1, 2011
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A massive crowd, estimated at 2 million people by Heritage of Pride officials,
thronged the streets of Manhattan June 26 for the Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Queer
Pride parade. Jubilation reigned. Just over 36 hours before marchers stepped off at 12 noon, same-sex marriage
was legalized in the state of New York...
Posted Jun 29, 2011
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In an ugly incident that briefly marred the day’s spirit of
solidarity and joy, several young Israeli men attacked the Workers World Party
contingent as it lined up and prepared to march in Manhattan’s LGBTQ
Pride parade on June 26. WWP’s lead banner read: “Stonewall Means Fight Back, From Wisconsin
to NYC to Palestine.”...
Posted Jun 29, 2011
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Larry Hales, a leading Bloombergville activist, founder of the CUNY
Mobilization Network and a New Yorkers Against the Budget Cuts leader, spoke
with Workers World about the struggle experiences in
different countries and looked to the future....
Posted Jun 29, 2011
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Hundreds came out to denounce and protest the signing of Wisconsin’s
2011-13 budget by Gov. Scott Walker June 27 in Green Bay....
Posted Jun 29, 2011
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Participants in a two-week-long encampment known as "Bloombergville" protesting New York City budget cuts rejected a "deal" made June 24 between billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City Council because it leaves too many cutbacks in place when no cutbacks are necessary. Activists quickly called for a mass demonstration on June 28 at 12 noon when the City Council is supposed to vote to ratify the deal. ...
Posted Jun 28, 2011
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U.S. planes are now dropping bombs on Libya, killing children in an effort to
recolonize this part of Africa. This is yet another illegal war. Regardless of
who is president, the Pentagon budget grows and the U.S. is in a permanent
state of imperialist warfare....
Posted Jun 26, 2011
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U.S. Rep. Peter King, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, held his second hearing to “examine the threat of Islamic radicalization” and scapegoat Muslims on June 15. ...
Posted Jun 26, 2011
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How could the organized labor movement and its allies allow a decision by a
tiny group of judges in a capitalist court to override the actions and demands
of hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin workers — organized and
unorganized, employed and unemployed, immigrants, farmers, youth and students,
community organizations — who have been in a high state of mobilization
since the Feb. 14 occupation of the Capitol?...
Posted Jun 23, 2011
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The Wisconsin AFL-CIO and a broad coalition of workers’
rights organizations filed a federal lawsuit charging that the ‘budget repair
bill’ violates the First and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution by
stripping away basic rights to bargain, organize and associate for the purpose
of engaging in union activity....
Posted Jun 23, 2011
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Since the Wisconsin union-busting bill was first introduced in February, the Bail Out the People Movement is one of many progressive organizations that have brought in organizers from across the country--often at their own expense--to help build the mighty peoples' resistance....
Posted Jun 23, 2011
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National day of solidarity
with Carlos Montes and the other 23 international
solidarity activists raided by
the FBI since September 2010...
Posted Jun 23, 2011
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|
In 2009, fearing a total collapse of all three U.S. auto companies, the United
Auto Workers swallowed big concessions....
Posted Jun 23, 2011
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In the face of mass protests, the New Jersey Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee passed a bill destroying the right of unions to collectively bargain over
health care and pensions....
Posted Jun 23, 2011
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There has been much media talk about “socialism” since the 2008 financial near-meltdown....
Posted Jun 23, 2011
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|
aunched on the heels of a massive public workers’ rally
on June 14, and inspired by gigantic occupations of public squares in Egypt,
Tunisia, Spain, Greece and Wisconsin, the Bloombergville encampment near New
York’s City Hall has withstood police intimidation and inclement weather
to mount a spirited and sustained protest against the current onslaught of
anti-people budget cuts in New York City and state....
Posted Jun 22, 2011
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Over the last few years, as the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions
of Israel (BDS) has gathered steam in the U.S. and throughout the world, the
apartheid state of Israel has turned to various tactics in an attempt to
counter the growing solidarity with the Palestinian people. One such strategy
is to portray Israel as the only place in the Middle East that is friendly to
lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people....
Posted Jun 22, 2011
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At Milwaukee’s LGBT Pride march June 12, Bail Out the People
Movement activists marched with the spirited “From Stonewall to WI: Queer
Workers United” contingent....
Posted Jun 22, 2011
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As the battle for equal marriage rights for lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer
people in New York state and elsewhere heats up, many famous people from
entertainment, sports and other cultural fields are making their support public
for LGBTQ rights....
Posted Jun 22, 2011
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A conference entitled “How the Banks Destroyed Detroit: Make the Banks
Pay” was held at the United Auto Workers Local 22 hall on June 11....
Posted Jun 22, 2011
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One hundred fifty people attended an evening hearing on June 13 of the Wayne
County Commission Ways and Means Committee to express their support for the
Homeowner Protection and Neighborhood Preservation Act introduced by
Commissioner Martha G. Scott at the initiative of the People Before Banks
Coalition....
Posted Jun 22, 2011
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On day 59 of the encampment to protect Sogorea Te — the sacred Shellmound
ancient burial grounds at Glen Cove, Vallejo, Calif. — Native people from
many reservations along with supporters gathered for a special Spiritual
Gathering June 11....
Posted Jun 22, 2011
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Everyone needs to eat....
Posted Jun 20, 2011
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A memorial was held for Al Strasburger at his family home in Red Bank,
N.J., on June 12....
Posted Jun 20, 2011
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“Patients are our purpose, the union is our voice” read some of the
placards carried by 3,000 picketers on June 6 outside Buffalo, N.Y., General Hospital, a Kaleida Health facility....
Posted Jun 18, 2011
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More than 3,500 workers from several General Electric factories, and more than
20 states, gathered at the Hammermill Center at Gannon University in Erie, Pa.,
on June 4. Cheers of solidarity and the spirit of fightback against GE’s
corporate greed filled the hall....
Posted Jun 16, 2011
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African-American farmers have received a settlement notice in the legal process
of resolving the so-called Pigford II discrimination case that found the U.S.
Department of Agriculture guilty of institutional racism....
Posted Jun 16, 2011
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Led by UNITE-HERE Local 26, labor and community activists took to the
street in Boston’s 2011 Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans/Queer Pride march on June
11....
Posted Jun 16, 2011
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Some of the very first responders after the devastating tornadoes that hit
Alabama at the end of April were union members. Within hours union locals had
opened their halls to the communities, organized relief work and began
collecting funds to provide food and water for those whose homes had been
demolished by the monster storms....
Posted Jun 16, 2011
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More than 500 angry protesters marched several miles from the Fruitvale
Bay Area Rapid Transit station to downtown Oakland, Calif., June 12 to protest
the imminent release of Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop who shot and killed
Oscar Grant, an unarmed Black man, on Jan. 1, 2009, while Grant was restrained
and handcuffed on the platform....
Posted Jun 15, 2011
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On June 11 a multinational crowd of about 1,200 workers, students and
environmental activists held a rally and march in Logan County, W. Va., to
commemorate the largest armed conflict in U.S. labor history, the 1921 Battle
at Blair Mountain....
Posted Jun 15, 2011
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Gil Scott-Heron passed away at 62 on May 27 in New York City. He had been
hospitalized at St. Luke’s Hospital where he went to get treatment after
returning ill from a touring trip in Europe....
Posted Jun 13, 2011
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The flag-waving, “Mission Accomplished” crowd is having a
hissy fit. All because of a yearbook put out by the students of Russellville
Middle School in Arkansas....
Posted Jun 13, 2011
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It is not only federal prisons that contract out prison labor to top
corporations. State prisons that used forced prison labor in plantations,
laundries and highway chain gangs increasingly seek to sell prison labor to
corporations trolling the globe in search of the cheapest possible labor....
Posted Jun 11, 2011
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The African-American community won a major victory when the Shockoe Bottom
Burial Grounds for enslaved and free Africans were acknowledged as sacred
ground in the historic Southern city of Richmond, Va. The burial ground had
been covered up by a parking lot owned by the Virginia Commonwealth
University....
Posted Jun 11, 2011
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N.J. public workers rally to defend benefits | Brooklyn hospital workers protest loss of health coverage | Target workers unionizing in NYC area | Hershey: stop child labor in cocoa fields | Conn. mandates paid sick leave for service workers | Sanitation workers in NYC vindicated...
Posted Jun 11, 2011
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Why I, Mitt Romney,
feel I must run for president...
Posted Jun 11, 2011
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The ink wasn’t even dry on last week’s Workers World article
dealing with climate change when tornadoes swept through western Massachusetts
on June 1, killing at least three people and devastating more than 20
communities....
Posted Jun 9, 2011
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Ahmed Deraz was driving to the New Liberty Airport in Newark, N.J., on June 3
around 2:45 p.m....
Posted Jun 9, 2011
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As workers face mass layoffs, pension theft and cutbacks of every kind, people
protest with greater frequency. With the New York City budget up for debate in
the City Council this June, these protests are starting to come together....
Posted Jun 9, 2011
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An important meeting took place on June 4 at Solidarity House, the headquarters
of the United Auto Workers. For the first time here, about 60 UAW staff,
officers and rank-and-file members learned about and discussed the dire
situation facing workers in Honduras and Colombia....
Posted Jun 9, 2011
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The spirit of resistance is alive across the state of Wisconsin. From the first
eruption of struggle here in February, when Gov. Scott Walker introduced a
union-busting bill, and as attacks on working and oppressed people have
broadened and sharpened, youth and students have played a decisive role,
helping to advance and build the fightback....
Posted Jun 9, 2011
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They couldn’t break Geronimo ji Jaga. The FBI and Los Angeles district
attorney framed the Black Panther Party leader for murder and jailed him for 27
years....
Posted Jun 9, 2011
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Since 1991 the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer community of metropolitan
Detroit has held “Pridefest” in suburban Oakland County. From 2002
until last year the festival took place in the border suburb of Ferndale, which
has consecutively elected two openly gay mayors and is home to the LGBTQ
community center....
Posted Jun 9, 2011
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Prisoners earning 23 cents an hour in U.S. federal prisons are manufacturing
high-tech electronic components for Patriot Advanced Capability 3 missiles,
launchers for TOW (Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided) anti-tank
missiles, and other guided missile systems....
