Year: 2020

Nopence
Events

Protest VP Pence’s Baltimore Visit Aug. 26 – Say No to Racism & more

August 25, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Parking lot across from AFSCME Council 3,190 W Ostend St, Baltimore, MD, 5 PM – 8 PM Vice President Pence is scheduled to speak at Ft McHenry on Wednesday. Let’s give him the welcome he […]
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Cuba

‘Fidel has a presence among young people who firmly believe that a better world is possible’

August 25, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
On Aug. 13, 2020, the Organizing Committee of the International Conference for the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations, the Saving Lives Campaign U.S.-Canada-Cuba Cooperation, and the New York-New Jersey Cuba Sí Coalition held a webinar paying […]
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Fight racism

Uprising underway in Kenosha, Wis., after the police shooting of Jacob Blake

August 24, 2020 FightBack! News
Kenosha, Wis. — Hundreds of people rallied at the scene of a shooting that took place around 5:30 p.m. on August 23. After breaking up a fight between two women, Jacob Blake, 29, attempted to […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

Fascism: how it develops and how to fight back

August 24, 2020 Sam Marcy
With the 2020 elections fast approaching, the workers’ and progressive movements in the U.S. are debating the best tactics to fight the Donald Trump regime and the growth of violent white-supremacist, neofascist groups. As a […]
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Fight racism

Hundreds march on the DNC in Milwaukee, ‘We can’t breathe!’

August 24, 2020 FightBack! News
Milwaukee — In the early evening of Aug. 20, around 500 people gathered in Dontre Hamilton (officially Red Arrow) Park in downtown Milwaukee to mark the final day of the Democratic National Convention. The turnout […]
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Indigenous peoples

Proof Trump is desecrating our ancestors

August 23, 2020 Zola Fish
Kumeyaay ancestral burial and sacred sites desecrated to make way for a wall along the Southern border On Aug. 19, a group of Kumeyaay Natives and local activists went out into the 105-degree heat to […]
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Covid-19

Brooklyn march: Stop unsafe school reopening plan!

August 23, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Brooklyn, N.Y. — A protest led by Black and Brown teachers and students drew hundreds of people to Grand Army Plaza on Aug. 20. Their call was to “oppose unsafe opening of New York public […]
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Capitalist crisis

“Billionaire landlords have to go!”

August 23, 2020 Stephen Millies
Aug. 20 ― Over five hundred people came to New York City’s public research library on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue this afternoon. They were determined to stop the wave of evictions that is coming. New York […]
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Around the world

Bolivia mass mobilizations against U.S.-backed coup continue

August 22, 2020 Julia \”Pachamama\” Fernández
A 12-day national Bolivian blockade led by massive social movements, students, elders, unions and farmworkers ended on Aug. 13. It had paralyzed the entire country, resulting in food/fuel shortages and in the complete instability of […]
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Cuba

What media moguls don’t want you to know: Youtube and Google attack Cuba and Venezuela

August 22, 2020 Cheryl LaBash
AUG. 21 UPDATE: YouTube restored Mesa Redonda’s account today affirming the account did not infringe on the Conditions of Service. No explanation was given. But as President Miguel Diaz-Canel tweeted, “Those who don’t want the […]