Month: December 2018

Thank you so much to everyone who made phone calls, sent emails, or shared social media posts in solidarity with Honduran farmworkers over the past three weeks. Together we exposed the flawed “fair trade” certification of multinational fruit company Fyffes’ melon plantations in Honduras. Because all of you demanded justice for Honduran workers, Fair Trade […]

Freedom Inc Dear Community, On Monday, December 17, 2018, the Madison Metropolitan School Board failed Black and Brown children. Over 50 concerned students, parents, teachers, and community members testified about the need to remove police from our schools. Still, four School Board members – Mary Burke, Dean Loumos, TJ Mertz and James Howard – passed […]

https://fighting-words.net/2018/12/19/moving-forward-in-defense-of-our-lives/ By Fighting Words Staff The following is a statement from In Defense of our Lives, a coalition that stands united to fight against austerity, white supremacy and the neo-fascist threat in the United States. Communist Workers League supports this movement and looks forward to working with IDOL in the coming months. In Defense of […]

https://fighting-words.net/2018/12/19/peoples-struggle-wins-conviction-of-berta-caceress-murderers/ Berta Cáceres, an indigenous Lenca woman, co-founded the National Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) in 1993 to address the growing threats posed to Lenca communities by illegal logging, fight for their territorial rights and improve their livelihoods. In the aftermath of the U.S.-favored military coup in 2009 that ousted the […]

https://bit.ly/2A5ktwa By Abayomi Azikiwe Global Research, December 19, 2018 Saturday December 15 marked the fifth consecutive week where thousands of people have held marches and engaged in various forms of civil disobedience throughout France. Sparked by the imposition of a fuel tax, the “gilet jaunes” (Yellow Vest) movement has exposed the negative impact of the […]

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https://bit.ly/2QCUA0V Listen to the Sun. Dec. 16, 2018 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the visit by Republic of Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to Syria; South Sudanese deputy President Reik Machar […]