But at one Starbucks store after another, LGBTQ+ workers are among those voting overwhelmingly for a union. They know that nice, “affirming” platitudes are no substitute for union wages and benefits, safe working conditions and a voice at work. LGBTQ+ workers are among those union organizers fired by Starbucks — . . .
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March 18, 2000 After several brutal anti-LGBTQ+ murders, including 21-year-old gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in 1998 and the beheading of 39-year old gay and homeless man Eddie Northington in 1999, Mumia Abu-Jamal wrote a letter to Workers World from Pennsylvania’s Death Row on the link between racist . . .
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Time and time again, efforts to get both bourgeois parties in Congress to consider legislation to ban or restrict the commercial sale of assault weapons like the AR-15-style rifle, used by an 18-year-old to kill 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, have unraveled despite broad public support. In . . .
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Brian Shea, a longtime disability justice leader and WWP member in Boston, participated in these actions. Fifty disability rights activists from across the country converged on Washington, D.C., and joined in direct actions from May 8 to 11. American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, an organization of national disability justice . . .
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Over 100 people rallied in Hoboken, New Jersey, May 26 in support of the right to abortion and reproductive justice. “We are devastated, we are furious, and we are fighting back!” shouted Bethany Diaz from Planned Parenthood Action Fund of N.J. Stephanie Mills from Hudson Pride Center spoke of the . . .
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