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Triangle Unity May Day Coalition

WHAT: Press Conference to announce mass rally

WHEN: 6:00 PM, Thursday, December 1

WHERE: State Capitol building (Morgan Street side), Raleigh, N.C.

WHO: Triangle Unity May Day Coalition

Press contact: Manzoor Cheema, Muslims for Social Justice, at 919-355-8026 or Dante Strobino, Triangle Unity May Day Coalition at 919-539-2051

Following the 2016 presidential election of Donald Trump, the country has witnessed a resurgence of hateful rhetoric and violence aimed at immigrants, Muslims, Black people, workers, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, and Trans people, women, disabled people and all oppressed people. On Dec. 3rd, the terrorist Ku Klux Klan, are scheduled to hold a “victory” parade in North Carolina to celebrate the electoral win of Donald Trump.

The Triangle Unity May Day Coalition – composed of dozens of grassroots community and workplace organizations – will be hosting a mass rally on Saturday, December 3rd from 12:00pm to 2:00pm at Moore Square Park located at 200 S. Blount Street in downtown Raleigh to showcase the power of grassroots movement to challenge the forces of hate and oppression. The best way to oppose KKK and Trump presidency is building a stronger grassroots social justice movement.

As Trump and his followers, including the KKK, plan to demonstrate their unabashed hate for marginalized groups, we will demonstrate our unity with an unrelenting fight for justice.

We refuse to back down against the endless police murders of Black people. We stand in solidarity with the Black community in Charlotte as they protest against the non-indictment of cop Brentley Vinson who killed Keith Lamont Scott. We stand in solidarity with our immigrant friends who now fear threats of deportation by Trump. Our movement for not one more deportation will keep fighting ahead!

We stand against hate crimes and racist violence against our friends who are labeled terrorists by the state and Trump by virtue of being Muslim. We are also workers fighting for $15 per hour and for collective bargaining rights for public workers! We oppose any new wars that Trump threatens to create. We move forward to advance our struggle for quality public schools and to defend all public services that Trump has threatened to shut down. We won’t let him shut anything down!

We invite people from all backgrounds to join and support our coalition of workers, Black, Brown, Muslim, immigrants, and other marginalized groups, called the Triangle Unity May Day Coalition.

We invite the press to a press conference on Thursday, December 1 at 6:00pm at the Morgan Street side of the State Capitol building as we announce our plans for a mass rally.

#ThisIsOurNC #NCAgainstIslamophobia #NCAgainstRacism #NC4WorkersPower #Not1More

RALEIGH, NC, December 3, 2016: Shut Down Trump and the KKK! No white supremacy & state violence

National Call to Action – Come to North Carolina on December 3!
Joint Call to Action from Triangle Unity May Day Coalition and the Charlotte Uprising:

THIS STATE BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE, NOT TRUMP AND THE KKK! No white supremacy and state violence! We won’t go back!

12-3 P.M., Moore Square, 200 S Blount Street, Raleigh, NC 27601

GREENSBORO, NC, December 3, 2016: Triad March Against Trump and the KKK: No Hate in Our Streets

Windsor Recreation Center, 1601 East Gate City Boulevard, Greensboro, NC 27401

Seguido Por Traduccion en Espanol:

Greensboro has a rich tradition of resisting the Klan and racism in ALL its forms. Trump’s election has emboldned yet another wave of vicious racists attacks with promises for much worse. It is our duty to SHUT IT DOWN!

With the KKK planning a parade celebrating Trump’s victory in NC we must come together in force to show that their hateful public presence will never be welcome in our communities. An injury to one is an injury to all, and we will not tolerate hate in our streets. Join us for a rally and a March from the Windsor Community Center to 1979 Greensboro Massacre historical marker as we invoke our painful yet radical history of resistance against the Klan, racism, and all forms of injustice. Bring Family and Friends!

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Greensboro tiene una larga tradición de resistir el Klan y el racismo en TODAS sus formas. La elección de Trump ha envalentonado otra oleada de ataques racistas viciosos con promesas de muchas cosas peores. ¡Es nuestro deber detenerlo!

Con el KKK planeando un desfile celebrando la victoria de Trump en Carolina del Norte, debemos unirnos para demostrar que su odiosa presencia pública nunca será bienvenida en nuestras comunidades. Una lesión a uno es una lesión a todos, y no toleraremos el odio en nuestras calles. Únase a nosotros para una manifestación y una marcha desde el Centro Comunitario de Windsor al El marcador histórico del Greensboro Massacre de 1979 donde invocamos nuestra dolorosa pero radical historia de resistencia contra el Klan, el racismo y todas las formas de injusticia. ¡Traiga a la familia y a sus los amigos! Necesitamos solidaridad mas que nunca.

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[col. writ. 11/27/16] ©’16 Mumia Abu-Jamal

Fidel Castro, father of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, has died, after 90 years of a life of rebellion and resistance. That this bold revolutionary figure lived as long as he did is itself a victory, for he outlived at least 11 assassination attempts launched by the CIA.

11 times that the US gov’t has admitted!

As a young man, he earned a law degree, but he never practiced; he took the revolutionary path–and began a struggle against the US-supported Cuban dictator, Fulgencia Batista. That struggle, which led to the fall of Batista, inspired people all around the world.

One of those inspired was the late Huey P. Newton, cofounder of the Black Panther Party, who, in a 1967 jail interview, noted:

“When Fidel Castro started the Revolution, along with Che Guevara, with 12 of them altogether, they realized that they wouldn’t be able to topple the, uh, oppressive regime in Cuba. What they were essentially was an educational body. They engaged with the Army, they fought with the Army, and, uh, they showed the people that the army was not bullet-proof, that the police were not bullet-proof. And that Batista’s regime was not a regime that was impossible to topple, so the people began to feel their strength.”                     —-Dr. Huey P. Newton.

Fidel was a friend of Malcolm X, and a life long friend of Africa. The racist regime of Apartheid South Africa got whipped in Angola, with tens of thousands of Cuban troops in the field. The notorious battle of Cuito Carneval, Angola was where South Africa saw the bloody handwriting on the wall.

Castro once said:

“African blood flows in our veins. Many of our Ancestors came as slaves from Africa to this land. As slaves they struggled quite a great deal. They fought as members of the liberating army of Cuba. We’re brothers and sisters of the people of Africa and we are ready to fight in their behalf.”

Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution never bowed to the US Empire–not once in over ½ a century.

The Cuban Revolution produced the finest educational system in the Caribbean and much of the world. They have sent their doctors all around the Earth.

The world mourns the passing of a giant.

Fidel Castro-Ruz, Commandante de la Revolución. ¡Presente!

–©’16maj

http://theinternationalcommittee.org/

You can learn as much about a man from his critics as you can from his admirers. Henry Kissinger, U.S. secretary of state under Nixon, described Fidel in his memoirs as perhaps the most genuine revolutionary leader in power at that time.

The former Secretary of State and advisor to various U.S. Presidents was referring to 1975 when – to the surprise of the U.S. – Cuba lent its support to the Angolan independence struggle. In the Cold War geopolitics of the time, the Soviets were opposed to direct involvement, while Washington blatantly supported the racist apartheid regime in South Africa. http://theinternationalcommittee.org/

Voces de la Frontera

Noon to 1 p.m. at Knapp & Broadway, to stop deportations and separating families.

Confronting anti-immigrant racists in Milwaukee July 19. [Photo: Occupy Riverwest]