Mariela Castro Espín, directora del Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual (CENESEX) en la Habana, Cuba y diputada de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular de su país, habló en el Foro de la Igualdad el 3 de mayo en Filadelfia, Pensilvania. [N de T: El Foro de la Igualdad es una organización basada en Filadelfia [...]
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Hija del presidente de Cuba recibe premio en EEUU
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Joseph Piette May 15, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Postal workers’ struggle spreads across the world
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Joseph Piette May 9, 2013 » Add the first comment.
U.S. Postal Service clerks, carriers, mail handlers and drivers have a lot in common with other postal workers in the capitalist world. In Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Greece, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, India, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, Canada and other countries, postal workers have gone out on strike in the last year to demand wage increases, [...]
Cuba’s Mariela Castro receives LGBT Equality Award
Mariela Castro Espín, the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) in Havana, Cuba, and a deputy of Cuba’s parliament, the National Assembly of People’s Power, spoke at the Equality Forum in Philadelphia on May 3. Castro Espín has spearheaded a number of campaigns over the last decade to promote acceptance of [...]
USPS continues attack on workers despite pulling back on Saturday deliveries
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Joseph Piette April 12, 2013 » Add more comments.
Washington, D.C. — Postal workers present at a Postal Regulatory Commission hearing on April 10 withheld applause when the United States Postal Service representative announced that Saturday mail delivery would not be curtailed. Just three weeks earlier, before the April 10 hearing here, tens of thousands of workers and community activists had joined hundreds of rallies [...]
Issues behind postal workers’ struggle
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Joseph Piette March 25, 2013 » Add the second comment.
The battle over six-day delivery and to save the U.S. Postal Service from being privatized reflects both the depth of the capitalist economic crisis and the level of the class struggle in the United States. This quote from a current television ad inadvertently points out some contradictions facing postal workers and customers: “Hi, I’m Lorenzo. [...]
Protests to target no-mail Saturdays
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Joseph Piette February 19, 2013 » Add the first comment.
The U.S. Postal Service decision to eliminate Saturday mail delivery has generated increasing calls for protests by workers and community organizations under the common demands: “Save six-day delivery” and “Save our Post Office.” On Feb. 5, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe announced plans to stop delivering and collecting letters and other first-class mail on Saturdays, beginning [...]
‘Save the Post Office’ rally planned for Staten Island, N.Y., Feb. 9
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Joseph Piette February 4, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Postal workers and community activists will rally at the Staten Island, N.Y., Mail Sorting Facility, 550 Manor Rd., at noon on Feb. 9. The mail processing plant is being targeted by workers because it is one of 99 centers scheduled to be shut down in the next six months. The U.S. Postal Service threatens to close [...]
Philadelphia IAC: 20 years of struggle
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Joseph Piette January 9, 2013 » Add the first comment.
The Philadelphia Chapter of the International Action Center celebrated its 20th anniversary with a benefit dinner on Jan. 6, featuring national IAC co-director, Sara Flounders, and Pam Africa, of International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal. In addition to short statements of solidarity from Patrice Parmstead, Building Peoples Power; Ray Martinez, Service Employees Local [...]
Postal hunger strike targets Congress
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Joseph Piette January 2, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Washington, D.C. — Postal workers carried out a six-day encampment and hunger strike once again in Washington, D.C. This time they stalked the congressional lame-duck sessions that threaten to tear down the U.S. Postal Service. The labor activists contend that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and outgoing Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) are engaged in closed door postal [...]
Community protests killer cops
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Joseph Piette December 13, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Philadelphia community activists organized by Free the Streets marched on Dec. 7 from 61st and Market streets, near where Derrick “Browny” Flynn was killed by Philadelphia police, to the 19th Police District, where friends and family demanded to know why he was killed last Nov. 11. Several speakers, including Browny’s cousin, Shanise Jackson, and Building [...]
