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Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 61 No. 30 July 25, 2019 $1 Kānaka Maoli protect sacred land in Hawai’i By Stephanie Hedgecoke 2011 National Geographic special or alcohol. No one is even allowed to edition, “The Earth’s Holiest Places: smoke here.” (KHON2 news, July 20) When work crews arrived to begin construction of the Sacred Journeys.” The state Board Volunteers are feeding thousands of long-opposed $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope on the of Land and Natural Resources orig- protectors daily meals and snacks sacred Mauna Kea mountain on July 17, Kānaka Maoli inally blocked construction of the from free kitchens, running medical (Hawaiian) elders who use wheelchairs, walkers or canes TMT in February 2011. (tinyurl.com/ tents, recycling, cleaning porta potties demanded to be taken to the front line to be arrested. yxrmc4ss) and hauling trash. The elders were there to oppose further damage to and After the arrests of the elders, KHON2 reported that the resolve desecration of Mauna Kea, which already has had 13 Hawai’i Gov. David Ige signed an of the Ku Kia’i Mauna, the guard- smaller telescopes constructed on it since 1960. emergency proclamation threaten- ians of the mountain, was growing Since the arrests of 35 people on July 17, thousands ing Mauna Protectors with police stronger every day. Volunteers told of Hawaiians and supporters have blocked all access to and National Guard troops. (tinyurl. KHON2 that anyone who comes into the mountain. com/y5zscqkc) More than 2,000 Graphic used by Mauna Kea the Pu’uhonua is welcome. The TMT Corporation and the University of Hawai’i people then turned out to surround mountain protectors. Pu’uhonua means “place of refuge Board of Regents want to build a huge, 18-story tele- the base of the mountain in response of Hōnaunau,” ancestral home of the scope and facilities covering about six football fields to the arrests and the governor’s threats. Kamehameha dynasty. The Hōnaunau regards itself as on allegedly “ceded” crown lands. Queen Liliuokalani Kealoha Pisciotta told the Associated Press, “They’re sovereign under international law, a successor govern- of Hawai’i was overthrown in 1893 by a cabal of sugar taking our kupuna” (elders), as the crowd sang “Hawai’i ment to the independent Kingdom of Hawai’i, not sub- planters and settler businessmen. Two years later, the Aloha.” (July 18) The blockade immediately forced a ject to U.S. law. U.S. annexed Hawai’i as a territory, and it became the work stoppage of on-site astronomers and researchers. TMT opponents marched in Waikiki July 20, blocking 50th state in 1959. Gov. Ige again attacked the Protectors at a July 19 traffic along Kalakaua Avenue as people made their way Mauna Kea is not just unique for its rare Hawaiian press conference, alleging illegal activity, but local media to Kapiolani Park. (Honolulu Star Advertiser, July 20) plants and animals; it also has deep significance to the reported the opposite. Heidi Tsuneyoshi of the Honolulu Demonstrations have also taken place from New York Hawaiian Nation. The site was honored in a January City Council said, “There are absolutely no signs of drugs City to Alaska. More than 100 TMT-affiliated astronomers and more than 700 others have signed a letter against forcing the project on the Hawaiian people. The letter also raises concerns about sovereignty and intrusions on Indigenous lands. It cites past environmental racism and white col- onizers’ obsessions with conquest: “These histories pro- gressed in lock-step with the development of Western ‘sciences’ of personhood: of who and/or what is human, and therefore who must be subhuman, and thus must be subject to control via mechanisms of policing, incarcera- tion and military violence.” (tinyurl.com/yxulf4lu) University of New Hampshire astrophysicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, who signed the letter, stated, “What facilitated [scientific] access [to Mauna Kea] is American colonialism on kānaka ‘ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) land in Continued on page 7

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By Nathaniel Chase this week Staten Island, N.Y.

​Activists, revolutionaries and family members gathered at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal on July 17 to march ◆ In the U.S. in memory of Eric Garner, the Black man choked to death Kānaka Maoli protect sacred land in Hawai’i . . . 1 five years ago by New York Police Department cop Daniel Pantaleo. The action culminated with a visit to Pantaleo’s Eric Garner supporters rally at killer-cop’s home . 2 home in the Oakwood Heights neighborhood—​the first Rashida Tlaib: ‘I will never waver or sell out’ . . . 3 time a protest has taken place there. ‘The squad’ won’t back down from Trump . . . . 3 Eric Garner’s final words—​“I can’t breathe” repeated MOVE supporters rally for political prisoners . . .4 11 times—resonated​ around the world as a symbol of how WW PHOTO: HENRY LUNA racist oppression kills Black people in the U.S. His death Protestors occupy the street in front of cop’s house, A crooked river and a crooked economic system . .4 and the non-indictment of Pantaleo in December 2017 demanding justice. On the picket line ...... 5 were major forces behind the growth of the Black Lives Will autoworkers strike for jobs and equal pay? . .5 Matter movement. Ramsey Orta, a young Puerto Rican right now with the stress of everything, because the sys- Wildcat strike and picket shakes Amazon . . . . .6 man and friend of Eric Garner who videoed the killing, tem, it beats you down.” (The Guardian, Dec. 30, 2017) has been persecuted by the NYPD, and is the only person The July 17 action took up her name as well as her father’s #RickyRenuncia: Puerto Ricans rally in Philly . . . 7 at the scene who has been sent to jail. (To find out how and was organized by The Legacy Eric Garner Left Behind, Fifth annual Disability Pride Parade rocks NYC . 10 to help Ramsey, who is resisting severe harassment and NYC Shut It Down, People’s Power Assemblies NYC and intimidation while incarcerated, go to ramseyorta.org.) Why Accountability. ◆ Around the world Those marching were enraged but entirely unsur- The march, led by Jewel Miller, mother of Eric’s young- Puerto Rico rises up ...... 7 prised by the July 16 Department of Justice announce- est child, stopped at the 122nd Police Precinct before rally- 160 from U.S. take protest trip to Cuba ...... 8 ment that federal civil rights charges would not be filed ing at the place where Eric Garner was killed. Though the against Pantaleo. It’s widely known that today’s police are rally appeared to be wrapping up, in fact over 100 people Venezuela: gov't. denounces, opposition wavers . .8 the descendants of pre-Civil War slave patrols and night quietly boarded the Staten Island Railway and traveled to Solidarity in fight vs. white supremacy, part 3 . . .9 watches, and that they fulfill the same function: to detain, the Oakwood Heights neighborhood to Pantaleo’s home. ‘Stop police terror, from Philly to the Philippines’ . 9 kill and oppress Black, Brown and Indigenous people, Undeterred by increasingly heavy rain, the demon- U.S. replaces bombs on Iran with cyberattack . . 10 migrants and workers. Pantaleo was not indicted for any strators faced down a wall of police. Accompanied by crime because he was doing exactly what he was hired to thunder, lightning and beating rain, the righteous anger ◆ Editorial do when he killed Eric Garner. of the oppressed poured forth. Protesters chanted, “He need to be scared everywhere that he go, we will find you U.S., Britain: Hands off Iran ...... 10 ‘Struggle for justice’ Pantaleo,” “Pantaleo got away with murder, vengeance for ◆ Noticias en Español The march began following a route set by Erica Garner, Eric Garner” and “We’ll be back!” Eric’s daughter, who marched regularly in Staten Island Before departing, a protester shouted at the cops: “We NO al ‘embarazo forzado’ ...... 12 following her father’s murder and took a leading role in the won’t stay out here long. This is a message for y’all. The ¡Cierrar los campamentos! ...... 12 struggle against police brutality. Tragically, Erica died in same way you can find us, we can find you!” late December 2017 from a heart attack shortly after giving As protesters returned to the train, an atmosphere of birth—yet​ another death linked to racism. The maternal joy and celebration could be found amidst the grief and death rate for Black women in the U.S. is more than three anger. In their revolutionary, militant unity, those assem- times that of white women. (cdc.org) bled found extraordinary strength and exposed the NYPD The struggle for justice for her father weighed heavily on as paper tigers—​to be crumpled and swept into the dust- Erica. Shortly before her death, she said, “I’m struggling bin of history. ☐ Workers World 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl. New York, NY 10011 Join us in the fight Phone: 212.627.2994 E-mail: [email protected] for socialism! Web: www.workers.org Vol. 61, No. 30 • July 25, 2019 Workers World Party is a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist people are gunned down by cops and bigots on a regular Closing date: July 24, 2019 party inside the belly of the imperialist beast. 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By Betsey Piette “We don’t need kids in cages at the border or mass Philadelphia incarceration across the U.S. We don’t need border walls or dirty water. As Palestinians, we know what that feels Hours before white supremacist Trump launched his like. My folks in Wayne County don’t have clean water—​ viciously racist July 14 Twitter attack against four pro- just like residents of Palestine. I want Palestinians to be gressive congresswomen of color, one of them—Rashida​ fighting for my district as well. Tlaib—​was in Philadelphia meeting with Palestinian “They will try to label me that I care more about activists and supporters. Tlaib became U.S. representa- Palestine than the residents of my district, but I don’t tive for Michigan’s 13th district this year. see the difference between trying to free Palestinians Tlaib, a Palestinian American and a Muslim, was and trying to free my Detroit and Wayne County resi- introduced to the gathering by Palestinian author and dents from oppression.” Tlaib’s district, which includes activist Susan Abulhawa, who urged those present to half of Detroit and several of its western suburbs, is the contribute generously to ensure Tlaib’s 2020 reelection third-poorest congressional district in the U.S. campaign. Tlaib recounted her experience as a state represen- Rashida Tlaib WW PHOTO: JOE PIETTE Tlaib stressed that by sticking together, activists can tative working with residents in her district to liberate make history against the dangerous corporate assault on public park land after a billionaire developer tried to During a 2016 Trump presidential campaign stop at working families: “I know that my sisters in Congress fence it in. One resident told the media, “My state rep- Detroit’s Cobo Hall, Tlaib and 12 other women disrupted and I are being attacked by this president because we resentative is Palestinian, and you can’t illegally occupy Trump and called him out for his hate-filled rhetoric and are anti-war and anti-poverty. I’m fighting for a free land in her district.” tactics. Palestine, and I will never waver or sell out to corporate Tlaib made history in 2008 by becoming the first Tlaib says she hasn’t changed since then: “I’m a U.S. PAC [political action committee] money. Muslim woman to ever serve in the Michigan Legislature. congresswoman now, and I’m going to call him out!” ☐ ‘The squad’ won’t back down from Trump’s attacks

