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https://www.workers.org/wwp/2017conference/ Workers World Party 2017 National Conference November 18 – 19 | Downtown Newark, NJ – near Penn Station Register for the conference today! This year, the movement has seen everything from the inauguration of arch-bigot Donald Trump to the toppling of racist confederate statues. It has responded in militant action to the attacks on […]

By Linda Backiel posted on October 25, 2017 https://www.workers.org/2017/10/25/puerto-ricans-organize-themselves-to-revive/ “…It is the lack of maintenance that led to the collapse of the electrical generating and transmission systems. FEMA awarded $240 million contracts to a U.S. company for repairs — one of many such contracts — but the recipients do little other than pay their employees and distribute profits […]

Save the date for the 48th annual National Day of Mourning. Thursday, November 23, 2017 at 12 noon at Cole’s Hill in Plymouth, MA WHAT IS NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING? An annual tradition since 1970, Day of Mourning is a solemn, spiritual and highly political day. Many of us fast from sundown the day before […]

Hosted by Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association We haven’t held a union t-shirt day in a long time and with our union recertification election starting Wednesday, November 1st and our current campaign to win a better budget we have a lot of union pride to exude. Ask every member in your building to wear their union green […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 25, 2017 Chrissy Faessen, 703-828-7769, chrissy@conwaystrategic.com WASHINGTON — After more than a month after she made her decision, Jane Doe was able to obtain an abortion this morning.  She was able to get the abortion care after an appeals court in Washington, D.C., issued a decision late yesterday, clearing the way […]

October 25, 2017 WHEREAS, in 2005, the AFL-CIO Convention passed a historic resolution calling for the rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, and an end to the country’s occupation; and WHEREAS, in 2011, the AFL-CIO Executive Council declared that American troops must be brought home from Iraq and Afghanistan, and that the militarization of […]