Month: March 2020

In the U.S.

Baltimore Housing Authority blocks elderly and disabled from receiving food

March 31, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Peoples Power Assembly For Immediate release 3/30/20 Contact Persons:  Reverend Annie Chambers at 443-768-7682 or text or call her team at 410-996-4848 Today, Monday, March 30, at 12 p.m., the Housing Authority of Baltimore City […]
Amazon

Baltimore Amazon workers organize in defense of workers’ lives

March 31, 2020 Sharon Black, former Amazon worker
UPDATE March 31: Worker at Baltimore warehouse tests positive for virus. At the time of this writing, workers from eight different Amazon warehouses have tested positive for Covid-19. This includes two separate sites in New […]
Covid-19

Watch national webinar: Defending people during coronavirus crisis

March 31, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Did you miss the March 28 webinar, “Defending People During Coronavirus Crisis”? Now you can watch the entire event. Hear from groups organizing on the front lines from Los Angeles to New Orleans, Chicago to […]
Cuba

‘Ending blockade of Cuba would strengthen world science and health’

March 31, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Graduates from Cuba’s University of Medical Sciences.The following letter was sent to H. Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of Science magazine, by marine biologist and Cuba solidarity activist Mark Friedman. Hello editor Thorp, I write to you […]
Covid-19

In solidarity with Sri Lankan migrant workers fleeing Italy

March 31, 2020 Rasika Ruwanpathirana
In the wake of Covid-19, countries around the world are moving to close their borders and locking their citizens in their homes in an attempt to stop or slow down the infection. For the past […]
Capitalism and Marxism

The $2 trillion stimulus: Slush fund for Wall Street, trinkets for unemployed

March 30, 2020 Gary Wilson
March 27 — The $2 trillion stimulus plan passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump on March 27 is a massive giveaway to Big Business and the Wall Street banks with a small, […]
Indigenous peoples

Trump regime threatens Mashpee Wampanoag land

March 29, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, also known as the People of the First Light, has inhabited present-day Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island for more than 12,000 years. After an arduous process lasting more than three decades, […]
Covid-19

Profits more precious than life

March 29, 2020 Stephen Millies
We hold this truth to be self-evident: that Donald Trump doesn’t give a damn about the millions of workers who’ve lost their jobs because of the coronavirus shutdown. So why does Trump want to wind […]
Im/migrants and refugees

ICE uses pandemic to terrorize migrants

March 29, 2020 Daniel G. Cardwell
As the profit system spins into crisis, workers across the country are forced to remain at home due to layoffs and measures to slow the spread of Covid-19. But it’s business as usual for Immigration […]
In the U.S.

Malaya Movement Baltimore: Repurpose U.S. military funds to coronavirus response

March 28, 2020 Malaya Movement Baltimore
Although the United States federal response to the coronavirus pandemic seems inadequate and purposefully misleading, it pales in comparison to the response of the Philippines government. Instead of immediate measures to provide adequate care, Philippine […]