Posted Jun 6, 2011
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Supporters of democratically elected President Jose Manuel Zelaya
Rosales celebrated his return to Honduras at New York City’s Solidarity
Center on May 28....
Posted Jun 5, 2011
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To more and more people in the world, it is abundantly clear that the
capitalist system doesn’t work....
Posted Jun 5, 2011
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Timothy O’Brien, an activist, scholar and fighter for all workers and
oppressed people, died at home on April 26 with his family surrounding him. He
loved his family, comrades and friends as much as he hated war, racism,
exploitation and executions....
Posted Jun 5, 2011
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The 32nd Annual Pan African Cultural Festival was hosted by the S.H.A.P.E.
Community Center on May 28. The Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement was one of the organizations that
set up a table and dispensed information about the racist use of the death
penalty....
Posted Jun 5, 2011
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled May 26 in favor of the Arizona law that forces all
employers to check a government-run database to determine if a person is
“authorized” to work....
Posted Jun 2, 2011
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On May 19, people’s attorney and longtime movement ally Barry Wilson was
sentenced to 90 days in the South Bay House of Correction in Boston for
contempt of court. This outrageous sentence was in response to Wilson’s
challenging racism and pro-law-enforcement bias in the jury selection
process....
Posted Jun 2, 2011
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As a result of the ongoing people’s struggle in Wisconsin and worldwide
support for it, a permanent injunction was issued by a Dane County judge May 26
that struck down the union-busting bill signed by Gov. Scott Walker on March
11....
Posted Jun 2, 2011
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For over a year now, the ruling-class press has been rejoicing over the return
to profitability of Ford and General Motors. Record profits are being made even
as vehicle sales still hover at well below pre-recession levels. GM and Ford
netted $4.7 billion and $6.6 billion respectively after taxes and interest in
2010....
Posted Jun 2, 2011
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Hundreds of students marched around City Hall in Philadelphia the afternoon of
May 25, chanting and waving colorful homemade signs. Speakers denounced plans
to close all 13 accelerated high schools (AHS) in Philadelphia....
Posted Jun 1, 2011
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Consider these horrific facts provided by the National Organization for Women:
Every year approximately 132,000 women report they have been violently violated
by rape or attempted rape. More than half of that number knew their attackers.
It’s estimated that two to six times that many women are raped, but do
not report it. Every year 1.2 million women are raped by their current or
former male partners, some more than once.
...
Posted Jun 1, 2011
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Hundreds of angry women and men came out May 27 to protest the acquittal
of two New York City cops who stood trial for raping a woman they were called
to assist....
Posted Jun 1, 2011
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Determined not to live in a city plagued by police brutality, a couple hundred
vocal and resolved Pittsburghers showed up at Allegheny County courthouse on
May 28 and hung a People’s Indictment on the gate....
Posted Jun 1, 2011
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Whether it’s precipitation driven by strong storms or the lack of rain,
the weather has been changing — sometimes drastically. It used to be that
weather was one of those things you couldn’t change. You just had to
accept what came and make the best of it....
Posted Jun 1, 2011
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On May 20, the Wisconsin Senate passed one of the most restrictive “Voter
ID” laws in the United States. This followed the vote by the Wisconsin
Assembly. Gov. Scott Walker said he would sign it quickly....
Posted May 31, 2011
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Immigrant rights activists in Georgia have stepped up their visibility campaign
against discriminatory legislation, particularly HB 87, an Arizona copycat law
that legalizes racial profiling....
Posted May 27, 2011
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Members of the South Bronx Community Congress joined postal workers on the
steps of the Bronx General Post Office at 149th Street and the Grand Concourse
on May 23 to demand that officials of the United States Postal Service suspend
plans to move Bronx mail-processing services to Manhattan...
Posted May 27, 2011
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Native peoples of California and many supporters are in their fourth week of a
vigil and occupation at the Glen Cove Shellmound in Vallejo, Calif., known as
Sogorea Te in Karkin Ohlone language....
Posted May 27, 2011
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The Los Angeles branch of Workers World Party has a brand-new headquarters in
South Central that has also become the home of a new community attraction....
Posted May 27, 2011
|
While profits, especially for the big banks, and production of goods and
services in the U.S. economy have rebounded since 2009 to pre-recession levels,
for workers the Great Recession is not over....
Posted May 27, 2011
|
|
The sun had not dawned yet on the cold, crisp morning of May 17 in Alhambra, a
neighborhood east of Los Angeles. It was hard to believe spring had arrived
that morning when at 5 a.m. the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
SWAT team assembled in front of Carlos Montes’ driveway and front yard.
The silence was shattered along with Montes’ door as the officers rammed
it down and then sprang into his home bearing automatic rifles....
Posted May 26, 2011
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Last September FBI raids took place in several Midwestern cities. Twenty-three
activists had their residences searched. The latest raid took place at the home of a Los Angeles veteran Chicano activist, Carlos Montes, by the FBI and the County Sheriff during the week of May 16, indicating the attacks haven’t ended....
Posted May 26, 2011
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This is the first volume of a definitive political biography of radical
socialist and nationalist leader Hubert Henry Harrison, whose involvement in
the early 20th century in the Socialist Party, the Garvey Movement, the Liberty
League and other organizations set a standard that would heavily influence
Black and left activism and thinking for decades to come....
Posted May 26, 2011
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Attorneys for the Fort Dix 5 gave oral arguments for five appeals before a
three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in
Philadelphia on May 23...
Posted May 26, 2011
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The Ohio National Guard is often associated with the 1970 murder of four
students — two antiwar protesters and two bystanders — at Kent
State University. Yet their role as a violent suppressor of dissent did not
begin there. They killed two Toledo workers during the 1934 Auto-lite
strike....
Posted May 26, 2011
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The 63-year occupation of indigenous Palestinian land, known as al Nakba
(the catastrophe), was condemned May 20 by scores of people gathered outside
the Israeli Consulate in Philadelphia....
Posted May 25, 2011
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A broad coalition of teachers, students, labor and community organizations
showed a high level of militancy as 20,000 protesters took to the narrow
streets of New York’s financial district to oppose cuts in education and
other social programs. New York City’s organized labor turned out in
force for the May 12 action....
Posted May 23, 2011
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An estimated 20,000 poor and working people protested at the State Capitol
in Madison May 14....
Posted May 23, 2011
|
The California Teachers Association called a “state of emergency”
the week of May 9 in response to massive budget cuts and more than 30,000
teacher and 10,000 other school employee layoffs statewide....
Posted May 23, 2011
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A crowd took over the state Capitol Rotunda on May 9 to kick off a week of
protest against looming draconian cuts to the California education budget....
Posted May 23, 2011
|
Thousands of southern California teachers, other education workers,
students and parents rallied in a San Diego bay-front park on the afternoon of
May 13....
Posted May 23, 2011
|
Things are heating up in the Marcellus Shale region spanning Pennsylvania and
New York state. Only this time it’s not just exploding natural gas wells
or flammable tap water....
Posted May 21, 2011
|
On May 6, after years of pressure, RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. finally agreed to
engage in discussions with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, a national
labor union representing farmworkers in North Carolina....
Posted May 21, 2011
|
With 70 percent of Toledo, Ohio’s workers unemployed in 1934 — more
than double the U.S. average even during the Great Depression — Toledo
was an unlikely place for a union drive to succeed....
Posted May 21, 2011
|
May 4 was the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Freedom Rides, a major
civil rights campaign that legally broke the back of racial segregation in
interstate public travel in the United States....
Posted May 19, 2011
|
Exiled Chilean revolutionary Victor Toro and his attorney, Carlos Moreno, spoke
at the International Action Center May 11, explaining the U.S. Immigration
Court’s rejection of Toro’s application for political asylum....
Posted May 19, 2011
|
Palestinians and supporters from the metropolitan New York City area
gathered on May 15 to mark Al Nakba, the date in 1948 when they were expelled
from their country, and Israel was created on occupied Palestine....
Posted May 18, 2011
|
A victory was won May 10 by activists fighting FBI repression when the Twin
Cities Federal bank reversed its action and released funds held in accounts by
Hatem Abudayyeh and Naima Abudayyeh of Chicago....
Posted May 18, 2011
|
As the North Carolina House met inside the General Assembly building in Raleigh
on May 3 to debate a state budget filled with devastating across-the-board
cuts, more than 8,000 teachers, young people, students, parents and community
members packed the main plaza outside to stop the cuts to education....
Posted May 15, 2011
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About 200 homeowners attended a free legal clinic May 2 at the Detroit offices
of the Moratorium Now! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility
Shutoffs....
Posted May 15, 2011
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Until the upsurge of the 1930s, U.S.
workers did not have collective bargaining....
Posted May 15, 2011
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The parents of students in Buffalo, N.Y., Public Schools have reached the end of their patience and confidence in the ability of the district school system to address
the enormous educational crisis....
Posted May 15, 2011
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A picket line of university faculty, staff and students outside New York’s City Hall on May 5 was boisterous and militant....
Posted May 15, 2011
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Miami Assistant U.S. Attorney Carolyn Heck Miller once again attempted to block
any justice in the case of the Cuban Five on April 25, by opposing the current
motion asking for relief for Gerardo Hernández’s convictions and
life sentences. Heck Miller also opposed a similar habeas appeal filed for
Antonio Guerrero....
Posted May 15, 2011
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On May 6 the Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego’s Balboa Park
was the setting for the opening of an exhibition of the prison paintings of
Cuban Five member Antonio Guerrero....
Posted May 15, 2011
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Not one time was I really taught about Malcolm X in school; once I discovered
him I clearly understood why....
Posted May 15, 2011
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Although the word “recession” has faded completely from the U.S.
corporate and government media, a recent jobless report shows that the
unemployment rate has risen again to 9 percent. And the unemployment rate among African Americans went up at an even higher rate than that for the general population....
Posted May 12, 2011
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On May 3, the Tucson Unified School District board met once again to take up
the issue of Ethnic Studies. This meeting had been rescheduled from the
previous week, when nine courageous youth occupied the TUSD board
members’ seats and forced cancellation of the meeting....
Posted May 12, 2011
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One of the groups adding spirit and militancy to the
May Day march from Union Square to Foley Square in
New York City were the young drummers with the Workers
World Party contingent marching just ahead of its
banner....