By Monica Moorehead Aug. 12, 2017. At first, Trump tried to distance himself from the neo-fascists, but did an immediate aboutface. July 22—​The white supremacist, misogynist U.S. Saying that “both sides were equally to blame,” he put an President Donald Trump continued his racist tirade for equal sign between the violence of the neo-fascists and a second week in a row against “The Squad,” as the four the justified, united resistance of the anti-fascists. congresswomen of color proudly call themselves. Reps. Trump’s racist and sexist attacks on the four congress- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), people is unleashing violent attacks on them in social Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) are media. A white Gretna, La., cop openingly stated on his Puerto Rican, Somali, African-American and Palestinian, Facebook page that Rep. Ocasio-Cortez is an “idiot” who respectively. should be shot, saying she deserved a “round”—​ and he Trump had stated that all four women should “go back was not referring to her days as a bartender. Gretna’s Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez where they came from” for criticizing U.S. policies. Both and Ayanna Pressley at July 15 press conference. police chief stated that the post was “disturbing” but Reps. Omar and Tlaib are Muslim, and Rep. Omar con- didn’t perceive it as a “threat.” (The Times-Picayune, sistently wears a hijab. Of the four, only Rep. Omar was Palestinian immigrant parents and of growing up in her July 22) He and another cop were then fired. born outside the U.S. district of Detroit: “The city that birthed movements This latest social media attack comes on the heels The outspoken congressmembers brought on the ire that fought and won against racism and inequality in of Border Patrol agents having photoshopped images of Trump not for their nationalities and gender, but our country. A city that taught me to never back down, depicting the gang-rape of Ocasio-Cortez on their especially for coming to the political defense of migrants, to speak up when I see injustice, and one that elected the Facebook page—​an act which the Department of including children, being held under inhumane condi- first of two Muslim women serving in the United States Homeland Security has been silent about. tions in detention camps. Dozens of detainees have died Congress.” (Detroit News, July 16) Grassroots support for the Squad in these concentration camps. Their main crime? They At an overwhelmingly white rally in Greenville, N.C., were forced to leave their homelands, whose economies on July 17, while attacking all four women as being There has been overwhelming support for the four have been torn asunder by U.S. imperialist super-ex- “unpatriotic,” Trump singled out Rep. Omar for his most in their respective states. When Rep. Omar returned to ploitation and plunder. xenophobic rhetoric. The crowd, which had an openly her district in Twin Cities, Minn., on July 19, she was The four held a national joint press conference on July lynch-mob mentality, started to simultaneously chant, greeted with cheers and hugs from hundreds of mul- 15 in Washington, D.C., accusing Trump of promoting “Send her back.” Trump claimed on July 18 that he didn’t tinational supporters at the airport. Using a bullhorn, white nationalism to divide the population along racial agree with the chant, but the fact is that he stood silent Omar told the crowd: “When I said I was the president’s lines. Following the press conference, the House of for at least 13 seconds before he started speaking again. nightmare, well you’re watching it now. We are going to Representatives passed a nonbinding resolution 240-187 His ambivalent stance on July 17 was very reminiscent continue to be a nightmare to this president, because his on July 16 condemning Trump’s racist remarks. (WW, of how he reacted to the violent neo-fascist mobilization policies are a nightmare to us. And we are not deterred, July 18) that resulted in the murder of white anti-racist activist we are not frightened, we are ready.” (New York Times, Rep. Tlaib described how proud she was of her Heather Heyer by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville, Va., on July 19) Asma Mohammed, the advocacy director for Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood for Empowerment in North Down with imperialism! Up with Workers World! Minneapolis and an organizer of the airport rally, stated in the Times article, “Trump is working to make The U.S. has been the world’s No. 4th celebration of the origins of Muslims, immigrants, refugees and people of color feel 1 imperialist bully for years. That the genocidal, enslaving, white-su- afraid because he’s afraid of our collective power, and fact has been carefully covered up premacist capitalist U.S., while at he’s emboldened white nationalists in the process by with self-righteous bourgeois lan- the same time using the U.S. Armed making the conversation about who belongs here and guage by the corporate media. Forces to threaten Iran striving who doesn’t.” Now, led by emperor-wannabe to maintain its independence sur- On the same day, Rep. Omar spoke to a packed, Trump, the soft-sell bullying has rounded by global capitalism. The predominantly Black crowd at a town hall meeting in become in-your-face ultimatums, corporate media are willing co-con- Minneapolis about her support for Medicare for All, add- with Venezuela, Cuba and Iran the spirators in covering up the real ing that she refuses to be “distracted” by Trump. latest targets. threat—​U.S. imperialism. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, affectionately known as AOC, held The New York Times and other We know you read Workers World a pro-immigrant rally in her district of Queens, N.Y., on big business media are not report- WW PHOTO: BRENDA RYAN to get the real story, free of imperi- July 20 that drew hundreds of people. She commented ing on criminal U.S. sanctions as Reclaim Pride march, June 30, NYC. alist lies and crimes. 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By Ted Kelly and environmental racism, police brutal- New York ity and exploitation—that​ the organization became a target of the state. Supporters filled the first floor of the “The only thing MOVE was guilty of People’s Forum in Manhattan on July was exposing the system,” Janet said. 19 to welcome Janet Africa and Janine Of all the things that have changed in Africa, two members of the MOVE the 40 years that they have carried on the Organization who were released from fight behind bars, the technology is what prison this summer after nearly 40 years is most different. Janine explained that behind bars. The two shared harrowing smartphones and the Internet are tools of accounts of their decades as political the system to divert people. She stressed prisoners as well as strategies for resist- the importance of using technology and ing the racist, sexist capitalist system, and wielding it effectively for the struggle, but praised the spirit of MOVE Organization also about the need to teach youth that founder John Africa. “You don’t have to be a slave to technol- The city of Philadelphia and its mur- ogy; you don’t have to let it become your derous, white-supremacist police depart- heart and soul.” ment arrested Janet, Janine and seven Janet and Janine were joined by MOVE other revolutionary Black environmental- member Carlos Africa, who told gripping ists, who became known as the MOVE 9, WW PHOTO: TED KELLY accounts of his prison time, fighting from for the murder of a cop in August of 1978. Janet and Janine Africa were joined on stage by Carlos Africa (center right) and Kaila Bulé the inside to defend the women of MOVE But everyone involved, including the (left) who performed an original song in tribute to revolutionaries and political prisoners. who were held in a separate facility. He police, prison authorities and the press, stressed that MOVE has always been an knew that this was a frame-up meant to children from the women’s arms and from all those attending. This phone call organization led by women, and that he get the Black radicals off the street, just as arrested them. Delbert Africa, another marked the first time that Janet, Janine was grateful to be exposed to their lead- the cops had done to the Black Panthers MOVE 9 member, was brutally beaten by and Mumia had been able to speak to ership and an ideology of gender equality in Philadelphia less than a decade earlier. cops, which was captured on film years each other in 41 years. in his youth. Describing the notorious attack on before the infamous Rodney King beat- “My first question,” Mumia asked the Organizer and longtime MOVE ally their home in Powelton Village in 1978, ing. Within 24 hours the Powelton Village two, “is how the hell can you do over 40 Orie Lumumba closed the program with a Janet said, “Five hundred cops and fire- house was gone, bulldozed by the state to years in prison and still look so damn call to action. Two of the MOVE 9, Delbert men lined up outside our house at 3 a.m. destroy all evidence of the MOVE family’s beautiful?” and Chuck Africa, are still behind bars. They put a deluge hose on us, so high innocence. As the crowd shared a laugh and Michael, Debbie and Eddie were also pressure that the basement flooded. Our Just as the evening’s program was applause, both Janet and Janine replied recently released. Phil and Merle Africa children had to stand on our heads and beginning, organizers received a sur- in unison, “Long live John Africa!” It is to were killed by prison conditions during shoulders not to drown.” prise phone call from one of MOVE’s the spiritual and revolutionary teachings their incarceration. So thick was the tear gas the cops longest and most faithful supporters: of MOVE’s founders that both credit their With Chuck and Delbert’s parole board pumped into the residential home in Mumia Abu-Jamal. Calling from SCI unflinching commitment to the struggle. hearings approaching at the end of the West Philly, Janine said, “I couldn’t see Mahanoy, this progressive journalist and The Philadelphia police assassinated summer, supporters are urged to get the baby I was holding in front of me.” former Black Panther has been incarcer- John Africa in 1985 when they bombed involved in the effort to free these revolu- As they finally escaped the base- ated by the Pennsylvania Department the MOVE family house on Osage Avenue, tionaries by writing letters, making phone ment, they heard, to their horror, that of Corrections since 1982 after a similar killing 11 MOVE members and children calls to the parole authorities and visiting police were still shooting tens of thou- police frame-up. After Mumia’s call was and burning down an entire city block. onamove.org. sands of rounds of live ammunition into patched through the venue’s sound sys- It was because of MOVE’s opposition to Long live John Africa! Free all political the house—​and laughing. The cops tore tem, he was greeted by cheers of support the system—to​ environmental destruction prisoners! ☐

