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Washington D.C., October 9: Free Oscar Lopez Rivera
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The White Helmets – al Qaeda with a facelift
All-China Federation of Trade Unions. Yes to International Worker Solidarity!
Durham, NC, September 24: Hard Times Are Fighting Times: Building the Movement for Liberation, Revolution, & Socialism in the South
REGISTER TODAY: http://www.workers.org/wwp/hardtimesconference-register/
*Childcare will be provided*
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Join Workers World Party in Durham, North Carolina for a fightback conference on the resistance against racism and capitalism, and the struggle for socialism where we’ll discuss
> Ending the police war on Black & Brown people & defending the Black Lives Matter movement
> Stoping the raids & deportations & disarming ICE & the police
> Smashing HB2, defending queer and trans people, fighting for LGBTQ liberation now
> Fighting imperialism, for a free Palestine, and building international solidarity
> Abolishing capitalism and fighting for revolutionary socialism
The Black Lives Matter movement continues to heroically take it to the streets, occupying highways and police precincts across the country, demanding an end to police violence and mass incarceration. From Ferguson to Baltimore, we cannot allow the police and politicians to push back this movement as more rebellions are bound to break out as the racist police war on Black and Brown people continues.
The struggle to stop the raids and deportations of migrant workers and their families continues to grow. Many have been detained and deported by ICE at record numbers under the Democrats and the Obama administration.
The fightback is also intensifying against the attacks by racist billionaire Donald Trump and an emboldened right wing movement against immigrants and Muslims. Queer and trans people are fighting back in the face of a rising tide of reaction and a renewed assaults on their lives, including the murders around the country of trans people, and particularly trans women of color, in addition to a rash of backwards legislation.
The crisis of capitalism at a dead end, austerity, low wages, and cutbacks is devastating communities in the South, the U.S., and elsewhere around the world. Workers are building broad support for the fight for $15/hr campaign — which must continue towards the end of supporting the self-organization of workers into unions and the defeat of Jim Crow right-to-work (for less) laws, on the road to build a world run by the working class, in our interests, not of those of the bankers and the bosses!
U.S. imperialism continues to bomb, sanction, and threaten oppressed peoples – particularly in Syria, Libya, and Iraq — as the capitalist establishment fans the flames of Islamophobia at home. Solidarity and unity, between working class and oppressed people in the U.S. and across the globe, is urgently needed.
As the most unpopular election in U.S. history plays out, and we are faced with a choice between neo-fascist demagogue Trump or the racist liberalism of warmongerer Hillary Clinton, many are looking beyond the two capitalist parties of Wall Street, war, and racism. The rise of the movement around Bernie Sanders activated millions of mostly young people around his progressive, albeit limited, program. In the wake of Sanders’ endorsement of Hillary Clinton and full circle fold back into the Democratic Party, many of his supporters are asking — what now? Many more have questions about socialism, that Sanders’ campaign helped to popularize.
In the midst of all of this, Workers World Party is running two Black revolutionary socialists for president — Monica Moorehead and Lamont Lilly. We’re running not because we entertain any illusions about winning, but to help build the struggle in the streets around our 10 point revolutionary program. We don’t fight for a softer, kinder form of capitalism — we say: the whole damn system is guilty! We want to abolish capitalism, racist police terror and ICE, the attacks on LGBTQ people and women, U.S. imperialism. We want to fight for a revolutionary socialist future.
We need a revolution — a transformation of the economy, the political system, and all of society, where workers and communities control their future.
Racist police repression, raids and deportations, and the attacks on working class and oppressed people cannot be ended, once and for all, until the decaying capitalist system, which is becoming more and more desperately dependent on state repression, is ended. Capitalism must be replaced with a system that is based on meeting human needs, not exploitation to make profits: socialism.
These and other pressing struggles of the day — along with the experiences, observations, and questions of those in attendance — will be the basis of the conference. We hope you are able to join us.
durham@workers.org | 919-322-9970
Syria ceasefire not genuine on part of US says Sara Flounders of the International Action Center
Press TV has conducted an interview with Sara Flounders, a member of the International Action Center. http://www.presstv.us/Detail/2016/09/18/485291/Syria-US-Russia-ceasefire-deal-negotiation-war
Here is a rough transcription of the interview:
Press TV: What do you make of these latest situations? We have seen so much in the last few years in dealing with Syria in promises and broken promises and now the United States with this ceasefire seems not to be once again being very sincere about wanting peace to come to Syria, your take.