Posted May 12, 2011
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On May 12, workers, students and community members will be marching on Wall
Street to point the finger at banks and financial institutions for being the
cause of the austerity budgets sweeping the country. The main slogan will be,
“The banks must pay!”...
Posted May 11, 2011
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Since the beginning of the people’s upsurge in Wisconsin in early
February, the students and workers have resisted in numerous mass actions. One
of the most courageous of these was a student occupation at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, which ended in the early morning hours of May 7 after the
students were evicted from their occupied space by the administration and
charged with “trespassing.”...
Posted May 11, 2011
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In the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden and the Arab revolutions
sweeping the Middle East and North Africa, a conscious climate of anti-Muslim
hate is being promoted across the U.S...
Posted May 11, 2011
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At its meeting [on May 2], the board of trustees of the City University of New
York voted to cancel the honorary degree that John Jay College had planned to
bestow on playwright Tony Kushner at this month’s graduation ceremony. The reason: The playwright is not sufficiently rabidly racistly violently Zionist....
Posted May 11, 2011
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All out on May 12 in New York City! Join in a mass march on Wall Street to
say ‘Enough!’...
Posted May 9, 2011
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On April 25 the Cleveland area AFL-CIO held the official kick-off of the
campaign to overturn SB 5, the Ohio Senate bill that would destroy collective
bargaining rights for public sector workers in the state....
Posted May 6, 2011
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Nearly 300 people rallied April 25 in front of a Rosedale, Md.,
McDonald’s restaurant, which was the site of a vicious attack on a
transgender woman several days before....
Posted May 6, 2011
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On April 27, family and supporters of Rebecca Whitby cheered and celebrated on
the steps of the Justice Center, the site of nearly two years of rallies, as
they waited for 25-year-old Rebecca Whitby to be released....
Posted May 6, 2011
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Members and friends of Workers World Party were inspired by talks given by
Gilbert Johnson, president of American Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees Local 82, and Clarence Thomas, an executive board member of
International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10, at an April 29 WWP forum
in New York City....
Posted May 6, 2011
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On April 26 the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia unanimously
issued a ruling upholding its earlier decision calling for a new sentencing
hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal....
Posted May 5, 2011
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The tornado outbreaks in the southern midwest and southeast states of the U.S.
between April 25 and April 27 were unusually fierce and deadly. According to a study done by a Northern Illinois University meteorologist, the area with the most tornado fatalities is southeastern U.S. This is partly because, according to Ashley, “Mobile homes make up 30 to 40 percent of the housing stock in some counties in the deep South.” Ashley believes that 50 percent of deaths from tornadoes are people who live in mobile homes....
Posted May 5, 2011
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In Benton Harbor, Mich. — a city of approximately 11,000 people, the majority of whom are African American and working class — recent actions by new Gov. Rick Snyder represent a major affront....
Posted May 5, 2011
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A racist plan to denigrate a popular Ethnic Studies program in the Tucson
schools has aroused resistance from a broad movement spearheaded by young
people....
Posted May 5, 2011
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In one of the biggest marches and rallies in Wisconsin history, more than
100,000 people participated in this year’s May Day in Milwaukee....
Posted May 5, 2011
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The workers’ movement in the United States took a significant step
forward this May Day when labor and immigrant organizations in New York City
came together after a march and closed the day by exchanging speakers under the
banner “May Day Is Workers’ Day.”...
Posted May 4, 2011
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International Workers’ Day — May Day — was honored throughout
the U.S. on May 1 with marches demanding legalization for immigrants and an end
to union busting and attacks on workers, including vicious anti-immigrant and
anti-worker legislation enacted or under consideration in several states....
Posted May 4, 2011
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On April 28 the immigrant community in Chelsea, Mass., and supporters
overwhelmed a hearing at Chelsea High School in the heart of the immigrant
community to say “No” to the racist police-state-style
“Homeland Security” and “Secure Communities” sham....
Posted May 4, 2011
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The capitalist system in the U.S. and worldwide is deeply mired in a new phase:
the era of the jobless recovery and long-term mass unemployment. This phase is
the inevitable result of the profit system....
Posted May 1, 2011
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Union leaders from the center of the struggles in Wisconsin and California spoke at a news conference April 29 in New York’s Union Square to help build for what they hope will be a massive May Day march this year. ...
Posted May 1, 2011
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After suffering years of deep budget cuts that have wiped nearly $10 billion
from the public sector and facing even more devastating cuts this year, workers
and students from across North Carolina have set May 3 for a showdown over the
budget....
Posted May 1, 2011
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On the night of April 25-26 Emory
University police raided the tent city that Students and Workers in Solidarity
had set up to focus attention on the abuse of cafeteria workers by the Sodexo
Corp....
Posted May 1, 2011
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BP rig workers honored | Suits defend immigrant workers...
Posted Apr 30, 2011
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Several hundred defenders and members of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 in Oakland, Calif., took over the plaza at Pacific Maritime Association headquarters in San Francisco on April 25 to demand that the employers’ group drop its lawsuit against the union. The suit was in retaliation for the dockworkers’ solidarity action on April 4 in defense of Wisconsin public workers....
Posted Apr 28, 2011
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Nine days after the Georgia Legislature passed HB 87, an Arizona copycat law
that authorizes local and state police to require proof of citizenship or legal
residency from anyone suspected of being undocumented, the governor still had
not signed it into law....
Posted Apr 28, 2011
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Protest activities continue across Wisconsin to fight the union-busting bill
signed by Gov. Scott Walker on March 11. They are also directed at the many
anti-people measures contained in the budget proposal for the next two fiscal
years, 2011-2013, which would cut at least $3.6 billion from services that help
poor and working people....
Posted Apr 28, 2011
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Every great struggle has a rallying cry....
Posted Apr 28, 2011
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More than 1 million immigrants have been deported since President Barack Obama
took office. One million! This is a tsunami of injustice....
Posted Apr 27, 2011
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The increased attacks on both immigrant and non-immigrant workers show the need
for the most united, militant action possible on May Day....
Posted Apr 27, 2011
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Third Circuit has unanimously
ruled that Mumia
Abu-Jamal’s death sentence is
unconstitutional....
Posted Apr 27, 2011
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Shock-troops for right-wing big business who call themselves the Tea Party held
an April 15 “tax day” rally on Boston Common. But they got outflanked by the Women’s Fightback Network, Steelworkers
Local 8751, and dozens of allies from the anti-war and social justice
movements....
Posted Apr 27, 2011
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Anyone who has ever been a workers’ rights or anti-war activist knows how
futile it is to depend on the capitalist media to tell the truth. A recent
example was the media boycott of the April 9 and 10 anti-war demonstrations in
New York and San Francisco....
Posted Apr 24, 2011
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A multinational crowd filled the room at the Action Center in Boston on April 16 for
a World View Forum featuring Joyce Chediac, editor of the new book,
“Gaza: Symbol of Resistance.”...
Posted Apr 24, 2011
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Thousands of labor, community and student activists and organizations showed up
to protest and drown out the racist, neofascist Tea Party and its keynote
speaker, Sarah Palin, in Madison, Wis., on April 16 at the state Capitol....
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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The dismissal and/or resignation of Cathleen Black as New York City school
chancellor on April 7 is a political victory for parents and other supporters
of equal, quality public education for all children....
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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The new film based on Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” released
April 15 is a prime example of how film can serve big capital....
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Equal Pay Day spotlights discrimination | D.C. unionists dog Gov. Walker | Grocery workers rally to save D.C.-area jobs | Workers’ compensation lags behind productivity...
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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The Professional Staff Congress, American Federation of Teachers Local 2334,
has called for a rally on May 5 in New York....
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Mumia Abu-Jamal now has a new legal team led by Christina Swarns, director of
the Criminal Justice Project of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund;
and Judith Ritter, professor and director of the Criminal Defense Clinic at
Widener University Law School in Wilmington, Del. They will be directing their
defense strategy to not only fight reinstatement of Mumia’s death penalty
but also overturn his conviction....
Posted Apr 21, 2011
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In an ironic twist of history on April 14, the 150th anniversary of the start
of the Civil War, the Georgia General Assembly approved HB 87, a piece of
sweeping anti-immigrant legislation that legalizes racial profiling....
Posted Apr 21, 2011
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On May 12, which falls on a Thursday and is a full week after the New York City
budget proposal will be released by billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a
coalition of city unions and community organizations will converge on Wall
Street....
Posted Apr 21, 2011
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Mobilize! That is the way the San Francisco Labor Council is answering the
Pacific Maritime Association’s attack on the International Longshore and
Warehouse Union Local 10. In a unanimous resolution, the SFLC called for mass
action at the PMA’s San Francisco headquarters on April 25 and
established a broad defense committee for the union and its members....
Posted Apr 20, 2011
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Fred Goldstein, author of “Low Wage Capitalism,” spoke about
capitalism and globalization to an audience of more than 130 students during a
two-and-a-half hour meeting in a packed lecture hall at Long Beach City College
in Southern California on April 13....
Posted Apr 20, 2011
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The ongoing people’s struggle in Wisconsin won a victory in the April 5
elections when independent Wisconsin Supreme Court Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg won
a seat in the Wisconsin Supreme Court over Justice David Prosser, a Republican
conservative. It was announced on April 5 that Kloppenburg had won the election
by a few hundred votes....
Posted Apr 17, 2011
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In just a few weeks of working-class action and struggle, a major shift in
union and class consciousness has taken place in Wisconsin.
It is instructive to briefly go over the history of this state....
Posted Apr 17, 2011
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While the New York Legislature, the governor’s office and both the Democratic and
Republican parties of New York congratulated themselves on a imposing an austerity budget that cuts more than $1 billion in education, hundreds of students, community members and labor activists occupied the state
Capitol building March 31 in Albany....
Posted Apr 17, 2011
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What began as an act of protest on April 7 by a section of maintenance workers
against schedule changes at the University of North Carolina here culminated in
the largest worker protest on the campus in nearly a decade....
Posted Apr 17, 2011
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The ongoing struggle for a moratorium to halt mass foreclosures is gaining new
steam in Detroit and Wayne County, Mich....
Posted Apr 17, 2011
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Since Oct. 4, union-organized symphony players around the country have had
their eyes on Detroit....