Ohio A crooked river and a crooked economic system

By Martha Grevatt Cleveland State University students held Hough, originally a wealthy enclave, was Cleveland a teach-in and marched from their cam- later a place of refuge for Jewish immi- pus to the river to protest pollution. grants after World War II. By the early To many the phrase “burning river” Congressmember Louis Stokes, the 1960s, it had become an impoverished might seem like an oxymoron. Rivers are mayor’s brother, helped push the creation Black neighborhood. There, Civil Rights water, and water is used to extinguish fires. of the Environmental Protection Agency protesters were arrested in 1964 when they But June 22 marked the 50th anniversary The Cuyahoga River fire of 1952 caused in 1970. Under pressure from the mass lay down in a ditch to protest construction of the famous Cuyahoga River fire. $1.3 million in damage. ecology movement, Congress passed the of a segregated school, a project that froze That day in 1969, when flammable pol- Clean Water Act in 1972 and overrode Black workers out of building trades jobs. lutants floating in the river were ignited been held accountable for their environ- President Richard Nixon’s veto of the bill. Rev. Bruce Klunder lay down behind a by a spark made by a passing train, is mental recklessness. bulldozer. The operator backed up over the forever etched in Cleveland’s historical One elected official who voiced concern Another dirty legacy: racism activist minister and killed him instantly. memory. The flames, reaching five stories about pollution was Mayor Carl B. Stokes, The name Cuyahoga was appropriated Conditions in segregated housing high, subsequently brought down the rail- the first African-American elected mayor from an Iroquois language, spoken by became a major subject of the 1966 U.S. road bridge. No photos are known to exist in a major U.S. city. In 1968, with his the Indigenous peoples of the area before Civil Rights Commission hearings. In of this catastrophic event. backing, voters overwhelmingly passed colonization. It may be a distortion of the April of that year, a public inquiry heard That was the 13th time the Cuyahoga a $100 million bond initiative to fund Mohawk word Cuyagaga, which means testimony about the terrible living con- caught fire. The first time was in 1868. Five efforts to clean up the Cuyahoga. Stokes “crooked,” or of Cuyohaga, the Seneca ditions for Hough’s Black residents. Two people were burned to death in 1912, and held a press conference at the river’s edge word meaning “place of the jawbone.” months later, Hough exploded in a rebel- the 1952 fire caused $1.3 million worth of the day after the fire. (Encyclopedia of Cleveland History) The lion initially triggered by racist abuse of damage. As the city became a manufac- The fire drew attention to the crises river briefly defined the western border of Black patrons at a white-owned bar. The turing center, executives at profit-hungry of pollution threatening the country’s the U.S. until—as​ with every other treaty Ohio National Guard crushed the rebel- companies, such as U.S. Steel, Republic air, land and water—​and it gave impe- between European and Indigenous peo- lion on July 24, four days after it began, Steel, Jones & Laughlin Steel, Sherwin- tus to the environmental movement. ples—​white settlers broke the Treaty of leaving four Black Clevelanders dead. Williams and John D. Rockefeller’s This movement emerged in tandem with Greenville and pushed westward. The 1967 election of Mayor Stokes, Standard Oil, thought nothing of dumping powerful struggles against racism, sex- As settlements expanded on both sides who garnered support on both sides of waste in the river. The river burned under ism, gay oppression (as LGBTQ2S+ was of the Cuyahoga, the crooked, winding the Cuyahoga, was a historic blow against the shadow of Republic Steel. referred to then), imperialist war and river divided the city into East and West racism. The whole city benefited from his After residents complained of foul-tast- other injustices. sides. The river represents another ugly work against pollution. ing drinking water, tests done as early as Cleveland has played an important feature of Cleveland history: racist seg- 1922 determined: “The polluted water of role in the radical movement. The city regation. When African Americans came 50 years after the fire, still serious issues the Cuyahoga River reached the water hosted many anti-war conferences. The north seeking industrial jobs, they were “Riverfest,” held on this year’s anniver- works intakes, and this polluted water 1966 Hough Rebellion and 1968 Glenville largely concentrated on the East Side. sary of the fire, celebrated the Cuyahoga’s contained the material which caused the Rebellion shook up the racist power Decades later, they still crossed the bridge comeback. The river that was once declared obnoxious taste.” (Smithsonian, June 19) structure. The city was also the site of the with trepidation to enter the West Side, dead, and unable to sustain life in any form, Yet by 1969, no corporations had ever first Earth Day in April 1970, when 1,000 where the white population lived. Continued on page 9 workers.org July 25, 2019 Page 5 Will autoworkers strike On the for jobs and equal pay? picket line By Martha Grevatt By Alex Bolchi and Sue Davis The United Auto Workers has begun negotiations for new contracts with Ford, Chicago airport workers win General Motors and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Current contract victory! contracts expire in mid-Sep- tember. For the first time in Airport workers at both Midway and O’Hare celebrated ratification of decades, UAW International their first Service Employees (SEIU) Local 1 contract at Chicago City Hall President Gary Jones has July 17. This contract with Prospect Airport Services and Scrub Inc.—​ raised the specter of a strike. which covers 2,200 wheelchair attendants, cabin cleaners, baggage han- Jones informed GM CEO dlers and cargo agents—​provides a pathway to $15-an-hour and good Mary Barra and company union benefits! negotiators on July 16: “My Brothers and Maryland and Lordstown demonstrated with Workers won roughly $8,000 more in wages over the life of the three- Sisters are ready to do whatever is necessary local autoworkers outside GM world headquar- year contract, as well as overtime, a grievance procedure, seniority pro- to get the contract that, in this time of record ters in downtown Detroit July 16, the day nego- tections, more affordable health care, vacation time and five additional profits, they deserve.” A similar message was tiations opened. holidays at time-and-a-half pay. presented to Ford and FCA. The closing of Lordstown is a big blow to the This group of workers has been organizing all over the country, with The UAW regional offices are hosting Youngstown-Warren area, which has been dev- Local 1 leading protests and strike threats since 2016. What helped them strike-preparedness classes for local leaders astated by multiple steel mill closings. In a sign win in Chicago was a 2017 City Council ordinance raising wages to $13.80 and interested rank-and-file members. Union of hard times, Youngstown’s only daily news- an hour and language that made it easier for workers to join unions. dues have been increased to bolster the strike paper, The Vindicator, will cease publication in O’Hare workers’ high-profile allegation of wage theft totaling $1.2 million fund, and weekly strike pay was increased this August. helped. (Chicago Sun Times, July 17) year from $200 to $250. Industry analysts in Meanwhile, FCA is going forward with The next fight in Chicago is to win union representation for fellow the corporate media are nervously reporting closing Mt. Elliott Tool and Die in Detroit, workers employed by Total Airport Services Inc.—​cabin cleaners, cus- “a wide divide” between the two sides. (Detroit which will eliminate more skilled-trades jobs. tomer service agents, baggage handlers, ramp agents and warehouse News, July 15) Workers have also been laid off in a number of agents. (seiu.org, July 17) Workers on the plant floor have been hesitant FCA and Ford plants. This is a major breakthrough nationally for airport workers. May it ramp to take the International’s tough talk seriously. Several decades of capitalist restructur- up the ongoing organizing struggle for these workers all around the U.S.! For decades the International bureaucracy has ing have reduced UAW membership at the asked them to vote “yes” on contracts, claiming Detroit Three to 155,000, even as car sales have big gains when they were, in fact, taking major rebounded to pre-recession levels. A recession Nurses in 3 western states are concessions. in auto would bring even more layoffs. The 2007-11 contracts introduced the two- on the move tier pay scale that paid future hires less than Strike all three! higher-seniority “traditional” workers doing The companies are quick to point out that About 400 registered nurses, represented by the California Nurses the same work. This unequal and divisive for- their average labor costs are higher than those Association, ratified a new contract July 3 with Oroville Hospital, north mula—​an affront to basic union principles—​ of Asian and European vehicle manufacturers of Sacramento, mandating wage increases of 12 percent over four years. was expanded when contracts were modified with plants in the U.S. They want the UAW to They also improved safety in working conditions that addressed outbreaks during the 2009 GM and Chrysler (now FCA) partner with them in holding costs down in of communicable diseases, emergencies, disasters and workplace violence. bankruptcies and maintained in the 2011-15 order to be competitive. GM CEO Barra warned These protections were won to help lower the high turnover rate of RNs. contracts. President Jones that “our collective future is at (sacbee.com, July 5) FCA workers voted down a contract in 2015 stake.” (Detroit News, July 16) When management of Kalispell Regional Health hospital in northwest that would have extended the two-tier wage The UAW should reject these bogus argu- Montana refused to recognize the nurses’ petition to the National Labor scale another four years. They approved a sec- ments. Labor costs are estimated to be only 5 Relations Board to join SEIU1199NW in mid-June, the nurses opted for ond contract that brought newer, “in-progres- percent of the cost of a car. Put another way, an election. With a July 12 vote of 372 to 199, the nurses won union rep- sion” workers’ pay up to that of traditional only 5 percent of sales revenue goes to the resentation. One of their aims is getting KRH to hire more nurses and end workers after eight years. Similar language was workers. This comes to a little over $20 billion the staffing shortage. (SEIU1199nw.org, July 12) included in GM and Ford contracts. Workers for the three companies combined, not much Nurses represented by the Washington State Nurses Association at hired after October 2007 at FCA are still more than their combined profits of about $16 CHI Franciscan St. Joseph Medical Center in Takoma reached a tentative excluded from traditional pension plans and billion in 2018. On the average, four hours of agreement after a 17-hour negotiating session into the early morning of have unequal health benefits. labor go to profits for every five hours that go July 13. The union called the deal a “major victory … that achieved gains in When UAW members approved contracts in to wages and benefits. This is a high rate of all three of our key priorities on wages, staffing and retro pay.” (thestand. 2015, most believed they were voting to elim- exploitation, and it is much higher in low-wage org, July 15) inate tiered pay. But new language actually countries. Unions have every right to say no to expanded a third tier of lower-paid “temporary concessions. employees.” They get no bonuses or benefits Demands around equal pay and job secu- beyond a very basic health care plan. rity are more than just, but it may take a strike National Bill of Rights for With few protections against arbitrary dis- to get the companies to agree. It is past time cipline and discharge, temps are subjected for the UAW leadership to kick its decades- domestic workers to widespread abuse by supervisors, includ- old habit of class collaboration, the root of an ing racist and sexual harassment. Their work embarrassing bribe-taking scandal still under The National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights was introduced in schedules vary from one or two days a week to federal investigation. Congress July 15 to finally establish rights for some of the most oppressed seven, with little advance notice, and they are The traditional “pattern bargaining” strategy workers in the U.S.—​domestic workers. These women, along with farm- expected to cover for high absenteeism on days has been to name one of the three companies as workers, were not covered by the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, of bitter cold or oppressive summer heat. a “strike target” from which the union will try after Southern congressmen refused to vote for it unless white Southerners to get the best possible contract, hypothetically could continue Jim Crow oppression and abuse of Black housekeepers and Plant closings another big issue by striking if necessary, and then to push the sharecroppers. Jones has taken Barra to task over GM’s plans other two companies to follow the “pattern.” This bill, fought for since 1968, will establish rules so the growing num- to permanently close plants in Michigan, Ohio The last auto strikes, in 2007, were for two days ber of nannies, housecleaners and home care workers, who have had to and Maryland. The Lordstown, Ohio, assembly at GM and six hours at Chrysler. Some workers endure low wages (about $10 an hour), unpredictable hours, lack of job plant has been idle since March, and three oth- mocked them as “Hollywood strikes”—​just for security and sexual harassment, will have set wages, hours, overtime, pro- ers are slated for closing. The current contract show. What they “won” was introduction of two tections and benefits like sick days, and job security. Live-in nannies will prohibits GM from closing or idling plants. The tier, no raises for four years and the erosion of have signed contracts and must receive a written termination notice and company has tried to get around the contract skilled trades through consolidation. at least 30 days of severance pay. Given the growth of the aging U.S. pop- by calling the plants “unallocated”—​meaning Given the hard line the Detroit Three bosses ulation, domestic work is predicted to be the fastest growing job in the no new work after the current car model being are taking, a better strategy might be to strike next decade. built is discontinued. all three and demand no plant closings, no The National Domestic Workers Alliance, founded in 2007 and rep- The UAW has mainly limited the fight against mass layoffs, no more tiered pay and all temps resenting 2 million women—predominantly​ women of color from as far plant closings to filing grievances, taking legal must be made permanent employees. away as the Caribbean, Latin America, Asia and Africa—​is the driving action and holding prayer vigils. It has not lent Grevatt is a UAW worker who recently force behind the law. (New York Times, July 15) Its passage will right support to GM workers in Oshawa, Ontario, retired from FCA after 31 years. She is the a racist, sexist wrong and become a small step toward long-overdue Canada whose plant is also on the chopping Trustee of UAW Local 869 and an elected del- reparations. ☐ block. Several busloads of GM workers from egate to the union’s recent convention. Page 6 July 25, 2019 workers.org Prime Day wildcat strike and picket shakes Amazon By Harvey Markowitz productivity rates” and exploitative reli- parent might be able to attend Shakopee, Minn. ance on temporary workers to stop the their child’s soccer game by “churn and burn” of workers. taking UTO. But workers are On Monday, July 15, the same day Bradley recalled the history of her fully aware that the bosses who as Amazon’s “Prime Day” sales extrav- grandfather, who, many decades ago, also came up with this benefit can aganza, workers at the Amazon MSP1 worked in a factory and struck for work- take it away. A complaint was fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minn., ers’ rights. “I think he’s looking down on filed with the National Labor walked out to protest the company’s me today, and I think he’s quite proud of Relations Board when workers oppressive management practices. what’s going on.” who previously walked off the With the support of the general com- Weston Fribley, a tech engineer from job had their UTO reduced. munity and union locals, hundreds of peo- Seattle and member of Amazon Employees Injured former worker ple picketed the entrance of the Amazon for Climate Justice, read solidarity Shakopee, Minn. WW PHOTO: HARVEY MARKOWITZ fulfillment center, holding signs, singing, statements from others in his division. describes horrors chanting and dancing. Workers report “Without its employees, Amazon can- Kim Hatfield, a divorced that almost all trucks that approached not exist,” Weston said. “We have no say mother who came from Dallas the facility turned around and refused to on how our work contributes to climate in solidarity, spoke with cross the picket line. change, or otherwise affects our world. … Workers World. The strug- One hundred workers were origi- Will Amazon squander its resources on gles of East African workers nally expected to walk out and a signif- new ways to extract even more work from at MSP1 resonated with her icant number did. With the front door its overworked employees?” experience at Amazon, where flanked by jeering managers, “loss pre- Weston’s sentiments were joined by she empathized deeply with vention” staff and police, the company Michael Rousseau, a pilot whose com- Liberian workers performing succeeded in intimidating some workers pany flies air freight for Amazon and a back-breaking labor along- into remaining on the job. strike-preparation chair with Teamsters side her. Hatfield worked for Worker demands include: no retalia- Local 1224. Amazon for less than a year tion for concerted action, better working Phyllis Ibrahim, a young Somali worker, before being injured to the conditions, an end to unsafe work that emphasized the big picture of the workers’ point where she couldn’t work. Seattle PHOTO: CHERYL MCARTHUR leaves workers injured, and for Amazon concerns. She related that a lot of the work- Performing as a “picker,” to stop polluting the environment. ers at MSP1 are Somali, and much of the Hatfield developed severe pain in her arms (owned by Amazon), holding conversa- East African workers in particular, climate change caused by companies such that grew more intense as time went on. tions with sympathetic shoppers. many of whom are Muslim, demand as Amazon has effects around the world, While seeking care through the company’s Protesters rallied outside a downtown adequate time and accommodation for including in Somalia. “A lot of money is approved network of workers’ compensa- Portland, Ore., Amazon Locker Hub religious practices throughout the day. stolen from the workers in here … all of tion physicians, she was relieved when she on July 15. Passersby took leaflets, asked Amazon’s designated space for prayers that comes at a cost,” said Ibrahim. was approved for surgery. However, she questions and expressed support. On July is no more than the doorway of a cor- An elderly Somali warehouse worker was devastated when the insurance adjus- 16 and 17, demonstrators at two Amazon ridor. According to Jaylani Hussein of who walks with a cane, Mohammed tor informed her that a review determined warehouses protested horrendous work- CAIR-MN (Council on American-Islamic Hassan, spoke through a translator. He that her approval had been reversed. ing conditions, joining Amazon employ- Relations-Minnesota), this is less than lambasted Amazon for their unfair stan- The adjustor’s call came two days ees fighting to unionize their workplaces. what some smaller companies provide dards and practices: “There is a lot of before her son’s 16th birthday. Hatfield An Amazon worker at the rally told for only 50 employees. fear, a lot of injustice around here. The had planned to surprise her son with his Workers World that plants have no air Speaking at the rally, former employee work is a heavy load. They think that first car, but the call cut her plans short. conditioning and managers are impos- Meg Bradley told her story of developing a human beings can be robots. We are not After performing her own investiga- ing impossibly fast speedups. “Amazon foot injury—​for which workers’ compen- scared to stand up for our rights. … We tion into the adjustor’s decision, Hatfield workers appreciate the support and com- sation was denied—​which later became will make sure that … we speak for all the discovered conspicuous additions to and munity unity against the sweatshop con- exacerbated, rendering her unable to Amazon workers in the world, [and] all subtractions from her medical record. In ditions we are working in. More people work. She insists Amazon must “reduce the humans of the world.” particular, snapshots of the record show are starting to see how Bezos, the richest a surgical history of carpal tunnel sur- man in the U.S. who doesn’t pay taxes, is Intensity of labor described gery. Hatfield asserts that the company treating Amazon workers.” Working at an Amazon fulfill- inserted a fictitious precondition to jus- Paige Kreisman, a transwoman running ment center requires learning a tify denying her treatment. for the Oregon House of Representatives, dizzying amount of terminology. Hatfield added that she and her said at the rally, “I choose to stand with K-saws, R-saws, “water spiders” co-workers observed that treatment the workers. … We can’t build a move- and other such new words are denials appear to happen, quite con- ment without labor.” A member of Vets all part of the cutting edge in spicuously, more to women employees, for Peace, Paige was kicked out of the U.S. sorting merchandise that arrives whereas many men who receive injuries Army for being trans. Other speakers rep- on someone’s doorstep in two get the treatment and accommodation resented the Amazon Workers Solidarity days. Many workers believe they need. Campaign, International Longshore & that Amazon is listening in on Hatfield is currently working with an Warehouse Union, Service Employees their conversations and using attorney to appeal the rejection of her union, Communication Workers and Jobs “machine learning” algorithms to compensation claim. with Justice. preempt the thoughts of workers. The International Workers Solidarity Amazon has reached the top Solidarity actions here and Network initiated an online solidarity of capitalist accumulation, not around the world campaign that encouraged workers to only at the cost to taxpayers In Germany, nearly 2,000 workers in support the Amazon strike by pledging through billions in government seven cities held strikes on July 15 in sol- solidarity and spreading the word about Portland, Ore. contracts and tax exemptions, idarity with MSP1 workers and Amazon the strike; joining actions planned to sup- but especially through the toil workers around the world. In Spain, port the workers' demands or organizing of its workforce. Workers are workers had planned to hold a two-day their own at an Amazon or Whole Foods monitored for productivity at all demonstration, but it was later cancelled location; and boycotting Amazon and times on their shifts, which has because there are signs that the company Whole Foods on Prime Day to respect the engendered a culture of cama- may come to an agreement subsequent to workers' picket line. raderie among them. Amazon a judicial decision in the coming months. The solidarity pledge raised the sig- employees told Workers World In England, workers at the Rugeley nificance of this action, led primarily by that it is not uncommon for facility held a demonstration, echoing Somali and East African migrants, fol- them to give easier tasks to the rallying cry from MSP1 workers: that lowing strikes by Uber and Lyft drivers workers who are momentar- workers “are people—​not robots.” and Wayfair workers, and in the midst of ily struggling so that the work Strike supporters held an action in Trump's racist war on migrant workers. group is not punished for lag- front of an Amazon pick up/drop-off loca- Nearly 1,000 people signed the pledge ging productivity. tion in Boston’s Central Square, a busy from across the U.S. and around the world; One benefit that workers are shopping area and hub of several bus others shared the message of the strike grateful for at Amazon is their routes. People took flyers and expressed through social media and other means. quarterly allotment of unpaid solidarity, often stopping to inquire for time off (UTO), which permits more information. Ben Carroll, Phebe Eckfeldt, Martha them to deviate from a set work Cleveland activists leafletted and held Grevatt, Johnnie Lewis, Jim McMahan and Lyn Neeley contributed to this article. Cambridge, Mass. schedule to a limited extent. A signs outside a local Whole Foods store workers.org July 25, 2019 Page 7 WW Commentary Puerto Rico rises up By Jason Cohen means that we, the Puerto Rican revolu- tionaries, must also adopt a proletarian The souls of Puerto Ricans everywhere internationalist outlook. For our oppres- should burn with indignation as they sion under U.S. imperialism is an oppres- read through the text messages by Gov. sion felt throughout the world. Ricardo Rossello and members of his We must stand steadfastly with the administration written in a group chat. Bolivarian revolutionaries of Venezuela On July 13, the Center for Investigative in their struggle against U.S.-backed Journalism in Puerto Rico published 900 counterrevolutionaries. Puerto Rico plays pages of the messages. an especially important role in this issue, The contents ranged from openly since multiple times Gov. Rossello has defaming valiant women of the island offered Puerto Rico as a place for the U.S. who are fighting against sexual violence military to base its insurgency against the to insulting folk heroes such as Carlos Venezuelan people. Gallisa who have fought alongside the We must ensure solidarity with the toiling masses in their quest for freedom, Caribbean nations, especially Cuba, which equality and independence. Perhaps have stood in solidarity with Puerto Ricans the most macabre and damning part of from the beginning, always calling for the the messages discuss the government’s end of U.S. colonial oppression of our coverup of the actual death toll of thou- Protest for Puerto Rico at Columbus Circle in New York City, July 22. WW PHOTO: HENRY LUNA nation. We must also stand firmly with sands of Puerto Ricans from Hurricane Haitian revolutionaries who have contin- Maria, with some members making jokes majority of Puerto Ricans on the island. beleaguered island left alone after this uously struggled against U.S. imperialism. at the expense of the dead. This is disgust- Under Rossello’s administration, the little massive storm hit, leaving death and Thus, Puerto Ricans in the mainland ing behavior ubiquitous among the ruling sovereignty Puerto Ricans had left to deal destruction everywhere. United States have a very special role to cliques of capitalist nations. with their economic situation was given to Our people became refugees on our play. We must continue to put pressure an unelected board of supervisors, led by own island, snubbed by the government on the U.S. government to withdraw the Colonial and capitalist financial crisis the imperialist U.S. government, under the that claims Puerto Ricans are rightful cit- blockades and sanctions levied on nations This “Telegram Gate” controversy is PROMESA agreement. The Puerto Rico izens of the United States of America. But such as Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. just the newest chapter in corrupt prac- Oversight, Management, and Economic the fascist U.S. president hosted a press These are manifestations of class warfare tices committed by successive colonial Stability Act is a 2016 U.S. federal law that conference on the island during which he against revolutionary nations and must administrations that have plagued the established the oversight board. threw paper towels at desperate families end. island since famed genocidal conqueror The arrangement was made under to “help” them. Juan Ponce DeLeon invaded this beauti- the guise of “fiscal responsibility” due All these events and numerous oth- ‘Solidarity with peoples ful land in 1514, beginning the genocide of to the massive amount of debt accrued ers have built up a rage in the hearts of of other colonies’ the Indigenous Taino people. by Puerto Rico, an island that has been Puerto Ricans, thus producing the out- Also, Puerto Ricans must show solidar- Thus, it is not surprising that there has strangled economically by the United pouring of demonstrations on the island ity with the peoples of other colonies of been such a militant response by the peo- States for over 120 years. This board put and in the diaspora. the United States, such as Guam, Mariana ple calling on colonial governor Rossello in place austerity programs that are bla- The protests have humanized a belea- Islands, Hawai'i and the Philippines. to step down. On July 17, half a million tant machinations of class conflict. guered people. Our imperialist overlords Currently there is a righteous struggle by people demonstrated in San Juan. By have continuously shown that they value Indigenous Hawaiians whose holy lands July 22, there had been 10 consecutive ‘Refugees on our own island’ profits over our wellbeing. Now we are are slated to be desecrated in the name days of protest. The austerity drive aggravated an showing that we will not stand for this of science. We must affirm our solidarity Many bourgeois reporters will claim already decrepit economy, thus continu- exploitation any longer. Ousting Rossello is with the Indigenous Hawaiians whose that the only reason why these protests are ously leaving Puerto Ricans in the dark just the beginning. The people have risen, nation, culture and quality of life has been occurring is allegations of corruption. But while billionaires scramble to buy up and we will not stop until our island is free. decimated due to U.S. imperialism. corruption is just one part of the story. everything on the island due to the mas- Another main struggle occurring right The contradictions of living in a colo- sive privatization campaign. ‘The people are forever strong’ now is in the Philippines against fascist nial entity have grown more acute for a Then came Hurricane Maria, with our This is a momentous task, but we President Rodrigo Duterte. Since his elec- are up for it. We shall walk in the foot- tion he has begun the policy of extrajudi- steps of our revolutionary ancestors who cial killing of poor people in the name of rebelled against the Spanish under the the “war on drugs.” Sounds familiar, eh? Taino leader Agüeybaná II, on the path Although on paper the Philippines of the brave souls of Lares who rebelled became independent in 1946, the United against Spain in 1868, and many other States has continuously undermined the figures who have defied the U.S. head on, struggle for democracy by supporting and like Albizu Campos, the valiant people funding multiple dictatorships. Duterte is of Jayuya and Oscar López Rivera. Our no different. Therefore we must stand in fight is just, and we will win in the end solidarity with Filipinos and all other peo- for imperialism is a paper tiger and the ples struggling for freedom. people are forever strong! This is a heavy task, but the strength of The struggle ahead will be long, but the working class is unmatched. Together with the solidarity of the international we will build a new world out of the ashes working class we will triumph. This of the old! ☐ Kānaka Maoli protect #RickyRenuncia Puerto Rican community rallies in Philly sacred land in Hawai’i Continued from page 1 The Earther website paraphrased an Despite temperatures in the high his top aides and lobbyists. In these they email from Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, a 90s, the Puerto Rican community from made homophobic, sexist and profane what we call the state of Hawai’i. It is the Native Hawaiian Ph.D. candidate at the across Philadelphia converged at Ninth remarks against allies and foes. American state apparatus that contin- Mānoa’s Department of Geography and Street and Hunting Park Avenue on July The protests are also condemning the ues to play a role in enforcing astrono- Environment at the University of Hawai’i: 19 to demand the resignation of Puerto governor's slow response to the crisis mer access to the Mauna, for example, “This isn’t a moment for scientists to stay Rico's Gov. Ricardo Rossello. This pro- following Hurricane Maria, as well as with the police forces this week arresting silent. ... That would make scientists com- test was in solidarity with the thousands government corruption. the kūpuna, the elders, who took great plicit in oppressing Indigenous world- of working people who have been in the Many protesters have drawn atten- physical risk to protect their family.” views.” (July 18) streets of Puerto Rico since the second tion to Puerto Rico's status as a U.S. col- (earther.gizmodo.com, July 18) Support the Kia‘i; donate to the week in July demanding that Rossello ony and how that has negatively affected The TMT has been falsely portrayed as Hawai’i Community Bail Fund at leave office. relief, aid and decision-making in rela- science vs. Native Hawaiians, but it is a hawaiicommunitybailfund.org. All dona- The protests in Puerto Rico began fol- tion to the island. for-profit project. The telescope’s inves- tions will be used exclusively to bail out lowing the release of almost 900 pages tors have an alternate site selected in the protectors of the mauna. ☐ of group chat messages among Rossello, — Report and photo by Joe Piette Canary Islands. Page 8 July 25, 2019 workers.org 160 from U.S. take protest trip to Cuba

