Oct. 2 — Launched with the cry, “We will no longer contribute to our own oppression,” thousands of incarcerated workers in the Alabama prison system began a massive strike Sept. 26 to protest brutal conditions, racist sentencing and exploitation of their labor. About 25,000 people are in the state’s 14 . . .
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Philadelphia Since Sept. 26, almost 200 workers have been on strike — not reporting for work in person or virtually — at one of the oldest and largest art museums in the U.S. with over 240,000 works of art from around the world. Members of the Philadelphia Museum of Art . . .
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New York City What was originally planned in New York City as an Oct. 1 Union Square protest — supporting unionizing workers and demanding an end to union busting — was transformed by stormy weather into a dynamic indoor workers assembly, with leaders participating from several consequential labor battles. WAAR . . .
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Underwater explosions Sept. 26 severely damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines from Russia to Germany. World leaders, technical experts and engineers are nearly unanimous that the pipelines were attacked by a planned powerful underwater explosion of a highly complex nature. Such industrial sabotage will impact millions of . . .
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El 23 de septiembre de 1868, estalló el Grito de Lares en la ciudad de Lares, Puerto Rico, el primer levantamiento armado de la isla por la independencia y contra el dominio colonial español. Campesinos, africanos esclavizados y obreros lideraron una revuelta por la independencia de Puerto Rico, para abolir . . .
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