Year: 2023

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Events

Los Angeles: Cuba’s Queer Rights Revolution & Peoples Pride Celebration, July 23

July 3, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
SUNDAY, JULY 23, 2023, AT 4:00 PM PDT Cuba’s Queer Rights Revolution – Eyewitness Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice – L.A. Celebrate Queer Pride – Learn about the revolutionary Families Code in Cuba that […]
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Palestine

Eight killed as Israel bombs, bulldozes Jenin refugee camp

July 3, 2023 Maureen Clare Murphy
Israeli forces have killed at least eight Palestinians during an ongoing major military offensive in the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin – the largest operation in the territory since 2002. Hundreds of Palestinians […]
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Cuba

Los Angeles protesters: Take Cuba off ‘Terror’ list

July 3, 2023 Scott Scheffer
A hundred or more people joined a June 25 protest in Los Angeles to demand that the White House take Cuba off the State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list. The turnout included a broad range […]
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China

Not a spy balloon, but the propaganda sticks

July 3, 2023 Gary Wilson
On Feb. 4, the U.S. Air Force carried out an elaborate operation to shoot down a Chinese weather balloon.  At 2:39 p.m. Eastern time, an F-22 Raptor from the 1st Fighter Wing at Joint Base […]
Honduras
Around the world

Not-so-soft coups and the use of blackouts in Honduras

July 3, 2023 Ricardo Arturo Salgado
These days, we are entering a new phase in Honduras in the attempt of the right to provoke a color revolution. This time, the issue seems more organized: power stations that turn off their generators, […]
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In the U.S.

Indigenous activists respond to gutting of affirmative action

July 1, 2023 Jean-Luc Pierite and Mahtowin Munro
Boston – Indigenous activists in Boston reaffirm their commitment to overcome historic barriers to higher education for students in light of today’s ruling delivered by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) that guts […]
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Environment

Tree plantations and logging industry make wildfires hazardous

July 1, 2023 Gary Wilson
Canada is currently experiencing its worst wildfire season on record. As of June 29, 2023, over 3,000 wildfires in Canada have burned over 19 million acres of land. This is more than ten times the […]
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La Lucha por el Socialismo

Rechazo al aumento del costo de energía

July 1, 2023 Berta Joubert-Ceci
Esta pasada semana en Puerto Rico, el tema más importante, por ser crucial para el desarrollo económico del país y para la calidad de vida del pueblo, ha sido la energía. Y es que coincidieron […]
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Labor and strikes

UPS Teamsters union struggle is critical for all workers

July 1, 2023 Gavrielle Gemma
Strengthen the union for this contract and the upcoming battle to save tens of thousands of jobs from automation. 340,000 workers, members of the Teamsters Union, worked tirelessly during the worst of the COVID pandemic. […]
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Labor and strikes

Danny Glover becomes honorary member Of ILWU Local 10 on Juneteenth

July 1, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
San Francisco actor and activist Danny Glover was made an honorary member of ILWU Local 10 on Juneteenth. All Bay Area ports were shut down on the day, and Glover and members of the ILWU […]