PDF of November 11 issue

Download the PDF. Trials highlight racism– Black Lives Matter! STRIKEVEMBER! Miners descend on Manhattan Starbucks workers defy union-busting Still on ‘Str-r-r-ike!’ at Kellogg’s Amazon Labor Union forges ahead 2,500 German workers strike Amazon ALSO: Cuba’s president says thank you Buffalo tenants fight eviction Alex Saab: End the witch hunt! Puerto . . .

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Kellogg’s workers still on ‘Str-r-r-ike!’ in Strikevember

Battle Creek, Mich., Nov. 4 Battle Creek, Mich. Tony the Tiger’s famous line –  “Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes, they’re “grrr-eat” has been reworked. Lawn signs supporting the strike of 1,400 Kellogg’s workers show an angry Tony with a picket sign saying “Kellogg’s on strrr-ike!”  The members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers . . .

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COP26: More “blah, blah, blah!”

Indigenous contingents led the massive climate crisis protest march in Glasgow, Nov. 5, including youth from Bolivia and Ecuador. Midway through the COP26 U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, over 100,000 youth marched Nov. 5 to express consensus that the conference was set up to fail. Chants included “Cop-out” and . . .

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A Sandinista’s view of Nicaragua’s colonial history

Left to right: Jose Leon Aviles, Executive Secretariat for Development of the Caribbean Coast and Johnny Hodgson, Managua, Oct. 6.WW PHOTO: Monica Moorehead The following is part of a presentation given by Johnny Hodgson, Sandinista National Liberation Front’s Political Secretary for the Autonomous Region of the South Caribbean (RACCS), on . . .

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Gender-based violence: root causes, root cures

Prisons, jails, and detention centers hold many survivors of violence, and these brutal institutions themselves reproduce that violence. One of the many ways they do so can be understood through the lens of people being criminalized simply for defending themselves against gender-based violence. Under international law, gender-based violence (GBV) includes: . . .

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Editorial: Biden se somete a la capital

El gobierno de Joe Biden, habiendo prometido un elefante, está entregando un ratón. Hasta ahora el proyecto de ley “Reconstruir mejor” (Build Back Better) de Biden es sólo palabrería, y lo que promete disminuye día a día. Desaparecen más rápidamente los programas que podrían haber ayudado a la clase trabajadora . . .

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