On Sept. 15, one minute before midnight EDT, production ground to a halt at all General Motors facilities across the U.S. Workers inside the plants walked out, and midnight shift workers joined the picket line. Loud chants of “Shut it down” or “United we stand, divided we fall” filled the . . .
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The callous, white-supremacist response of Trump to the plight of tens of thousands of Bahamians was recently recognized by one of today’s most high-profile athletes. Klay Thompson is considered one of the greatest shooters in the history of the National Basketball Association and is a three-time NBA champion with the . . .
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A white supremacist rally that occupied one side of the town square in Dahlonega, Ga., was attended by about two dozen people waving U.S. flags and chanting “USA” in response to Nazi and alt-right speakers. Some 200 anti-racists, mostly youths, drowned out the fascist rhetoric with their own chants of . . .
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Hundreds of people demanding the closing of detention camps on the U.S.-Mexico border joined in an energetic protest that began at the New York Public Library in Manhattan on Sept. 14. Protesters marched to Microsoft’s 5th Avenue store where they sat in the entrance demanding that the company stop doing . . .
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Around 50 people gathered at the Philadelphia Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on Sept. 14 to demand that Pomegranate Real Estate evict ICE from its office building. This was the first event of the newly formed Philly Workers’ Solidarity Network, which launched a campaign to evict ICE and protest all . . .
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9 de septiembre − Cuando el huracán Dorian se detuvo en Gran Bahamas y las Islas Abacos en las Bahamas durante casi 40 horas el 1 y 2 de septiembre, con velocidades de viento sostenidas de 185 millas por hora, dejó montones de casas y edificios reducidos a leña y . . .
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La crisis climática se cierne como la Parca para todos nosotros, especialmente los jóvenes. Hemos nacido en esta crisis. Muchos de nosotros estamos creciendo en miedo y ansiedad por lo que nos sucederá en unos pocos años. Este miedo es tan fuerte y abrumador que la gente incluso comenzó a . . .
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