Posted Apr 17, 2011
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Hundreds of students from nearby Georgia State University, area high school
youth, civil rights leaders and community members gathered in Hurt Park April 5
in Atlanta and listened attentively to the stories of eight young people from
Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Illinois who proclaimed
that they were coming out of the shadows to openly fight for their rights as
human beings....
Posted Apr 14, 2011
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The Rhode Island Progressive Network sponsored a Martin Luther King Jr.
Unity Day Rally at the Rhode Island statehouse in Providence April 4....
Posted Apr 14, 2011
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Thousands of people from virtually all sectors of U.S. workers, the oppressed
and youths gathered in Union Square in New York City April 9 and marched,
shouted and drummed their anti-war slogans for two miles to Foley Square in
downtown Manhattan. As this largest anti-war march in New York in years
stretched for 20 blocks down Broadway, it passed by thousands of New Yorkers
busy shopping, who smiled, cheered and waved at what can only be described as
the new face of a vibrant movement to confront the war-makers....
Posted Apr 13, 2011
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Three thousand activists demonstrated against U.S. wars abroad on April 10 in
San Francisco. Protesters rallied in Dolores Park in the city’s Mission
district both before and after a march through the community....
Posted Apr 13, 2011
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Clarence Thomas, member of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local
10, called out to the crowd from the podium at the San Francisco anti-war march
on April 10, “Everyone within earshot of my voice should understand this.
ILWU Local 10 needs your support. We cannot be intimidated and
silenced.”...
Posted Apr 13, 2011
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Resolution adopted by the San Francisco Labor Council on April 11....
Posted Apr 13, 2011
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Thousands of union members came to Times Square on April 9 for the New York
state AFL-CIO and its affiliates’ “We Are One” rally...
Posted Apr 13, 2011
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The big-business pundits and politicians applaud every insignificant sign of
economic recovery. Nevertheless, profound contradictions are built into the
profit system — the so-called “free market” system. They are
bound to create long-term mass unemployment and low wages on an ever-expanding
scale....
Posted Apr 11, 2011
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The government is carrying out a war on women, putting the worst burdens on
low-income women during an economic crisis, limiting options, and creating more
obstacles for them....
Posted Apr 11, 2011
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Until December of 2009, drivers employed by the Ryder company, members of
United Auto Workers Local 174, moved parts from General Motors parts plants to
its assembly plants in Hamtramck and Lake Orion, Mich....
Posted Apr 11, 2011
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Women’s case vs. Wal-Mart goes to Supreme Court | Faculty at U.Wis.-River Falls votes union | N.J. toll collectors defend jobs with sit-in | Revised air & rail union election rules nixed | S.F. Labor Council endorses April 9-10 protests...
Posted Apr 11, 2011
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Supporters of wrongfully imprisoned Rebecca Whitby succeeded in catching the
attention of people on April 3 at the last night of the Cleveland International
Film Festival by doing a line dance to a song protesting racist incarceration
called “Another Black Man Gone” by Jon Fromer....
Posted Apr 11, 2011
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In a historic merging of the union movement and the Civil Rights Movement, the
Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr. and two leaders of the 1968 Memphis strike led “A
March Fit for a King” down Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd. in Milwaukee
April 2...
Posted Apr 7, 2011
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Demanding “education not incarceration,” more than 2,000 college
and high school students marched against Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s
plans to cut $1 billion in state funding for education....
Posted Apr 7, 2011
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Black Workers For Justice held its 28th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Support for Labor banquet on April 2 at the North Carolina Association of
Educators Hall in Raleigh, N.C....
Posted Apr 7, 2011
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An audience-packed room at Riverside Church in New York City on April 3
heard Mumia Abu-Jamal’s new legal team speak on the political and legal
significance of the almost 30-year campaign to free this world-renowned
political prisoner unjustly housed on Pennsylvania’s death row....
Posted Apr 7, 2011
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On the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr., workers shut down the ports of San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., for 24
hours as part of a national day of solidarity with Wisconsin workers and
workers who are fighting union busting....
Posted Apr 6, 2011
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An 11-city national visit of Latin American union leaders culminated on April 1
in Wisconsin, the touchstone of the fight against union busting in the U.S....
Posted Apr 6, 2011
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The power of workers to bring production to a halt was on dramatic display April 4, when longshore workers of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 shut down the ports of Oakland and San Francisco for 24 hours in solidarity with the heroic struggles in Wisconsin. ...
Posted Apr 5, 2011
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The massive demonstrations and occupation of the Capitol in Madison, Wis.,
signal the end of three decades of union retreat. This struggle has awakened a
new activism, resistance and solidarity by labor, communities and students not
seen in this country in many decades....
Posted Apr 5, 2011
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Thousands of United Auto Workers and supporters took to the streets of
downtown Detroit March 24 to “tell big bankers it’s time for them
to pay their fair share.”...
Posted Apr 5, 2011
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker directed the state’s Legislative Reference
Bureau to post online the anti-union bill that he signed on March 11. This is
his latest attempt to bust the state’s public sector unions and attack
their collective bargaining rights...
Posted Apr 4, 2011
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The United Auto Workers wrapped up its three-day “Special Bargaining
Convention” in Detroit on March 24 with a spirited march in solidarity
with public workers and against Wall Street....
Posted Apr 4, 2011
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Senegalese immigrants took to the streets of Harlem in New York City on March
19 in protest against the regime of President Abdoulaye Wade....
Posted Apr 4, 2011
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has decided that the alleged $10 billion budget
deficit in the state will be settled by cutting vital public services, like
Medicaid and education, and eliminating public employees’ jobs. However,
the highest earners making more than $200,000 a year will get a tax
reduction....
Posted Apr 4, 2011
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The Lackawanna, N.Y., Yemeni community and supporters protested March 12
against a Lackawanna School Board member who is also a police dispatcher who
reportedly posted anti-Arab, profanity-laced comments on his Facebook page....
Posted Apr 4, 2011
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Leonard Weinglass, a leading progressive attorney and member of the
National Lawyers Guild who represented political activists railroaded by the
U.S. injustice system, died of cancer on March 23....
Posted Apr 4, 2011
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Racist, reactionary forces in Arizona suffered a setback in the attempt to push
their racist program through the state legislature on March 17 when five bills
targeting immigrants and Latinos/as were soundly defeated in a Senate
committee....
Posted Apr 1, 2011
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For more than three hours in midday on March 24, thousands of people packed the
street in front of the Georgia State Capitol to protest Arizona copycat bills
that would legalize racial profiling and institute a series of anti-immigrant
measures....
Posted Apr 1, 2011
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Nearly 1,000 marchers, led by the Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans for
Peace, withstood chilly winds and South Boston’s bitter history of racism
and anti-lesbian/gay/bi/trans/queer discrimination when they conducted a
“Peace Parade” through South Boston’s neighborhoods on March
20....
Posted Apr 1, 2011
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Demonstrating once again that his top priority is to boost corporate profits at
the expense of Pennsylvania workers and poor, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom
Corbett’s budget for 2011-12 contains $1.65 billion in funding cuts to
education — but it increases funding for prisons and police by $1.9
billion....
Posted Apr 1, 2011
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Called a “far-left peacenik” who was “widely recognized for
his presence at anti-war, anti-nuke and pro-labor demonstrations” in Red
Bank, N.J., Al Strasburger worked closely with Workers World for four decades
until his death on March 10....
Posted Apr 1, 2011
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The streets surrounding the site of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory
fire were filled for the 100th anniversary commemoration on March 25....
Posted Apr 1, 2011
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The African-American population in Harlem, like so many other working-class
communities, is in the throes of a deepening economic crisis, including massive
unemployment, gentrification, police repression, and cuts in education and
other social services....
Posted Mar 31, 2011
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Detroit lost 25 percent of its population in the last decade, according to the
2010 U.S. Census....
Posted Mar 31, 2011
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Supporters came out the evening of March 25 to an emergency rally and
fundraiser for beloved people’s attorney, Vanessa G. Fluker of Detroit....
Posted Mar 31, 2011
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They were brave women of all ages, various ethnicities, races and backgrounds
from both the North and the South, urban and rural areas — and they were on
the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s....
Posted Mar 31, 2011
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Youth activists and community members gathered in front of North
Carolina’s Federal Building in Raleigh on March 23 to denounce the war on
Washington’s newest target of aggression: the North African state of
Libya....
Posted Mar 30, 2011
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“We Stand with Wisconsin Workers” was the message from 15,000
workers and community allies at the March 26 “Our Communities, Our Good
Jobs” march through downtown Los Angeles and rally at Pershing Square....
Posted Mar 30, 2011
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As New York state’s legislature and governor were meeting to plan a
budget that will cut billions in social spending, thousands of New York’s
students, workers and community activists participated in a “Day of
Rage” on March 24....
Posted Mar 30, 2011
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Hundreds of students throughout the city walked out of schools on March 23 and
converged on Boston School Department Headquarters to protest the School
Committee’s budget vote to close or merge 19 schools and cut more than
200 jobs...
Posted Mar 30, 2011
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For decades, Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner has been a leading
progressive activist on issues affecting the African-American community...
Posted Mar 30, 2011
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Across the state of Wisconsin the sweeping people’s rebellion continues
every day. From all areas of the state poor and working people are in motion to
defeat the union-busting bill Gov. Scott Walker signed March 11. The fightback
now encompasses broader demands, as people are directly challenging the
billions of dollars in budget cuts politicians like Walker have proposed at the
behest of banks, corporations and the Pentagon....
Posted Mar 27, 2011
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Gov. Scott Walker, who spearheaded the recent bill dismantling collective
bargaining rights for public sector workers, is not the first Wisconsin
governor to push through anti-poor, anti-worker legislation. In 1997, just one
year after the Clinton administration dismantled the federally funded Aid to
Families with Dependent Children program, then-Gov. Tommy Thompson instituted
state anti-welfare legislation called “Wisconsin Works” or
“W2.”...
Posted Mar 27, 2011
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A 12-city tour by Gilda Chacón Bravo and Pipino Cuevas Velázquez was
kicked off in Washington, D.C., on March 17 when the two met with U.S.
unionists there....
Posted Mar 27, 2011
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Since the Farm Labor Organizing Committee and the United Auto Workers
coalesced at the 2010 U.S. Social Forum, they’ve spearheaded a campaign
against JPMorgan Chase to demand justice for North Carolina farmworkers and a
national moratorium on foreclosures....
