Five-week Starbucks strike encampment – young workers’ movement faces down Boston police

Boston Starbucks Workers United leaders, strikers and supporters at the 874 Commonwealth Ave. encampment Aug. 7, the day before the first scab/police attack. Boston The longest strike in Starbucks’ history, at Boston’s 874 Commonwealth Ave. shop, concluded its fifth week Aug. 21 with solidarity appearances by Association of Flight Attendants-CWA . . .

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Recollections of Albert Woodfox

Parnell Herbert grew up with Albert Woodfox and later reconnected when Woodfox was in prison. Malik Rahim was a founder of the New Orleans Black Panther Party and met Woodfox at the Orleans Parish Jail. Gloria Rubac interviewed Herbert and Rahim Aug. 14 about Woodfox, a member of the Angola . . .

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Sierra Leone: Fight for reproductive rights closes in on major victory

Young activists fighting for safe abortion and women’s health in Sierra Leone, April 21, 2021. The 10th African Conference on Sexual Health and Rights was held in Freetown, Sierra Leone, June 27-July 1. Almost 1,000 feminist activists, government and U.N. personnel, and representatives of development agencies and community groups met . . .

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UE Local 150: 25 years of struggle

Whitakers, North Carolina Members of the North Carolina Public Service Workers Union, United Electrical Workers (UE) Local 150, celebrated 25 years of working-class struggle at their 12th Biennial Statewide Convention Aug. 20-21 in Whitakers.   This Black-majority union — started by cadre in the Black Workers for Justice and led . . .

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Filadelfia – Resistencia al desalojo

Manifestación en Filadelfia, 9 de julio. Crédito: Joe Piette Filadelfia Un enfrentamiento largamente esperado entre los residentes que luchan por la justicia en materia de vivienda y el Departamento del Sheriff de Filadelfia, que protege los intereses de los gentrificadores, estalló el 8 de agosto – 30 días después del . . .

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