Daily updates from Workers World
View this email in your browser ([link removed])
About ([link removed]) Print Subscription ([link removed]) Donate ([link removed]) Join ([link removed]) Contact ([link removed])
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
** Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters respond quickly to prison hoax ([link removed] )
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
When a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections spokesperson callously claimed that Mumia Abu-Jamal was being hospitalized with COVID-19 at 5 p.m. on April 15, the news was shared worldwide in minutes. Supporters, who have been misled by DOC statements in the past, immediately flooded the institution with calls demanding confirmation from . . .
Continue reading Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters respond quickly to prison hoax at Workers.org ([link removed])
** On the 150th anniversary of his birth/Lenin’s April Theses ([link removed] )
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
April 22, 2020, marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin, leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution. In honor of this great proletarian leader and theoretician, WW is reprinting an abridged talk by Deirdre Griswold, a founding member of Workers World Party and Workers World editor, given at . . .
Continue reading On the 150th anniversary of his birth/Lenin’s April Theses at Workers.org ([link removed])
** COVID-19 and the crisis of the elderly ([link removed] )
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
San Antonio health care workers take care of coronavirus patient. San Antonio, Texas This Texas city rarely makes national news. But since the outbreak of COVID-19, the so-called River City has made the national news twice. The later one was the poignant scene on April 9 of 10,000 families lined . . .
Continue reading COVID-19 and the crisis of the elderly at Workers.org ([link removed])
** Pandemic & capitalism are behind the rise of hunger in the U.S. ([link removed] )
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
Food pantry distribution in Bedford-Stuyvesant community, Brooklyn, N.Y., April 14. Dairy farmers are dumping millions of gallons of milk into lagoons. Produce farmers are plowing fresh vegetables back into the soil. Billions of dollars worth of food is being destroyed. This is happening while millions of people are lining up . . .
Continue reading Pandemic & capitalism are behind the rise of hunger in the U.S. at Workers.org ([link removed])
** Texas statewide protests demand: ‘Shut down ICE detention centers!’ ([link removed] )
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
April 19 car caravan in Houston. Across the state of Texas on April 19, social distancing protests in the form of car caravans circled detention centers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices demanding the release of all migrants in custody. The violent borders that allow for migrants and refugees to . . .
Continue reading Texas statewide protests demand: ‘Shut down ICE detention centers!’ at Workers.org ([link removed])
** N.J. car caravan raises demand #FreeThemAll, exposes detention center conditions ([link removed] )
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
Elizabeth, N.J. Resistance continues, even in the lockdown conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite essential social distancing guidelines, social justice organizations have stepped forward to actively defend the most vulnerable. Car caravans across the country have surrounded jails, detention centers and city halls with the resounding demand: Free them all! . . .
Continue reading N.J. car caravan raises demand #FreeThemAll, exposes detention center conditions at Workers.org ([link removed])
** People with disabilities fight to be counted in the battle vs. COVID-19 and depression ([link removed] )
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
“When the able-bodied community gets the sniffles, we get pneumonia. … The difficulties are multiplied tenfold,” said Damien Gregory, an African-American wheelchair user with cerebral palsy. (“Coronavirus Strains Safety Net for People with Disabilities,” Wall Street Journal, April 19) When asked about the numbers and statistics on how the COVID-19 . . .
Continue reading People with disabilities fight to be counted in the battle vs. COVID-19 and depression at Workers.org ([link removed])
[link removed] Share ([link removed])
[link removed] http%3A%2F%2Feepurl.com%2Fg0TD91 Tweet ([link removed] http%3A%2F%2Feepurl.com%2Fg0TD91)
[link removed] Forward ([link removed])
============================================================
Copyright © 2020 Workers World, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website.
Our mailing address is:
Workers World
147 W 24th St Fl 2
New York, NY 10011-1911
USA
Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can ** update your preferences ([link removed])
or ** unsubscribe from this list ([link removed])
.