Flounders: Well the real problem with this ceasefire, with each of the ceasefire agreements and there have been many, is that the US remains absolutely committed to regime change, to the overthrow of the elected government of Syria and to their continued support of a whole series of armed fanatical factions that they play off one against the other, all committed to the destruction of Syria and whether they … at any one moment as moderate or extreme and as there is a flow of arms and a flow of names back and forth and commanders back and forth who change sides, all of this is really the US determination of overturning the government of Syria and that is continuing right through this ceasefire.
As we can see it is used as an opportunity to regroup, it is used as an opportunity to rename some of the groups and at the same time the US war propaganda continues through groups like the White Helmets NGOs which are complete frauds, extending publicity to the armed factions that are fighting, that are armed by the US and through Saudi Arabia, through Qatar, through Israel and through Turkey and at the same moment there are incursions by US special forces operating with Turkey into Syria.
So this ceasefire is not in any way genuine on the part of the US and they do not want it to continue because they are determined to continue regime change.
Press TV: Well let’s look at the other side of this. As you have said we have seen several attempted truce agreements in the past. Why do you think Russia then agreed to try this one more time if there is a lack of sincerity on the part of Washington? What do you think about that aspect because in many stages it gives them, as you have just said, it gives the rebels more time just to regroup and to start again, your take on that?
Flounders: Well the importance of the ceasefire agreements is that it shows again and again the willingness on the part of the Syrian government to arrive at any sort of peaceful negotiation with the opposition and to constantly express to the people of Syria, not to the invading foreign forces but to the people of Syria their interest in arriving at a peaceful resolution and I think this is why there have been so many efforts at ceasefires even if they are temporary, even if they won’t succeed and it also shows on part of Russia and the others who are giving assistance to this elected government to show a willingness to try to arrive at some negotiation but I think the demand of the people of the world must be to the US government to stop, to cease its effort at overturning the elected government of Syria.
That is the source of the problem, this US determination to arm one group after another and to just attempt to create chaos on the ground. It has displaced almost half the population of Syria today and at the same time the ceasefires do give some immediate aid and food and supplies to the half million people who are desperate for assistance and any government has to think about that, how to help the people who are caught in the middle in this terrible, terrible war.
So we offer hope, confidence in a ceasefire but at the same time we feel the responsibility to challenge the US government’s continuing arming of all these different groups and they are continuing efforts to overturn the elected government.
NYC, September 21: Hands Off Syria! Stop U.S War on Syria
New York City: Hands off Syria — Stop the U.S. war!
Wednesday, September 21 – 9:00 am to 11:00 am
United Nations / Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, East 47th St. & 2nd Ave., Manhattan
The US bombing of Syrian Government’s Army positions in the Eastern city of Deir ez-Zor on Saturday is a very dangerous escalation in the 5-year US effort of Regime Change or complete overturn of the legally elected and internationally recognized government of Syria.
Russia immediately called a UN Security Council Meeting. Another meeting of the UN Security Council is scheduled to take up Syria this Wed morning at 9am. The International Action Center joins with the Syrian American Will Association – SAWA, Syrian American Forum and Arab Americans 4 Syria for an emergency demonstration.
Sept. 9, 2013 Washington D.C.
Sept. 7 march in NYC from Union Square to Times Square.
Des Moines Workers’ Alliance
Des Moines Workers’ Alliance
The Des Moines Workers’ Alliance aims to build working class power to defend against bosses, landlords, and political elites.
The Aims of the Des Moines Workers’ Alliance
1) WE AIM TO CREATE A MULTIRACIAL AND DIVERSE ORGANIZATION WHICH FIGHTS FOR THE COMMON INTERESTS AND NEEDS OF COMMON PEOPLE.
We demand an end to the division of common people, based on race, gender, sexuality or other categories. Common people have common interests, which can and should be worked on collectively
2) WE AIM TO EMPOWER THE COMMON PEOPLE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST
BOSSES, LANDLORDS, COPS, POLITICIANS AND ALL OTHER THREATS TO OUR COMMUNITY.