Posted Mar 27, 2011
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When unions in Washington, D.C., found out that the BRG Group, a Republican
lobbying firm, was hosting a $1,000-to-$5,000-a-head fundraiser on March 16 for
Wisconsin legislators, they put union solidarity into action....
Posted Mar 27, 2011
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Public sector unions, not the banks, are being demonized for the current budget
crisis. These unions are dominated by women and reflect the growth of the
low-wage service sector within the capitalist economy....
Posted Mar 25, 2011
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The “flying squadron” — a mobile group of strikers that would
go from shop to shop to convince workers to walk out — was pioneered more
than a century ago by female textile workers in New England....
Posted Mar 25, 2011
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International Women’s Day was celebrated in Boston on March 19 under
the banner, “Women Worldwide Are Rising Up!”...
Posted Mar 25, 2011
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The New York City branch of Workers World Party held an International
Working Women’s Month public forum March 18 focused on “The global economic crisis: Women, growing fightback and socialism.”...
Posted Mar 25, 2011
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Even before the first U.S. bombs rained down on Libya, protesters across the
U.S. stood up to voice their opposition to yet another U.S. war for oil. These
protests continue....
Posted Mar 24, 2011
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Larry Hales is a member of the CUNY Mobilization Network. Hales was a
leading organizer of last year’s March 4 student-worker action in New
York and of the upcoming March 24 demonstration set to march from City Hall to
Wall Street as the workday ends. Hales is also a member of Fight Imperialism,
Stand Together (FIST), a youth organization....
Posted Mar 23, 2011
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At Hunter College women make up 70 percent of the student body — a trend
that is being reproduced throughout the country, with more and more women
attending college. This makes any struggle for education a women’s issue....
Posted Mar 23, 2011
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Students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are entering
their fourth week of the occupation of their Arts building, protesting the
proposed 90 percent cuts to the theater program, the attacks on public sector
workers in Wisconsin, and all the proposed cuts to education and programs for
workers....
Posted Mar 23, 2011
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The very existence of public teachers and support staff across Los Angeles has
been threatened over the past several months....
Posted Mar 23, 2011
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International Women’s Day was commemorated March 12 at a Workers
World Party forum in Detroit....
Posted Mar 19, 2011
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D.C. nurses locked out after one-day strike | Immigrant day laborers win lawsuit | U.Wis.-La Crosse faculty vote union | Musicians’ strike continues in Detroit...
Posted Mar 19, 2011
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It is easy to understand why the wealthy U.S. ruling class, whose profits grow the less they pay workers, would oppose unions. ...
Posted Mar 19, 2011
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A three-part New York Times series on the danger of wastewater from natural gas drilling being discharged into rivers upstream from drinking water intake plants cited Pennsylvania’s lax control over drilling as a major problem. ...
Posted Mar 19, 2011
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On March 8, the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, Cuyahoga
County Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul told police to take a young
African-American woman from his courtroom in handcuffs to start serving a
six-month sentence....
Posted Mar 19, 2011
|
Tom Doran began his political opposition to U.S. wars and intervention as
a student at the University of Virginia in the late 1960s....
Posted Mar 19, 2011
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The Southern California Immigration Coalition stepped up its campaign in Los
Angeles last year to stop the growing number of car impounds against
non-driving-under-the-influence unlicensed drivers at police checkpoints. The
coalition says this policy targeted undocumented immigrants, who, through no
fault of their own, were unable to obtain licenses....
Posted Mar 17, 2011
|
A national rally to support Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused Army whistle blower,
will take place on March 20 at the U.S. Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va....
Posted Mar 17, 2011
|
The New York Times ran an appalling March 9 story about a gang rape in east
Texas that left me sickened and shaken. ...
Posted Mar 17, 2011
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As the capitalist economic crisis continues to ravage the living standards of
poor and working people across the globe, important U.S. mass actions are being
organized in the coming months to fight back against austerity, war and
occupation....
Posted Mar 17, 2011
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The passage of right-wing Gov. Scott Walker’s union-busting bill should
not be the end of the story in Wisconsin. It should be the beginning of a new
phase of escalated struggle by the unions, the community and students to
overturn this illegal denial of workers’ rights....
Posted Mar 16, 2011
|
On March 12, in possibly the biggest progressive demonstration in
Wisconsin’s history, tens of thousands of people from across the Badger
state, the country and worldwide joined to protest the illegal passing and
signing of a union-busting and anti-people bill at the state Capitol in
Madison...
Posted Mar 16, 2011
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Wisconsin private and public sector workers in the tens of thousands
thrust their fight against a union-busting law onto front-page news. More than
two years ago, the members of Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (Mexican
Electrical Workers Union) were robbed of their collective bargaining rights.
Their union was declared illegal. Find out how their struggle is like the one in the U.S....
Posted Mar 16, 2011
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The big-business press and television are hyping the February job numbers as
evidence of a coming turnaround in the recovery for workers....
Posted Mar 13, 2011
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A statement from Jason Campbell, an Indigenous inmate
in Ohio State Penitentiary where Lucasville uprising prisoners Siddique
Abdullah Hasan, Bomani Shakur and Jason Robb recently won significant
improvements in the terms of their confinement through a 12-day hunger strike
and an international support campaign....
Posted Mar 13, 2011
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The grainy black-and-white images are horrifyingly familiar — a column of
Civil Rights marchers, numbering about 600, many dressed in their Sunday best,
faces so young, expressions so intent and serious, walking across the Edmund
Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., stopping before a wall of riot-geared state
troopers....
Posted Mar 13, 2011
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On March 2 the New York City Council voted to regulate so-called "crisis pregnancy centers." These are centers set up to look like a doctor's office or clinic where pregnant women can seek care for pregnancy, abortion or contraception, including the morning-after pill. But their only mission is to convince women not to have abortions. ??...
Posted Mar 13, 2011
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A fundraiser was held March 5 in the Bronx borough of New York City in
solidarity with Haitian women who have faced gender violence while living in
makeshift tents in the Port-au-Prince area of Cité de Soleil since the
Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake....
Posted Mar 13, 2011
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In 2004, as part of a right-wing appeal to bigotry designed to get President
George W. Bush re-elected, voters were bombarded with rhetoric against same-sex
marriage. Michigan, Ohio and other states passed mini-DOMAs — modeling
the federal “Defense of Marriage Act” in defining marriage as a
union of “one man and one woman.”...
Posted Mar 13, 2011
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The streets of Boston resounded to the sound of militant chanting by farmworkers and their supporters on Feb. 27. They were demanding justice and that the huge corporation, Stop and Shop, and its parent company Ahold agree to pay tomato pickers in Immokalee, Fla., one more cent per pound that they pick....
Posted Mar 13, 2011
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Aiyana Stanley Jones, 7, was killed early in the morning last May 16 on Detroit’s East Side. A Police Special Response Unit tossed an incendiary device through a front window of her house, then kicked in the door and fired a bullet into the second grader’s head. ...
Posted Mar 13, 2011
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From the beginning of the people’s struggle against Wisconsin Gov. Scott
Walker’s “budget repair bill,” at the behest of the banks,
corporations and the Pentagon, thousands of peace and anti-war forces have
traveled to Madison and other parts of the state to confront the
politicians’ and their rich backers’ lie that there’s no
money for people’s needs....
Posted Mar 12, 2011
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Students from the Social Justice Academy in Hyde Park militantly marched on
March 2, chanting, “SOS - Save our Schools!” SJA was one of 18
schools that Mayor Thomas Menino’s Boston School Committee voted to close
last December...
Posted Mar 10, 2011
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On March 2 students and and their labor-community allies protested at
Wayne State University as part of the National Day of Action to Defend Public
Education....
Posted Mar 10, 2011
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Students in high schools, colleges and universities throughout the U.S. walked
out of classes, mainly on March 2, to help launch a month-long protest against
cutbacks in public education, including the closing of schools and mass layoffs
of teachers....
Posted Mar 10, 2011
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The city of Providence, R.I., sent termination letters Feb. 23 to all of its
1,926 teachers....
Posted Mar 10, 2011
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Hoisting signs proclaiming “Using queers to oppress Palestinians [is]
just not fabulous,” “Don’t censor queer organizing” and
“We need solidarity, not bigotry, Don’t lock out pro-Palestinian
queers,” activists gathered in front of New York’s Lesbian Gay
Bisexual Transgender Community Center the evening of March 5 to protest
cancellation of an Israeli Apartheid Week event....
Posted Mar 10, 2011
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At a meeting at New York City’s Hostos College on March 5, labor, student and community activists gave a ringing endorsement for a
large-scale mobilization to rally at City Hall and march to Wall Street on
March 24....
Posted Mar 10, 2011
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The movement to stop Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s “budget repair
bill” continues to draw mass support nationally and internationally. The
resistance has blossomed into a statewide people’s rebellion with
rallies, demonstrations, candlelight vigils and other protest actions all
focused on “kill the bill.”...
Posted Mar 9, 2011
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The great struggle of the Wisconsin public workers has galvanized union
solidarity on a national level not seen since 1981. That was when the AFL-CIO
organized the Solidarity Day demonstration of half a million workers in
Washington, D.C., after President Ronald Reagan had fired 18,000 air traffic
controllers, members of the PATCO union, and banned them from federal
employment for life. But Solidarity Day in 1981 was a one-shot, symbolic action that came and went because the issue was quickly abandoned by the top leadership after the demonstration was over. This time it’s different....
Posted Mar 9, 2011
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March 8 is International Women’s Day. It recognizes the global solidarity
of working and oppressed women and hails their struggles....
Posted Mar 9, 2011
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Muslims from the New York City area joined hundreds of others March 6 to
“Say no to anti-Muslim bigotry” with an “I am a Muslim
too” rally in the Times Square area....
Posted Mar 9, 2011
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The struggle now unfolding in Wisconsin will go down in history as the beginning
of the long delayed fightback of the U.S. working class. ...
Posted Mar 5, 2011
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A large demonstration was held in New York City’s Foley Square to
protest legislation passed by the House of Representatives to cut Title X, the
National Family Planning Program, and bar Planned Parenthood from receiving any
federal funds....
