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** Joann Little and the right to self-defense ([link removed] )
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The following remarks were given at the Sept. 24 webinar “Women and Gender Oppressed Prisoners: Survival and Resistance,” hosted by the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party. A struggle waged in the U.S. South gives a historic lesson in how imprisoned women and gender-oppressed people have fought back. I . . .
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** “We did not sign up to be raped”: Women veterans fight back against military sexual trauma ([link removed] )
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The writer is a U.S. Army veteran and was an organizer of the American Servicemen’s Union, 1968-69. This month two veterans, represented by the Yale Law School Veterans Legal Service Clinic, won a lawsuit against the U.S. Army for giving “bad paper” discharges to veterans with mental health diagnoses. The . . .
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** Climate change, hurricanes and their destruction in Central America ([link removed] )
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Hurricane Iota, the 30th named storm, 13th hurricane and 6th major hurricane of 2020, made landfall in Nicaragua just 10 miles south of where Hurricane Eta struck two weeks earlier. Iota was more powerful than Eta, carried more rain and did more damage, especially to the Indigenous communities in Honduras . . .
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** Dancing in the streets ([link removed] )
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Taken from a Nov. 8 audio column on prisonradio.org. An American president loses his hard-fought reelection bid, and within moments, the streets are full of people, who are beyond exultant: they are singing, they are dancing – dancing in the streets! I’ve never seen such a thing, nor was it . . .
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** BluSky workers in Cedar Rapids win victory against wage theft ([link removed] )
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa Nov. 24 — Six workers from Houston, Texas, hired for essential repairs on storm-damaged buildings in Cedar Rapids, won their battle against wage theft with the solidarity of labor, faith and community allies. In August, Iowa was hit by a rare hurricane-like storm known as a “derecho,” . . .
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** Resistance in Lima’s popular district: Peru after President Vizcarra’s dismissal ([link removed] )
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A caravan of demonstrators on motorcycles ride after interim President Manuel Merino resigned his post, in Lima, Peru, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. Merino announced his resignation following massive protests, unleashed when lawmakers ousted President Martin Vizcarra. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Published Nov. 23 in Sputnik. Translation by Michael Otto. Introduction by . . .
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