Month: January 2022

Around the world

Aafia Siddiqui, political prisoner

January 19, 2022 Linda Ford
The media coverage of the hostage-taking at a synagogue in Texas has been predictably hysterical, Islamophobic and inaccurate about Aafia Siddiqui, the apparent political cause of the hostage-taker Malik Faisad Akram. According to his family in […]
Events

Brooklyn, NYC: Speak out to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners, Jan. 22

January 17, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 2022 AT 2 PM Speak out to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners 7114 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY Join our collective call for the freedom of Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian […]
Events

Richmond: 5th Annual Virginia Prison Justice Rally, Jan. 22

January 17, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
SATURDAY AT 11 AM – 2:30 PM 5th Annual VIRGINIA PRISON JUSTICE RALLY! Monroe Park, Richmond, Va. VIRGINIA PRISON JUSTICE CAR CARAVAN & RALLY! Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022 * Bring Back Parole! * End Solitary […]
China

China expands international medical solidarity to fight COVID

January 17, 2022 Scott Scheffer
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has overseen a failed effort to combat COVID-19, and in fact, appears to have thrown up its hands in surrender. As of this writing, 843,000 people in the […]
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Struggle ★ La Lucha PDF – January 17, 2022

January 16, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
Get PDF here Teachers, students resist unsafe schools MLK Day organizers say ‘NO COPS in commemoration’ Workers organize and strike to fight pandemic and capitalist inflation Free Ruchell Magee! The Bronx fire tragedy wasn’t an […]
Labor and strikes

Time to organize for workers’ power: Amazon workers have a right to a union

January 15, 2022 Sharon Black
Workers at Amazon are fed up! And they’re speaking out! Source: What Up Baltimore The recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) nationwide settlement that forces Amazon to notify workers of their rights to organize for […]
Around the world

Are Western wealthy countries determined to starve the people of Afghanistan?

January 15, 2022 Vijay Prashad
On January 11, 2022, the United Nations (UN) Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths appealed to the international community to help raise $4.4 billion for Afghanistan in humanitarian aid, calling this effort, “the largest ever appeal for a […]
Indigenous peoples

American Indian Movement leader dies at 85

January 15, 2022 Carina Dominguez
The co-founder of the American Indian Movement and longtime leader in the fight for Native civil rights has died. Clyde Bellecourt, White Earth Nation, died from cancer at his Minneapolis home Tuesday, his wife Peggy […]
In the U.S.

Blaming the victims: The Bronx fire tragedy wasn’t an accident

January 14, 2022 Stephen Millies
Seventeen people died in the Jan. 9 apartment building fire that broke out in the Bronx, New York. Eight of those killed were children. Ousmane Konteh was just 2 years old when he perished. Haouwa […]
Events

Honor Dr. King Jr. – Invitation to Baltimore Virtual Event

January 13, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
Honor Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr 2022 Baltimore Event Sunday Jan 16, 4 pm to 5:30 pm Workers Rights are Human Rights Fighting for Dr. King’s Dream REGISTER HERE https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f9CQqJ91REO7NhJ0-m2L9w Panelists include: Message from […]