The largest private company in the world, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., was forced to confront its worst nightmare on June 7: the specter of its own workers and their supporters calling it to account. Hundreds of courageous striking Walmart workers and their supporters converged on the corporation’s annual stockholders convention in Bentonville, Ark., and held a [...]
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Walmart confronted at annual stockholders’ meeting
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Gene Clancy June 10, 2013 » Add the second comment.
Striking Walmart workers, supporters converge on company headquarters
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Gene Clancy June 3, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Walmart workers across the United States resumed their strike at the end of May and began caravaning toward Bentonville, Ark., the site of Walmart headquarters and the company’s annual shareholders’ convention scheduled for June 7. The morning of June 3 strikers and their supporters set up picket lines in Bentonville. Organizers from OUR Walmart — [...]
Tornadoes and capitalism devastate Oklahoma
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Gene Clancy May 25, 2013 » Add the second comment.
On the afternoon of May 20, a force equal to 600 times the Hiroshima atomic bomb’s power struck the city of Moore, Okla. The giant tornado, 1.3 miles wide, cut a swath over 17 miles long, killing at least 24 people, ten of them children, and injuring 327 others. Over 13,000 homes and other structures [...]
Former U.S. puppet convicted of genocide in Guatemala
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Gene Clancy May 22, 2013 » Add the first comment.
BULLETIN: On May 20, Guatemala’s highest court threw out Rios Montt’s conviction. Appeals are being filed. On Dec. 4, 1982, President Ronald Reagan met Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt in Honduras. It was a useful meeting for both. Reagan declared Montt to be “a man of great personal integrity and commitment.” Reagan said, “I know [...]
Poor People’s March highlights police terror
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Gene Clancy May 8, 2013 » Add the first comment.
A recent report from the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement concludes that Black people in the U.S. face a crisis in their constitutional and human rights. The report documented an epidemic of unjustified police killings. In 2012 alone, more than 312 Black people were killed by police and vigilantes at a rate of one person every [...]
Here’s how sequester inflicts pain on working class
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Gene Clancy April 29, 2013 » Add the first comment.
It is becoming clear that the highly touted and publicized “sequester” on spending imposed by the federal government is going to be a highly selective and arbitrary process, with working and poor people receiving most of the pain and suffering and pro-big business and military spending going unscathed. After only one week of delays and [...]
Guantánamo hunger strike spreads
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Gene Clancy April 24, 2013 » Add the first comment.
In a paroxysm of vicious brutality, the U.S. government and military have brutally attacked prisoners at the U.S. concentration camp at Guantánamo Bay in an attempt to end their hunger strike. The military admits that over half the prison population is on hunger strike. The real figure could be many more. Army Lt. Col. Samuel [...]
Chile: tens of thousands march for education reform and social justice
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Gene Clancy April 19, 2013 » Add the second comment.
As many as 250,000 students took to the streets in Santiago and other Chilean cities on April 11, renewing their demands for education reform. After two years of student marches that have paralyzed Chile’s major cities and generated expectations of change to a troubled system, the crisis over education reform remains a key electoral issue [...]
Poor People’s March to revive Martin Luther King’s revolutionary heritage
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Gene Clancy April 7, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Forty-five years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stunned the nation when he called for a poor people’s campaign and march on Washington, D.C. The Poor People’s Campaign was part of the second phase of the Civil Rights movement. On May 11, Dr. Martin Luther King’s campaign for economic justice will be renewed [...]
General estadounidense ‘predice’ problemas para Cuba y Venezuela
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Gene Clancy April 4, 2013 » Add the first comment.
El jefe del Comando Sur de Estados Unidos, el general John Kelly, quien supervisa las fuerzas militares estadounidenses en América Latina, tiene miedo de que Nicolás Maduro se convierta en el nuevo presidente venezolano y que la Revolución Bolivariana continúe. Eso no le impidió tener algunas ilusiones –o calumniar y amenazar implícitamente a las revoluciones [...]
