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WFTU Congress Oct 5-8, Durban, South Africa: ‘Forward! For the attainment of the contemporary needs of the working class and the emancipation of workers against poverty and wars generated by capitalist barbarity’

http://wftucentral.org/ The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) affiliated unions, namely the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU), the Police Prisons and Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) and the Chemical Energy Print Paper and Allied Workers Union (CEPPWAWU) will be jointly hosting the 17th World Trade Union […]

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Urgent Call on the AFL-CIO: Reverse Support for the Dakota Access Pipeline

SIGN PETITION: http://chn.ge/2cZvAcP [When signing, please list trade union and/or other affiliation in the comment box] Urgent Call on the AFL-CIO: Reverse Support for the Dakota Access Pipeline Labor for Palestine, September 17, 2016 As trade unionists and social justice activists, we urgently call on the AFL-CIO to reverse its disgraceful support for the Dakota Access […]

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Milwaukee, September 19: Prisoner Strike Support

Prisoner Strike Support We will gather in the large meeting room of the Center Street Library to discuss prisoner resistance happening, in and beyond Wisconsin. We will collectively participate in mass mailings to aid in outreach and co-ordination between prsioner networks. There will also be an opportunity for replying to or initiating individual correspondence with […]

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Milwaukee, September 21: International Day of Peace

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Leonard Peltier: On Solidarity with Standing Rock, Executive Clemency and the International Indigenous Struggle

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/16/on-solidarity-with-standing-rock-executive-clemency-and-the-international-indigenous-struggle/ “Greeting Sisters and Brothers: I have been asked to write a SOLIDARITY statement to everyone about the Camp of the Sacred Stones on Standing Rock. Thank you for this great honor. I must admit it is very difficult for me to even begin this statement as my eyes get so blurred from tears and my heart […]

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Eyewitness Reports From Standing Rock

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National Writers Union in Solidarity With Standing Rock

The struggle to stop the Dakota Access pipeline has grown to involve thousands of First Nation tribes and their supporters despite a corporate media blackout. For defying the blackout and bringing some coverage to the heroic fight-back, Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman and other journalists have had warrants issued for their arrest! On September 15, a […]