Month: July 2022

Around the world

Ecuador: An agreement reached and a crisis that continues

July 10, 2022 Marco Teruggi
July 7 — On Thursday afternoon the Indigenous uprising in Ecuador ended. The trucks loaded with people began to leave Quito in caravans and under applause to their respective communities. They did it after 18 […]
In the U.S.

New Orleans fighters for abortion rights close down Canal St. and Loyola Ave., vow to build mass movement

July 9, 2022 Louisiana Abortion Rights Action Committee
Activists shutting down the streets for abortion rights. Click for Fox 8 video. More than 150 people took the fight to restore abortion rights to the streets of New Orleans July 8. We rallied outside […]
Cuba

Cuba should be removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism

July 9, 2022 Roger Waters, Vijay Prashad and Manolo de los Santos
Cuba is not a state sponsor of terrorism but a state sponsor of global well-being.The United States maintains a list of countries that it considers as “state sponsors of terrorism.” There are currently four countries […]
Cuba

How Cuba is eradicating child mortality and banishing the diseases of the poor

July 7, 2022 Vijay Prashad and Manolo De Los Santos
To move from 59 infant deaths out of every 1,000 live births to no infant deaths in the matter of a few decades is an extraordinary feat. Palpite, Cuba, is just a few miles away […]
Events

Baltimore: Justice for Jayland Walker, July 9

July 6, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
SATURDAY, JULY 9, 2022 AT 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT Justice for Jayland Walker 247 N Dallas Ct, Baltimore Come join us to demand justice for the brutal police murder of Jayland Walker. at […]
U.S. / NATO war

No to NATO!

July 5, 2022 Cheryl LaBash
On June 29, while the North Atlantic Treaty Organization met in Madrid, a “No to NATO” demonstration gathered and rallied in Detroit at the busy Nine Mile and Woodward intersection. The Michigan Peace Council initiative […]
Political Prisoners

40 years is too long! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!

July 5, 2022 Stephen Millies
Demonstrators in Philadelphia on July 3 demanded freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal. They carried colorful signs and banners under a blazing sun. The rally was in front of the Municipal Services Building across from City Hall. […]
Cuba

Cuba, Haiti, the Helms-Burton and the crime of insubordination

July 5, 2022 Raúl Antonio Capote
Haiti was the first free nation in Latin America and the Caribbean, the first nation in the modern world emerging from a slave revolt, and the second most long-standing republic in the Western Hemisphere. The […]
Fight racism

Justice for Jayland Walker and Randy Cox!

July 4, 2022 Stephen Millies
UPDATE: Akron, Ohio, police threw tear gas canisters and stun grenades against people demanding justice for Jaylord Walker. Meanwhile the eight cops who killed Walker with dozens of bullets continue to get paid. The war […]
Fight racism

“What to the slave is the 4th of July?” read by Danny Glover

July 4, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
Actor Danny Glover reads abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s “Fourth of July Speech, 1852” on October 5, 2005 in Los Angeles, California. Part of a reading from Voices of a People’s History of the United States (Howard […]