Above Photo: A separate AFSCME Local 2822 workers protest 2020. Minneapolis, Minnesota – On June 22 union leaders from AFSCME Local 2822, representing 1300 clerical workers at Hennepin County, crashed the State of the County Address demanding, “Stop retaliation against union activists now! End racism, sexism, ageism at work!” While managers patted each other on the back and reconnected after two years of hiding at home, union leaders confronted public officials with signs and informational flyers. Workers are demanding the bosses stop targeting union stewards and activists. Bosses began targeting three union leaders in January 2022. The first was Irish Gauna, […]
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On a cold morning in February 2013, I led a group of American policymakers and criminal justice practitioners — judges, public defenders, legislators, corrections officials, law professors — on a visit to a juvenile prison in eastern Germany. We met with a group of young men, largely between the ages 18 and 21, who were serving between two to five years at the facility; most had been convicted of a violent offense. Although these young men certainly looked like teenagers or very young adults — dressed in jeans, cargo pants, colorful T-shirts, sweatshirts, and baseball caps — they would certainly not be considered […]
Above Photo: President Maduro being received in Mexico by Chancellor Ebrard. After five years without meeting, Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) will convene on Saturday for the VI Summit in Mexico City. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whose late Friday arrival upstaged all other participants of the Summit, has submitted a proposal to his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to create a General Secretariat of CELAC and appoint a consensus Secretary General based in Mexico. President Maduro says the new institutional framework is necessary for CELAC in the context of the debate taking […]
A couple whose daughter was taken off life support against their wishes has won a court battle to publish footage of their brutal treatment by UK cops. Rashid and Aliya Abbasi spoke to RT on seeking justice for young Zainab. After winning the right to have footage of Rashid’s brutal arrest at his dying daughter’s bedside made public on Friday, the respiratory doctor and his wife – also a trained physician – are determined to stop such heinous maltreatment by “bad apples” in the NHS from continuing, they told RT UK on Tuesday. “Up and down the country families are taken […]
Philadelphia Protest: ‘Housing Is Dignity!’ By Betsey Piette, Workers World. July 17, 2020 Philadelphia Protest: ‘Housing Is Dignity!’2020-07-172020-07-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/housing-protest-outside-jtd-encampment-in-philadelphia-from-workers-world-e1595007838561.jpg200px200px Above photo: Housing protest, Outside James Talib-Dean tent encampment in Philadelphia from Workers World. Residents of the James Talib-Dean tent encampment, set up on June 11 on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, held a press conference July 13 to denounce city plans to evict them. Calling for housing now for people who are homeless, camp residents say they are not willing to leave. Named in honor of a housing organizer who recently died, the JTD encampment brought together around 150 activists and houseless people to […]
By Galima Galiullina, Doctor of Philosophy for VT The name of the young man in the top photo is well known to the Russians. This is Magomed Nurbagandov, a policeman who did not kneel before bandits, demanding that he renounce his rank of police officer. The bandits killed his younger brother in front of his eyes. Instead of the expected words of repentance, the young man appealed: “Work, brothers!” He was killed, but his example will bring up boys in Russian families. The bottom photo shows policemen in the United States during the days of mass protests against police brutality against […]
Robert Steele, the alt-right white former spy, co-founded #UNRIG with Cynthia McKinney, alt-left black former Congresswoman. They were immediately suppressed as threatening to the Deep State. In this interview, Robert asks eleven questions intended to showcase the value of Dr. McKinney to President Donald J. Trump’s campaign to Make America Great Again. Cynthia McKinney is a nationally-recognized leader and a globally-recognized activist for peace and human rights. A six-term member of the House of Representatives from Georgia as a Democrat, she left that party to be the Green Party nominee for President of the United States of America in 2008. A […]