Year: 2019

Uspeacecouncilstatement
Around the world

All occupying foreign forces out of Syria! Defend Syria’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity

October 15, 2019 U.S. Peace Council
U.S. Peace Council statement on Turkish incursion into Syria The U.S. Peace Council strongly condemns the illegal incursion of the Turkish forces into Syria with the approval of the Trump Administration and in direct violation […]
Standwithokinawa
Events

Stand with Okinawa NY Action Oct. 22: Save the Sea, No New Base in Henoko

October 15, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Hosted by Stand With Okinawa Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM At the stairs of NY Public Library on 5th Ave. between 40 & 42 Sts, NYC From October 21 to […]
Indigenous Peoples Day
Events

Baltimore Oct. 17: Commemorate Indigenous People’s Day & Organizing Meeting

October 15, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Hosted by Peoples Power Assembly and ICE Out of Baltimore Thursday, October 17, Join us for a short film screening commemorating Indigenous People’s Day and for an organizing meeting to discuss our current campaigns and […]
ECUADOR ECONOMY IMF OIL PROTEST
In the U.S.

Why the victory of the Indigenous Movement in Ecuador is not total

October 15, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
There are celebrations in Ecuador. They began Sunday night when the national government and the Indigenous movement centrally grouped in the Coordinadora de Nacionalidades Indígenas de Ecuador (Conaie) announced that they had reached an agreement on […]
Thomas Sankara
Imperialism and global politics

Thomas Sankara, “Africa’s Che Guevara” Dec. 21, 1949 – Oct. 15, 1987

October 14, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
On Oct. 15, 1987, Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso’s West African revolutionary leader, was assassinated. Sankara, a Marxist and revolutionary, has been nicknamed “Africa’s Che Guevara.” It is interesting to note that at a time when […]
Radiorebelde
Cuba

CUBA: We hear you and see you

October 14, 2019 Cheryl LaBash
You have heard a lot about Cuba. Maybe your friends or neighbors traveled there after direct commercial flights from U.S. airports resumed in 2015. Or had their cruise to Cuba cancelled in June 2019. Or […]
QuitoCONAIE
Around the world

Success and joy as IMF agreement in Ecuador is revoked after days of resistance

October 14, 2019 Marco Teruggi
October 14 — Sunday night all of Ecuador turned into a celebration when authorities announced that Decree 883 that eliminated public oil subsidies would be revoked after eleven days of popular unrest. The information was […]
Indigenous Peoples Day
Indigenous peoples

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

October 14, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, is Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the U.S. In 1977, Indigenous leaders from around the world organized a United Nations conference in Geneva to promote Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. Their first recommendation […]
Ecuadorstrike
Around the world

Ecuador is a Time Bomb: How long will the crisis last?

October 14, 2019 Marco Teruggi
October 11 — The Lenin Moreno Administration informed they would not retract its economic adjustment measures. The indigenous movement said they will continue mobilizing. What will be the ending of this arm wrestle? In Quito, Sputnik […]
EusiKwayana
Imperialism and global politics

Hurricanes

October 13, 2019 Eusi Kwayana
This statement is a personal one intended to support opinions, especially in the Caribbean, that the costs of practical recovery from annual hurricanes should not fall, as they mainly do, on the victims of these […]