Amazon, which bought Whole Foods in 2017, is the second-largest employer in the U.S. and has made record profits during the pandemic, with global net revenue in 2020 of $386 billion. Across the country, the movement to back Amazon workers in their righteous, growing fights for safety and union rights . . .
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With COVID-19 infections spiking in the outside general population, it is no wonder that it is running rampant in the prisons. Recent news out of the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut (designated in the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a “women’s prison”), revealed that more than half of the . . .
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The Postal Board of Governors gathered in Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, in a hastily called meeting to announce the election of their new chairperson, Roman Martinez IV. Also gathered there, but outside the United States Postal Service Headquarters on L’Enfant Plaza, were postal workers, “protect the vote” activists and Ben . . .
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Hundreds gathered to honor the life of Clyde Bellecourt, White Earth Ojibwe, in Minneapolis, Jan. 13. Bellecourt, 85, was the last living founding member of the American Indian Movement and a lifelong civil-rights activist known worldwide. (Star Tribune, Jan. 13) Clyde Bellecourt speaks at rally in Minneapolis, MN, Nov, 2, . . .
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Publicado en Workers World/Mundo Obrero, Jan. 1; traducido por Tlaxcala (tinyurl.com/5hdye6en) Búfalo, Nueva York – La chispa que se encendió en esta ciudad el pasado agosto, cuando lxs trabajadorxs de Starbucks anunciaron su intención de sindicalizarse, se ha convertido en una llamarada de justo anhelo de la clase trabajadora, con . . .
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