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Aug 8, 2019, Vol. 61, No. 32 Doce días sacuden al imperio 12 PR: Llamado a la acción 12 ¡Defiende rebeliones justas! 12 Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 61 No. 32 Aug. 8, 2019 $1 Trump, capitalism incite mass shootings Smash white supremacy! There he shot and killed 22 people and wounded at least 26 more, many gravely. WW Commentary Identifications of those killed are not complete, but at least six Mexican nation- statement als died, according to their embassy, as well as 72-year-old former city bus driver Eric Garner & the ruling class police Between July 31 and August 3, three Arturo Benavides and 15-year-old high different white-identified male terrorists school student Javier Rodriguez. It was killed and wounded dozens of people in also reported that some of the wounded Gilroy, Calif.; El Paso, Texas; and Dayton, did not go to hospitals for fear of U.S. Ohio. Three mass shootings in the U.S. in Immigration and Customs Enforcement. one week. It’s possible that others, for the same rea- Garner TV announcers blared that this brought son, did not go to the morgue to identify family and the number of U.S. mass shootings in their loved ones. supporters 2019 to over 250. Wikipedia and news No information has yet emerged about protest articles everywhere put out complete or the ideology of the Dayton killer. But the outside home of killer cop partial accounts of the heinous crimes. identity of his victims brutally exposed his Pantaleo Yet nowhere in the big business media hatreds. The nine people he shot included on the fifth was the overwhelming reason for the kill- his 22-year-old sister and six African- anniverary of ings named. American men and women standing with Eric Garner’s Not “lack of gun control.” Not “mental or near her. death, July 17, illness.” After the massacres, Trump tweeted 2019. But the fact is that the U.S., all of its for- the obligatory “thoughts and prayers.” WW PHOTO: HENRY LUNA mal institutions and its “rule of law” are But his real function as the preeminent sunk deep in foundations of white suprem- governmental flag-bearer of divide-and- By Monica Moorehead anniversary of Garner’s death. acy, xenophobia, misogyny, Christian conquer hatred is on display constantly. At the Democratic Party presiden- nationalism and anti-LGBTQ2S+ hatred At a May 19 Florida rally, he lamented Five years ago a racist white cop, tial debates in Detroit July 31, two and a system of murderous capitalism. that agents of the Border Patrol are not Daniel Pantaleo, put an unarmed Black Lives Matter protesters dis- Those encouraged and practiced allowed to turn their guns on im/migrants Black man, Eric Garner, into a choke- rupted the candidates with chants hatreds inflicted a terrible toll last week. and demanded, “How do you stop these hold, on July 17, 2014, on Staten of “Fire Pantaleo.” The outcry was Just before the assault in Gilroy, the people?” When someone in the crowd Island, N.Y. Other cops furiously com- directed toward New York City Mayor killer went on Instagram to recommend shouted, “Shoot them,” he made a “joke” pressed Garner’s chest as he lay on the Bill de Blasio, who is running for pres- a book glorified by white supremacists of that. ground and cried out, “I can’t breathe” ident in 2020. and used to justify racism, slavery and Our question is: How do we stop him? until he died. Tamika D. Mallory, one of the pro- colonialism. Then he went out and mur- And the racist murderers, the anti-Semitic Pantaleo was never charged, much testers, stated why she confronted de dered one African-American young man and anti-Islamic murderers, the killers of less indicted, for the death of Garner. Blasio on her Aug. 1 Twitter feed: “We and two Latinx children— 6 and 13 years migrants, those who kill queer and trans In response, Garner’s family and the could not sit silent while @NYCMayor old— and wounded many others. people, those who kill in domestic violence progressive movement have continued Bill de Blasio misrepresented his posi- The El Paso shooter posted a long man- incidents? According to an Everytown for to fight for justice. tions on Stop and Frisk and continues ifesto, beginning with a statement that his Gun Safety analysis, of 156 mass shootings When the U.S. Justice Department to employ the police officers who killed attack was “a response to the Hispanic between 2009 and 2016, 54 percent were refused to file charges against #EricGarner, in particular Daniel invasion of Texas.” He then drove 9 hours related to domestic or family violence. Pantaleo on July 16, that latest out- Pantaleo.” across Texas, which was indisputably part (tinyurl.com/y5oyujxa) Nine African- rage prompted multiple demonstra- This righteous outburst helped to of Mexico until the U.S. stole it in 1848, to American people were shot to death in a tions in front of Pantaleo’s home for give national and international visibility the predominantly Latinx area of El Paso, several days, starting July 17, the fifth Continued on page 10 