Home » Human needs before profits » Portland protest hits Musk/Trump’s attack on postal service Portland, Oregon Despite heavy rain, over 150 protesters rallied at the East Portland Post Office Feb. 23, to stop Trump’s attacks on the USPS and “Fight like hell” for living wages, an end to mandatory overtime and no two-tier workforce…
Half of the population of Haiti — 5.4 million workers — don’t get enough to eat every day. According to the United Nations World Food Program, 2 million Haitians — the Internally Displaced People (IDP) driven from their homes by political violence — are facing extreme food shortages, acute malnutrition and high levels of disease.…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told a reporter outside the White House on Tuesday that he doesn’t “know anything” about WikiLeaks founder and former editor Julian Assange, whose political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London is believed to be under threat largely from pressure by the U.S. government. Trump’s statements have been widely criticized…
LOS ANGELES — Children as young as three years old are being forced to hold their own in deportation proceedings in federal court, judges have reported, further confirming how the cruelties of the U.S. immigrant enforcement regime have been largely unhindered by the local and global controversy it’s provoked. The practice began under former President…
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — Late on the evening of June 28, 2009, two days before voters were scheduled to go to the polls to vote on a referendum amending the Honduran Constitution, army officers forced President Manuel Zelaya — wearing only his pajamas and slippers — to board a military airplane for Costa Rica. Three months…
Home » Human needs before profits » Portland protest hits Musk/Trump’s attack on postal service Portland, Oregon Despite heavy rain, over 150 protesters rallied at the East Portland Post Office Feb. 23, to stop Trump’s attacks on the USPS and “Fight like hell” for living wages, an end to mandatory overtime and no two-tier workforce…
Half of the population of Haiti — 5.4 million workers — don’t get enough to eat every day. According to the United Nations World Food Program, 2 million Haitians — the Internally Displaced People (IDP) driven from their homes by political violence — are facing extreme food shortages, acute malnutrition and high levels of disease.…
Home » LGBTQIA2S+ liberation » WW Commentary: No more murdered siblings: Justice for Sam Nordquist! On Feb. 14, police in Canandaigua, New York, found the dead body of Sam Nordquist, a 26-year-old trans man of color, after he endured several months of torture. Canandaigua is about 30 miles southeast of Rochester. Memorial vigils have been…
Home » Prisons: tear them down » Temple students’ forum on political prisoners Philadelphia A forum entitled “Solidarity and Political Prisoners” was held to educate students and others about the case of Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal on Feb. 22 at Temple University in Philadelphia. The event was sponsored by the Black Student Union at…