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** Biden His Time ([link removed] )
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This column by political prisoner and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was posted on Prison Radio.com on July 24. The candidacy of Joseph R. Biden Jr. for President of the United States has caused multiple reactions across the land. Biden, who enters his 77th year of life, draws warm feelings from Blacks . . .
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** Pensacola People’s Assembly: Justice for Tymar, prison abolition and more! ([link removed] )
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Over 100 people packed the gymnasium July 26 at the Fricker Community Center in downtown Pensacola, a Black-majority area. The first Pensacola People’s Assembly was put on by Pensacola Dream Defenders and began with a march to the community center from the home of Tymar Crawford, a Black man murdered . . .
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** ‘Oust Duterte!’ is a Filipino rallying cry in New York ([link removed] )
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On July 22, in pouring rain, several dozen people occupied the sidewalk in front of the Philippines consulate in midtown Manhattan to protest the corrupt, brutal and genocidal rule of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. The People’s State of the Nation Address was part of a globally coordinated day of protests, . . .
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** Sanctions kill ([link removed] )
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Over 30 countries are targeted with sanctions by the U.S., including China, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen and Zimbabwe. Sanctions are collective punishment against civilian populations. Sanctions kill. They result in chronic shortages, economic dislocation and chaotic hyperinflation. Those who impose sanctions aim to . . .
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** Central New York ‘stands against racism ([link removed] )
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Under the slogan “CNY Stands Against Racism,” about 50 people gathered in downtown Syracuse to protest the virulent U.S. racism that enforces life-threatening im/migrant camps, the deadly prison-industrial complex and the unjust criminal “justice system.” One speaker pointed out that all these structures break up families and attack the most . . .
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** Mueller and wishful thinking ([link removed] )
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Anyone who clung to the illusion that Robert Mueller’s July 22 testimony before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees would put POTUS in a pickle had to be disappointed. Now it should be clear: There will be no shortcut to pushing the president back, let alone smashing his reactionary racist . . .
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** Brown Berets commemorate historic march against Vietnam War ([link removed] )
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On the 49th anniversary of Houston’s historic Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War, Brown Berets from around the country gathered in Houston and marched the same route activists took on July 26, 1970, when over 1,000 Chicanos marched through east Houston to rally against the U.S. war in Vietnam. Led . . .
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** North Carolina workers rally against anti-immigrant law ([link removed] )
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Immigrant groups and union workers rallied in front of North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s mansion in downtown Raleigh on July 12, urging him to veto House Bill 370, the so-called “Show Me Your Papers” law. HB 370 is an anti-immigrant bill that circumvents the local authority of sheriffs by requiring . . .
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** Fourth immigrant dies in Georgia detention center ([link removed] )
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Pedro Arriago-Santoya died July 24 while detained in a South Georgia Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. Arriago-Santoya was 44 years old and from Mexico. His cause of death was listed as heart infection and multiple organ failure. Arriago-Santoya is the fourth migrant since 2017 to die while detained at Stewart . . .
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** Freed MOVE members welcomed in Brooklyn, N.Y. ([link removed] )
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Long-time MOVE supporter, Orie Lumumba, organized a welcome-home reception on July 27 for Janine Africa, Janet Africa and Eddie Africa, members of the MOVE communal family. These fighters for environmental justice and for revolution were falsely arrested and convicted in 1978 for killing a white cop in Philadelphia, when their . . .
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