Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
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By Dennis J. Bernstein and Randy Credico, from Flashpoints radio show, originally in print on Consortium News DB: John, what is the latest we know about how Julian Assange is being treated and his current state? John Pilger: His state of health is just about the same, as I understand it. He needs medical attention, the kind of treatment you[…]
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by Betsey Piette, posted on Workers World, June 17, 2018 Philadelphia — In the early morning of June 16, after nearly 40 years of unjust imprisonment by the state of Pennsylvania, political prisoner and MOVE 9 member Debbie Sims Africa was granted parole and released from the State Correctional Institution-Cambridge Springs. Messaging on Instagram, the MOVE Organization wrote: “Our sister[…]
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Family members and neighbors in the Indigenous community of Claudia Patricia Gómez Gonzáles, dead in Texas, grieve in her home in Los Alonzo, near San Juan Ostuncalco, department of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. by Chris Fry, originally published on Workers World Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzales, an unarmed woman from Guatemala, was shot in the head and killed on May 23 by Customs[…]
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by Jeff Sorel, originally published on Workers World, March 10, 2018 Chicago — The goal of “a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family” is embedded in the federal Housing Act of 1949. Yet, on a single winter night in 2016, according to a federal agency count, “544,084 people experienced homelessness in the United States.” Of[…]
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Students are evacuated from Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Col., after a shooting in 2013 By Bruce Lesnick, originally published on Socialist Action, Feb 22, 2018 With 346 mass shootings in the U.S. in 2017 and 34 in the first two months of 2018—including the Parkland, Fla., tragedy that cost the lives of 17 high school students and injured 15[…]
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Leonard Peltier is a political prisoner in the United States. He speaks below about his incarceration, but the context of his arrest is the 1970s American Indian Movement to illuminate the history of abuse and to demand human rights for the indigenous peoples of this continent. Leonard Peltier, Statement February 6, 2018 Greetings Family, Friends and Supporters I am overwhelmed[…]
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“FISA set up a rubber stamp kangaroo court with only a handful of warrants being rejected in the forty year history of this law.” by Margaret Kimberley, originally published on Black Agenda Report Republican and Democratic Party dueling over Russiagate provides us with a teachable moment. It should teach us to disrespect and discredit the law enforcement system as it[…]
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 50 Years Later: The Struggle Against Racism, War & Poverty Continues by Abayomi Azikiwe, originally published on Pan African News Wire, Jan 29, 2018 Behind the Trump veneer is a system of oppression and exploitation which must be uprooted This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the martyrdom of the central figure in the movement[…]
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by Bruce Dixon of Black Agenda Report, Jan 18, 2018 Back in 1857 the US Supreme Court, in response to the lawsuit of one Dred Scott, a slave suing for his freedom, ruled that nobody of African descent had any legal right under the US Constitution that any white man was bound to respect. It was a bright line that[…]
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By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Originally published in Popular Resistance Ajit Pai, the former Verizon lawyer who is chair of the FCC, went too far last Thursday in undermining the Internet when he led the dismantling of net neutrality rules. As a result, he has fueled the energy needed to protect Internet rights. It is time for Movement Judo,[…]
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