Year: 2020

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Events

Call in: Drop The Charges Against the 11/4 646

November 15, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Nov 18 at 7:00 AM – Nov 19 at 7:00 PM CST Online event Background info on the arrests: https://minnesotareformer.com/2020/11/05/state-leaders-face-backlash-over-arresting-hundreds-of-protesters-in-minneapolis/ Call: Governor Tim Walz: (651) 201-3400 Mayor Jacob Frey: (612) 673-2100 Sample script: “My name […]
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In the U.S.

A hero’s welcome: Inside Evo Morales’ triumphant return tour

November 15, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Oliver Vargas traveled with Evo Morales as he made his triumphant return to Bolivia following his exile after last November’s U.S.-backed coup. The return of Evo Morales to Bolivia on Monday, November 9, one day […]
Pittsburgh
Elections

Is the battle with Trump over? What’s next for the working class

November 14, 2020 Sharon Black
November is Native American Heritage Month. It should not be lost on anyone that 97 percent of the Navajo Nation in Nevada voted against Donald Trump. That fact should be recognized as we get closer […]
Wearethemajority
Elections

A revolutionary situation?

November 13, 2020 Gary Wilson
Nov. 12 — An upheaval is underway. The vote against Donald Trump, while expected by many, was more significant than any had predicted. Despite multifarious efforts to suppress the Black and Latinx vote, Joe Biden’s […]
Baltimore2110420
Elections

Protests demand: Trump must go! Fight for a people’s mandate!

November 12, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Even before the polls closed on Election Day, Nov. 3, anti-racist activists, and workers’ and community organizations across the U.S. were preparing to take the streets to push forward a people’s mandate, including an end […]
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Indigenous peoples

Indigenous student leader: ‘The racism we’ve faced has been intense’

November 12, 2020 Greg Butterfield
November is Native American Heritage Month. Struggle-La Lucha spoke with Kisha James, president of the Wellesley College Native American Student Association and an activist with the Massachusetts Indigenous Peoples Day campaign. Struggle-La Lucha: Kisha, can […]
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Palestine

PFLP: Biden’s victory carries no fundamental change for rights of the Palestinian people

November 12, 2020 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine considers Joe Biden’s victory in the U.S. presidential elections to carry no fundamental change regarding the rights of the Palestinian people and various Arab issues. It expects […]
Nigeriaendsarsprotest
Around the world

Nigerian youth fight back against police terror

November 10, 2020 Bayani
Several reports say it started on Oct. 3 with this tweet: an eyewitness report of a young man in Nigeria shot and left for dead by an officer of SARS, who then drove away with […]
Angolaindependence
In the U.S.

Why we should commemorate Nov. 11

November 10, 2020 Stephen Millies
Even though Veterans Day is a federal holiday, only 19 percent of workers employed by private business get the day off. Originally called Armistice Day, it marks the end of World War I “at the […]
Bolivia3a
In the U.S.

La Paz: A celebration of social movements, Indigenous, miners and MAS militants

November 9, 2020 Marco Teruggi
“We hope to be remembered as the government in which the Bolivian people rose up to recover democracy, dignity, peace, growth, and social justice,” said Luis Arce in his presidential speech, from the premises of […]