The following press release was issued to strengthen movements for justice in Rivera, a brigadista from the 48th trip in Obama administration in late 2014, by the Venceremos Brigade on July 18. the U.S. through exchange and collabo- 2017. “It was refreshing, healing, ground- expelling diplomats from the Cuban The group describes itself as “an inter- ration with Cuba. ... ing, and uplifting. It was essential in my Embassy, withdrawing personnel from generational educational work project This will be the largest and most path toward liberation.” the U.S. Embassy, curtailing business that has brought 10,000 Americans to accessible Venceremos Brigade in over The Venceremos Brigade itself has been travel, eliminating the “people-to-peo- Cuba since 1969 in an act of civil dis- a decade and will include many people on an evolving path over the years as well. ple” subcategory for travel, continuing obedience in solidarity with the Cuban from the U.S. who have traveled with the In 2003, in response to a crackdown by the to spread misinformation about Cuban Revolution.” The VB will travel to Cuba Brigade sometime in the last 50 years. Bush Administration on travel to Cuba, society, and levying some of the largest from July 23 to Aug. 13. Since its founding 10 years after the the Brigade made their “Travel Challenge” blockade violation fines ever. socialist revolution in Cuba, the Brigade a public act of civil disobedience, as a way As the Trump Administration con- New York—​As the Trump Admin­ has taken more than 10,000 people from to increase pressure on the U.S. govern- tinues its domestic attacks on civil and istration uses fear tactics to turn back the the U.S. to the island, where they have ment to lift the economic blockade and human rights and as interest in socialism clock on Cuba policy, 160 [people from worked as volunteers on civic projects, change policy toward Cuba. In the fol- grows among the U.S. population, peo- the U.S.] are planning a massive politi- delivered thousands of pounds of mate- lowing years, [the Brigade] succeeded ple are looking for alternatives in Cuban cal and educational trip to protest lin- rial aid, and engaged in discourse with in greatly reducing the enforcement of society, where there is no such thing as gering U.S. imperialism—​above all the people from various sectors of Cuban sanctions against travelers, but [that] student debt and everyone has health financial control that the U.S. still forc- society. Brigade members, known as work has been met with threats from the insurance. Now more than ever, the ibly exerts over Cuba—​which threat- “brigadistas,” come from all over the U.S. U.S. Treasury Department and harass- Venceremos Brigade’s trip to Cuba takes ens to undermine the sovereignty of the and are diverse in race, ethnicity, gender, ment from the FBI. Still, the Venceremos on great political significance. Brigadistas Cuban people. The trip, organized by the sexual orientation, occupation, and polit- Brigade continues to organize annual trips will return to the U.S. to educate their Venceremos Brigade, will mark the 50th ical affiliation. The guiding purpose of the and demand that the U.S. government act communities about the realities seen and anniversary of this project, which, since Brigade is solidarity. to rectify its harmful Cuba policy. experienced in Cuba, and to advocate for 1969, has traveled annually in protest of “Sometimes the best way to be in sol- Most recently, the Trump administra- the end of the blockade and travel ban, the U.S. government’s travel restrictions idarity is by building community. That tion has reversed many of the advances the return of occupied Guantánamo Bay, and blockade on the island, while working is what this trip taught me,” said Hector toward normalization initiated by the and truly normal relations. ☐ Venezuela discussions The government denounces, the opposition wavers

