Year: 2020

ChelseaManning
Political Prisoners

Statement from Chelsea Manning’s legal team: Ms. Manning is recovering in hospital, scheduled to appear in court Friday

March 12, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Alexandria, Va. — On Wednesday, March 11, 2020, Chelsea Manning attempted to take her own life. She was taken to a hospital and is currently recovering. Ms. Manning is still scheduled to appear on Friday […]
Dontmourn
Capitalist crisis

Don’t starve, fight!

March 11, 2020 Stephen Millies
Ninety years ago, on March 6, 1930, over a million people demonstrated across the United States for unemployment relief. The Great Depression had broken out a few months before, punctuated by the stock market crash […]
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Around the world

Turkey: Police kidnap hunger strikers from leftist band Grup Yorum

March 11, 2020 Anti-Imperialist Front
Ibrahim Gökçek and Helin Bölek are members of the internationally known leftist music group Grup Yorum. They along with several of their comrades were imprisoned by the regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Turkey […]
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Palestine

Germany escalates attack on Khaled Barakat, Palestinian rights with four-year ban: Fight back against repression!

March 11, 2020 Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
The German state has once again escalated its harassment and repression directed against Palestinian speech and advocacy. In the latest order issued by the Berlin immigration office, received yesterday, 9 March, German officials escalated their […]
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Covid-19

STOCKS AND VIRUSES. Don’t let Wall Street panic get in the way of a much-needed coronavirus response

March 11, 2020 Cheryl LaBash and Gary Wilson
Holy cow! The Wall Street rollercoaster ride has taken a big plunge. By March 2, Wall Street stockholders had lost $4.6 trillion since the Feb. 19 market high. The percentage drop is changing too frequently […]
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Events

Hunger March from Baltimore to DC April 4: No Cuts to Food Stamps – Feed the People, Not the Pentagon

March 10, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
  Saturday, April 4, 2020 at 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT North Ave and N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 Hunger March April 4, on the Rev. Dr. King Jr. Anniversary Join the Food […]
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Covid-19

Baltimore Peoples Proposals for COVID-19

March 9, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
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Fight racism

Janine Africa and Janet Africa

March 8, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Janine Africa and Janet Africa are two of the surviving MOVE 9 activists who recently won release after decades in prison. They described the hell they went through in Pennsylvania prisons. They and the other […]
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Oppressed genders

Julia ‘Pachamama’ Fernández

March 8, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Julia “Pachamama” Fernández on the the U.S. coup against Bolivia’s first Indigenous president, Evo Morales of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS):  “I was just told by a woman in Bolivia that the Juana Azurduy program […]
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Oppressed genders

Khalida Jarrar

March 8, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Khalida Jarrar is a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, member of the Palestine Legislative Council and advocate for prisoners She has been jailed many times by the Israeli occupation, and […]