Month: January 2019
Los Angeles: U.S. Hands Off Venezuela – Sat., Feb. 2
U.S. Hands Off Venezuela/Latin America – Money for Jobs, Not War Saturday, February 2, 2019 at 2 PM – 4 PM PST McArthur Park – North Side Los Angeles, California 90057 Hosted by Harriet Tubman […]
New York: Hands Off Venezuela!
Activists and progressive organizations in New York City have mobilized to defend Venezuela against U.S. imperialism. On Jan. 24, more than a hundred people came to the Venezuelan Consulate in an action called by the […]
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Jan. 27 was Holocaust Remembrance Day. We remember the mass genocide of over 6 million Jews, and more than a million communists, Romani, LGBTQ2S and disabled people. We remember Ester Wajcblum, Ella Gärtner, Regina Safirsztain […]
Unexpected Brexit result: Irish reunification
British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, the outcome of a plan to withdraw from the European Union, suffered a historic defeat in Parliament on Jan. 15. A major obstacle to the Brexit plan is […]
What was won in Los Angeles teachers’ strike
For almost two years the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and Superintendent Austin Beutner, whose background is business and not education, had rejected proposals to invest in public schools. They rejected the teachers’ demands […]
Historic Indigenous Peoples March defends sovereignty
Washington, D.C. — On Jan. 18, the first ever Indigenous Peoples March gathered in Washington, D.C. The march started at the U.S. Department of the Interior and ended on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where a […]
#ReclaimMLK in Oakland empowers communities
Oakland, Calif. — On Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 21, Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) held its 5th Annual People’s March and Day of Action to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy. Starting at 8 a.m. and ending […]
In Los Angeles, Black and Brown celebrate MLK Parade, in spite of cops
Jan. 21 marks Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the U.S. — a holiday won after many years of struggle as a symbol of unity and celebration of the deceased African-American leader’s legacy. His […]
Los Angeles teachers’ strike vs. school privatization
United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), representing more than 30,000 teachers, counselors, librarians, nurses and other school staff, waged a militant six-day strike in mid-January. They won enormous grassroots support from students, parents, the labor movement […]