Blood and Oil and Trump and Biden Thursday’s news links – Dec. 17, 2020
Author: wibailoutpeople
We are a part of the national Bail Out The People movement which formed in 2008 to fight against the bailouts to the banks. Since then we have been in numerous fights against poverty, racism and war. We demand that the people be bailed out not the banks, a moratorium on all foreclosures, a federal jobs program now and other demands. We have been participating in the Wisconsin people's uprising, Bloombergville in NYC and numerous other people's actions.
Emily’s List Staff Unionize
“We are incredibly excited to welcome the staff of Emily’s List to our big union family!” tweeted OPEIU Local 2 yesterday. “Today the staff at EMILY’s List is making a new endorsement: the EMILY’s Union,” tweeted EMILY’s Union. “We can’t wait for (Emily’s List’s) publicly pro-union leadership to recognize their union on December 22,” added […]
Event by Northwoods Worker, Taysha Martineau and Carl Lemke Oliver Sack Hear about on-the-ground efforts to stop Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline from water protectors in the Duluth and Fond du Lac area. Join an online panel discussion featuring: • Skip Sandman, Fond du Lac Ojibwe elder and spiritual leader and former candidate for […]
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Paul Robeson and the 1948 Library of Congress cafeteria workers’ strike: With 95% of DC’s hotel and restaurant workers out of work because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we look back at the history of cafeteria workers’ struggle at the Library of Congress for a union and how singer and […]
By Fighting Words Staff A vigil and demonstration was held at the McNamara Federal Building in downtown Detroit on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 to oppose and condemn the scheduled executions of four African American men and one white woman by the United States government between Dec.10, (International Human Rights Day), and the birthday of Dr. […]
Hear from people who observed the elections as election observers and journalists Sunday, December 20, 5 PM EST Click here to register Speakers: Margaret Flower, Popular Resistance Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Bahman Azad, U.S. Peace Council Zoe PC, Peoples Dispatch The United Socialist Party of Venezuela, the party of Nicolas Maduro won […]

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