Communication Workers (CWA) members support Amazon union drive, Bessemer, Ala., Feb. 6. Southern workers: We got your back! Organize the South! The Southern Workers Assembly has gotten behind the Amazon workers, calling for a National Day of Solidarity Feb. 20. “All eyes are on Bessemer, Alabama, and the struggle to . . .
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The late John Conyers — U.S. Representative from Michigan and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus — introduced bill HR 40 back in 1989, titled “Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act.” New York City protest, Feb. 3. WW PHOTO: Sara Flounders Conyers said, “African slaves were . . .
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Feb. 7 — President Joe Biden seemed to announce an end to Washington’s complete support for Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen last week, reversing Trump’s and even the Obama/Biden administration’s public policy. He called the war a “humanitarian and strategic catastrophe.” In his first presidential foreign policy speech on Feb. . . .
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When I was three years old in 1955, my parents lived in Montgomery, Ala. They attended the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where they heard the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preach every Sunday. That church would eventually become an historic organizing center for one of the most important struggles of . . .
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Nurses and other health care workers, along with community members, demonstrated in front of Providence Portland Medical Center on Feb. 5, demanding COVID-19 protection and better working conditions. The rally was one day after Providence gave the COVID-19 vaccine — meant for people most at risk — to certain large . . .
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