2020 – Page 70

New York Emergency Protest Feb. 28: Stop State Sanctioned Terror!

February 27, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha

Friday, February 28, 2020 at 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM EST India in New York 3 East 64th St (Between 5th and Madison Avenues) EMERGENCY PROTEST: STOP STATE SANCTIONED TERROR! Join Equality Labs, The Alliance […]

Bail is ransom for the poor

February 27, 2020 Stephen Millies

An average of 462,000 people were kept in U.S. jails every night last year because they couldn’t afford bail. Their crime was being poor. The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill […]

Cuba: En su aniversario 60, la Federación Mujeres busca mayor empoderamiento de la mujer

February 27, 2020 Claudia González Corrales

El aseguramiento de un grupo de medidas en favor de la mujer y su empoderamiento en la sociedad actual es la principal divisa de la Federación de Mujeres Cubanas (FMC) de cara al Día Internacional […]

Conference charts action to end blockade of Cuba

February 27, 2020 Cheryl LaBash

The newest endorsements for the International Conference for the Normalization of U.S.-Cuba Relations demonstrate once again that the people of the United States oppose the current president’s accelerating economic war against socialist Cuba. The event […]

National Network on Cuba responds to ‘60 Minutes’ interview

February 27, 2020 National Network on Cuba

The National Network on Cuba (NNOC) deplores and denounces all Cuba-bashing and “red-baiting” attacks on any individuals. We take particular offense to the tone and substance of the Feb. 23, 2020, “60 Minutes” interview conducted […]

#UnDiaSinNosotras: Women challenge femicide and rape in Mexico

February 26, 2020 La Carbajal

Think about the last 10 women you’ve seen. Can you remember their faces? Their eyes? What they were wearing? Could you? In Mexico, we do. We always remember their faces and the way they were […]

Palestinian Youth Movement stands with Wet’suwet’en

February 26, 2020 Palestinian Youth Movement

On Feb. 6, 2020, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) invaded Wet’suwet’en land, armed with snipers, and forcibly removed land defenders while they were mid-ceremony, in order to allow the Coastal GasLink pipeline to be […]

Emergency counter-protest at Cuban U.N. Mission Feb. 29

February 26, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha

Three hereditary chiefs arrested as Wet’suwet’en solidarity actions flare across Canada

February 26, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha

Brett Forester and Lee Wilson APTN News Gitxsan Chief Spookwx put on his hereditary chief’s regalia as he prepared to be arrested on Monday night. Around the campfire that burned on CN Rail tracks, he […]

Feed the people, not the Pentagon: Hunger march to D.C. planned on King anniversary

February 26, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha

On Feb. 20, the Peoples Power Assembly announced a campaign to roll back food-stamp cuts and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) rule changes taking effect in April. On April 4, on the anniversary of the […]