The corporate-owned media reviews of the movie “The Central Park Five,” just released on DVD, focus mainly on the pathos and injustice of wrongful incarceration. They’re downplaying the more political message of the film, which exposes the oppressive and racist nature of the state — and the media — under capitalism in the United States. [...]
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Central Park 5, Jena 6 and the Scottsboro Brothers
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Tony Murphy May 21, 2013 » Add the second comment.
Puncturing the lies and hypocrisy about north Korea
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Tony Murphy March 19, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Right now, during the worst jobless crisis in decades, the “sequester” is being imposed on us. Hundreds of thousands of people will lose their jobs. Some 70,000 children will be kicked out of the anti-poverty Head Start program. People who have been jobless for more than six months will see their unemployment payments go down [...]
Lessons of the NYC school bus strike: Was it worth it?
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Tony Murphy February 26, 2013 » Add more comments.
The bourgeois media made a decision to portray the end of the New York City school bus union’s four-week strike as an out-and-out victory for Mayor Michael Bloomberg. There’s no question that Bloomberg intends to entirely eliminate the Employment Protection Provision — the job-protection seniority list at the heart of the strike. The EPP is [...]
Digamos NO a los ataques del Alcalde Bloomberg
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Tony Murphy February 19, 2013 » Add the first comment.
¡ÚLTIMA HORA! El 15 de febrero, después de que los cinco candidatos a alcaldes por el Partido Demócrata hicieran un llamado al sindicato, la junta ejecutiva de ATU 1181 votó a favor de suspender la huelga y “continuar la lucha por la Disposición para la Protección de Empleados [EPP por sus siglas en inglés] en [...]
NYC school bus strike ends, struggle continues
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Tony Murphy February 18, 2013 » Add the second comment.
New York — After a month-long strike during the coldest days of winter, the executive board of the school bus drivers and matrons’ union voted on Feb. 15 to end Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181′s work stoppage. The walkout was originally forced on the union by the mayor’s decision to do away with the workers’ seniority [...]
Safety becomes issue in NYC school bus workers’ strike
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Tony Murphy February 14, 2013 » Add the first comment.
New York, Feb. 14 — Organizers with PIST — Parents to Improve School Transportation — have begun talks with union and local activists about a community response to the non-union student transportation crashes that have occurred in the fourth week of the New York City public school bus strike. This morning, a crash occurred in [...]
Tell NYC Mayor Bloomberg— Stop bullying our families!
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Tony Murphy February 12, 2013 » Add the first comment.
New York — When more than 5,000 school bus drivers, matrons and mechanics marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Feb. 10, the brutal nature of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s attacks on their jobs became even clearer. Seeing thousands of faces of the people who care for schoolchildren every day — and whose livelihoods are [...]
Thousands of school bus workers march for their jobs
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Tony Murphy February 11, 2013 » Add the first comment.
New York — When thousands of school bus drivers, matrons and mechanics marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Feb. 10, the brutal nature of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s attacks on their jobs became even clearer. Before that day, public opinion was already moving toward the strikers in Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181. While the media [...]
Activists denounce MTA’s union-busting tactics in NYC school bus strike
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Tony Murphy February 5, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Protesters crashed the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority’s first board meeting of the year in solidarity with the school bus drivers’ and matrons’ strike and in defense of students’ safety. They demanded that transit agency MetroCards not be issued to students as alternative school transportation. This topic was not on the MTA’s agenda. Nevertheless, the [...]
NYC struggle over racist subway ads
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Tony Murphy December 19, 2012 » Add the first comment.
New York — When the far-right blogger Pamela Geller collaborated with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in September to run a series of racist, anti-Islam ads in the New York subways, the reaction on the part of New York’s progressive community was instant. Virtually all of the ads Geller paid the MTA to run were defaced within [...]
