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White House vigil for Lynne Stewart’s compassionate release starts June 17

Sara Flounders — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:54:49 +0000

The continuing campaign to gain compassionate release for Lynne Stewart — the grievously ill, imprisoned human rights attorney — is headed to Washington, D.C. Despite being approved for compassionate release, Stewart continues to be held in Carswell Federal Prison in seriously deteriorating health. Stewart’s spouse, social justice activist Ralph Poynter, will lead a continuing vigil [...]

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Alabama struggle defends voter rights

Sharon Black — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:34:57 +0000

Selma, Ala. — The National Coalition of Leaders to Save Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is in the forefront of the struggle to fight the Supreme Court challenge that would render the 1965 Voters Act all but ineffective. On June 14, this coalition held a daylong caravan throughout Alabama. Rallies and marches were held in four towns and [...]

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Delegation will support Chokwe Lumumba’s mayoral inauguration

Monica Moorehead — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:29:54 +0000

The Baltimore People’s Power Assembly is organizing a national delegation to attend the July 1 mayoral inauguration of Chokwe Lumumba in Jackson, Miss. The Jackson People’s Assembly, which Lumumba helped found along with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, was instrumental in him winning 87 percent of the vote. The JPA calls for the direct participation [...]

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Georgia prison tour verdict: Shut it down!

Dianne Mathiowetz — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:27:14 +0000

Ocilla, Ga. — The Irwin County Detention Center sits just outside the town of Ocilla, population 3,400, in southern Georgia. With 200 workers, it is the largest private employer in Irwin County. Fields of cotton, peanuts and tobacco fill the countryside around Ocilla. Drought, unemployment and poverty plague its residents. The one-story, sprawling ICDC building [...]

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Apple bites workers at home & abroad

Editor — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:51:08 +0000

Workers and small business people complain a lot about taxes — and rightfully so. Too often, however, some especially in the middle class buy into the right-wing argument that their taxes are high because of “wasteful” government social programs meant to alleviate the worst aspects of poverty in the U.S. Nothing could be further from [...]

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Supporters of fired Colombian workers confront GM

Martha Grevatt — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:48:35 +0000

Detroit — For nearly two years members of Asotrecol — the Association of Injured Workers and Ex-workers of General Motors Colmotores — have been living in tents outside the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia. They are still demanding justice for workers who were fired after they were injured on the job in GM’s Colombian plant. [...]

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Protests in France mark the murder of young anti-fascist student

G. Dunkel — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:41:26 +0000

Clément Méric, an 18-year-old student at an elite university in Paris and a militant in the Antifascist Action collective (AAPB), was killed June 5 by a blow from brass knuckles wielded by members of a far-right group. The Facebook page of the AAPB says that Méric was the “victim of violence by the far right [...]

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Kansas protests austerity

Workers World staff — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:35:30 +0000

Poor and working people from throughout northeastern Kansas and beyond marched and rallied in Lawrence on June 8 to protest a racist austerity budget passed by the right-wing Legislature and likely to be signed into law soon by Gov. Sam Brownback. At a rally at the Plymouth Congregational Church, progressive, faith-based, labor and community leaders [...]

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Greece’s catastrophe shows what lies ahead for Europe

G. Dunkel — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:29:13 +0000

Speaking at the Left Forum in New York, June 9, Eirini Dourou said that the working people of Greece were living through a catastrophe, produced by Troika-imposed austerity. The Troika is composed of the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank. Dourou is a member of Parliament from the Athens area [...]

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The Syrian pretext

Editor — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:19:15 +0000

The reactionary terrorist gangs trying to overturn the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad are near collapse after a military defeat in the town of Qusair on the Lebanese border. Leading U.S. militarists — the most prominent being Sen. John McCain — are attacking President Barack Obama for allowing this collapse. The result: The Obama administration, [...]

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