Month: March 2020

Covid-19

Immediate steps are required to avert mass casualties in prisons and jails

March 16, 2020 FightBack! News
March 14 statement from the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. The Illinois Department of Corrections has declared that all civilian visits to Illinois prison will be suspended indefinitely starting Saturday, March 14, due […]
In the U.S.

While millions here lack health care, U.S. bombs Iraq and invades Yemen

March 15, 2020 Bill Dores
The coronavirus stalks the land. Millions in the United States are without health insurance or paid sick leave. The White House has cut funds to the Centers for Disease Control. It’s also cutting food stamps. […]
Covid-19

Trump bails out oil industry as coronavirus crisis intensifies

March 14, 2020 Jon Queally
“Trump has once again put the interests of oil and gas executives ahead of the interests of people and communities.” Climate action groups and progressive critics expressed disappointment and outrage on Friday afternoon after President […]
Covid-19

Baltimore People’s Proposals for Covid-19

March 13, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Statement from the Baltimore People’s Power Assembly. As health care workers and advocates and as community, civil rights and union organizers we call on City and State officials to begin preparations to protect the people […]
Puerto Rico

Dinner honors revolutionary activist Tomás Soto

March 13, 2020 Bill Dores
One hundred and fifteen people packed a restaurant in the Dominican Republic city of Santiago on Feb. 29 to honor the life and work of Puerto Rican revolutionary activist Tomás Soto. Reservations had been made […]
Around the world

CIA secretly owned global encryption provider, stole secrets of 100+ foreign governments

March 13, 2020 Scott Scheffer
Disillusioned former CIA operative Philip Agee wrote a book exposing the CIA’s record of spying, sabotage and murder in 1975 called “Inside the Company.” But until recently, few realized there was an actual profit-making company, […]
Covid-19

Covid-19 in Baltimore: ‘This is a people’s issue’

March 13, 2020 Daniel G. Cardwell
Over a dozen community organizers and health care workers met to raise concerns over the city’s response to Covid-19. Members of the Peoples Power Assembly (PPA) and National Nurses United (NNU) called upon city officials, […]
Covid-19

A people’s response to Covid-19

March 13, 2020 Greg Butterfield
We place no confidence in the anti-science, climate-change deniers of the Trump administration, the pathetically inadequate for-profit U.S. health care system, or Big Pharma and Wall Street to address the Covid-19 (novel coronavirus) crisis. The […]
Covid-19

Cuba: Better than ‘not all bad’

March 12, 2020 Cheryl LaBash
March 10 was election day in Michigan. One of the major issues brought forward in the Sanders campaign among many important ones like eliminating cash bail and racist mass incarceration, is Medicare for All.  Sanders […]
Covid-19

Health not profits! Italian union calls 32-hour strike amidst pandemic

March 12, 2020 Unione Sindacale Di Base
Readers in the U.S. may be under the impression that everyone in Italy is shut up in their homes since the government declared a state of emergency over the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. But […]