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Migrants Don’t Steal Jobs – Bankers Do!
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“What to the Slave is 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech
MECAWI/Moratorium Now Coalition Statement: ‘United States Seeks to Initiate Yet Another War in Middle East; This Time in Iran’
United States Seeks to Initiate Yet Another War in Middle East; This Time in Iran
A discussion by members of the Moratorium NOW! Coalition and the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) on the current crisis generated by the administration of United States President Donald Trump at its last meeting on June 24, 2019, concluded that it was warranted to issue the following statement in opposition to the current course towards war and occupation:
We condemn the hostile and provocative behavior on the part of the U.S. administration in regard to the threats of military attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Although Trump claims that he has for now reconsidered an aerial strike on the Tehran government, the intensification of the sanctions regime against the people of this sovereign state only stokes tensions which could easily lead to a full-blown war. We demand that all sanctions against Iran be lifted immediately and talks should resume on the salvaging of the JCOPA nuclear deal and the eventual normalization of relations.
It has been 40 years since the Iranian Revolution of 1979 where the masses of people rose up and overthrew the Washington-backed regime of the Shah. The will of the Iranian people must be respected in any diplomatic approach by the U.S.
In addition, we also oppose the recently-held “Prosperity to Peace” conference by the U.S. in Bahrain on the Palestinian question. All parties and political interests in Palestine rejected the gathering as another attempt to perpetuate the occupation of Palestine and to stifle the creation of a viable, contigious and genuinely independent Palestinian state.
The Trump administration’s bogus recognition of the holy city of Jeruslam as part of the Israeli state is a clear effort to destabilize the Palestinian people and fortify the Israeli occupation. We stand firmly with the struggles and aspirations of the Palestinian nation and its people.
Finally we categorically denounce the continued arms transfers from the U.S. and all other imperialists states to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The monarchy in Riyadh suppresses the basic democratic rights of its citizens and residents as a fundamental policy of its government.
Moreover, the Saudi Arabian and United Arab Emirates (UAE) fuedal regimes are leading on behalf of imperialism the brutal genocidal war against the people of Yemen, the poorest country in the region. Tens of thousands have died in the massive bombings and ground operations since March 2015. The war against Yemen has resulted in the most severe humanitarian crisis in the world today where cholera and other prevntable diseases are the direct outcome of Washington’s foreign policy. The Pentagon supplies the warplanes, ordnances, refuelling technology and targeting methodology that enables this onslaught against the masses in Yemen.
Overall we want to express our solidarity with the oppressed and struggling peoples of the region in their fight for liberation, social justice, peace and prosperity. Our plight in the U.S. as oppressed and working class people has worsened as a direct by-product of the imperialist militarism of the White House and Wall Street.
End U.S. Imperialist Influence in the Middle East!
Hands Off Iran!
Freedom for the Palestinian People!
Long Live the Struggle Against Imperialism!
Southern Workers Meet to Launch Workplace Medicare for All Campaign
#OrganizetheSouth #Medicare4All
More resources available online at http://southernworker.org/medicare4all/
Over the weekend of June 15-16, over 40 Southern workers from several unions including the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), National Nurses United, International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1422 met for a Workers School and to launch a Southern Workers Medicare for All campaign. ILA local 1422 hosted the meeting in their impressive union hall.
In the lead up to the 2020 elections, the Southern Workers Assembly is encouraging all workers organizations to raise up a workers program demanding #UnionsforAll, wages of $15 per hour for all workers, end Right-to-Work (for less) laws, and the demand for affordable healthcare, specifically for the passage of the bills in US Congress for expanded and improved Medicare for All (HR1384/S1129). Many of presidential candidates are split, or have different plans for fixing the broken US healthcare system. By having a clearly-defined, unifying demand, we can advance our struggles during this electoral period, regardless of who wins the election. The SWA believes that by building a workers-led, Southern movement for Medicare for All it can help to draw non-union workers into our movement, and build union-workplace organization across the South.
A major part of this campaign is building workplace-based committees, because inside the workplace is where we have the most power to impact society. These committees can lead the education of workers, including doing outreach to non-union workplaces with informational leaflets about the campaign, given that most all workers still primarily receive health insurance through their employer. Improved Medicare for All would reduce the reliance of workers on their employers, by providing every access to quality healthcare whether you are employed or not employed. It would also take bargaining for health care off the table, which most unions spend lots of time and clout bargaining over. Instead, this energy could be spent on bargaining members better wage increases, paid time off, safety protocols and other much needed improvements.
As part of this campaign, the SWA hopes to organize city-wide committees, lead by workplace organizations to do broader workplace and community outreach, eventually hosting public Town Hall meetings with the plan to pass resolutions in city and county councils across the South. Already at least three southern cities including St. Petersburg, FL, Durham, NC and Carrboro, NC have already passed such resolutions.