By Marco Teruggi around the table, if anything comes out Caracas it’s going to be due to factors external to the talks such as pressure, sanctions and First published July 14 in pagina12. other credible threats made by the U.S. com.ar. Translation by Michael Otto. administration.” Venezuela’s ambassador to the U.N., A massive throng of people passed Samuel Moncada, later accused the OAS through the center of Caracas on July of sabotaging the dialogue process, since 13 to demonstrate their rejection of the its secretary general “asks for military United Nations report on Venezuela, pre- intervention in Venezuela.” sented by Michelle Bachelet, U.N. high In turn Abrams, who was responsi- commissioner for human rights. A trop- ble for arms smuggling and massacres ical storm soaked the marchers as they in Central America in the 1980s, said: made their way to Miraflores Palace. “I hope that nobody in (the press con- Meanwhile, far from the capi- ference) room knows what’s happening, tal, in the city of Valera, in the state of because the only possibility that the nego- Trujillo, [opposition leader] Juan Guaidó tiations will be successful is that there will addressed his followers at a rally: “We PHOTO: PAGINA12.COM.AR be confidentiality. (...) [S]o needless to aren’t committed to any mechanism, A member of the Bolivarian militia denounces the U.N. High Commissioner’s negative say we hope the negotiations will succeed. with any action. We know that there are report on Venezuela, during a July 13 march in Caracas. Interim ‘President’ Guaidó and his team no magic solutions.” He thus tried to con- are not negotiating in Barbados because tain the criticisms received for his oscil- conspirators and criminals. They are process.” The only thing publicly known they trust the regime. They are negotiat- lating and contradictory moves—​such always playing a dual game. On the one is that six (undisclosed) points are on ing to end the regime.” (Abrams quote, at as threatening force while simultane- hand, they sit down with the revolution- the table. All the rest is based on specu- 41 minutes into the video, tinyurl.com/ ously returning to talks in Barbados with ary government, but, on the other hand, lation, rumor, media events and political yyq2ubd6) Venezuela’s government. they persist with their violent agenda,” maneuvering. None of the parties has shifted from As the two contending public meet- Rodríguez said. its core position so far. The United States ings took place, Venezuela’s minister of Minister Rodríguez announced that Pro-imperialist press conference maintains that the departure of President communication, Jorge Rodríguez, held the investigations and evidence will be One such media event was a joint press Nicolás Maduro is the key point. a press conference to inform the people brought to the talks with the opposition conference on Friday [July 12] attended Speaking for the Chavismo side [the about the detention of three members of forces in Barbados, which the Norwegian by Luis Almagro, secretary-general of the Venezuelan government], the president the team close to Guaidó, which resulted government is facilitating. The minister Organization of American States; U.S. of the National Constituent Assembly, from an investigation into the attempted is part of the [Venezuelan] government Special Representative for Venezuela Diosdado Cabello, affirmed that there will coup d’etat on April 30. delegation along with [Miranda state Elliott Abrams; and three opponents be no presidential elections: “It is impos- Rodríguez explained, “One of the Governor] Héctor Rodríguez. They are from Venezuela. They included Ivan sible. ... [T]here were elections here on lines of investigation corresponds to moving forward with the talks in their Simonovic, a fugitive from justice for May 20 [2018] in accordance with the the theft of regulation weapons belong- third public round, following the first two his involvement in the 2002 coup d’état Constitution and Nicolás Maduro won. ing to detachment 432 of the Bolivarian meetings that took place in Oslo, Norway, [which seized President Hugo Chávez and That cannot be disputed.” National Guard of the Bolivarian National in May. was then forced to release him]. Given clues, media events and Armed Force that were stolen from the Héctor Rodríguez spoke during the Almagro asserted that the only solu- rumors—what​ is known, and what is per- weapons depot of the Federal Legislative ceremony celebrating the government’s tion will come from U.S. pressure: haps most important—is​ that the talks go Palace by some of the criminal military handing over the 2.7 millionth house “More than what is being negotiated on. ☐ who were involved in the coup ordered by built for the Venezuelan people. He had Juan Guaidó.” just returned from “three intense days of peace talks with the Venezuelan opposi- Opposition agents caught tion forces, where we have listened with Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba selling stolen weapons much patience to the aspirations, reflec- by Leslie Feinberg The three men were discovered tions and requests made by these various This ground-breaking book is a compilation of 25 attempting an operation to sell some Venezuelan opposition forces.” articles about same-sex love and sex/gender variance of the stolen weapons, five AK103 rifles The content of the talks has been kept in Cuba’s pre- and post-revolutionary history. and 10 clips, for $35,000. “[The oppo- confidential. The Norwegian Ministry sition] present themselves to the world of Foreign Affairs stressed “the impor- Available at major online booksellers. as so-called democrats, as human rights tance of taking the utmost precaution in Download it free from www.workers.org/books/ defenders, but in reality they are coup comments and statements regarding the workers.org July 25, 2019 Page 9 Solidarity in the fight against white supremacy Part 3 Building international solidarity

The Sixth International Assembly of Any critique or analysis of Donald revving up of the deportation machine. struggles from inside the imperial core to the International League of People's Trump as simply stupid or dumb is use- Outside the U.S., we see the resistance in those resisting imperial violence in the Struggles took place in Hong Kong June less for building a revolutionary move- Palestine, the Philippines, Sudan, Haiti Global South and around the world, to the 23-26. Founded in 2001, ILPS is a coa- ment to resist him. It makes our task and beyond. I believe that in the U.S. we liberals, to the social democrats, and, in lition of more than 200 anti-imperi- more difficult and is rather ahistorical. have much to learn from our comrades in the U.S., to the Democratic party, which alist mass organizations from around He is precisely the kind of president who the Global South and there are some key is just as much, if not more, of a warmon- the world that "promotes, supports and the global conditions of finance capi- lessons we share from the center of the gering party as the Republicans. develops the struggles of the peoples of tal have produced at this point in time. empire that would be of use, too. It goes without saying that the global the world, including the workers, peas- He is pushing fascist policies and prac- In order for us to build effective soli- capitalist crisis is indeed very local. The ants, women, youth, professionals and tices, and in the U.S. we are still playing darity between the North and the South, manifestations of contradictions among other sectors of society against the ideo- catchup to understand what this means. it is crucial that we move toward more the ruling class and ruling parties them- logical, political, military, economic, In large part, his fascist actions are tak- shared understanding of the role of white selves can be found in every struggle tak- social and cultural domination and ing root because we still have work to do supremacy in all of our struggles. There are ing place around the world. attacks of imperialism and reaction." to strengthen the revolutionary left pole oppressed nations within the false borders Our duty as revolutionaries, especially Loan Tran, who attended as a repre- embedded among the masses. of the U.S. that can play an important and those of us who are inside the belly of the sentative of the International Action There is a lot more that could be said strategic role in resisting empire. beast, is to take advantage of the disinte- Center, spoke at the assembly. Part 3 of here but I’ll start wrapping up by ask- gration among the ruling class and lever- Tran’s remarks, slightly edited, is pre- ing: How might we resist capitalist and Self-determination within and without age that in solidarity with the struggles of sented below. For more information white-supremacist rule and laws? How We must recognize the centrality of the oppressed people elsewhere. about ILPS, see ilps.info. might we wage a struggle that rejects Black struggle, of the Chicano/Chicana As a revolutionary in the U.S., I must white-supremacist capitalism ideologi- struggle, of the Indigenous struggle for reiterate that I see my first and fore- It would be naïve of us to believe cally and also in action? sovereignty. Oppressed people within most priority as the defeat of the very that Trump’s administration alone has We must continue to push revolution- the borders of the empire are also fighting empire through which my organizing unleashed a new kind of white suprem- ary class consciousness that resisting for self-determination, and we must uplift still enjoys relative privileges—​at least acy or has introduced this latest stage of white supremacy, fascism and capital- the idea that this self-determination can- for the foreseeable future. But as we capitalist decay. It is important to note, ism are not crimes. And that democracy not come at the cost of self-determination know, everything changes, and our best however, that he has encouraged a new under capitalism is not democracy at all: for oppressed people and nations outside bet is to be prepared, build mass and level of uncensored white-supremacist It is authoritarianism. We must work to the U.S. international solidarity and connect violence that can only and will only ben- expose the role that this kind of author- I know that comrades in the U.S. are the struggles of workers and oppressed efit the capitalist ruling class, which is itarianism plays in puppet governments ready, and very much need, to centralize people everywhere against the common capable of creating its own laws and rules and dictatorships in oppressed nations and internalize the mandates from our enemy, the primary contradiction and to serve its interests. around the globe. comrades in the Global South. One way to the biggest threat to all of humanity: U.S. Trump’s blatantly white-supremacist It goes without saying that we see mod- do this is to build more unity in the fight imperialism. remarks about im/migrants and Muslims els for this across the globe, right now. against racism—​one of capital’s stron- Yesterday we toppled statues, tomor- and his blatant misogyny make him a Inside the U.S., communities have block- gest and well-proven tools for advancing row we topple ICE, the Pentagon and the convenient figurehead for the capitalists, aded ICE [Immigration and Customs the interests of empire. U.S. war machine, the prisons and the who bank on violence against workers Enforcement] vehicles to prevent depor- We cannot leave the task of building concentration camps of the poor around and oppressed people for their profit. tations and are preparing for Trump’s international solidarity, of connecting the the world. ☐

