Responding to a call from the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement to reject the racism, discrimination and prejudice against the Romani people, protest marches expressing Roma Pride took place Oct. 7 in France, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Poland, Ukraine, England, Turkey, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. In France, where a recent attack on [...]
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Coordinated protests against racism held in 14 European countries
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G. Dunkel October 12, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Haiti: No more words, people want deeds
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G. Dunkel September 29, 2012 » Add the second comment.
A number of strong, militant protests against the government of Michel Martelly have taken place in Cap-Haitien, the second largest city in Haiti, in the past few weeks. Demonstrators have burned tires and held mass marches. Haitian cops and Minustah — the United Nation’s occupying force in Haiti — using tear gas and live rounds, [...]
Chicago Teachers Union president defends strike
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G. Dunkel September 27, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Teachers all over the United States closely followed what happened in the one-week strike of the 26,000-strong Chicago Teachers Union, which had national implications. The CTU membership will vote on the new contract next month. In the meantime, public reactions to the strike from both sides of the barricade could not be more strikingly different. [...]
Chicago teachers suspend heroic strike
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G. Dunkel September 18, 2012 » Add the first comment.
On Sept. 18, the Delegates Assembly of the Chicago Teachers Union announced the suspension of the one-week strike. The union membership will vote to ratify the contract over the next two weeks according to CTU president, Karen Lewis. Sept. 17 — The Chicago teachers’ strike, which began on Sept. 10, has been extended to allow [...]
Quebec student struggle stops tuition hikes
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G. Dunkel September 17, 2012 » Add the second comment.
The first official decree from Pauline Marois, the new Quebec premier and leader of the Parti Québécois (PQ), at her victory party, rescinded the tuition increases the previous government had proposed and annulled the law forbidding demonstrations, especially near schools. All the major student confederations that had led a series of student strikes beginning in [...]
Same storm, different responses
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G. Dunkel September 10, 2012 » Add the first comment.
The storm called Isaac hit Haiti, Cuba and the United States. When it lashed Haiti and Cuba, meteorologists called it a storm; when it brushed Florida and came ashore in Louisiana, they called it a hurricane. No matter what it was called, it was dangerous. Georges Ngwa Anuongong, spokesperson for the United Nations’ humanitarian mission [...]
Chicago teachers seek good contract
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G. Dunkel September 2, 2012 » Add the second comment.
Since the third week of August, the Chicago Teachers Union has been practicing how to conduct a strike. About a third of Chicago’s public schools — those in so-called “track E” — start in mid-August, and the CTU has been conducting informational pickets in front of these schools before and after classes. The pickets explain [...]
Quebec students suspend strike, struggle goes on
As August began, students in community and senior colleges all over Quebec voted to suspend the student strike that began in the spring and spread to hundreds of schools. The student struggle is reflected in a provincial election set for Sept. 4. The party leading in the polls, the Parti Québécois, had supported the students [...]
Haiti: A century of occupation, oppression and resistance
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G. Dunkel August 6, 2012 » Add the second comment.
The situation for Haitian workers and peasants has gone from grim to dire. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reports that thousands of Haitians are fleeing their homeland in unseaworthy, rickety boats. Spokesperson Melissa Fleming says: “Although no firm statistics exist, it is estimated that hundreds of deaths occur yearly as a result.” (U.N. [...]
Libor: Another way banks steal
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G. Dunkel July 17, 2012 » Add the first comment.
It doesn’t sound malevolent. Libor — the London interbank offered rate — is presented as a series of interest rates, which banks use to make unsecured loans to other banks. The use of Libor began in the early 1960s. Every day, representatives of the world’s biggest banks — the ones that are considered “too big [...]