Continued on page 3 just across the border from Juarez, Mexico. N. Carolina: Anti-racists win 2 Miners block company trains, workers fight back! 4-5 Solidarity with Migrants 6-7 Why racism breeds resistance 8 Mumia: ‘Biden his time’ 8 Subscribe to Workers World Defend righteous rebellions 9 ☐ 4 weeks trial $4 ☐ 1 year subscription $30 ☐ Sign me up for the WWP Supporter Program: workers.org/donate Feds to resume executions 9 Name _______________________________________________________________ Email _______________________________ Phone _________________________ Editorial Ominous Street _______________________________________________________________ escalation of war drive 10 City / State / Zip _______________________________________________________ Workers World Weekly Newspaper workers.org 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10011 212.627.2994 Puerto Rico 3 Algeria 11 Brexit 11 Page 2 Aug. 8, 2019 workers.org North Carolina Anti-racist activists win case in court this week By LeiLani Dowell ◆ In the U.S. Anti-racists won a victory Aug. 2 against suppression of Trump, capitalism incite mass shootings.......... 1 their protest when a judge dismissed charges against two Anti-racist activists win case in court . .2 activists. The two, Jody Anderson and Enzo Niebuhr, had placed KKK-reminiscent white hoods over a statue depict- On the picket line . 4 ing a Confederate woman and child on the grounds of the Coal miners up in arms again....................4 state capitol. The activists had been charged with disor- U.S. persecutes defenders of Venezuelan Embassy . 4 derly conduct and defacing a public statue. Northwest grocery workers prepare to strike . 5 A statement by Smash Racism Raleigh, organizers of the April 21 protest where the two were arrested, described Marches, disruptions as Dems debate in Detroit . .5 their efforts: “Activists allegedly climbed the monument Widespread militant actions against ICE..........6 and placed Klan hoods over its two heads to properly con- Texas WWP statement condemns mass murder . .6 textualize the statue’s role in perpetuating white suprem- Activists challenge ICE profiteers . 7 acy and reinforcing both Jim Crow-era and modern racist violence and oppression. … Greyhound feeling FIRE for collusion with ICE . 7 “The Women of the Confederacy monument, as well PHOTO: SMASH RACISM RALEIGH Why racism breeds resistance . .8 as the other racist statues on the State Capitol grounds, Hoods expose statue’s role in perpetuating white supremacy. Mumia: Biden his time . .8 have a dark history of oppression, violence and revision- Defend righteous rebellions against racist NYPD...9 ism that has consistently attracted hate groups such as the Lawton concurred. KKK, the Sons of Confederate Veterans and Heirs to the In Smash Racism Raleigh’s statement before the trial, Feds to resume racist death penalty . 9 Confederacy to the square for the last century.” the group affirmed that it “stands in solidarity with those ◆ Around the world At the Aug. 2 trial, people’s attorney Scott Holmes wrongfully arrested and condemns the actions and beliefs pointed out that there is no law prohibiting people from of the white supremacist groups who use these monuments Statement from A Call to Action on Puerto Rico....3 climbing on the monuments or from placing objects on to glorify racism and bigotry. Smash Racism Raleigh addi- Union: End the Colonial Status of Puerto Rico .....3 them. He challenged Capitol Police Officer Dustin Dobson, tionally condemns the actions of the state capitol police Algeria: Police allow thousands to march in protest 11 who outrageously claimed that putting white hoods on the and RPD [Raleigh Police Department] for their continued monument was a “hate crime.” The prosecutor went so far support and allegiance with white supremacist organiza- Brexit.........................................11 as to liken that to burning crosses. tions and their statues. We call for an end to state-spon- ◆ Editorial In a show of allegiance to white supremacy, however, sored racism and the removal of all tributes to white after arresting Anderson and Niebuhr, the officer actually supremacy from state capitol grounds.” (Smash Racism Ominous escalation of war drive . 10 handed his baton to a Confederate supporter. At the trial, Raleigh’s live Tweet coverage of the trial can be viewed at Dobson asserted that although he had never met this per- tinyurl.com/yy5g3l92.) ◆ Noticias en Español son before, he deputized the supporter at the scene. Over the past couple of years, activists throughout the Doce días sacuden al imperio ................... 12 The cop and prosecutor also maintained that Anderson’s Triangle region of North Carolina have challenged the ¡Defiende rebeliones justas contra la policía! . 12 and Niebuhr’s chants of “Fuck these racist statues! Fuck presence of Confederate statues and faced the wrath of the Confederacy! Racist statues have to go!” represented the state as expressed through cops and courts.
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