Month: September 2023

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Events

Los Angeles: Cuba in Africa film showing, Sept. 24

September 21, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Cuba in Africa: A documentary by Negash Abdurahman Sunday, Sept. 24 – 2:00 p.m. Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, 5278 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles Sponsored by Let Cuba Live Coalition and Black Alliance […]
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Cuba’s President Díaz-Canel at United Nations: “A new and fairer global contract is urgently needed”

September 20, 2023 Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez
Addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said that “a new and fairer global contract is urgently needed.” He spoke on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, […]
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Let Cuba Live: Take a stand and get Cuba off the SSOT list

September 20, 2023 Struggle-La Lucha Los Angeles bureau
 Los Angeles, Sept. 14 — The multinational and multi-generational Let Cuba Live delegation that showed up on the steps of City Hall today was a dynamic and powerful group of activists calling on the […]
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Events

National March to Protect Trans Youth – Oct. 7

September 19, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Why a March for Trans Youth in Florida? In Florida and many other states, new laws are robbing trans youth and adults of gender-affirming healthcare. Pride events are threatened with cancellation, trans people and drag […]
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LGBTQ+

Louisiana protest: ‘AG Landry, you’re a crook! Kids deserve to read gay books!’

September 19, 2023 Gregory E. Williams
 Sept. 15, Lafayette, Louisiana – This writer joined over 30 protesters against corrupt far-right gubernatorial candidate Jeff Landry. We gathered outside KLFY studios where the second gubernatorial debate was happening; Landry skipped the first […]
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Labor and strikes

Starbucks Worker Solidarity Day of Action

September 19, 2023 Andre Powell
Although over 350 Starbucks Coffee stores around the country have voted to unionize, the company’s CEO and management have failed to come to the negotiating table to discuss workers’ concerns. Starbucks Workers United called for […]
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Around the world

Libya, devastated by U.S./NATO bombing, unprepared for extreme storm floods

September 17, 2023 Scott Scheffer
 Blame for the horrible flooding that has killed nearly 20,000 people in the city of Derna, with many thousands still unaccounted for in northeastern Libya, belongs squarely on the doorstep of Western capitalism and […]
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Labor and strikes

When the auto workers went on strike in 1970: Revolutionary implications of the GM strike

September 17, 2023 Vince Copeland
 The last major auto strike in the U.S. started on September 15, 1970, when 400,000 workers at 145 factories walked off the job at GM — then the largest corporation in the world — […]
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Battle with the Big 3 auto companies is on as UAW strikes all three in historic first

September 16, 2023 Sharon Black
 September 15 — At midnight, United Auto Workers struck the Big Three companies — Ford, GM, and Stellanis — in what is being called a “Stand Up Strike.”  Striking at all three companies simultaneously […]
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In the U.S.

‘For All of Mankind’ and other lies

September 16, 2023 John Parker
 The Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 landed on the moon on August 23. It is now the fourth country to reach the moon’s surface. The data it will communicate to the scientific community is part of […]