Posted Mar 5, 2011
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The Black Studies Department of Cleveland State University hosted a
groundbreaking “Prison Emergency Summit” on Feb. 26....
Posted Mar 5, 2011
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Protesters gathered Feb. 18 outside the McNamara Federal Building in downtown Detroit for a demonstration called by the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions & Utility Shutoffs and the People Before Banks Coalition....
Posted Mar 5, 2011
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D.C. nurses vote to strike | Poll shows support for public unions | House budget vote cuts NLRB funding | D.C. union solidarity with Mexican workers...
Posted Mar 5, 2011
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On Feb. 22, Ohio unionists and their supporters poured into Columbus, the
capital of Ohio. More than 8,000 people carried signs that said, “From
Wisconsin to Ohio, No to Union Busting.”...
Posted Mar 3, 2011
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The Labor, Faith and Civil Rights Coalition in Defense of the Public Sector
rallied in Raleigh, N.C., on Feb. 21. Workers and community members showed
support for Wisconsin workers, who are fighting to maintain collective
rights, and demanded these rights in North Carolina, where they were
banned in 1959....
Posted Mar 3, 2011
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On Feb. 6, former President Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday, the Barack
Obama administration proposed steep cuts in two of the leading programs
benefiting America’s poorest communities: community service grants and
community development block grants....
Posted Mar 3, 2011
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Last fall students at Mona Shores High School in Muskegon, Mich., made history
by electing Oakleigh Marshall Reed homecoming king. Reed — known to his
classmates as Oak — is a transgender youth. School records have him
listed as female under the birth name Oakleigh Marie....
Posted Mar 3, 2011
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After months of demonstrations and repeatedly packing the gallery at City
Council meetings, Frack Action Buffalo, a local grassroots group, and its
supporters celebrated a major victory. The city of Buffalo’s Common
Council became the first major city government in New York State — and
the second in the U.S. — to ban hydraulic fracturing for natural gas....
Posted Mar 3, 2011
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Attendees at regional conferences Feb. 19 in New York City and Chapel Hill,
N.C., enthusiastically applauded anti-war and solidarity activists who have
stood up to extreme intimidation and refused to testify before a Chicago grand
jury....
Posted Mar 3, 2011
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In a back-and-forth struggle where the final result has still
not been determined, the mass mobilization to stop Wisconsin Gov. Scott
Walker’s aggressive assault on workers is growing stronger as the
confrontation continues....
Posted Mar 2, 2011
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A mighty giant is beginning to awaken. The fighting workers and youth of
Wisconsin, who are battling a right-wing offensive seeking to decimate
collective bargaining in that state, have inspired and put in motion the
multinational working class throughout the entire United States....
Posted Mar 2, 2011
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The students have played an integral role in the Wisconsin struggle, forming the base
for the occupation by organizing sleep-over lists, food donations, medical
staff and an information center all within the Capitol itself....
Posted Mar 2, 2011
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The National Basketball Players Association proudly supports our
brothers and sisters in Wisconsin and their stand for unequivocal collective
bargaining rights....
Posted Mar 2, 2011
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People around the world, from California to Cairo, are supporting Wisconsin’s workers, who’ve seized their state Capitol building to fight union busting. But this wasn’t the first time people seized the Capitol in Madison....
Posted Feb 26, 2011
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The annual Left Forum in New York City is expected to attract hundreds of panel
speakers and thousands of attendees, more than were scheduled in earlier years.
This year’s forum will take place March 18-20 at Pace University near
City Hall....
Posted Feb 25, 2011
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Will cutting $283 million from the federal budget help solve the $1.4 trillion
deficit? Hardly....
Posted Feb 24, 2011
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A strong rally of union and community activists converged on Woodlawn
Cemetery’s entrance in the northwest Bronx, N.Y., on Presidents’ Day, Feb.
21, to show solidarity with the workers there. They brought a message for
management: “You will not get ‘contractors’ through these
gates!”...
Posted Feb 24, 2011
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In October 2010 four impoverished African-American men from the town of
Newburgh, N.Y., were convicted of terrorism charges. They are James Cromite,
David Williams IV, Onta Williams and Laguerre Paven. One is a diagnosed
schizophrenic. They are known as the Newburgh Four....
Posted Feb 24, 2011
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On the morning of Feb. 16 a protest was held in Baltimore outside the court
hearing of two brothers who brutally attacked a 15-year-old African American
student on Nov. 19, 2010, as he was walking from school to his
grandmother’s house....
Posted Feb 24, 2011
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The uprising of Wisconsin public workers, vigorously supported by youth and
students, has changed the map of class relations in the United States —
and even beyond its borders. Coming after the tumultuous mass upheavals in the
Arab world, it has further reminded all social classes of a fact that had
seemed buried in the mists of time: that workers have the power to change
society, and even run it, if they organize independently, fight militantly and
are confident of their strength...
Posted Feb 24, 2011
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The people’s liberation of the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., is in full
swing....
Posted Feb 23, 2011
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Workers World Party salutes the workers of Wisconsin who
through their sacrifice and fortitude are showing the way for workers
everywhere!...
Posted Feb 23, 2011
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Some of the Egyptians who participated in the uprising there have been
supportive of the workers’ struggle in Madison, Wis., as can be seen in
the photo here. Other have donated funds to buy pizzas in Madison and have them
sent to the workers and students at the state Capitol....
Posted Feb 23, 2011
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The Green Bay Packers,
the only publicly owned team in the National Football Association and winners
of Super Bowl XLV, are based in the working-class city of Green Bay, Wis. Past
and present Packer members — Curtis Fuller, Chris Jackie, Charles Jordan,
Bob Long, Steve Okoniewski, Brady Poppinga and Jason Spitz — issued a solidarity statement on Feb. 15, the second day of the Wisconsin
Capitol takeover....
Posted Feb 23, 2011
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A statement from the Fight Imperialism, Stand
Together youth organization....
Posted Feb 23, 2011
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Inside the state Capitol building in Madison, Wis., the halls normally filled with politicians and corporate lobbyists are now occupied by thousands of people. Banners and posters with messages of solidarity and slogans denouncing Gov. Scott Walker's attack on the public sector hang from every wall. ...
Posted Feb 21, 2011
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The people’s liberation of the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., is in full swing....
Posted Feb 21, 2011
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On Jan. 28, Mumia Abu-Jamal retained the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational
Fund, Inc. to represent him in the ongoing appeal of his capital murder
conviction and death sentence....
Posted Feb 21, 2011
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In a “kids-for-cash” scandal that’s being called the most
serious cases of judicial wrongdoing in recent decades, two judges in
Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County allegedly accepted nearly $2.9 million for
locking up juvenile defenders in privately run detention facilities....
Posted Feb 21, 2011
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In Michigan there is currently a struggle over whether or not to pass
“anti-bullying” legislation. To define its opponents as
“bigoted extremists” would be an understatement. Who could possibly
stand in the way of protecting a child from assault, harassment and
intimidation...
Posted Feb 21, 2011
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Dave Axelrod devoted his entire life to the fight for socialism....
Posted Feb 21, 2011
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Review of “Fire on the Mountain,” by Terry Bisson....
Posted Feb 21, 2011
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The announcement by the U.S. government that unemployment dropped from 9.4
percent to 9 percent in January is pure statistical manipulation meant to
deceive workers into thinking that things are getting better....
Posted Feb 19, 2011
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Feb. 6 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ronald Reagan and gave the
media and right wing the opportunity to subject the population to yet another
celebration of the racist, anti-labor, anti-woman, anti-lesbian-gay-bi-trans
and militarist legacy of the man....
Posted Feb 19, 2011
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In 1901 the Socialist Party of America, after much ideological and political
struggle, emerged as a coalition of various factions within the socialist
movement. It had conservative, moderate and revolutionary tendencies within its
ranks. Eugene V. Debs, an organizer of workers in the railroad industry,
emerged as a charismatic figure, the party’s political candidate and a
public spokesperson for the socialist movement....
Posted Feb 19, 2011
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When Ezell Blair Jr., Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeill and David Richmond began
their sit-in in Greensboro, N.C., on Feb. 1, 1960, just 3.3 percent of textile
workers were Black. By 1978 African Americans held a quarter of the jobs in the
mills....
Posted Feb 19, 2011
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Calif. nurses take action and win victories | Ohio workers defend collective bargaining | S.F. Labor opposes Korean trade agreement...
Posted Feb 19, 2011
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The International Action Center outreach table at the African-American
History Month celebration at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, Calif., on
Feb. 12 provoked much interest and discussion among student, faculty and
community attendees....
Posted Feb 19, 2011
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Since Feb. 14, tens of thousands of students, workers and other
community members have liberated the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison in response
to Gov. Scott Walker’s “budget repair” bill, which would
eliminate collective bargaining rights for 175,000 public sector union workers
statewide....
Posted Feb 17, 2011
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The Committee to Stop FBI Repression (www.stopfbi.net) has called regional
conferences the weekends of Feb. 12 and 19....
Posted Feb 17, 2011
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Workers World newspaper contributing editor Bryan G. Pfeifer
interviewed Tom Burke of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and spokesperson for the Committee to Stop FBI Repression,
about the FBI-led attack on anti-war and solidarity activists starting Sept.
24, when Burke was subpoenaed....
Posted Feb 17, 2011
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On Feb. 11 the Moratorium NOW Coalition and the People Before Banks
Coalition demanded that the federal government stop using tax dollars to reward
banks for evicting workers....
Posted Feb 17, 2011
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Managers and directors of Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, N.Y., are
getting the idea that the Woodlawn workers are not alone....
Posted Feb 17, 2011
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On behalf of the banks, the corporations and the Pentagon, Wisconsin Gov. Scott
Walker has declared all-out war on unions and their allies....
Posted Feb 16, 2011
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Political activists and community organizers, many of them facing home
foreclosures themselves, took an active role in a series of meetings and
rallies in the San Francisco Bay area the first week of February. In Bayview,
San Francisco’s largest African-American community and in the mostly
Latino/a working-class suburb of Antioch, they began building a fightback
movement to demand an end to all foreclosures and evictions....
Posted Feb 13, 2011
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An Ohio jury returned verdicts in the trial of Rebecca Whitby, daughter, and
Rebecca Whitby, mother, on Feb. 7, acquitting them on most of the charges. ...
