Taken from a April 18, 2013, column at prisonradio.org. The incipient, yet growing protests at Philadelphia’s Temple University around the governance of its highly-prized African-American Studies Department is not about academic freedom, nor about departmental regulations and proper protocol — although it has been couched in such terms. It’s about something far more fundamental. It’s [...]
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 [...]
‘Why we are marching’
Workers World Editor Deirdre Griswold spoke with women in three cities who will be participating in the Poor People’s March from Baltimore to Washington, D.C., on May 11-13. Here’s why they’re taking part in this important activity. Barbara Kauffman, Baltimore: “We hope to make change so we can better things for everyone. All type of [...]
U.S. May Day actions call for ‘Nothing less than legalization’
“Jobs, not jails or deportation; nothing less than legalization!” was a popular chant among the tens of thousands of workers, including undocumented immigrants, who turned out for May Day protests across the U.S. From coast to coast, they also demanded an end to racist and anti-union campaigns pushed by profit-hungry bosses at workers’ expense. Several [...]
Workers worldwide fight austerity, low wages
Millions marched in 80 countries to commemorate International Workers Day — May Day. They united in protest of austerity policies and demanded vital benefits for workers. Asian workers decry ‘race to bottom’ Masses of low-wage workers in Asia were on the streets decrying the transnational corporations’ “race to the bottom,” squeezing wages to maximize profits [...]
Poor People‘s March for jobs, justice
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C.D. Witherspoon May 7, 2013 » Add the first comment.
‘Ignite revolution Dr. King called for’ The following press statement was released by Witherspoon, president of the Baltimore chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Next Saturday morning, many of us will mark the 45th anniversary of the Poor People’s Campaign that Martin Luther King inspired, but did not live long enough to lead, by [...]
‘Long Distance Revolutionary’: #1 documentary in Philadelphia
Philadelphia — In one of many milestones in the decades-long movement to free political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, the documentary film “Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal” opened at the Ritz at the Bourse, a Landmark theater, on May 3 for a six-day run. Film director and producer Stephen Vittoria and co-producer Noelle Hanrahan, of [...]
Assata Shakur is a modern-day Harriet Tubman
I had the distinct honor of meeting Assata Shakur in person at the 1997 World Youth Festival in Havana, Cuba. I was all the more surprised when she recognized me as the 1996 presidential candidate for Workers World Party. Assata has been living in political exile in Cuba since 1979. A year later, in 1998, [...]
As French troops stay in Mali, suffering grows
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian visited the West African state of Mali on April 26, where his troops have been fighting since January. France intervened in the central and northern regions of Mali, supposedly to eject Islamic organizations designated as terrorists by Paris and other imperialist states. On April 25, the U.N. Security Council [...]
Hospitales deportan a pacientes indocumentados
En 2010, Quelino Ojeda Jiménez trabajaba en lo alto de un edificio en el aeropuerto de Midway de Chicago cuando se cayó al suelo. Él sufrió lesiones que lo dejaron casi tetraplégico y dependiendo de ventilación asistida. Tres días antes de Navidad del año 2011, el centro médico Advocate Christ Medical Center, en contra de [...]
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