Month: July 2017

SWASummer2017Newsletter http://southernworker.org/ Southern Workers Assembly The Southern Workers Assembly (SWA) is a network of local unions, worker organizations, and organizing committees, committed to building rank-and-file democratic social movement unionism (unionism with a social justice agenda, defined by and accountable to the rank-and-file) as a foundation for organizing, uniting and transforming labor power throughout the South. […]

https://www.newsghana.com.gh/viewpoint-lessons-from-the-detroit-july-1967-rebellion-and-prospects-for-social-transformation-part-i/ Read this historical review written by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, on the 50th anniversary of the Detroit Rebellion of July 1967. This first installment of a four part report chronicles some aspects of the sociopolitical dynamics leading up to the monumental events of five decades ago when 164 Black Rebellions […]

https://uaw.org/stand-nissan-employees-late/ Next week marks the culmination of one of the biggest civil rights battles in a generation. Thousands of people who work at Nissan’s Canton, Mississippi factory will vote whether to join together in union to improve their jobs and communities. Veteran auto assemblers are uniting to protest dangerous conditions, insecure permatemp jobs, and punishing […]

http://www.venezuelasolidarity.co.uk/ Venezuela’s current wave of extreme right wing violence and wanton destruction aims at creating conditions of chaos in the country so as to bring about external intervention. The wave of violence, the efforts to isolate Venezuela diplomatically, and the external interference in its internal affairs have one and only aim, ‘regime change’. Demand full respect […]

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http://www.granma.cu/idiomas/ingles/cuba-i/11diciembre-derechos.html http://www.granma.cu/idiomas/ingles/ Among the reasons to celebrate are Cuba’s achievements in the protection of children, as highlighted by UNICEF Innumerable children, young people and members of mass organizations led Human Rights Day celebrations in Cuba. Squares and parks across the country played host to diverse activities, including debates and discussions in various universities. Among the […]

EXPO – EX-Prisoners Organizing‎CLOSEmsdf Coalition Meeting 2821 N 4th Street, Suite 108, Milwaukee, 6-7 P.M. Click below to read about why MSDF should be closed. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/06/29/rice-brisco-states-secure-detention-facility-milwaukee-needs-closed/437651001/ Click below to sign the petition that calls on Governor Walker to close MSDF. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/its-time-to-close-milwaukee-secure-detention-facility-msdf?source=email WHY CLOSE THE MILWAUKEE SECURE DETENTION FACILITY? Conditions at Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF) […]