Month: July 2019

Venezuela

Bolivarian Venezuela thwarts new coup attempt

July 7, 2019 Scott Scheffer
At a press conference in Caracas on June 26, Venezuelan Minister of Communications and Culture Jorge Rodríguez announced that yet another attempted coup against the elected government of Venezuela has been defeated.  Not enough detail […]
Cuba

Puerto Ricans demand: End the blockade of Cuba!

July 7, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
The Philadelphia-Camden Boricua Committee, composed of Puerto Ricans residing in this area of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, wants to state our position about the criminal commercial, economic and financial blockade that the United States has […]
Cuba

Los puertorriqueños demandan: ¡Terminar con el bloqueo de Cuba!

July 7, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
El Comité Boricua Filadelfia-Camden, compuesto de boricuas residentes en esta área de Pensilvania y Nueva Jersey, quiere expresarse sobre el criminal bloqueo comercial, económico y financiero que Estados Unidos ha impuesto al pueblo de Cuba […]
LGBTQ+

Chelsea Manning: ‘No Pride for some of us without liberation for all of us’

July 3, 2019 Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning, a U.S. Army veteran and trans woman, spent seven years in military prison for sharing evidence of U.S. war crimes with WikiLeaks. Earlier this year, Manning was thrown back in jail for refusing […]
Political Prisoners

Eddie Africa: Free!

July 3, 2019 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Eddie Africa (front row right) at MOVE news conference after his release. SLL photos: Berta Joubert-Ceci June 23 — The news came through like a beam in the night: “Eddie Africa has been released today.” […]
Imperialism and global politics

Struggle-La Lucha statement: No to U.S. war on Iran!

July 3, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
End U.S. sanctions from Iran to Venezuela, Cuba, Zimbabwe and People’s Korea Stop the war on workers from Iran to the world’s im/migrants and refugees “I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we […]
LGBTQ+

In the spirit of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera: No to police occupation!

July 3, 2019 Greg Butterfield
New York — On June 28, I walked the short distance from my day job in lower Manhattan to Sheridan Square, a historic LGBTQ2S meeting place just south of the Stonewall Inn, where a police raid […]
Events

July 19: New York Welcomes MOVE Women Warriors

July 1, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Free at last: New York welcomes MOVE Women Warriors Janet Africa and Janine Africa Friday, July 19 7:00 to 9:00 pm People’s Forum 320 West 37th St., Manhattan