Month: July 2020

Events

Days of Resistance for Palestine August 7-9

July 11, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
CALL TO ACTION: Days of Resistance for Palestine, August 7-9, 2020 We invite all Palestinian community organizations, Palestine solidarity groups and movements and campaigns for social justice to endorse this call to action! Samidoun Network […]
Events

July 16: Strengthening U.S.-Venezuela Social Movement Solidarity

July 11, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT Online Event This meeting is being organized by the Embassy Protection Collective in the United States and the Committee for International Solidarity in Venezuela […]
Events

New York July 26: U.S. Hands off Cuba!

July 11, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT Union Square, New York, Manhattan New York, New York Celebrate the beginning of the Cuban Revolution! Rally/Picket! This is an anniversary celebration of the […]
Events

Aug. 27 Jacksonville, Florida, March on the RNC: We Can’t Breathe!

July 11, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT Duval County Courthouse 501 W. Adams St, Jacksonville, Florida 32202 Members of the Coalition to March on the RNC have applied for permits from […]
Fight racism

Juneteenth Webinar: ILWU workers, reparations, capitalism and fighting police terror

July 11, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Speakers on this webinar, held on June 21, included: Clarence Thomas speaking on the June 19 West Coast longshore worker port shutdown for Juneteenth. He is a retired, third-generation longshore worker, past secretary-treasurer of International […]
LGBTQ+

Stonewall Webinar: Rebellion against anti-LGBTQ2S bigotry, police terror and racism

July 11, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Speakers on this webinar, held on June 28, included: Andre Powell, a leader in the LGBTQ2S movement. He was a founder of Labor for Reparations and traveled to the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, […]
Around the world

Free the Basque Country! Spain refuses to act on death squad ties

July 10, 2020 Iña Martinez
In mid-June, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency disclosed documents revealing that former prime minister of Spain, Felipe González, was the head of a terrorist paramilitary group.  According to the CIA, González, prime minister of Spain […]
Fight racism

Tell Atlanta officials: Hands off the Rayshard Brooks memorial!

July 10, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Return Wendy’s to community control Sign the petition  On June 12, 2020, Rayshard Brooks was murdered by officers of the Atlanta Police Department at the Wendy’s drive-through on University Avenue. Many community members witnessed the […]
Cuba

Cleveland City Council says: End U.S. blockade of Cuba

July 10, 2020 Cheryl LaBash
On July 1, the City Council of Cleveland in the state of Ohio unanimously adopted a resolution calling for “an end to the U.S. economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba.” The body, which represents […]
Fight racism

July 4, 2020: A day of Black self-determination

July 9, 2020 Roger Wareham
The People’s Declaration of ‘Frederick Douglass Square’ On July 4th, the People’s Republic of Brooklyn rocked as the December 12th Movement led the community in a people’s street renaming. To loud cheers and applause from […]