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The Southern Workers Assembly is hosting another Workers School, this year in Charleston, SC hosted by the ILA local 1422. We will be training our Southern worker cadre to help lead strategic organizing campaigns across the US South – organizing city workers, nurses in hospital chains, and building a broad campaign for Medicare for All. Your donation will help sponsor rank-n-file workers to attend this school. Organize the South!

June 15-16, 2019
Charleston, SC
Host: ILA local 1422
Contact us at (919) 539-2051 or info@southernworker.org

Summer Time Is Guillotine Time

Join Lil Guillotine, Eggpants @ More for a cool summer night show at the community spot!

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No New Jail: Dane County Board FINAL VOTE

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More Info: Roanoke Peoples’ Power Network

What’s The Hope Center?

The Hope Center is one of, if not the only, independent community centers run by and for the people in Roanoke, VA. It was started by a local family (3 people) in 2015 to offer activities, programs, and a general space for kids and adults in NW Roanoke. This family is moving, so a number of community members and groups are coming together, stepping up and taking it over collectively!

Being independent requires group efforts

One of the great and unique things about The Hope Center is that it’s independent, completely run by and for the people, and as such is accountable to the community. It isn’t controlled by capitalist institutions or their political parties, and doesn’t get any grant money (so it isn’t tied up in red tape and unnecessary limitations). Because of this The Hope Center depends solely on the collective efforts of and funding from the community.

There are some repairs needed (3 of the 4 front windows need to be replaced, which may cost around $1,000), as well as the regular costs of running and maintaining it (rent, bills, supplies, insurance, which are around $700/mo at minimum).

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June 19 is an important day in history, known as Juneteenth. Yet many people may not actually know just what the day is, what it celebrates, or why it still matters.

For some people, Monday, June 19 is just another day, and another insignificant day on the calendar. However, for those who are direct descendants of former slaves, the day holds a much bigger significance, as it is the oldest known celebration to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States.

According to Juneteenth.com, June 19, 1865 was the date that Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas and brought the news that the Civil War was officially over and those who had previously been enslaved were not free men and women. The website notes how important that is in relation to President Abraham Lincoln’s famous Emancipation Proclamation, which had become official two and a half years earlier, on January 1, 1863.

“The Emancipation Proclamation had little impact on the Texans due to the minimal number of Union troops to enforce the new Executive Order,” the website states. “However, with the surrender of General Lee in April of 1865 and the arrival of General Granger’s regiment, the forces were finally strong enough to influence and overcome the resistance.”

Though slavery has been out of practice for over 150 years, Juneteenth is still a day that is celebrated among many who want to make sure the relevance of the day isn’t forgotten. Several events will take place around the United States to commemorate the special day.

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The Government of Cuba offered medical support and coordinated the care of four Venezuelan children, whose recovery was affected by the financial sanctions of the United States, reported President Nicolás Maduro.

During a working meeting at the Miraflores Palace, the president thanked last Friday the solidarity of the Cuban people and authorities for saving the lives of Venezuelan citizens, “victims of the economic war against the South American nation.”

RELATED CONTENT: Venezuelan Girl Cannot Get Liver Transplant Due to US Sanctions (VIDEO)

The sanctions imposed by Washington against Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and the embargo of the subsidiary in US territory, Citgo, as well as the blocking of Venezuelan reserves in international banks, prevent the Bolivarian Administration from maintaining the financing of assistance programs abroad and the acquisition of medicines.

The president said that the Venezuelan State works hard to solve these difficulties through various means, with the purpose of guaranteeing the specialized medical attention demanded by the patients.

RELATED CONTENT: Crimes of the Blockade: The Story of Children with Bone Marrow Transplants

As an alternative, Venezuela made the disbursement of an additional six million euros for the purchase of medicines and coverage of pending treatments, funds that were also hijacked by a financial institution.

Maduro said that the government will propose, at the Norway talks with the opposition, the release and payment of monetary resources to cover the care of high-cost diseases for Venezuelans.

The president urged the opposition forces to refrain from politicizing the medical needs of the people.

“Put political differences aside and work for the common good, for solidarity, (…) politics is the art of exposing ideas, of defending projects, (…) not of hurting to try to build strategic power”, emphasized Maduro.

Source URL: Cadena Gramonte (Prensa Latina)

Translated by JRE/EF

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Listen to the Sat. June 1, 2019 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the escalation in fighting around the Libyan capital of Tripoli between the Libyan National Army (LNA) of Khalifa Hafter and the United Nations backed so-called Government of National Accord (GNA) headed by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj; Malawi has re-elected President Peter Mutharika to serve another term in office; Sudanese head of the Transitional Military Council (TMC), Abdel Fattah al-Berkhane, has met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa who said the Horn of Africa state will not interfere in the internal affairs of Khartoum; and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has officially been launched by the African Union (AU). In the second hour we begin our monthlong commemoration of Black Music Month with an examination of the cultural contributions of the legendary Duke Ellington. Finally we look back on the 98th anniversary of the so-called “Tulsa Riot” of 1921 which killed hundreds of African Americans and destroyed Black-owned businesses, churches and homes.

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As Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky, Ohio and Georgia attempt to outlaw abortions after six weeks, Missouri legislators approve an eight-week ban and Alabama passes a near total ban on abortions, we speak to journalist Ari Berman about how the widespread attack on abortion rights across the country is tied directly to voter suppression. He writes in a recent piece for Mother Jones, “These states have something else in common: a systematic effort to distort the democratic process through voter suppression and gerrymandering. These tactics have greased the way for near-total bans on abortion and for other extreme right-wing policies.”

This is a violation in international law, which makes the embassy of any country soveriegn territory of that counrty.

Demonstrations have taken place in Washington, DC to protest this move on the part of the U.S. government.

On September 21, a demonstration has been called in New York City as the United Nations General Assembly meets and heads of governments from many countries will be in New York.  More information on this action will follow soon. Save the date.

Read a report from Popular Resistance on the experience by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, 2 of the Embassy Protection Collective members.

Important video on attacks on Venezuelan embassies around the world and the fightback.

Social movements in Venezuela express solidarity with the Embassy Protection Collective