Month: July 2023

Around the world

Peruvians social organizations and trade unions call for 10-day struggle against the Boluarte government

July 6, 2023 Peoples Dispatch
The new round of protests will be called the “National Day of Permanent Popular Mobilization” and take place between July 19 and 28 On July 1 and 2, various social organizations and trade unions from […]
Events

New York: Justice for the Tampa 5 speakout, July 12

July 5, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Justice for the Tampa 5 speakout Wednesday, July 12 – 6:30 p.m. New York City Hall, Broadway & Park, Manhattan Called by New York Community Action Project Part of July 12 National Day of Protest […]
In the U.S.

The secrets that the Pentagon Papers didn’t reveal

July 5, 2023 Stephen Millies
The death of Daniel Ellsberg on June 16 should be a reminder that every big business war requires wholesale lying. In 1971 it was Ellsberg, along with Anthony Russo, who brought the Pentagon Papers into […]
Political Prisoners

In brutal summer heat, prisoners say their cells are like ‘stifling hot coffins’

July 5, 2023 Victoria Law
Days of extreme heat without access to enough water and cooled air become deadlier for an aging prison population. Shortly after midnight this past Friday, guards found 37-year-old Elizabeth Hagerty dead in her unair-conditioned Texas […]
Around the world

France: Macron shuts down internet and fines protesters’ parents

July 5, 2023 Orinoco Tribune
France’s government is targeting parents of minors and the internet to contain a people’s uprising that has entered its sixth day on Monday. As he had threatened days earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron decided to […]
Palestine

Stop Israeli massacre in Jenin refugee camp

July 4, 2023 Al Awda
5 Ways to Take Immediate Action! Stop the Israeli Massacre in Jenin Refugee Camp End U.S. Support for Zionist War Crimes in Palestine  Al Awda-NY/NJ &  The Palestinian Assembly for Liberation As Palestinians are enduring unimaginable […]
Fight racism

Slavery and the fourth of you lie

July 4, 2023 Stephen Millies
The Declaration of Independence is Philadelphia’s proudest claim to fame. It was written by the Virginia slave master and future U.S. president, Thomas Jefferson, who sold his own flesh and blood — the product of […]
Around the world

Death of Nahel Merzouk: Who sows violence?

July 4, 2023 Nancy Luc Śkaille
July 3 – French President Emmanuel Macron canceled his state visit to Germany over the weekend because of one of the biggest crises of his tenure. Clashes between the population, which is tired of the […]
Around the world

Why is France burning? Reasons for the revolt

July 4, 2023 Cubadebate
Following the death of Nahel, a 17-year-old boy, shot point-blank by a police officer during a traffic control in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) on the 27th, riots broke out in popular neighborhoods throughout France, which burns again […]
Im/migrants and refugees

Protests erupt in Florida after anti-immigrant law goes into effect

July 4, 2023 Zane McNeill
Under the law, Florida no longer recognizes driver’s licenses issued to undocumented immigrants from other states. Protests against Florida bill SB 1718 have erupted across the state after the bill went into effect on Saturday. Under the […]