Month: March 2017

http://drivingchangeatnissan.org/ As clergy, elected leaders, racial justice advocates, students and Nissan owners, we are coming together to demand that Nissan stop abusing the labor and civil rights of its workers in Mississippi. Nearly 5,000 Nissan auto workers—80 percent of them Black—in Canton, Miss., are forming a union to improve workplace safety, stop the mistreatment of […]

http://www.dclabor.org/home/unionists-lead-join-dc-section-of-womens-strike For Randi Weingarten, “raising our families is real, but so are our challenges, like sexual harassment on the job” and unequal pay for equal work. For Jean Ross, the chaos in the U.S. health care system is real – and the Republican revisionist health care plan would make it worse. And for Rosa DeLauro, […]

http://www.stopfbi.net/ In commentary for the Chicago Tribune March 5th, Peggy Shapiro, who is simply described as a retired professor from the Chicago City Colleges, attacks Rasmea Odeh, an activist from Chicago’s Palestinian community. Shapiro is a one-time Breitbart contributor and the Chicago coordinator of Stand With Us, a famously right-wing, pro-Israel advocacy group that is […]

Defeat “Right to Work” in Wisconsin Employees at the Milwaukee Public Museum ask the community to help preserve the prestige of our beloved museum. The MPM employees’ union, AFSCME Local 526, is asking the community to make phone calls to demand MPM maintain the same level of quality it has produced for over 100 years, […]

From Ms. Babette Grunow, Co-Host of The Grass Is Greener: We have a special guest this week on the Grass is Greener on Riverwest Radio 104.1FM on Sat March 11 at 8pm. The author of Turn the Guns Around, Mutinies, Soldier Revolts and Revolutions will be joining us. Active in the anti-war movement since 1962, […]

For details, view the Facebook event page at ­tinyurl.com/zpnhrej; complete online registration at tinyurl.com/hqcpc2h. __ By Joe Mchahwar posted on March 9, 2017 The Detroit branch of Workers World Party is co-hosting a Midwest Fightback Conference on March 25-26 with the Wayne State University branch of Students for a Democratic Society. WWP members from across […]