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** Philadelphia: #FreeBlackMamas demand prisoner release ([link removed] )
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Philadelphia Protesters, led by currently and formerly incarcerated women, trans and non gender-binary people, held a rally on May 15 in a city park next to Riverside Correctional Facility to demand the release of people held in Philadelphia jails and an end to unjust cash bail. The action featured speeches . . .

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** An all-too-familiar occurrence ([link removed] )
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Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician in Louisville, Ky., was killed by eight police bullets as she lay in her bed at 1 a.m. on March 13. Breonna Taylor This tragic incident is an all-too-familiar event. Another young Black person has died at the hands of the shoot-first, ask-questions-later . . .

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** On anniversary of historic bombing: MOVE’s message is ‘Free Mumia!’ ([link removed] )
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Philadelphia May 13 was an historic and emotionally charged day as the city of Philadelphia took time to commemorate the horrific bombing of the MOVE family 35 years ago. Police dropped a C4 military-grade bomb on their west Philadelphia home, killing six adults and five children. City officials, including then . . .

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** The Nakba: 72 years of ongoing catastrophe ([link removed] )
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May 15 is the day commemorating Youm al-Nakba, the Day of Catastrophe, when white European settlers declared war on the people of Palestine in 1948. In the violence that immediately followed the settlers’ so-called “independence” declaration, at least 700,000 Palestinians were forced out of their homes, and hundreds of towns . . .

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** Ecuador regime wages ‘war against workers’ ([link removed] )
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Ibarra, Ecuador Part 1, “Ecuador’s pandemic: Rightist regime fails to confront crisis,” is available at workers.org. In a “war against workers,” President Lenín Moreno’s regime is exploiting the pandemic crisis to advance the same International Monetary Fund austerity package that provoked the great uprising in Ecuador the first week of . . .

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** Prisons and class war ([link removed] )
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This is a slightly edited version of a talk given during the “What Road To Socialism?” webinar held by Workers World Party on May 16. Abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore lays out in her book, “Golden Gulag,” the political climate in the state of California that gave rise to prison expansion. . . .

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