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Subject What’s behind Hong Kong protests? + more from Workers World
Date August 16, 2019 1:06 PM
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** What’s behind Hong Kong protests? ([link removed] )
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The demonstrations in Hong Kong, now an open confrontation with the People’s Republic of China, have a global impact. What are the forces behind this movement? What provides the funds and who stands to benefit? The increasingly violent demonstrations in Hong Kong are completely embraced and enthusiastically supported in the . . .

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** ICE attacks migrant workers and their unions ([link removed] )
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted the largest worksite immigration raid in U.S. history on Aug. 7 in Mississippi. Only four days after a racist, anti-Latinx massacre in El Paso, Texas, ICE arrested 680 supposedly undocumented and overwhelmingly Latinx workers. U.S. authorities boasted of breaking the arrest record after raiding poultry . . .

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** Guatemala signs ‘Safe Third Country’ ([link removed] )
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The governments of the U.S. and Guatemala on July 26 signed a “Safe Third Country” agreement, forcing migrants applying for asylum in the U.S. to do so from Guatemala. This agreement is part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to prevent migrants from entering the U.S. These include the construction . . .

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** ‘Expanding Empire’ — in 1969 and today ([link removed] )
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The following excerpt from “Expanding Empire — The global war drive of big business and the forces that will stop it” was written in 1969 during the Vietnam War. The author, Vince Copeland, was a founding member of Workers World Party and had been a militant steel worker fired in . . .

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** Trump, el capitalismo incitan tiroteos masivos ([link removed] )
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Entre el 31 de julio y el 3 de agosto, tres terroristas hombres de raza con blanca mataron e hirieron a docenas de personas en Gilroy, California; El Paso, Texas; y Dayton, Ohio. Tres tiroteos masivos en los Estados Unidos en una semana. Los locutores de televisión expresaron que esto . . .

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** Rally calls out for justice ([link removed] )
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Jamarion Robinson, shot 76 times by police Atlanta – A rally and remembrance here on Aug. 5, organized by the family and community members of Jamarion Robinson, marked the third anniversary of the young man’s shooting by a joint force of federal marshals, East Point police and Atlanta city police. . . .

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** People’s Power stops a modern-day lynching ([link removed] )
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A massive phone protest by people from around the world and calls for direct protests forced the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections to back down from carrying out the state’s latest attempt to kill MOVE 9 member Delbert Orr Africa. For over a week all communication between Orr Africa and his . . .

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