A crooked river and a crooked economic system Continued from page 4 The cleaner air and water in Cleveland is in no small part due to deindustrializa- now teems with fish and attracts canoers, tion. Most automobile, steel and machine kayakers and even swimmers. tool factories have closed, and those still However, there are serious environ- standing are automated. The largest mental issues facing Cleveland and the employers are now primarily in govern- whole Great Lakes region. Water levels ment and health care sectors, based on reached record highs this spring in Lake the number of full-time employees. Erie at the mouth of the Cuyahoga. This While the environment has benefited posed the danger of flooding, such as to a degree from some deindustrializa- Lake Ontario has experienced in the past tion, the drastic loss of manufacturing ‘Stop police terror, from two years, as well as soil erosion. jobs has devastated Cuyahoga County Like the century-long period when the economically. Child poverty in Cleveland Cuyahoga was a floating fire hazard, this is even higher than in Detroit. Hardest hit Philly to the Philippines’ new hazard to the environment is not the is the still-segregated—or​ as some stud- result of natural causes. Climate change ies say “hypersegregated”—​East Side Dozens of people braved 99˚ weather and counter-insurgency war on the rev- has caused unnatural highs and lows in where African-Americans have the high- to rally in front of Philadelphia's City olutionary movement in the Philippines. the water levels of the Great Lakes. est poverty rate. Hall on July 21. They gathered to With more than 30,000 extrajudicial A June 8 article in Scientific American The impact of the foreclosure crisis is demand "U.S. stop funding terror in the killings, 532 political prisoners, and at explained: “As researchers specializing in clearly visible. The high rate of lead poi- Philippines" and instead "Fund jobs, least 56 Philippine National Police offi- hydrology and climate science, we believe soning among Black children is caused by health care, housing and education, not cers involved in abusing women, the rapid transitions between extreme high lead paint used in old rental homes poorly imperialist wars." Speakers included U.S.-Duterte regime continues its state and low water levels in the Great Lakes maintained by landlords. This is environ- Cero Parel and Jeeva of BAYAN-USA, repression and terror against the peo- represent the ‘new normal.’ Our view is mental racism. Nora Kerrich of Jewish Voice for Peace ple. The U.S.-Duterte regime is guilty of based on interactions between global cli- The multiple crises facing this city, Philadelphia and Mike Wilson of daily gross human rights violations." mate variability and the components of the once defined by its crooked river, are all Workers World Party. Speakers joined BAYAN-USA in regional hydrological cycle. Increasing pre- consequences of the crooked system of The demonstration was one of doz- demanding "Stop U.S. intervention cipitation, the threat of recurring periods capitalist exploitation. What is happen- ens of similar protests in the U.S. and in the Philippines and all across the of high evaporation and a combination of ing in Cleveland is happening worldwide around the world to condemn the U.S.- globe." The protest was endorsed both routine and unusual climate events—​ as corporate profiteers destroy nature and backed Duterte regime for its crimes by BAYAN-USA, Food Not Bombs- such as extreme cold air outbursts—​are pauperize workers and oppressed people. against the Filipino people. Solidarity, Fight for Im/migrants and putting the region in uncharted territory.” Getting rid of capitalism is the only way to In a “United peoples state of the Refugees Everywhere, International Climate change, like pollution, is the fix the problems it creates. nation address,” BAYAN-USA charges: Action Center, Jewish Voice for Peace result of human activity, specifically pro- The city of Cleveland has a proud his- "The fascist Trump administration Philadelphia, Philadelphia Camden duction for profit. Historically and today, tory of fightback against this system—from​ continues to fully support the Duterte Comite Boricua and Workers World the fossil fuel industry barons, including the 1936-37 General Motors strikes to the regime ($193 million in 2018 alone), Party. the greedy Rockefellers, have demon- Hough Rebellion—​and it will be a fighting while it carries out a bloody drug war strated wanton disregard for the health force in the class struggles ahead. ☐ on the poor, martial law in Mindanao, — Report and photo by Joe Piette of the planet. Page 10 July 25, 2019 workers.org U.S., Britain: Hands off Iran editorial

Britain’s aggressive maneuvers against On July 4, the British Navy, from in the 18th century, when it was on its apparent that Iran will refuse to submit Iran have put the possibility of a major its base in Gibraltar, seized and is cur- way to becoming the British Empire and to threats. Iran can respond throughout war in West Asia on the front burner for rently holding an Iranian supertanker, the ruler of the seas. Its sailors were the region to any aerial attack, and the the second time this year. under the pretext that the ship was car- the pre-eminent pirates for a couple of whole Iranian population will combat In a conflict between the world’s impe- rying fuel to be delivered to Syria and centuries, with the full backing of the any attack by land. rialist powers and an independent cap- that European Union rules don’t allow London government. Now British piracy Knowledge of Iranian strengths, and italist country — in this case between such deliveries. The EU’s sanctions were takes place in London’s role as a junior not U.S. President Donald Trump’s U.S. and British imperialism on one side aimed at crushing the Damascus govern- partner to Washington, making full use reluctance to kill civilians, is what and Iran on the other — workers’ and ment, a policy that failed although it did of the remnants of that empire. stopped the earlier missile attack that liberation movements must be against impose a war and horrible suffering on Underlining its own role in the aggres- Trump said he ordered June 21 and then the imperialists. We can then examine the Syrians. sion against Iran, Washington just sent rescinded with minutes to spare. the facts. However, facts do nothing to Units of the Iranian Revolutionary 500 U.S. troops to a base in Saudi Arabia, If reason could eliminate the danger change that basic position. Guard seized a British-flagged tanker in the reactionary feudal kingdom that, of imperialist war, it would seem impos- The current confrontation between the Gulf of Hormuz on July 19, and is still along with Israel, is a U.S. ally against sible that the U.S. and its allies would imperialism and Iran is a continuation holding that ship as of July 22. A July Iran. Saudi Arabia has been carrying dare to start another conflagration that of the conflict Washington began in 2018 21 Associated Press article reports that out a brutal war against its neighbor in would make the disastrous invasions by pulling out of the 2015 agreement on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Yemen, creating untold human suffer- of Afghanistan and Iraq seem small in nuclear research in Iran. The U.S. gov- Javad Zarif “characterized the seizure ing but failing to win against a popular comparison. A look at history, however, ernment has insisted that all countries, of Iran's tanker July 4 as ‘piracy.’” The movement, despite its possession of far shows that reason takes second place to and especially its European imperialist article added that Iranian “politician and superior Western weapons. the imperialists’ drive to impose their allies, enforce the sanctions it imposed former Guard commander, Maj. Gen. The Iranian military is much better rule by force. Thus it is vital that resis- on Iranian shipping, whether they want Mohsen Rezai, wrote that Iran was not armed than the Yemeni guerrillas. And tance to any war with Iran come from the to or not. In effect, these sanctions seeking conflict, ‘but we are not going to Tehran knows it has the support of the U.S. population, and that this resistance amount to a blockade aimed at starving come up short in reciprocating.’” vast majority of its people against impe- be mobilized. the 80 million Iranian people and pro- Readers should note that Britain rialist aggression. Iran has offered to U.S., Britain, hands off Iran! q voking regime change in Iran. seized the Gibraltar base from Spain negotiate with the U.S. However, it’s U.S. replaces bombs on Iran with a cyberattack

By G. Dunkel about the cyberattack on Twitter: “They controlling electrical grids. try hard, but have not carried out a suc- Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, President Trump called off a bombing cessful attack.” Abbas Mousavi, said Iran’s cyber defense attack on Iran on June 20 because he was He added, “Media asked if the claimed system was strong, and Iran could legally “shocked” at 150 projected casualties. cyber attacks against Iran are true. Last pursue cyber aggression in international He then called on the U.S. Cyber year we neutralized 33 million attacks courts. Command to conduct a series of attacks with the (national) firewall.” Under the terms of the nuclear agree- against that country. Virtual attacks on In 2010, the Stuxnet virus was intro- ment from which Trump withdrew the command and control systems can cause duced into the network of computers U.S. in May 2018, Natanz is still allowed as much infrastructure damage as physi- controlling the enrichment of uranium in to process uranium. cal attacks but are not nearly as obvious. Iran shot down a U.S. drone flying in its Natanz, an Iranian city about 250 miles The U.S. withdrawal and re-imposition It is hard to believe Trump's moti- airspace and was responsible for attacks south of Tehran. Stuxnet, a very sophis- of heavy sanctions on Iran have increased vation was “humanitarian.” He has on tankers passing through the Strait of ticated piece of code, caused the centri- tensions in the Middle East. Secretary of approved deadly military attacks all Hormuz. fuges processing the uranium to spin out State Mike Pompeo recently claimed that over the Middle East, such as the missile Iran pointed out that it had every right of control, while the system reported the these sanctions were driving Iran to the strikes against Syria in 2017 and 2018. to shoot down any military aircraft vio- process was working within its limits. bargaining table. His policies on refugees have led to hun- lating its airspace. It denied responsibil- According to security experts, Stuxnet But Iranian Foreign Minister dreds of deaths on the U.S. Southern ity for the tanker attacks. was most likely written by a team of pro- Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Iran border. Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, grammers working for either the U.S. would first have to see the United States A Pentagon spokesperson said the Iran’s minister for information and com- or Israel or both. Some of its variants rejoin the nuclear treaty and lift its new cyber attacks were undertaken because munications technology, commented have been used to attack computers sanctions. q

