Author: Gloria Verdieu

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Political Prisoners

Honoring Mumia Abu-Jamal on his 71st birthday

May 6, 2025 Gloria Verdieu
“Know this: throughout it all. I have never felt alone. To the eye, I was alone in solitary confinement, on death row, but the eye cannot really see all that is, for behind brick and […]
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Oppressed genders

Honoring Remarkable Courageous Women

March 29, 2025 Gloria Verdieu
On March 15, African American Writers and Artists, San Diego (AAW&A) hosted a Women’s History event at the Malcolm X Library honoring “Remarkable Courageous Women,” whose shoulders we stand on. This was AAW&A’s first event […]
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Indigenous peoples

Why the delay? Release Leonard Peltier now!

February 2, 2025 Gloria Verdieu
In a final act of clemency on Jan. 20, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier. Peltier, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, was a prominent […]
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Around the world

120 months, 43 students: The Mexican government is guilty

September 30, 2024 Gloria Verdieu
Statement from ARE (Association of Raza Educators), Armadillos NUMM, Union del Barrio, Mecha SDCC, 43 San Diego.  Until there is justice, there will be no peace!  Ten years of struggle for truth and justice. One […]
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Fight racism

Black August: Our resistance is essential

August 24, 2024 Gloria Verdieu
Black August is a month to commemorate and tell the history of those African men and women brutalized, locked up, and killed by the U.S. criminal justice system. Those courageous freedom fighters sacrificed their livelihood […]
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In the U.S.

An evening vigil in San Diego honoring Sonya Massey

August 7, 2024 Gloria Verdieu
Escondido, California, Aug. 1  – In solidarity with demonstrations, rallies, and vigils held in cities across the U.S. in honor of the life of Sonya Massey, North County 4 Palestine organized and hosted a candlelight […]
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In the U.S.

Kamala Harris is ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden’s choice

July 31, 2024 Gloria Verdieu
 Kamala Harris, the current Vice President, was a California Senator, Attorney General, and San Francisco District Attorney. Harris sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 and dropped out before the primaries. President Obama’s vice […]
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Im/migrants and refugees

‘Trump and Biden, no solution!’ A revolutionary May Day in San Diego

May 6, 2024 Gloria Verdieu
Hundreds showed up at the Federal Building in downtown San Diego on May 1 for the International Workers’ Day opening rally. The rally was followed by a three-mile march to Chicano Park, the heart of […]
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In the U.S.

When it rains it pours: San Diego flood victims ask, ‘Who’s to blame?’

March 1, 2024 Gloria Verdieu
 San Diego — The community room at the Robinson YMCA on Feb. 26 was filled with local grassroots organizations and individuals who came together to develop effective strategies to deliver resources to help those […]
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War and Lenin

Book review: War & Lenin in the 21st Century by Gary Wilson

February 1, 2024 Gloria Verdieu
“I trust that this pamphlet will help the reader to understand the fundamental economic question… the question of the economic essence of imperialism, for unless this is studied, it will be impossible to understand and […]