Month: February 2020

https://battleofhomestead.org/bhf/ The Battle of Homestead Foundation (BHF) is a diverse organization of community residents, workers, educators and historians. It’s purpose is to preserve, interpret, and promote a people’s history focused on the significance of the dramatic labor conflict at Homestead, Pennsylvania in 1892. Pinkerton Barges Burn

By David Sole, Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) U.S. President Donald Trump proudly announced his long awaited Middle East “peace plan” on January 28. Standing next to him was a beaming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Conspicuously missing, however, were any representatives of the Palestinian people. Speaking from the West Bank, Palestinian […]

From various news reports:  Alvin Cole, a 17-year-old student was killed by police at Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa Feb. 2. “They shot my baby,” Tracy Cole told news media. “My baby boy he was supposed to graduate from high school this year,” said Tracy Cole. “Seventeen years old. Very intelligent young man. Wanted to go […]

Local 3657 members January 30, 2020, adopted a resolution calling for “foreign policy based on the international solidarity of all workers, mutual respect of all nations and national sovereignty,” and calling upon the president and Congress to “make war truly the last resort.” For a copy of the full, final resolution as passed, click the […]

https://roanokepeoplespower.wordpress.com/ “Here is James Bernard “Bunny” Rucker (1912-1992), born in Roanoke, Virginia, raised in Columbus, Ohio, veteran of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Spanish Civil War (as a volunteer with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade), and World War II (three bronze stars and a purple heart), one-time Communist Party member, later an organizer with the Progressive […]