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Million Worker March leader talks with Teamsters: Roots of unity in the labor movement

May 30, 2022 Clarence Thomas Clarence Thomas — labor organizer, retired member of International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10, leader of the Million Worker March Movement and author of the recently released “Mobilizing in our Own Name: Million Worker March” — spoke at Teamsters Joint Council 16 in New York City on May […]

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Workers’ Summit of the Americas June 10-12, 2022 (In Person and Online)

https://fb.me/e/1TnPTg2J3 (Español Abajo) Day 2 / Día 2: https://fb.me/e/3aYIhWmYq Day 3 / Día 3: https://fb.me/e/1Ok53GPKj THE WORKERS’ SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS – TIJUANA (June 10-12, 2022) is a workers’ conference that calls for the programmatic unity of the working class and social movements to create a permanent forum for solidarity and the linking of anti-imperialist, […]

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#freeDanielHale

Drone whistleblower Daniel Hale has spent a year behind bars. With a 45 month sentence, he has almost three years left to serve. His crime? Telling the truth about the US drone program and terrorist watchlists. Write to your member of Congress telling them to call on President Biden to commute Daniel’s sentence!  A commutation […]

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Pete Seeger: John Brown’s Body

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Freed slaves started first Memorial Day in the U.S.

by Amsterdam News May 28, 2022 EDITOR’S NOTE: The article was originally published on May 29, 2017 Memorial day is a day that is set aside to honor those who fought in for the United States Military. As many headed out to the beach or maybe a family barbeque enjoying the weather many might not […]

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Howard Zinn: Whom Will We Honor Memorial Day?

Article. By Howard Zinn. 1976.Essay urging readers to rethink Memorial Day, who we honor, and what resources we prioritize. Published on June 2, 1976 in the Boston Globe and republished in The Zinn Reader with the brief introduction below. Memorial Day will be celebrated . . . by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the […]

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Milwaukee, June 1, 2022: Justice for Jay Anderson Jr. Hearing

Event: https://fb.me/e/1VSUq47Ul 821 W State Street, Milwaukee, WI – 11 A.M. It is FINALLY TIME for Joseph Mensah to hear his fate in court on Wednesday, June 1st. In 2016 Jay Anderson Jr. was asleep in his car in Madison Park when serial killer cop Joseph Mensah decided to end Jay’s life. Mensah, as well […]