The campaign plans to have bi-weekly conference calls every other Sunday night at 6pm. If you would be interested in coordinating for your area, or joining these calls, please contact us at info@southernworker.org or 919-539-2051.
National Day of Action July 12, 2019 to Close the Concentration Camps! Actions in Madison, Milwaukee & More Planned
National Day of Action to Close the Concentration Camps!
Milwaukee City Hall @ 8 – 9:30 P.M. July 12, 2019
July 12th is being called for as a national day of action to close the migrant and refugee camps that have been created along the US-Mexico border and inside the interior, and to let all the migrants and refugees into the country with protected status. Actions are being organized by a coalition of migrant and refugee rights groups in different cities across the country. We are calling on all who are opposed to the repression of migrants and refugees and the existence of concentration camps to organize or join an action. Please contact us to endorse or to list the action in your city on this page: National Day of Action to Close the Concentration Camps!
“Close the Concentration Camps” protest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin July 12, 2019
Photos: WI BOPM
President Nicolas Maduro Ready to Cooperate With China’s Huawei on 5G Rollout in Venezuela
Embattled Chinese tech giant Huawei has stated it will increase its investment in 5G in spite of the US’ restrictive measures against it, while emphasising cybersecurity and privacy are “top priorities” for all further development. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has stated he intends to develop 5G networks in the country in cooperation with China, writes El Nacional. According to Maduro, trial installation of the equipment will begin shortly….
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks at a public event in Caracas Feb. 12, 2015. A coup plot against the Venezuelan president was thwarted that day. | Photo: AVN
Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes
https://bit.ly/2YyJXfu
The three-year-old group, which has roughly 9,500 members, shared derogatory comments about Latina lawmakers who plan to visit a controversial Texas detention facility on Monday, calling them “scum buckets” and “hoes.”
Members of a secret Facebook group for current and former Border Patrol agents joked about the deaths of migrants, discussed throwing burritos at Latino members of Congress visiting a detention facility in Texas on Monday and posted a vulgar illustration depicting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez engaged in oral sex with a detained migrant, according to screenshots of their postings….
Israel Unleashes Missile Attack on Syria
According to Middle East press reports, Israel warplanes over Lebanon unleashed missile attacks on Syrian military sites in Homs and the outskirts of Damascus, July 1.
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The Syrian Arab News Agency is reporting that a child was killed, and many more civilians were wounded.
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Israel has stepped up its attacks on Syria. With the backing of the Trump administration, Israel recently annexed a portion of Syria, the Golan Heights.
July 3, 2019: Call-in Day for Mumia Abu Jamal’s Healthcare
Call-in Day for Mumia’s Healthcare
This July 3, on the 37th anniversary of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s incarceration we are asking you to make calls and sign the petition below. In recent weeks the focus of https://www.Mobilaization4Mumia.com supporters nationwide has been to raise awareness of the medical crisis Mumia currently faces as the PA Department of Corrections (DOC) has delayed his access to cataract surgery. The petition below calls not only for this medically necessary procedure to be performed without delay, but also for the release of Mumia, a factually innocent man.
On July 3, 2019 please take time to make calls to the numbers below. Please sign the petition (on-line) if you haven’t and share it with your social media networks. Please download the petition and collect signatures that we will later deliver to Krasner and others. Take action in your community as part of a nationwide demonstration of support for Mumia.
Sign the petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/emergency-appeal-for-mumias-health You can also print the petition from the pic in our discussion tab, for circulation.
Call:
Dr Courtney P Rodgers – 570-773- 7851 and
SCI Mahanoy Superintendent Theresa A. Delbalso – (570) 773-2158
Tell them to approve Mumia’s cataract surgery immediately
And also Call:
PA Gov. Tom Wolf – 717-787-2500
PA DOC Secretary John Wetzel – 717.728.2573
Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner – 215-686-8000
Tell them to release NOW because he can receive better healthcare outside of prison and also because he is an innocent man!
Mumia Abu-Jamal should receive cataract surgery immediately!
Mumia should be released now not only because he can receive better healthcare outside of prison but also because he is an innocent man!
Message from Mumia to Prison Radio:
Now, cataracts: Do you know what cataracts are? Imagine you’re wearing a very dark pair of sunglasses; Now smear the lenses with thick swabs of Vaseline. That’s cataracts–from the inside. But it doesn’t end, for there is no pair of glasses to remove. It’s… your eyes. They don’t work anymore like they used to.
There’s a man here, an “Old Head” who is functionally blind (although he has some vision in one eye). One of his eyes is as blue as a robin’s egg, but it’s dead. He has no vision in it. Imagine that; a Black man with a blue eye! That’s what prison eye care can get you! alla best, maj♪”
And last, please consider making a donation or a regular monthly contribution to further the work to free Mumia. Go to https://mobilization4mumia.com/donate-1
