Month: October 2023

Events

Los Angeles Solidarity with Palestine: End the Occupation Now! Oct. 12

October 12, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Thursday, October 12 at 5 p.m. LOS ANGELES SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE! END THE OCCUPATION NOW! Martin Luther King Blvd and Figueroa Event by Union del Barrio – Los Angeles and Harriet Tubman Center for Social […]
Palestine

‘We are not attacking civilians’: Hamas says amid Operation Al-Aqsa Storm

October 11, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has rejected accusations of targeting civilians. Fighting raged across the occupied territories since the resistance groups launched Operation Al-Aqsa Storm on Oct. 7. Osama Hamadan, senior spokesperson of Hamas, has […]
Im/migrants and refugees

Imperialist sanctions and the crisis migrants face

October 11, 2023 Chris Fry
Millions of migrants have braved incredible hardship to find shelter and jobs in the U.S. Many have fled U.S. supported repressive regimes. Hundreds of thousands of others have left their countries that have been targeted […]
Cuba

‘Cuba in Africa’ cheered at Los Angeles showing

October 11, 2023 Scott Scheffer
“Cuba in Africa,” a new documentary film by Negash Abdurahman, was shown at the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice in Los Angeles on Sept. 24. The meeting, which included reports from a recent delegation […]
Around the world

Haiti – neocolonial intervention, grass roots resistance

October 11, 2023 Stephen Sefton
From the 2004 coup d’état against President Jean Bertrand Aristide until 2017, Haiti was occupied militarily initially by US and Canadian troops and subsequently by a multinational force of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in […]
Palestine

No U.S. intervention in Palestine!

October 10, 2023 Lev Koufax
The time has come for Zionism to fall. Political support for Palestine is more important than ever.  The fall of Zionist apartheid in occupied Palestine is long overdue. For the past 75 years, the […]
Palestine

Victory to Palestine! Resistance isn’t terrorism

October 10, 2023 Stephen Millies and Bill Dores
 UPDATED, Oct. 9 — For 75 years, the Palestinian people have been driven from their land by the Israeli apartheid state. Millions of Palestinians live in exile, often in refugee camps. Gaza is the […]
Palestine

PFLP: U.S. aid to Israel aims to undermine Al-Aqsa Flood

October 10, 2023 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
  The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) confirmed Oct. 8 that U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to provide all forms of support to the Zionist entity [Israel] comes in the context of […]
In the U.S.

Saltwater threatens south Louisiana drinking water

October 6, 2023 Gregory E. Williams
 A massive wedge of saltwater is coming up the Mississippi River, threatening drinking water for thousands in south Louisiana. This happened before in 1988, 2012, and 2022, though on smaller scales. The current saltwater […]
Labor and strikes

75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers go on strike in largest health care labor action in U.S. history

October 5, 2023 Gary Wilson
Over 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers across six states and Washington, D.C., went on a three-day strike starting Oct. 4 after contract negotiations failed. This is the largest healthcare strike ever in the U.S., with […]