Fifth annual Disability Pride Parade rocks NYC

By Workers World New York are happy to live our lives, it's in spite of all reduces the amount and Disabilities bureau those who think that disabled lives are so variety of their health sad that they are not worth living. … Don't and home care benefits. Many thousands of people with dis- get all teary-eyed and tell us how brave we At the 2018 parade a abilities and our allies endured oppressive are. Join our fight! We don't need sympa- protest against Cuomo heat July 14 to march, roll, ride and scoot thy, but we could use allies.” by 50 wheelchair users, in the streets of New York City for the fifth Many disabled peoples' organizations who gathered in front of annual parade to commemorate the sign- and their allies participated, includ- the stage, warned that ing of the Americans with Disabilities Act ing the Screen Actors Guild-American this could happen. (ADA) 29 years ago. Federation of Television and Radio These attacks are Italian-American immigrant and Artists, Communications Workers (CWA) also happening as police wheelchair user Nadina LaSpina, a Grand Local 1180 and the New York State Nurses repression continues PHOTO: ERIK MCGREGOR Marshall of the parade, pointed out that Association. unabated, including the Nadina LaSpina, a Grand Marshall of the parade. it was being held on Bastille Day — the In New York, Gov. Cuomo has been cut- harassment of mostly day the French workers tore down the jail ting back services and consolidating them, young people of color and Rise and Resist also marched, after walls. The veteran disability rights activ- eliminating many benefits and options for in clampdowns on so-called “fare beaters” participating in a demonstration at a ist and writer’s remarks caught the spirit disabled people. Although the fight for ele- in the subways. A leaflet produced by the nearby subway station where there was of the parade: “Let's break down the walls vators and ramps to give disabled people People’s Power Assemblies, whose mem- no elevator; 80 percent of stations in the — no walls — neither to keep people out equal access to the subway system had bers were marching in their fifth consecu- city are not accessible. Rise and Resist car- nor to keep people in. And no locking up been gaining momentum, with victories tive NYC Disability Pride Parade, pointed ried a cardboard cutout of Cuomo cutting people in nursing homes or in detention in the courts, Cuomo recently proposed out: “Over 50% of people killed by police a ribbon at the opening of a new bridge, centers.” a subway reorganization plan that cuts have a disability, and the police continue which he was happy to build while refusing LaSpina asserted that people with dis- transit jobs and does not include any addi- to disable and kill Black and Brown people to build elevators for inaccessible stations. abilities are proud “in spite of the fear tional access in the public transit system. with impunity — like paraplegic Jeremy The parade passed a judge's stand of ending up in a nursing home or other Cuomo replaced the Independent Care McDole, people with medical disabilities where participants were judged for their institution. So many of our people are still System with the Visiting Nurses Service, like Eric Garner, or Magdiel Sanchez who creativity in costumes and floats, demon- stuck in those hellholes. Free our people! which lacks ICS’s personalized compre- was deaf.” strating spirit and having fun. Prizes were Pass the Disability Integration Act. If we hensive care for disabled people and Workers World Party, Peoples MTA, Continued on page 11 workers.org July 25, 2019 Page 11 ¡No redadas! ¡Cierrar los campamentos!

Continúa de la página 12 los manifestantes sus saludos. y migrantes adopten un enfoque interna- familias de inmigrantes y poner fin a las La policía detuvo a nueve activistas. cionalista y proletario hacia la liberación. condiciones inhumanas en los centros de Antes de la manifestación, un grupo más Instaron a mirar más allá de las detención. Las masas hablan: “¡Cerrar pequeño ocupó la oficina del líder de la medidas reformistas e insistieron en la Las acciones de “Lights for Liberty" los campamentos!” minoría del Senado, Chuck Schumer, y abolición de la ICE. Los participantes dis- del 12 de julio fueron iniciadas principal- La convocatoria del 12 de julio para presentó una lista de demandas. cutieron los posibles planes para la resis- mente por organizaciones orientadas al acciones para cerrar los campamentos “Estamos aquí para exigir la acción de tencia futura, incluido un viaje en autobús Partido Demócrata como Indivisible, con sacó masas de personas indignadas. Las nuestros líderes”, dijo la organizadora de a la frontera entre Texas y México y una el objetivo de activar a los votantes antes protestas tuvieron lugar en 700 a 800 la protesta Rachel Ablow. “Como judío lucha para cerrar la oficina local de la de la elección del próximo año. “Saca a ciudades de EE. UU. y en todo el mundo. estadounidense, me horroriza ver que la Patrulla Fronteriza de Pensacola. [Trump] con tu voto” fueron sus coros. El número de personas que participa- historia se repite y me siento obligada En Aurora, Colorado, más de a unirme a muchos otros, incluidos los 2.000 personas protestaron por el encar- Sección creciente de la clase obrera ron se extendió de cientos a miles. Los en solidaridad con im/migrantes letreros mostraban consignas familiares: sobrevivientes del Holocausto, en exigir celamiento de inmigrantes, la sepa- “Ningún ser humano es ilegal”, “Cerrar los el cierre de los campos”. (Comunicado ración de familias, las deportaciones y La participación masiva durante el fin campos”, “el nunca más, es ahora”. Pero de prensa de Justicia para Familias las amenazas que enfrentan los refugia- de semana muestra que una sección cre- muchos de los que trajeron letreros eran Migrantes) dos. Marcharon 2 millas hacia el Aurora ciente de la clase trabajadora es rechazada nuevos para el activismo. Cerca de 1.000 manifestantes se toma- Processing Center, un centro de detención por el hedor del racismo y la xenofobia Aquí hay algunos ejemplos de la indig- ron las calles de Filadelfia, cerrando las administrado por el grupo privado Geo que emana de la Casa Blanca y está pro- nación coordinada que se replicó de costa carreteras principales en el corazón de la Group, al este de Denver, donde Lights fundamente preocupada por los ataques a costa. Las manifestaciones continuaron ciudad. El contingente del Workers World for Liberty estaba vigilando. a inmigrantes y migrantes. Esto en sí durante el fin de semana, generando un Party/Partido Mundo Obrero marchó bajo Los gritos de los oradores se escucha- mismo es progresivo, a pesar de las mani- impulso para los esfuerzos de base para la bandera de “Abolir el ICE, la Policía y el ron en el centro donde más de 1.500 obras del Partido Demócrata para dirigir frustrar las redadas. Pentágono”, obteniendo un amplio apoyo. inmigrantes han sido detenidos sin fianza el sentimiento antirracista hacia los cana- La pancarta más grande en una vigilia Gritando “¡Liberar a las familias! durante meses y no pueden salir. Los les electorales. en la intersección principal de la pequeña ¡Cerrar los campamentos!” Y exigiendo manifestantes golpearon las puertas y gri- Los sindicatos están tomando una ciudad de Rhinebeck en Nueva York, la abolición de ICE y el cierre del Centro taron: “¡Derribenlo!" posición fuerte contra el fanatismo. Los decía: “Hudson Valley se mantiene fuerte de Detención de Berks, los activistas Una joven le contó a Workers World/ United SteelWorkers explicaron en una - El poder a través de la acción”. Como marcharon alrededor del Ayuntamiento Mundo Obrero cómo su esposo fue depor- declaración del 6 de julio: “Esto se trata de 80 residentes de la región participaron y luego a la sede del Departamento de tado y ahora tiene dos hijos que atender la decencia humana. Se trata de reconocer con muchos de participantes que lle- Seguridad Nacional, que es la oficina sola. Le costará $15.000 para tratar de que muchas de las personas que vienen a garon después de escuchar misa en un de ICE más activa y agresiva del país. traerlo de vuelta, dinero que ella no tiene. nuestras fronteras en busca de asilo son iglesia local. Los letreros hechos a mano, También hicieron demostraciones fuera Los manifestantes en Portland, trabajadores”. más que unos pocos escritos en la parte de la “Casa Redonda”, donde el notorio Oregon, llevaron a cabo una “semana Al referirse a la campaña para lograr posterior de los letreros que apoyan a Departamento de Policía de Filadelfia de acción”, reuniéndose afuera y march- que las principales cadenas hoteleras Planned Parenthood, incluían mensajes tiene su sede central, vinculando la lucha ando hacia Microsoft y cuatro bancos de no contraten con ICE, el Presidente como “Nuestra línea en la arena: tor- de los migrantes y refugiados con la de los Portland para exigir que se deshacieran de Internacional, D. Taylor, de UNITE HERE tura infantil" y “La inmigración no es un presos y los trabajadores negros y mar- ICE. Bank of America y Suntrust dijeron dijo: “Tenemos que actuar en cada uno de delito”. Mientras que muchos autos pas- rones en los Estados Unidos. que se desenvestirian, pero que el proceso esos hoteles. Tenemos que aumentar la aban sonando sus bocinas en apoyo a la En Cleveland, 1.000 personas llena- tardará meses en completarse. Otros ban- llama, ... tenemos que dejar de cero ocio- protesta, el mejor momento fue cuando ron el Market Square Park para una vigilia cos seleccionados fueron PNC y Bank of sos y salir de Twitter y salir a las calles un gran camión FedEx pasó con el con- nocturna a la luz de las velas donde una the West. donde está ocurriendo este mal”. (Daily ductor apoyado en la bocina fuertemente. multitud multinacional y multigeneracio- Las empresas se vieron obligadas a cer- Kos, 12 de julio) Una gran multitud, exigiendo el cierre nal coreaba: “¡Cerrar los campamentos!”. rar sus puertas durante horas. Los mani- Los hoteles Marriott y Choice han de los campos de detención de inmi- Pensacola, Florida. Unas 30 perso- festantes les dijeron a los trabajadores que anunciado que disminuirán Cualquier grantes, bloqueó el tráfico durante más de nas participaron en un mitin en el Seville llamaran a sus gerentes y les pidieran que solicitud de ICE para alojar a detenidos. una hora y media en una intersección con- Park el 7 de julio. La protesta fue organi- pusieran fin a sus contratos con ICE o las Las políticas de Trump, diseñadas para currida en el centro de Buffalo, Nueva zada por Strive, el grupo local de defensa protestas continuarían. Los contratos de movilizar una base racista para su cam- York. Atrapado en la parte delantera de la de las personas transgénero; El partido ICE con Microsoft usan el software Azure paña electoral del 2020, tienen la con- línea de tráfico estaba un conductor de un Workers World Party/Partido Mundo Government. secuencia involuntaria de provocar una camión de la sociedad UPS. Mientras que Obrero; Partido por el Socialismo y la El 12 de julio, más de 1.000 personas resistencia generalizada. los manifestantes rechazaron las deman- Liberación; y Dream Defenders. Los ora- se reunieron frente al centro de detención John Catalinotto, Julianna Cordray, das de la policía para dejarlo pasar, este dores, uno de cada grupo, enfatizaron la de ICE, luego marcharon por el centro de Ellie Dorritie, Ted Kelly, Johnnie Lewis, miembro sindical afroamericano, dem- necesidad de que todas las protestas en Portland exigiendo: abolir el ICE, detener Lyn Neeley y Viviana Weinstein con- ostró su apoyo a la protesta dándoles a de contra ICE y sus ataques a inmigrantes la especulación corporativa, reunir a tribuyeron a este artículo. Fifth annual Disability

