Month: November 2018

https://fighting-words.net/ By Anne Pruden Two Wendy’s fast food restaurants in New York City’s West Village appeared to have more people picketing outside than they had customers inside on the rainy Saturday night of October 27. A multinational group of dozens of protesters demanded support for the farmworkers who pick tomatoes in Florida. These exploited workers, […]

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https://bit.ly/2Q6Rpue https://www.mintpressnews.com/ CARACAS, VENEZUELA — United States sanctions against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela have cost the Latin American nation $6 billion since August of 2017, leaving the fate of healthcare and access to basic goods in jeopardy for millions of already struggling Venezuelans. As recently as early October, an anonymous source from the Trump administration […]

https://bit.ly/2AFTAjm BY CINDY LONG A young girl handcuffed to a pole at a police station for the crime of doodling on her desk or a boy dragged by his collar through the mud and back through the school entrance before he could explain that his IEP allowed him to be outside are outrageous examples of institutional […]

https://bit.ly/2Dge0BP Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST): “We will resist!”  Following the outcome of the presidential elections in Brazil, where extreme right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro was elected with a majority of the valid votes (55.1%), a broad process of resistance to the hate speech propagandized and put in practice during the election campaigns begins. In a […]

Justice For Jonathon Rally Hosted by Black Lives United – Green Bay and Native Lives Matter CityDeck Landing, 401 Washington Street, Green Bay, WI, 7:30 – 9:30 P.M. Tubby’s spirit is ascending to the company of ancestors. We are asking the community come together, bring a candle to light and a joyful word to share in his memory […]

https://bit.ly/2AGYAUG Latinas are among the most adversely affected by the gender pay gap. They are paid just 53 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Latinx men. Join leaders, advocates and influencers across the nation who are pledging to take action as champions of gender parity – not only for Latina Equal Pay Day, but for every day.