Year: 2019

Samidoun
Events

New York Oct. 26: Protest to free Palestinian prisoners and #BoycottPuma

October 22, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT PUMA (609 Fifth Avenue, New York) 609 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10017 Bring signs, flags, and banners in support of Palestinian prisoners […]
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LGBTQ+

‘Respect our right to work’: LGBTQ2S rally at Supreme Court

October 16, 2019 Andre Powell
Washington, D.C. — On the morning of Oct. 8, several hundred LGBTQ2S people and allies defiantly rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court to demand protections against discrimination in the workplace. The three cases being heard […]
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Labor and strikes

‘You have to stand for something’: GM workers speak out

October 16, 2019 Emma Rose
Nearly 50,000 members of the United Auto Workers are in the fifth week on their nationwide strike against General Motors. Key issues for the union include ending the company’s use of tiered wage plans that […]
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Fight racism

Protest demands justice for Marlyn Barnes

October 16, 2019 Lev Koufax
On Oct. 5, a few dozen activists with the Prisoner Solidarity Committee gathered outside the Harford County Detention Center in Bel Air, Md., to protest the untimely death of father of five Marlyn Barnes and […]
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Chicago 1919

What did the unions do?

October 16, 2019 Stephen Millies
The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 3 Up to the 1920s, Chicago was the center of the labor movement in the United States. It was the heart and soul of the eight-hour-day […]
ZimbabweAntiSanctionsDay
Events

Zimbabwe Anti-Sanctions Day – NYC, Oct. 25

October 16, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Friendsofcuba
Events

Oct. 17 NYC: End Cuba Blockade Bill at City Hall

October 16, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
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In the U.S.

Solidarity with Ecuador

October 15, 2019 Stephen Millies
New York — Hundreds of people gathered in Corona Plaza in the Borough of Queens on Oct. 13 to demand that Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno, resign. Ecuadorian immigrants and their supporters hailed the mass uprising in […]
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LGBTQ+

Mumia Abu-Jamal: When trans women die

October 15, 2019 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Oct. 13 — In recent weeks, we have seen naked violence unleashed against Black trans women, directed against them by the state in the form of police beatings and by rightist forces in this emerging […]
Demonstrators Continue Protest As Ecuador Government Holds Talks To End Chaos After Fleeing
Around the world

Ecuador’s people have a won a victory but government repression continues

October 15, 2019 Peoples Dispatch
Following 12 days of massive protests, the government of Lenín Moreno repealed Decree 883 which formalized neoliberal reforms. At the same time, it launched a crackdown on political opponents. On October 13, the people of […]