Year: 2020

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Covid-19

Capitalism & racism + Covid-19 = murder

April 11, 2020 Stephen Millies
April 11 — The Covid-19 pandemic is devastating New York City. Eighty refrigerator trucks are serving as mobile morgues to store the bodies.As of April 10, 92,384 people have been infected. Inmates in the Rikers […]
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In the U.S.

Bernie supporters: Join the Coalition to March on the DNC

April 10, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Statement by Coalition to March on the Democratic National Convention April 10, 2020 On April 8, Senator Bernie Sanders suspended his 2020 Democratic primary campaign. The Sanders campaign has inspired millions of working class and […]
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Covid-19

Covid-19: Weapons of mass incompetence

April 10, 2020 Mumia Abu-Jamal
April 6 — As of this writing, 10,000 people [in the U.S.] have died from the impact of the coronavirus, also known as Covid-19. Ten thousand! And unless I miss my guess, it ain’t over […]
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Fight racism

Police brutality victim Renardo Lewis still waiting for justice

April 10, 2020 Lizz Toledo
One year after the police in Cobb County, Ga., assaulted and then arrested Renardo Lewis at an IHOP restaurant, the Lewis family is still waiting for justice. During this Covid-19 crisis, created by the capitalist […]
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In the U.S.

Rosemary Neidenberg: a century of revolutionary struggle

April 8, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Rosemary Neidenberg died in Brooklyn, N.Y., on March 29 at the age of 99. For almost a century, her commitment to the revolutionary liberation of humanity never faltered. She was also one of the kindest, […]
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In the U.S.

Sojourner Truth: ‘And ain’t I a woman?’

April 8, 2020 Rosemary Neidenberg
Members of the Socialist Unity Party who knew, struggled with and loved lifelong revolutionary Rosemary Neidenberg thought that reprinting this sensitive and politically powerful article written by her in 1971 would be a heartfelt way […]
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Covid-19

Maryland grocery worker who wanted to help seniors dies of Covid-19

April 8, 2020 Sharon Black
Twenty-seven-year-old Leilani Jordan told her mother, Zenobia Shepard, “Mommy, I’m going to work because no one else is going to help the senior citizens get their groceries.” Jordan worked at the Giant Food at the […]
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Political Prisoners

Maryland prisoners contact community group about denial of proper care amid pandemic

April 8, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Prisoners Solidarity Committee/Peoples Power Assembly FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 4, 2020 Contact Person:  Attorney Alec Summerfield Phone: 443-324-8644 Email: asummerfield@protonmail.com Maryland prisoners contact community group about denial of proper care amid pandemic  Baltimore — Multiple […]
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Covid-19

Car rally: Stop sentencing incarcerated people to death by Covid-19

April 8, 2020 New Orleans Workers Voice
April 6 — The New Orleans Workers Group called a car rally today in solidarity with all incarcerated people. While we practiced social distancing rules, our motorcade was over 70 cars long and drove several […]
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In the U.S.

In response to President Maduro’s letter to the people of the United States

April 7, 2020 Network in Defense of Humanity, U.S. Chapter
The Network in Defense of Humanity – U.S. Chapter expresses our heartfelt solidarity with the people of Venezuela and its only legitimate President Nicolas Maduro Moros in this hour of danger. The U.S. administration is […]