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Continued from page 10 poverty that's enforced on disabled peo- ple because of our for-profit health care announced at a festival following the system, inhumane health care system … parade, which also showcased musical and and of outmoded laws and policies which dramatic abilities of participants. keep disabled people poor in order to be PHOTO: ERIK MCGREGOR NYC People's Power Assembly marching in Disability Pride. eligible for services and benefits — which The meaning of disability pride should be ours by right.” oppressed, of those who have been made Noble for an exciting book-signing event LaSpina explained the meaning of dis- LaSpina quoted ADA architect Justin to feel ashamed of who we are. Of those for her new book, ”Such a Pretty Girl: A ability pride to the crowd: “They say to Dart: “Disability is just a normal part of who have been made to feel they don't Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and me, oh, yes, you should be proud because the human experience, a common charac- matter. Of those who have been made to Disability Pride.” in spite of your disability you're so posi- teristic of a normal life span.” feel unwanted. The back cover of the book describes tive. You can have a smile on your face in She ended her remarks: “We all have “Today we are all out. We won’t be hid- the author: “LaSpina is a prominent spite of your unfortunate situation of the the same kind of body. It's made of flesh den away. We are parading our disabled activist in the disability rights movement bad hand you've been dealt in life, of your and blood and organs that fail. You never bodies and saying, ‘We are proud.’ And we and has been arrested countless times for sad plight. know when it's going to happen. Ours is are going to enjoy ourselves today. We’re civil disobedience. You can find her in the “If we're managing to live a good life, a minority anybody can join. And most of going to have a good time. You know, so streets with Disabled in Action, ADAPT, it's not in spite of our disabilities. It's in us, if we live long enough, will experience many people still insist on believing our the Disability Caucus, and others.” spite of the prejudice we've been sub- disability. But if our bodies or our brains lives are sad and pitiful, so we must make A video of LaSpina's entire speech jected to — the ableism that's ingrained do not work the same as other people's sure we do not internalize any of that neg- is available at tinyurl.com/y6am4555. in the fabric of our society, and in our that does not make us less valuable as ativity. So it is important for us to enjoy as A video of the July 25, 1993, NYC social-economic system. It's in spite of human beings. much as we can. Having fun is a political Disability Independence Day March of the lack of services and supports, in spite “So let us understand this pride, and act. It’s a revolutionary act. So let’s have 3,000 people, which was both organized of the often inadequate education our try to make other people understand this fun.” and filmed by LaSpina, is available at young people receive. In spite of discrim- pride. … Ours is not the pride of flag-wav- The WWP Disabilities bureau joined tinyurl.com/y5hahdvs. q ination in the work place. In spite of the ing Americans. Ours is the pride of the LaSpina after the parade at Barnes & Correspondencia sobre artículos en Workers World/Mundo Obrero pueden ser enviadas a: [email protected]

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Por Martha Grevatt La Congresista de Nueva York, de la deportación, los detenidos podrían semana. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, inicialmente encontrarse en uno de los mismos horri- Sin embargo, las amenazas de arresto, Con cada fotografía impactante, la fue criticada por caracterizar a los cen- bles campos de concentración que alber- detención y deportación crearon un clima realidad se vuelve cada vez más clara: tros de detención como campos de gan a solicitantes de asilo. de temor e intimidación entre las comu- el gobierno de los Estados Unidos está concentración hasta que los judíos pro- Los alcaldes de nueve ciudades nidades de inmigrantes. Los inmigrantes deteniendo a los migrantes en campos de gresistas, incluidos los sobrevivientes y (Denver, Atlanta, Nueva York, Chicago, se quedaron en casa sin ir al trabajo, concentración. descendientes del Holocausto, defend- San Francisco, Los Ángeles, Miami, evitaron ir de compras, se saltearon los Las últimas imágenes se produjeron ieron el término en protestas fuera de las Baltimore y Houston) se niegan a coop- servicios religiosos y, en general, se que- después de que el vicepresidente Mike oficinas de Inmigración y Aduanas. "El erar con las redadas. Todos estos alcal- daron adentro el 14 de julio. La atmós- Pence recorriera dos campamentos. nunca más, es ahora" se ha convertido des, con la excepción del Bill de Blasio de fera sigue siendo tensa en las nueve Cientos de hombres, tan densamente en un grito de guerra. Los sobrevivientes la ciudad de Nueva York, son afroamer- ciudades objetivo, ya que los policías de empacados en una celda que ni siqui- japoneses de internamiento en Estados icanos o latinoamericanos. (Las reda- ICE podrían regresar la próxima semana era pueden acostarse, gritan: “¡No hay Unidos durante la Segunda Guerra das planeadas en Nueva Orleans fueron con las órdenes de arresto en la mano. duchas!” Los niños duermen en el con- Mundial también se han manifestado en canceladas debido a la aproximación del Sin aviso previo, los agentes de creto con solo mantas de mylar de emer- contra de los campamentos. huracán Barry). ICE tocaron puertas en Immokalee, gencia para la ropa de cama. Los defensores de los derechos de Florida. La Coalición de Trabajadores Pence intentó por primera vez afirmar Comunidades im/migrantes los inmigrantes y los abogados llevaron de Immokalee ganó exitosas campañas que los detenidos eran bien tratados, enfrentan terror a cabo una campaña educativa gener- de boicot contra las cadenas de comida pero después de ver otro campamento, Después de que la Corte Suprema alizada y bien organizada de "Conozca rápida y actualmente está boicoteando incluso él reconoció: "Esto es algo difí- dictaminó recientemente en contra de sus derechos" que condujo a las redadas a Wendy por su negativa a unirse al cil”. El reportero Josh Dawsey encontró incluir una pregunta sobre la ciudada- anunciadas. Voluntarios patrullaron las Programa de Comida Justa. Si bien nadie el hedor de los campamentos "horrible”. nía en el censo de EE. UU. Para el 2020, calles, monitoreando la presencia de ICE. fue arrestado, los intentos de arresto A los adultos y los niños se les negaron el presidente Donald Trump prometió La Alderwoman de Chicago Rossana fueron un acto amenazador contra los las mantas, colchonetas y almohadas, ali- traer un nuevo argumento a SCOTUS o Rodríguez Sánchez organizó a 160 miem- trabajadores agrícolas. mentos y artículos de higiene. Se les quitó anular el alto tribunal a través de una bros de la comunidad en brigadas veci- Mientras tanto, los horrores en la fron- las alfombras a los niños que sufrían pio- orden ejecutiva. El 11 de julio, se retiró nales, mientras que los "depredadores de tera continúan. El 14 de julio, los agentes jos después de que uno de ellos perdió un de la cuestión, una concesión a la fuerza ICE" recorrían el área metropolitana de de la Patrulla Aduanera y de la Patrulla peine. Los niños pequeños cuidaban de del movimiento de derechos de los inmi- Atlanta. Fronteriza negaron la entrada al senador los bebés. (Washington Post, 12 de julio) grantes y migrantes. Con estos preparativos en su lugar, de Ohio, Sherrod Brown, mientras que Las imágenes y las historias se han Sin embargo, el xenófobo en jefe está donde los policías de ICE tocaron las Trump disparaba mensajes claramente vuelto virales y los horrores son de con- librando la guerra contra los migrantes puertas, fueron ignorados o rechazados racistas en Twitter contra las cuatro ocimiento público. Michelle Bachelet, por otros medios. Las redadas en 10 ciu- cuando no presentaron una orden judi- congresistas de raza oscura, Alexandria Alta Comisionada para los Derechos dades, destinadas a detener a unos 2,000 cial. La mayoría de las nueve ciudades Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Humanos, condenó las condiciones y inmigrantes indocumentados, se pla- no reportaron arrestos; las últimas tác- Pressley y Rashida Tlaib, las cuales piden dijo: "Esto nunca debería suceder en nearon originalmente para junio, pero se ticas de ICE fueron, según se informa, el cierre de los campamentos. ningún lugar”. (Al Jazeera, 9 de julio) retrasaron hasta el 14 de julio. A la espera una operación reducida a lo largo de la Continúa en la página 11 Digamos NO al ‘embarazo forzado’

abortos para cualquier persona, excepto reaccionario del estado patriarcal, anti- Entre muchas clínicas y grupos de las sobrevivientes de violación e incesto, clase obrera, con su agenda de derechas, atención médica que ahora rechazan los o las mujeres cuya salud estaba en peligro supremacía blanca, anti-mujer y anti- fondos del Título X está la Community editorial por el embarazo. Actualmente, 17 estados género que no cumple con la agenda, está Healthcare Network, que recibió eligen cubrir los abortos del Título X con estableciendo reglas que niegan los dere- $700,000 en 2018. El CEO Robert Hayes “El derecho a controlar lo que le sucede fondos estatales. chos, en lugar de afirmarlos o ampliarlos. dijo al sitio web Jezebel: “No cometere- a su propio cuerpo y a tomar decisiones Ahora, esta nueva regla de mordaza Este ataque flagrante ha generado la mos negligencia médica aquí. No vamos médicas por sí mismo” es uno de los dere- doméstica promueve un programa de oposición de muchas ramas de las comu- a mentirles a los pacientes”. (11 de julio) chos universales de la humanidad, estab- atención de salud anti-integral basado nidades médicas, legales, civiles y de Este es un punto de inflexión en la lecido en 1948 por las Naciones Unidas. en la teología que prohíbe que todas las derechos humanos y en todos los niveles sociedad estadounidense, para individ- Pero a partir del 11 de julio, a 4 mil- clínicas de atención médica financiadas de gobierno. uos y organizaciones. Es un momento lones de mujeres pobres de Estados por el Título X discutan las opciones de El estado de Washington se encuen- de “de que lado estas?” en esta campaña Unidos y personas no binarias, predomi- aborto. Y aquellos que brindan servicios tra entre los que se retiran del Título X. criminal, lleno de odio, anti humano nantemente de color, se les está negando de aborto deben establecer instalaciones Utilizará “solo fondos estatales para su de Trump-Pence, en la frontera y en el ese derecho humano. De acuerdo con una separadas prohibitivamente costosas con programa de planificación familiar para dormitorio. decisión del Tribunal de Apelaciones del diferentes procedimientos contables. minimizar cualquier duda sobre si los Solo hay un lado en esta guerra de la Noveno Circuito, las reglas revisadas de Además, por primera vez, esta revisión médicos podrían hacer referencias de clase dominante. ¿Está usted por los Trump-Pence para el Título X pueden abre el financiamiento a los “centros de aborto”. (Política, 11 de julio) derechos humanos completos para todas entrar en vigencia en 49 estados (excepto crisis para el embarazo” y las organi- La Dra. Leana Wen, presidenta de las mujeres y las personas con no confor- Maryland) hasta que los casos en con- zaciones religiosas para que puedan pro- Planned Parenthood, el objetivo principal midad de genero? Si es así, ¿unirás tus tra de las reglas se resuelvan en varios mover más fácilmente sus programas de de la regla revisada, señaló que la orga- brazos en las barricadas para luchar como estados. lucha fanática contra el aborto, la “planifi- nización no solicitará financiamiento del nunca lo hemos hecho antes? Este es el primer intento de convertir el cación natural de la familia”, el anti-femi- Título X. Ha reservado fondos para cubrir Eso es necesario para acabar con este programa de atención médica del Título nista, el anti -LGBTQ2S + esa contingencia. sistema capitalista que se basa en el geno- X, diseñado en 1970 para promover la La política de raza Negra conocida a En una declaración, Wen dijo: “Esta es cidio, la violencia racial y el robo de sal- igualdad de género y de clase para los nivel nacional, Stacey Abrams, acuñó el una noticia devastadora para los millones arios profundos, la misoginia sistémica y pacientes de Medicaid, totalmente en lo término “embarazo forzado” para descri- de personas que confían en el Título X ... la opresión de clase. opuesto. bir la ley contra el aborto recientemente para la atención primaria crítica y preven- Es hora de reconocer la interseccio- El primer cambio al Título X fue en aprobada en Georgia. Se aplica correcta- tiva. Continuaremos luchando para blo- nalidad de las opresiones y mostrar sol- 1976, cuando la Enmienda Hyde imponía mente al ataque de Trump-Pence en los quear esta peligrosa regla que le permite idaridad en la lucha unida por un mundo una enorme carga a los pacientes del destinatarios del Título X. al gobierno censurar a nuestros médicos y donde se promuevan y honren los dere- Título X al prohibir el pago federal de Este movimiento profundamente enfermeras por hacer su trabajo”. chos humanos de todas las personas. q