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August 17: Drop The Charges Against Durham Freedom Fighters!

Hosted by Triangle Unity May Day Coalition Stand in Solidarity with Charlottesville Anti-racist and Anti-fascist Activists! Support Takiyah Thompson and all arrestees! Drop the Charges! Are you willing to be in solidarity with people being targeted for the action where the Confederate statue in Durham was toppled? Wear black. The Durham County Sheriff’s Department arrested […]

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Stand with Rasmea at her sentencing August 17 in Detroit

The Rasmea Defense Committee wants to thank the over 1,200 people that attended our #HonorRasmea event in Chicago Saturday, August 12th.We need to ask you to come out one final time… All out for Detroit! Thursday, August 17, at 1:30 EDT (rally at 1:30 PM, hearing starts at 3 PM) U.S. District Court, 231 W. […]

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ALERT: VIOLENT EVICTION UNDERWAY IN PAJUILES, HONDURAS – 5 DETAINED INCLUDING A PREGNANT WOMAN

[Información en español] This morning, August 15th, 2017, Honduran police are in the process of using tanks, tear-gas and violence to displace the non-violent “Camp Dignity” encampment of community members in the Pajuiles community in the municipality of Tela, Honduras who for months have been protesting the intrusion of the HIDROCEP corporation owned by Jaison […]

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Donate to Durham Solidarity Bond Fund, Call DA & Demand They Drop All Charges

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National Lawyers Guild: Continuing the Fight Against White Supremacy After Charlottesville

https://www.nlg.org/ From: NLG National Office <communications@nlg.org> Date: Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 5:01 PM Continuing the Fight Against White Supremacy After Charlottesville FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 14, 2017 NEW YORK—The National Lawyers Guild (NLG), founded in 1937 as the first racially-integrated, human rights bar association, is committed to ending white supremacy in all its forms. […]

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AFSCME Local 526 statement in response to events in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11-12, 2017

AFSCME Local 526 statement in response to events in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11-12, 2017 Whereas, the white supremacist march and rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11-12, 2017 was a disgusting display of bigotry and hatred. Whereas, AFSCME Local 526 mourns of the death of Heather Heyer, an activist who lost her life while […]

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Democracy Now: Meet the College Student Who Pulled Down a Confederate Statue in Durham & Defied White Supremacy

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/8/16/meet_the_college_student_who_pulled A crowd of activists toppled a Confederate statue in Durham, North Carolina, on Monday, just two days after the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. As the crowd shouted “We are the revolution,” a college student named Takiyah Thompson climbed up a ladder, looped a rope around the top of the Confederate Soldiers […]