Posted Feb 13, 2011
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Given the inflamed political climate in Arizona and the spread of right-wing
politics nationally, the ruling class had a major task trying to keep public
opinion from drawing a natural connection between the attempted assassination
of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, with its accompanying massacre, and Sarah Palin,
Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and the rising generation of ultrarightists....
Posted Feb 13, 2011
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“Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in
SNCC.” This long-awaited book examines the history of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee, the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements from the
perspective of the women who played such a pivotal and vital role in shaping
African-American and U.S. history during the 1960s....
Posted Feb 11, 2011
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The Egyptian people have stepped back on the stage of history. In one of the most epic of moments, virtually the entire population of Egypt,
except those closely tied to the corrupt Mubarak regime, have risen up in a
national democratic revolution to demand the ouster of Hosni Mubarak and his
clique...
Posted Feb 10, 2011
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State mental health workers from across North Carolina spoke out before a
“listening panel” on Feb. 5. They discussed the impact of
inadequate working conditions and the policies and budget decisions that affect
delivery of quality care for people with psychiatric and developmental
disabilities....
Posted Feb 10, 2011
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Frantz Fanon, a
revolutionary thinker and practitioner who has had a tremendous impact
politically on the African liberation struggle both on the continent and in the
diaspora. The recent outbreaks of strikes, mass protests and rebellions in
Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt require a reassessment of the significance of the
events that Fanon participated in during his lifetime as well as the views
expressed through a series of articles and books published in the 1950s and
early 1960s....
Posted Feb 10, 2011
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Lower Manhattan came alive Feb. 6 with protesters at
two Trader Joe’s stores. “Trader Joe’s, shame on you,
farmworkers deserve rights too!’...
Posted Feb 10, 2011
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With the popular uprising that is rocking cities across Egypt now heading into
its third week, solidarity rallies are building across the U.S. in response.
Many of these protests are calling on the U.S. government to end its funding
for the repressive regime of Hosni Mubarak....
Posted Feb 9, 2011
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This attack on the right of oppressed people to learn their own history is a
continuation of the racist, right-wing offensive unleashed in Arizona, which is
accelerating as the capitalist economic crisis deepens. Banning ethnic studies
and passing the infamous anti-immigrant law SB 1070 are attempts to whip up a
racist frenzy against Indigenous and Latino/a peoples and blame them for the
misery and suffering imposed by the capitalist system itself....
Posted Feb 6, 2011
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D.C. workers crash bankers’ mtg | Victory for tomato pickers | Mobilize to defend D.C. jobs | Amendments attacking workers’ rights nixed...
Posted Feb 6, 2011
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When the FBI delivered subpoenas for nine Palestine solidarity activists in
Chicago to appear before a grand jury on Jan. 25, the response was loud and
clear: Protests, press conferences and forums were held in more than 45 cities
in the U.S. and around the world on that date to stand in solidarity and say no
to FBI repression....
Posted Feb 5, 2011
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The New York City branch of Workers World Party held a special forum Jan.
28 in solidarity with the Woodlawn cemetery workers, the Band of Brothers,
based in the Bronx...
Posted Feb 5, 2011
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At noon on Jan. 24, Baltimore activists representing different community
organizations came out in freezing weather to protest outside the Clarence M.
Mitchell Jr. Courthouse against an action taken by State’s Attorney Greg
Bernstein....
Posted Feb 5, 2011
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The level of passionate determination expressed by the speakers at two meetings
in Cleveland on Jan. 29, and the enthusiasm of the crowds in attendance show
that the movement is growing to fight back against injustice....
Posted Feb 5, 2011
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Supporters filled five courtrooms at Chuck Turner’s sentencing hearing on
Jan. 25....
Posted Feb 5, 2011
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The foreclosure epidemic is escalating across the U.S. with no end in sight. At
the same time, with virtually every foreclosure, the government continues to
bail out the banks through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Yet the banks want even
more....
Posted Feb 3, 2011
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Young people from across the state confronted the North Carolina General
Assembly when they convened their opening session on Jan. 26. The youth
demanded, “Education is a right, not a privilege!”...
Posted Feb 3, 2011
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On Jan. 25 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that
“True Grit” had been nominated for 10 Oscar awards including best
picture for 2010. The main characters in this movie are members of the
notorious Quantrill Raiders and Texas Rangers....
Posted Feb 3, 2011
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As of Jan. 24, the Lebanese Parliament is holding discussions to form a new
government. A year-old “unity government” containing all political
factions fell on Jan. 12, when Hezbollah pulled its people out of cabinet
posts....
Posted Jan 30, 2011
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The Arizona massacre and attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords by
Jared Loughner has raised questions on the role of the ultra-right, Sarah
Palin, the Tea Party and fascism in U.S politics....
Posted Jan 30, 2011
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New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg have opened war on the millions in order to benefit the few. In response, elected
union and rank-and-file leaders, community members, students, youths and
immigrants will unite at a roundtable people’s war council to make plans
to build a militant movement to defend the working class against this
attack....
Posted Jan 30, 2011
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Hundreds of anti-drilling activists braved icy weather to demonstrate in
Harrisburg at the Jan. 18 inauguration of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett....
Posted Jan 30, 2011
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Tom Corbett, Pennsylvania’s new governor, wasted no time in carrying out
his pro-corporate, anti-working-class campaign promises to cut state services....
Posted Jan 30, 2011
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Dracula shouldn’t be put in charge of the blood bank. Yet President
Barack Obama named General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to chair a new Council
on Jobs and Competitiveness....
Posted Jan 30, 2011
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Activists gathered at the state capitol in Lansing on Jan. 19 to protest
newly elected Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s State of the State address....
Posted Jan 30, 2011
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The courtroom was packed with supporters when anti-war activists Ahlam Mohsen
and Max Kantar were arraigned on Jan. 24 in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge
Joseph G. Scoville....
Posted Jan 29, 2011
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A group of people, ranging in age from 15 to 60, banded together on Dec.
18 to stage a die-in for lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer liberation at the
Westfarms Mall in Farmington, Conn....
Posted Jan 29, 2011
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Report on Poor
People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign protesting residential
foreclosures in Philadelphia on Jan. 17....
Posted Jan 29, 2011
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Statement from Brother Bomani Shakur (aka
Keith LaMar), one of three prisoners who went on hunger strike at Ohio State
Penitentiary to protest the conditions of their confinement....
Posted Jan 29, 2011
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From a talk given by Larry Holmes: It is quite easy to reference King at the beginning of 2011 in the wake of
everything we are going through. Quite profoundly, in a way, you can analyze
King’s struggle since the 1963 march and the famous “I have a
dream” speech. When he died, he was in Memphis fighting for public
workers — predominantly Black men — fighting for union rights...
Posted Jan 27, 2011
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Detroit held its 8th Annual MLK Day Rally & March on Jan. 17 under the theme of renewing the fight for “Jobs, Peace and Justice.” The keynote speaker was Willie
“Mukasa” Ricks, a former field secretary for the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee. Ricks was a civil rights worker in Alabama and
Tennessee during the 1960s....
Posted Jan 27, 2011
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The annual Rhode Island Martin Luther King All Peoples’ Assembly was held
on Jan. 22. Grassroots organizers and activists, including African Americans, Latinos/as, Asians and Native Americans from Rhode Island and other areas of New England, joined this energetic gathering....
Posted Jan 27, 2011
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Veterans of the Vietnam War, the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and Gulf War I
unite in struggle by attending a march and rally on Jan. 15 in Newark, N.J.,
organized by the People’s Organization for Progress to celebrate the
birthday and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr...
Posted Jan 27, 2011
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The Pima County Tea Party Patriots are holding a rally Jan. 28 in Tucson,
Ariz., to launch a campaign to oust County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik. The Tea
Party and right-wingers all over the country have opened a campaign of
vilification against Dupnik because he pointed the finger at the ultraright in
his press conference on the day of the attempted assassination of Rep.
Gabrielle Giffords, an attack that claimed six lives....
Posted Jan 26, 2011
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In the wake of the events in Tucson, one of the running themes in the media all
week was: “This is not the time to point fingers; this is the time to
remember the fallen.” We say no. This is exactly the time to point
fingers while remembering the victims....
Posted Jan 23, 2011
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A week after the assassination attempt on Congressperson Gabrielle Giffords,
the political climate in Arizona remains unchanged...
Posted Jan 23, 2011
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Sarah Palin commented on the Arizona massacre on Jan. 12: “Especially within
hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a
blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence that they
purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.” How dare Sarah Palin compare
her situation to that of the Jewish victims of anti-Semitism, which included 6
million murdered by the Nazis, one-third of all world Jewry, during World War
II....
Posted Jan 23, 2011
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All our lives we’ve been told to work hard, study hard, get an education
and go to college. If we just do this, the mythology goes, we can “get
ahead” and maybe even “get rich.”...
Posted Jan 23, 2011
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My teacher assigned my class to write an essay on whether we are for
capitalism or socialism. I chose socialism....
Posted Jan 23, 2011
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Efforts for major anti-war protests on both U.S. coasts on April 9 are picking
up steam....
Posted Jan 23, 2011
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Cars piled into the parking lot of the church next to the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown. The parked cars left just enough room for a contingent of friends and family members of the hunger strikers to defy the frostbite weather and gather with colorful banners and signs....
Posted Jan 22, 2011
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Statement was read at the Jan. 15 demonstration outside the Ohio State Penitentiary in solidarity with the Lucasville prison uprising leaders’ hunger strike for justice....
Posted Jan 22, 2011
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The 15th Annual Dinner Tribute to the Families of our Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War was held at the Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center in New York City on Jan. 15. ...
Posted Jan 22, 2011
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A broad group of New York City area organizations have called for a demonstration at the downtown Manhattan FBI offices on Jan. 25 to protest FBI repression of anti-war and international solidarity activists. This protest is one of dozens planned for cities around the U.S. and worldwide....
Posted Jan 22, 2011
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Cincinnati’s King Day challenges guv’s
attacks | Md. public sector unions strategize | Public sector workers earn less, not more | Law profs support S.F. hotel workers | Musicians target Ford at auto show | S.F. Labor Council defends WikiLeaks...
