After 680 workers were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Aug. 7 in the largest immigration raid in U.S. history, targeting seven chicken processing plants in Mississippi, representatives of the labor movement immediately expressed solidarity with the workers and their union, Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW) Local . . .
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Talks took place Aug. 17-19 between Sudan’s military government and the civilian opposition with the goal of defining new government bodies based on constitutional rule. A massive uprising of the Sudanese people needed months of struggle to end the former military regime last spring and oust President Omar al-Bashir on . . .
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Dozens of supporters rallied in solidarity with Kashmir at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia Aug. 17. The action was called by the Philadelphia South Asian Collective and was attended by a broad multinational, multigenerational crowd that protested the invasion of Kashmir by India’s racist Hindu nationalist government. The action was followed . . .
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Published in pagina12.org.ar on July 24. Translation by Michael Otto. The people of Caracas woke up on July 23 with the uncertainty that power outages bring. The electrical system in most areas of the capital had already been restored, but the morning was marked by the loss of power for . . .
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Portland’s Hands Off Venezuela PDX sponsored a Skype teach-in on Aug. 17 with Dr. Layla Brown-Vincent, an assistant professor of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, who spoke about the role of racism in Bolivarian Venezuela to a room of 25 Oregonians. She said, “Just as Haiti . . .
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