Month: January 2017

Hatem Abudayyeh, on behalf of the Arab American Action Network’s constituents, staff, board, and volunteers, http://www.aaan.org/:   We are thrilled and proud to announce that Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera–brother of our friend and compañero, Jose Lopez, director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center in the heart of Chicago’s Puerto Rican community, Humboldt […]

AFL-CIO: President-elect Donald Trump promised he wasn’t going to change Medicare if elected. But his pick for health and human services secretary, Tom Price, has been a vocal supporter of dismantling Medicare and leaving seniors to pick up the tab. More than 55 million Americans currently depend on Medicare—and that’s not counting the working people […]

https://www.chelseamanning.org/news/obama-commutes-sentence Chelsea Manning Support Network January 17, 2017 President Obama has commuted all but four months of the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former US Army Intelligence Analyst serving 35-years for releasing classified information. Chelsea’s attorney Nancy Hollander, who spoke with President Obama’s counsel earlier today, confirms that “Chelsea will walk out of […]

http://bit.ly/2iM4TgR http://www.telesurtv.net/english/index.html Puerto Rico’s independence leader and longest held political prisoner in the U.S. from Latin America will be free. The United States government announced Tuesday the release of Oscar Lopez Rivera, who has been imprisoned in the U.S. for 36 years for his struggle to free Puerto Rico from U.S. colonial rule. Outgoing U.S. […]

Protest the Inauguration of Donald Trump! Say No to Racism! Friday, January 20, 5 p.m., Riverwalk at Wabash and E. Wacker Drive, Chicago Protest the Inauguration of Donald Trump Say No to Racism Say No to the Trump Agenda On the first day of the new administration, join thousands of Chicagoans to protest the Trump […]

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Inauguration Day Protest Against Trump – Milwaukee 5-9 P.M., Red Arrow Park, 920 N Water Street, Milwaukee The Milwaukee Coalition Against Trump (MCAT) is hosting a mass march and rally on Trump’s inauguration day, Friday, January 20th, 2017. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people will join protests across the country and in Washington D.C. […]