Posted Jan 22, 2011
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The 350,000 permanent inhabitants of Woodlawn Cemetery in the northwest Bronx
were not disturbed by the militant crowd that rallied at the main gate during
the observance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. But Woodlawn
management was definitely disturbed, as they cowered behind the gate, protected
by New York City police. The Jan. 17 rally was organized by Teamsters Local
808, representing the Woodlawn workers led by the Band of Brothers, who have
conducted a three-year campaign against plantation-style racist abuse on the
job....
Posted Jan 20, 2011
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In a fitting commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, a
People’s Tribunal Against Police Brutality and Misconduct was held at the
Songhai City Cultural Center in north Philadelphia on Jan. 15. Called by the
Askia Coalition Against Police Brutality, the tribunal gave voice to community
residents who have been victims of police brutality and misconduct and
documented cases of police brutality...
Posted Jan 20, 2011
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On Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2011, over 250 people marched through downtown Chapel Hill, N.C., demanding “Rehire the Sanitation Two.” The Sanitation Two, Clyde Clark and Kerry Bigelow, are two leaders of the Chapel Hill Chapter of United Electrical Workers Local 150, North Carolina’s Public Service Workers Union...
Posted Jan 20, 2011
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Dr. King marched, got beaten, went to jail and was assassinated fighting for
justice, worker rights and human rights....
Posted Jan 20, 2011
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On Jan. 6, a presidential commission released excerpts of a report on the BP
oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This was good news for BP and one of its
subcontractors, Transocean: The prices for their shares rose as investors bet
that the report meant that the firms would avoid the massive costs of a gross
negligence charge. It was bad news for working and poor people who are employed and/or live in the
Gulf region, and for all who are concerned about the environment....
Posted Jan 17, 2011
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Natural gas industry giant Cabot Oil & Gas Co. is at it again....
Posted Jan 17, 2011
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More than 150 community residents packed a town hall meeting at
People’s Community Services in Hamtramck, Mich., on Jan. 6 to tell the
mayor, the city manager and the city council that bankruptcy is not an option
for the city....
Posted Jan 17, 2011
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On Jan. 3, hundreds of people met at the site of the Talgo manufacturing plant
in Milwaukee, Wis., and traveled by bus to Madison, Wis., to protest Scott
Walker’s inauguration as governor at the State Capitol....
Posted Jan 17, 2011
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From the Nov. 13 talk to the Workers World Party National
Conference by John Catalinotto, a managing editor of Workers World
newspaper....
Posted Jan 17, 2011
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights, social justice and peace activist
who was martyred on April 4, 1968, was born 82 years ago on Jan. 15. Since 1986
Dr. King’s birthday has been commemorated by a federal holiday on the
third Monday of January. This year the holiday falls on Jan. 17....
Posted Jan 15, 2011
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On Jan. 7 New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg handed the Municipal Labor Committee,
which includes all public sector workers and is headed by sanitation
workers’ union President Harry Nespoli, a 23-point document that
advocates gutting many protections for municipal workers now included in union
collective bargaining agreements and New York State civil service law....
Posted Jan 15, 2011
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For the third consecutive year, rank-and-file autoworkers picketed the North
American International Auto Show in Detroit Jan. 9. Workers maintained a
spirited picket line in sub-freezing temperatures, chanting “A job is a
right, we’re gonna fight, fight, fight” and “Say it loud and
clear, no two-tier.”...
Posted Jan 15, 2011
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From a talk by Caleb T. Maupin
on Nov. 13 at the national Workers World Party conference in New York City....
Posted Jan 15, 2011
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Jan. 22 marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court
decision legalizing abortion....
Posted Jan 15, 2011
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The reason readers haven’t seen my byline in Workers World newspaper
for several years is that I am ill and disabled from late-stage, long-untreated
tick-borne infectious diseases....
Posted Jan 15, 2011
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“So much energy coming is from all over. I’m just trying to hang on
and ride the wave,” wrote political prisoner Bomani Shakur Jan. 6, the
third day of his hunger strike at Ohio State Penitentiary....
Posted Jan 13, 2011
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On Jan. 8 in Columbus, Ohio, people came out to protest the
inauguration of the incoming right-wing governor, John Kasich....
Posted Jan 13, 2011
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Civil rights and community activists met in San Diego in December to watch
“Justice on Trial,” a film about the tragic story of the injustices
committed against death-row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal....
Posted Jan 13, 2011
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The Jan. 8 shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson was a planned
political assassination attempt....
Posted Jan 12, 2011
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Whether Loughner acted alone in the Tucson, Ariz. massacre or with accomplices, this was a political act.
It was not another Columbine. Its target was a politician who had already been
verbally attacked and threatened by the far right. It must be seen in the
context of the poisonous anti-worker, anti-immigrant, sexist, racist,
anti-Muslim, anti-gay and anti-Obama offensive of the Republican right, working
through the Tea Party, that has allowed a neo-fascist movement, even further to
the right, to ride on its coattails....
Posted Jan 12, 2011
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On the other side of the border from Tucson, Ariz., lies Mexico, the
Latin American country to which that territory used to belong when, in an
unjust war, more than one half of its area was seized from it....
Posted Jan 12, 2011
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While the media are focused on the Jan. 8 right-wing massacre in Tucson,
Ariz., the trial of Luis Posada Carriles opened only hours away in El Paso,
Texas, on Jan. 10. Although Posada has admitted involvement in the first midair
bombing of a passenger flight, in hotel bombings and in other terrorist attacks
on Cuba, he is charged with merely lying to federal officials in an immigration
case....
Posted Jan 12, 2011
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Protesters gathered in front of Bill Clinton’s office on
125th Street in Harlem, N.Y., on Jan. 8....
Posted Jan 12, 2011
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Muslims, Protestants, Jewish people, Catholics and political
activists gathered Jan. 8 to denounce the rising bigotry against Muslims, the
U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and especially the hearings that Long Island, N.Y.,
Rep. Peter King has called that target Islamic communities....
Posted Jan 12, 2011
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As the 20th year passes since the West waged war against the late Saddam
Hussein, and the state of war slips into greater violence in Iraq and
Afghanistan, there is another war being waged today, one which gets little
coverage on TV, radio and/or newspapers....
Posted Jan 9, 2011
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The New York State Common Retirement Fund is the third-largest pension fund in
the United States....
Posted Jan 8, 2011
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Capitalism has a golden rule: The class with the gold makes the rules....
Posted Jan 8, 2011
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New York and the rest of the
Northeast took the brunt of a blizzard starting Dec. 26, with snowfall totals measuring from
20 to 32 inches. The follow-up to this storm has raised the stakes as Wall
Street and the banks are on the attack against unionized public service workers
and insist on eliminating jobs....
Posted Jan 8, 2011
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In February 1968, some 7,000 sanitation workers gathered in New York’s
City Hall Park and voted to go on strike to get a decent contract. Two days after New York’s 1968 strike ended, the sanitation workers of
Memphis, Tenn., also went on strike....
Posted Jan 8, 2011
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The Bail Out the People Movement took to the streets on Dec. 30 in the
wake of the storm crisis that paralyzed New York City....
Posted Jan 8, 2011
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Readers and supporters of Workers World newspaper, Workers World Party and the
revolutionary youth organization Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST) held
a 12-week educational class series this fall called “200 Years of
Revolution.”...
Posted Jan 8, 2011
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D.C. area unions organize to counter attacks on public sector
workers | Companies must post notices of workers’ right to unionize | EEOC sues to stop racial discrimination...
Posted Jan 8, 2011
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Indictments were handed down against Ahlam Mohsen and Max Kantar by a federal
grand jury in western Michigan on Dec. 30. Each was charged with felony counts
of forcible assault on a federal officer and assault on a member of Congress.
The charges carry a penalty of eight years in prison...
Posted Jan 6, 2011
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More than 100 family members, religious leaders and community supporters held a
prayer vigil and speak-out Jan. 1 in front of the Fruitvale Bay Area Rapid
Transit station to commemorate the second anniversary of the 2009 killing of
Oscar Grant, a young Black man....
Posted Jan 6, 2011
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Individuals representing Raleigh Fight Imperialism, Stand Together;
Workers World Party, Durham branch; Chapel Hill Prison Books Collective; NC
Heroes Emerge Among Teens; Black Workers for Justice; and Bull City Insurgent
gathered at Central Prison in Raleigh on Dec. 17 for a solidarity action with
prisoners participating in a six-day prison strike in Georgia....
Posted Jan 6, 2011
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Community groups are responding to a racist attack by members of a Zionist
vigilante group called Shomrim against a 15-year-old African-American student
in northwest Baltimore....
Posted Jan 6, 2011
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A standing-room-only crowd heard Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general and
founder of the International Action Center, give a keynote speech at the sixth
annual Rosa Parks Day observance held at Springfield Technical Community
College in Springfield, Mass....
Posted Jan 6, 2011
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Gov. Haley Barbour calls the impending release of the Scott
Sisters an “early” release. A release from 16 years of wrongful
incarceration is most certainly not an “early” release....
Posted Jan 5, 2011
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The Scott Sisters, who are African American, have spent 16 years of their lives
at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility for the “crime” of
taking $11 from a convenience store in December 1993. At the time of their
arrest, Jamie was 22 years old and Gladys was 19 years old and pregnant. Two
African-American youth, who admitted taking the money, stated at the Scott
Sisters’ trial that they falsely implicated the sisters in order to
receive a reduced sentence....
Posted Jan 5, 2011
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Resistance is growing to stop the most recent attack by Wayne State University
against renowned Arab-American journalist Helen Thomas. Demonstrations,
petition drives, support statements and more continue to demand that the
university restore the Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in the Media Award....
Posted Jan 5, 2011
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Four death-sentenced prisoners, wrongfully convicted of crimes following the
1993 prison rebellion in the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville,
Ohio, started a “rolling” hunger strike Jan. 3. The strike is to
protest the highly restrictive solitary confinement where they have been placed
in the supermax Ohio State Penitentiary, located in Youngstown, since 1998....
Posted Jan 3, 2011
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Wrongfully convicted following a prison uprising in Lucasville, Ohio, in
1993, Brother Bomani is currently at Ohio State Penitentiary, a supermax
prison, where he and other prisoners began a hunger strike on Jan. 3, 2011....
Posted Jan 3, 2011
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