The global movement to free the Cuban 5 is feeling great joy. On May 3, Miami federal trial judge, Joan Lenard, signed an order allowing René González to remain in Cuba. The movement is now redoubling its demands on President Barack Obama to repatriate the other four members of the Cuban 5: Gerardo Hernández, Ramón [...]
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Groups demand U.S. recognize Venezuela gov’t
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Cheryl LaBash April 24, 2013 » Add the first comment.
U.S.-based organizations swiftly denounced U.S. intervention against the election of President Nicolás Maduro Moro in Venezuela and mobilized. Weekend actions in New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and San Francisco demanded that the U.S. recognize the new Maduro government and end its subversion and destabilization of the Bolivarian Revolution. Violent attacks on health clinics [...]
Tribute honors life & legacy of Leo Robinson
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Cheryl LaBash March 27, 2013 » Add the first comment.
San Francisco — Under the dome of the William B. Chester Hiring Hall of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 in San Francisco, hundreds gathered March 23 to honor the life and legacy of one of the most important modern-era, longshore rank-and-file, working-class strategists and leaders, Leo Robinson, who died Jan. 14. A posthumous Nelson [...]
ILWU fights global grain giants
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Cheryl LaBash March 22, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Hundreds of International Longshore and Warehouse Union members and supporters rallied March 8 in Vancouver, Wash., then marched to the headquarters of United Grain in a sharpening fight to force it and two other global food commodity trading giants from the Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers back to the bargaining table. A fourth company, TEMCO LLC, [...]
U.S. Coast Guard to back grain bosses again
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Cheryl LaBash February 14, 2013 » Add the first comment.
The ongoing struggle of longshore workers at grain terminals in the Pacific Northwest seemed back-burnered since International Longshore and Warehouse Union members overwhelmingly rejected the Pacific Northwest Grainhandlers Association’s highly concessionary “last-best offer” back in December. Since that time ILWU members at three of the big four grain exporters have worked under imposed conditions after [...]
Winner at Sundance: ‘Fruitvale’ is about police killing of Oscar Grant
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Cheryl LaBash January 28, 2013 » Add the first comment.
African-American writer/director Ryan Coogler graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts only two years ago, but his life and times prepared him to make the dramatic story “Fruitvale,” which won both Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 26. At the [...]
Huge buzz at Sundance Film Festival: Fruitvale tells story of police killing of Oscar Grant
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Cheryl LaBash January 25, 2013 » Add the second comment.
Writer/director Ryan Coogler graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts only two years ago, but his life and times prepared him to make the dramatic story, “Fruitvale,” which has rocked the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. On Jan. 19, tears flowed in the audience as sobs were heard at [...]
Leo Robinson, rank-and-file, internationalist fighter
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Cheryl LaBash January 23, 2013 » Add the second comment.
Leo Robinson, a working-class fighter on the West Coast docks and in the community, and an internationalist, succumbed to cancer on Jan. 14 at the age of 75. He is survived by his spouse and partner, Johnnie, six children and by militant rank-and-file longshore workers who learned how to fight from the bottom up from [...]
‘Free the Cuban 5!’
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Cheryl LaBash January 10, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Freedom for the Cuban 5 — Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González now in their fifteenth year of unjust U.S. imprisonment — is demanded on the fifth day of every month. Meetings, picketlines at U.S. embassies, banner drops, messages to President Barack Obama via postcard, fax, email or tweet — [...]
The ‘ironclad unity of the Bolivarian gov’t’
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Cheryl LaBash January 9, 2013 » Add the first comment.
On Jan. 3, as part of its regular condition updates of President Hugo Chávez following his Dec. 11 surgery, the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela alerted “the Venezuelan public of a campaign of psychological warfare unleashed by the international media regarding the health of the head of state,” as the Jan. 10 date [...]
