Download the 12-page PDF. Portland: Resistance broadens. Fighting fascism, white supremacy, capitalism WORLD: Palestine; China. ALSO: NBA players defend Woj; USPS under attack; Billionaires push school reopening; Capitalism and technology; Mumia: ‘A rogue nation?’ Library workers vs. racism; Seattle solidarity with Portland; No union busting; BLM impacts sports culture; ‘Police-free . . .
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Sign in the window of a Manchester, CT hair salon. As the coronavirus spreads around the globe, the United States continues to report by far the largest number of cases and deaths. As of July 27, the figures show nearly 4.5 million cases in this country and over 150,000 deaths. . . .
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When marchers crossed Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday in 1965, John Lewis led at the front. Many readers of Workers World newspaper may have watched on July 26 as a horse-drawn caisson carried John Lewis’ body over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. It was on March 7, . . .
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A spirited group of about 100 protesters gathered July 13 in Union Square in New York City to demand justice for Black Lives Matter activist Sandra Bland and all Black womxn, girls and femmes. The People’s Power Assemblies NYC were the main organizers of the 6th annual Sandra Bland #SayHerName . . .
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In a 3 a.m. raid July 20, approximately 200 Black prisoners at California’s Soledad state prison were violently taken from their cells with nothing on but their boxer shorts. The men were herded into the chow hall, handcuffed with zip ties and forced to sit shoulder-to-shoulder without masks for hours, . . .
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RIMPAC, the World’s largest Naval war practice that with COVID endangers Hawaii and the world. Despite the ongoing global pandemic, the U.S. military has no plans to cancel RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific Exercise), the largest international military exercise in the world. Beginning in 1971, and held every two years . . .
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The Sahara Dust Plume over Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh, N.C., at sunrise, June 28. Each year, massive dust plumes rise from the Sahara, lifted by local winds after being unmoored by desert conditions. However, over the past four decades, the plumes have been getting larger, and this year marks the . . .
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