Threats in our communities must be dealt with through direct means and we will focus on the problems that common people face right now and empower common people to act in defense of their interests.
3) WE AIM FOR COMMUNITY CONTROL OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. WE WANT AN END TO GENTRIFICATION AND ADEQUATE HOUSING FOR ALL.
Our neighborhoods should be under our control, not the Chamber of Commerce. We will fight the developers and the municipal bureaucrats who want to drive us out of our neighborhoods with high rent and high prices. Empty homes should be occupied by people who need them, not sold to the highest bidder. Our neighborhoods are ours to run.
4) WE AIM TO STRENGTHEN OUR COMMUNITIES THROUGH PROGRAMS AND MEANS OF DIRECT AID AND ACTION.
Working people who are living paycheck to paycheck or are unemployed or homeless have problems right now! We face many challenges: paying for food and groceries, getting healthcare, paying rent…the list goes on. We will find ways to strengthen our community by alleviating the problems our community faces through direct aid programs : free groceries, free breakfast, defense against landlords. For every common problem we face, we can find a com- mon solution.
5) WE AIM FOR END TO POLICE VIOLENCE IN OUR COMMUNITIES. WE WANT AN END TO INCARCERATION OF OUR COMMUNITY, WE WANT AN END TO THE STIFLING OF WORKING CLASS ADVANCEMENT BY THE STATE.
The police are everywhere in our communities, yet fix none of the problems. We know that the police are the problem, intimidating our community, hurting our family members and fellow workers. When working people fight for a better future as a group, police are the first line of defense for the establishment.
6) WE AIM FOR WORKER CONTROL OF ALL WORKPLACES.
If you work there, you should make the decisions about what happens there and receive the bene- fits of your labor. We will work to organize worker-led unions and build a base of community support for them.
dsmworkers@riseup.net / (515) 505-3242 / http://www.dsmworkers.org/
Indigenous Nations unified: ‘No to pipelines! Yes to sovereignty’
The struggle is not over. Our support continues to be crucial. We need to continue to support the Water Protectors and the encampments. We must demand all charges be dropped against those who were arrested. We must insist on the removal of the National Guard and other police and private security guard harassment. We must defend the sovereignty of Native Nations. We must support ongoing struggles against pipelines and fracking.
Ways you can help
CALL Gov. Jack Dalrymple of North Dakota and tell him you are outraged at the actions of the state against peaceful Indigenous peoples. Phone: (701) 328-2200.
CALL the White House, tell President Obama to honor his commitment to the people of Standing Rock and STOP the Dakota Access Pipeline now: (202) 456-1111.
SIGN THE PETITION to the White House to stop DAPL: tinyurl.com/StopDAPL
CALL or EMAIL executives of Energy Transfer Partners, which is building the pipeline:
Vicki Granado, Media Relations, (214) 599-8785, Vicki.Granado@energytransfer.com,
Lee Hanse, Executive Vice President, (210) 403-6455
DONATE $$
Sacred Stone Camp gofundme account: www.gofundme.com/sacredstonecamp
Red Warrior Camp gofundme account: oweakuinternational.org
Directly to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe: tinyurl.com/StandingRockFund
FIND A SUPPORT ACTION near you and more information online. Check out nodaplsolidarity.org
#HonorTheTreaties #NoBakken #SacredStoneCamp #STOPDAPL #MniWiconi #SacredWater #NoDAPL #RezpectOurWater #IndigenousRising #LoveWaterNotOil
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School of the Americas Watch: Converge on the U.S. Mexico Border from October 7-10, 2016
SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH
We are moving our annual convergence this Fall from the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia to the militarized US/Mexico border. The Border Convergence is going to take place from October 7-10, 2016 in Nogales, Arizona/ Sonora. The change of the location goes along with the broadening of the issue and our expanded fight against U.S. militarization at home and abroad.
The convergence is taking place right before the November election. To generate the biggest possible impact, we need to build a strong coalition of groups to make the convergence a success. We hope that you would consider to mobilize your community the Border Convergence.
Visit SOAW.org/border for more information.
Workers World Party National Conference Nov. 11-13: “Why We Must Keep Fighting For SOCIALISM”
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Shabazz Center, 3940 Broadway @ W 165th NYC
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