Author: Gloria Verdieu

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Cuba

Celebrating the Life of Fidel Castro Ruz – on his 94th birthday

August 28, 2020 Gloria Verdieu
On Aug. 13, 2020, the U.S.-Cuba Normalization International Conference webinar celebrated and honored the life and legacy of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro Ruz on his 94th birthday. This historic event was attended by hundreds on […]
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Fight racism

Minneapolis is burning! The capitalist system must burn

May 29, 2020 Gloria Verdieu
While reading Mumia Abu-Jamal’s latest commentary, “After 100,000,” where he speaks about the increasing numbers of COVID-19 deaths, Mumia explains, “For Black folk this is a time of ineffable loss.” What he did not know […]
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Fight racism

Malcolm X: A human rights activist moving towards socialism

May 19, 2020 Gloria Verdieu
If not for the COVID-19 pandemic, as we mark Malcolm X’s 95th birthday on May 19, 2020, hundreds and thousands of people would be marching and rallying in the streets, shouting “Justice for Ahmaud Arbery […]
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Political Prisoners

MOVE 9 heroes welcomed in Southern California

December 30, 2019 Gloria Verdieu
Free all political prisoners! In mid-December 2019, the Socialist Unity Party/Partido de Socialismo Unido, the San Diego Coalition to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice hosted two very special “Free […]
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Free the Move 9, Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard Peltier and All Political Prisoners

December 6, 2019 Gloria Verdieu
[su_row][su_column size=”1/2″ center=”no” class=””][embeddoc url=”https://struggle-la-lucha.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/SanDiego_Mumia_leaflet.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google”][/su_column] [su_column size=”1/2″ center=”no” class=””][embeddoc url=”https://struggle-la-lucha.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/LosAngeles_Mumia_MOVE.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google”][/su_column][/su_row] 2 Forums: San Diego and Los Angeles San Diego — Welcome freedom fighter Pam Africa and recently released MOVE women, Janine […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

I believe that socialism is the key to a better world

November 9, 2019 Gloria Verdieu
From a talk by Gloria Verdieu at Queen Bee’s Art and Cultural Center in San Diego. Verdieu shared the stage with poets from the San Diego / Tijuana reEvolutionary Poets Brigade at an evening of […]
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Fight racism

San Diego commemorates Black August 2019

August 16, 2019 Gloria Verdieu
The Black August Organizing Committee has sponsored a Black August program for the last three years at San Diego’s Malcolm X Library and Performing Arts Center. This year is of particular significance because this is […]
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Political Prisoners

MOVE 9 members Janine and Janet released at last

June 4, 2019 Gloria Verdieu
After 41 years, all the MOVE 9 women are liberated, no longer incarcerated, finally released! Janet Holloway Africa and Janine Phillips Africa, the longest-held women political prisoners in the U.S., were freed on May 25, […]
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Malcolm X Day Community Celebration held in San Diego

May 24, 2019 Gloria Verdieu
Malcolm X Library honored El Hajj Malik Shabazz on May 18, the eve of his 94th birthday. This Fourth Annual Malcolm X Day Community Celebration was organized by the Malcolm X Day Organizing Committee, chaired […]
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Books

Black August: 1619-2019

April 15, 2019 Gloria Verdieu
Black August 1619-2019 Compiled and edited by Gloria Verdieu Contributors include M. Matsemela-Ali Odom, Zola Fish, Carl Muhammad, Mary Lou Finley, Dennis Childs, Eusi Kwayana, Sylvia Cameron Telafaro, Curtis Howard, Mumia Abu-Jamal “Black August” commemorates […]