PDF of June 18 issue

This week’s issue is a 16-page PDF. Justice for Rayshard Brooks! Stonewall means unite and fight back! TEAR DOWN THE WALLS: Gov’t, Klan & the state; New hearing for Rodney Reed; Free Jalil, Mutulu! CeCe McDonald & right to self-defense; WORKERS STRUGGLES; COVID_19 CRISIS: the Bronx; domestic violence; ANTI_RACIST REBELLIONS: . . .

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‘We are unified as Pueblo on the removal of monuments that glorify murderers’

Pulling down hated statue of conquistador butcher, Juan de Oñate.  The uprising in response to the murder of George Floyd has become a movement against white supremacy. Generations of anger have exploded against settler colonialism and slavery and all white-supremacist historical monuments. In New Mexico, the Pueblo Nations still seethe . . .

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Close to victory: Campaign to end the Oakland School Police Department

Black Organizing Project banner, Oakland, Calif., June protests. Oakland, Calif. June 14 — For nearly 10 years, the Black Organizing Project has been fighting to defund and dismantle the Oakland School Police Department.  Oakland is the only school district in Alameda County with its own police system.  After years of . . .

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Delbert Africa, Warrior for the people!

Delbert Africa’s daughter Yvonne Orr-El: ‘They murdered my father.’ Delbert Orr Africa passed away on the evening of June 15 surrounded by friends and his MOVE family. A June 16 press release from MOVE describes Africa as “an early counterpart 42 years before George Floyd.” In 1978, Delbert Africa was . . .

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‘We marched against the system’ in Austin, Texas

Austin protest, June 7. By Ananya Sabharwal and Isabella Ricks  Austin, Texas On June 7, the Austin Justice Coalition, an activist-led organization founded by Chas Moore and oriented toward battling institutional racism, led a protest spanning two miles from Huston-Tillotson University to the Texas State Capitol to bring awareness to . . .

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Multinational unity wins another battle at Harvard

Harvard University custodial staff take a knee. During the recent worldwide upsurge for justice, the Black and Brown workers’ fight to save their jobs — at the flagship bourgeois enterprise Harvard — led to the university’s first antiracist action on June 9. A multi-union worker-organizing initiative drew close to 70 . . .

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