Download the PDF. United fight against racist school closures Stop the U.S. war machine! Also: Brian Flores vs. NFL bosses Tamir Rice: Justice denied again Indigenous community/ labor solidarity ‘Don’t force us to strike!’ COVID exposes U.S. health care #LandBack victory Puerto Rico: not for sale Deceptive jobs report Solidarity . . .
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on unceded land of the Onondaga Nation, Haudenosaunee Confederacy The growing LandBack movement by Indigenous nations won another significant victory Feb. 1, when more than 500 acres of the “Lost Coast” in California was transferred to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council. (sinkyone.org) Tc’ih-Léh-Dûñ (Fish Run Place) on the ‘Lost Coast’ . . .
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Family members of Texas death row prisoners, Houston, Feb. 5. The new year began with Oklahoma legally lynching a severely mentally ill African American named Donald Grant. Killing someone with mental illness has outraged people worldwide. Plus, the three drugs used in his lethal injection on Jan. 27 are being . . .
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Brazilian unionists outside GM plant in Silao, Mexico, where workers were voting for the first independent union, Feb. 3. General Motors workers in Silao, Mexico, have made history. They have voted in the first independent union in any Mexican GM plant, defeating the bogus company union by a wide margin. . . .
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The corporate media shouted loud hosannas to greet the Bureau of Labor Statistics Feb. 4 announcement that the U.S. economy had added 467,000 jobs in January. Upward revisions to previously announced job totals for December and November 2021 increased the media’s delight. Overall they concluded that the U.S. economy had . . .
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