Two of Portland’s delivery companies announced June 23 they will stop working for Amazon because of unsafe working conditions. The companies, Last Mile Delivery and Triton Transportation, are suing Amazon for increasing the pressure on drivers by making arbitrary and unreasonable demands and firing drivers who work for the contractors . . .
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Protesters denounce Bahria Town Karachi destruction of Indigenous peoples’ villages. Karachi — On June 6, the Sindh Action Committee organized a protest and sit-in to draw attention to the systematic and continuous violence that Bahria Town Karachi (BTK) inflicted on Indigenous peoples. Dawn reports that up to 10,000 protesters demonstrated . . .
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Alabama coal miners picket megacapitalist BlackRock Fund in New York City, June 22. A delegation of striking Alabama coal miners marched on Wall Street June 22 to protest the crushing grip of big business on their lives. The miners — chanting “No contract, no coal!” and “Warrior Met Coal ain’t . . .
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Jaan Laaman free at last!Credit: Sonja Wilde-de Vries Radical political activist Jaan Laaman of the Ohio 7 was released from McCreary federal prison after 37 years in U.S. custody. He was arrested in 1984 and charged with “seditious conspiracy,” along with other members of the United Freedom Front. The UFF . . .
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Download the PDF. AMAZON UNION NOW editorial: Reparations! Bring Indigenous children home! Labor on the move: UAW referendum; CUNY Rising; Sleep-in at Ga. Dept. of Labor; Alabama miners on Wall St. Also: Pride in action; Tamir remembered; Rhode Island Juneteenth; Seattle blocks the boat; Cuba solidarity Commentaries: Building disasters; Real . . .
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