Year: 2019

Agriculturaurbana
Events

Food Sovereignty Delegation to Caracas August-19 to 28 -2019

June 3, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
https://revolucionalimentaria.org/2019/05/23/food-sovereignty-delegation-to-caracas-august-19-to-28-2019/ What’s going on right now in Venezuela? Come see for yourself how Venezuelans are coping with US economic sanctions designed to cause a social implosion. According to the Independent of England, in Venezuela people […]
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LGBTQ+

Stonewall still means fight back!

June 2, 2019 Bob McCubbin
On May 24, the Washington Blade reported on the Trump administration’s latest assault on transgender rights. On the day before a long holiday weekend, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule that […]
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La Lucha por el Socialismo

¡Stonewall todavía significa lucha!

June 2, 2019 Bob McCubbin
El 24 de Mayo, el Washington Blade reportó en el internet acerca del último asalto de la administración de Trump contra los derechos trans. Un día antes del largo fin de semana festivo, el Departamento […]
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Indigenous peoples

Celebrating Two-Spirit Pride — for thousands of years!

June 1, 2019 M. Tiahui
Perhaps you have heard the term “Two Spirit” used along with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other terms. If you are not Indigenous, this may have made you think that “Two Spirit” refers to Indigenous […]
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LGBTQ+

Honor Marielle Franco and Chelsea Manning

June 1, 2019 James Costello
This June marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion against police brutality and anti-LGBTQ2S oppression that was led by working-class, Black and Brown, trans and queer peoples. The legacy of Stonewall is a fighting […]
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LGBTQ+

Free Chelsea Manning!

May 30, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Just seven days after her release, heroic transgender activist and military whistleblower Chelsea Manning was jailed again on May 15 in Virginia for refusing to testify before a second grand jury in the WikiLeaks case. […]
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Imperialism and global politics

Demand freedom for Jesús Santrich

May 30, 2019 Scott Scheffer
“My battle is a ‘homeland or death’ battle, of gratitude to life; a battle in order to uphold dignity. Only cowards surrender and betray. When the difficulties get worse, the real revolutionaries fight to the […]
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In the U.S.

NY tenants sit-in for housing rights

May 30, 2019 Anne Pruden
On May 14, several dozen tenants held a sit-in at the office of New York State Assembly member Tremaine Wright in Albany, N.Y.  As part of the statewide coalition called Housing Justice for All, they […]
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Around the world

After five years of war, Donbass anti-fascists ‘do not intend to retreat’

May 30, 2019 Greg Butterfield
After the 2014 U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine, longtime Russian communist activist Alexey Markov organized aid for grassroots militias conducting armed resistance in the Donbass mining region, which declared independence and formed the Donetsk and Lugansk […]
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Im/migrants and refugees

Who can stop the war on children at the border?

May 29, 2019 Greg Butterfield
Children, like the truth, are often the first casualties of war. And children are dying in the war being waged by Donald Trump and the boss class against migrants and asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico […]