Some 300 farmworkers and their supporters from New York’s labor and progressive community marched and rallied May 18 to tell Wendy’s to join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Fair Food Program like other fast-food chains have. Since tomato pickers are farmworkers, they are not covered by labor law in Florida or federally. They have no [...]
Sometimes by examining what the corporate media cover and what they ignore, you can learn something useful about what the superrich want the workers to know. For example, news that Greek teachers called off a strike when the government threatened to put any teacher on strike in jail received some coverage in the U.S. big-business [...]
Haiti’s judicial police headquarters had banned demonstrations in support of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. So, on May 8, tens of thousands of Haitians marched alongside Aristide’s motorcade after he gave testimony in the courthouse in Port-au-Prince, the country’s capital. They escorted him home. Aristide provided testimony about Jean Dominique, a popular journalist who was assassinated [...]
Over 500 parents and teachers, children and students, and their supporters gathered April 26 in front of Tweed Courthouse, the headquarters of New York City’s Department of Education, to condemn a week of high-stakes testing based on a curriculum that hasn’t been fully implemented. The theme of the rally was “Our children are NOT a [...]
Jens Weidmann, the president of the German central bank that has been key to the extreme austerity imposed on Cyprus, said, “The situation in Cyprus has stabilized in the last few days.” (New York Times, April 7) Workers in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, a small island country of about 4 million people, don’t think [...]
Fairbanks, Alaska — The budget cuts known as the sequester, which have yet to strike with full force, are creating major problems for Native peoples. While programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, nutritional assistance (food stamps), disability payments and welfare benefits are specifically exempted under the sequester, payments to the Indian Health Service and for schools, [...]
The United Nations took 15 months to contemplate a claim that a cholera epidemic, which killed more than 8,600 Haitians and sickened over 680,000, was caused by the U.N.’s “peacekeeping” force, Minustah, dumping excrement into the Meye River. The pollution eventually worked its way into the water supplies that millions of Haitians use for drinking, [...]
The first response to the threat facing government workers from the sequester was from the American Federation of Government Employees. A large rally near the Capitol on Feb. 12, called by AFGE and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, denounced sequestration and the effects it would have on public workers just hours [...]
Just days before an inspection team was due to check that Greece’s new austerity measures were in place, tens of thousands of workers took to the streets on Feb. 20 and shut the country down. The strikers made it clear that “reforms” that leave patients without health care and drugs, students without education, taxpayers without [...]
Greece: Resistance grows to increasing misery All the major Greek labor organizations — the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) together with the Civil Servants’ Confederation and the All-Workers Militant Front — have called for general strikes on Feb. 20. A few days later international observers, whose task is to verify that the Greek government [...]
Raleigh, N.C. — On May Day, the NC Student Power Union mobilized more than 350 students from 10 colleges from all around North Carolina to participate in a demonstration against the Legislature’s regressive agenda. […]
