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Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 60, No. 26 June 28, 2018 $1 Migrant rights movement can Stop deportations, arrests By Teresa Gutierrez

People all over the U.S. are up in arms with righteous indignation. From every corner of the country, from every sector of the population not in line with Trump’s racist ideology, the people are saying “No!” to the cruel and inhumane treatment of migrant children and their parents. This protest is excellent news, as the crisis created by #45 at the U.S./Mexican border merits an all-out, an- ti-capitalist, revolutionary response. The time for half measures is over. The question, however, is will the current movement be enough to stop Trump’s fascistic war against the tens of thousands of workers fleeing for their lives? Will it be enough to reunite migrant children with their families? Can this movement against the crisis at the southern border extend to recognizing the need to demonstrate solidarity with migrants from Africa, Asia and the Fight ICE Middle East? Only time will tell. But unless the movement WWPHOTO: BRENDA RYAN 8 June 24, New York City. Reclaim Pride contingent sparks resistance. See page 5. with FIRE can be sustained, unless the people of this country can commit to a very long haul, not only will many stolen children never be reunited with their families, but the urgent care needed to count- er the catastrophic trauma they have experienced may never be given. Pittsburgh: In addition, the necessary and earned amnesty or permanent residency for refugees, especially from Cen- tral America, may never be won. ANTWON ROSE That is why it must be asked at this historic juncture: MATTERS 3 Can the current crisis on the border unite every sector WW PHOTO: ANNE PRUDEN of the working class to continue to push until victory? BROOKLYN That would be a win not just for migrants, but for us all. WW PHOTO: BOB MCCUBBIN If the movement can win the closing of detention centers for migrants, for exam- SAN DIEGO ple, the thousands of prisons that incarcer- ate Black and Brown and poor people can be next. That should be the goal of today’s movement. Incarcerated people have waited long enough. SOLIDARITY Crisis made in U.S., not Central America with migrants The unbearable conditions that have sent 6-8 people fleeing from the Northern Triangle — El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala — were creat- ed by the U.S. Unless the Pentagon and the government  Refugees in Europe 11 are forced to stop propping up these corrupt govern- Continued on page 8  Whose violence? EDITORIAL 10

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 Migrant rights movement Migrant rights movement can stop deportations, arrests 1 Protesters demand: ‘Reunite migrant families! No detentions or deportations!’ ...... 6-7 Statement from FIRE: Fight for refugees and im/migrants everywhere! . . . . 8 WW PHOTO: REBECCA TELLGREN-LENG Im/migrant rights solidarity from India ...... 10 Rebecca Tellgren-Leng The Movement for Black Lives calls for Black, Brown, Chicago developments and planned upcoming activities. Indigenous solidarity ...... 10 One activity will be a fundraising event at the CSC on Over 50 neighbors, friends and comrades joined in July 15 for an art contest to be held in the Greater Grand  Around the world a party and cookout on June 15 to celebrate the grand Crossing community on Chicago’s South Side. The contest France: Where and when will it stop? ...... 11 opening of the Chicago Solidarity Center. will encourage community residents to share what they Europe: Humanitarian migrant crisis deepens ...... 11 The storefront office and meeting site is located in the love about their neighborhood, as well as raise awareness Puerto Rico: ‘Occupation is a crime’ ...... 11 multinational Noble Square neighborhood two miles about the nearby Confederate monument in Oak Woods from Chicago’s Loop. The racks of revolutionary litera- Cemetery, which Smash White Supremacy is working to  Editorial ture along the CSC walls make clear that this space will get removed. On Waters, immigrants and violence ...... 10 serve as an organizing center for the struggle against Beautiful murals on the CSC walls, including Andi  Noticias en Español white supremacy, imperialist war, economic exploitation Shihadeh’s 15-foot collage commemorating 100 years of and all forms of oppression. “Although this space is run socialist revolution, portray the center’s purpose: to pro- Declaración de FIRE (Fight for Im/migrants and Refugees Everywhere!*) . .12 by members of Workers World Party, the Chicago Soli- mote solidarity among workers, oppressed peoples and darity Center belongs to the people,” Cambria York, one immigrants in the struggle for a better world. Attendees Otra vez guerra encubierta en Nicaragua . . 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By Audrey Hoak dropped all charges against three men he Pa., described Rose as “friendly, easy to Pittsburgh had arrested on numerous charges follow- work with, smart, vibrant … a caring per- ing an incident at a campus bar. son, and everyone loved him.” It was Juneteenth — June 19, 1865 — Timothy Riley, one of the men Rosfeld In that period, Rose wrote a poem say- when slavery was declared abolished in had charged, described him as “extreme- ing he never wanted his mother to feel the Texas and the Southern states. On this ly belligerent.” Riley was upset to see that pain of burying her son: same date 153 years later, 17-year-old Rosfeld was involved in Rose’s murder: “It Antwon Rose Jr., an unarmed Black makes me sick that he was able to still be I AM NOT WHAT YOU THINK man, was chased, shot and killed by a cop after how they treated us, and that I am confused and afraid East Pittsburgh police officer Michael poor kid had to lose his life because of I wonder what path I will take Rosfeld, who just hours before had been their negligence.” (tribdem.com, June 23) I hear there is only two ways out sworn into the force. The community’s response to the kill- I see mothers bury their sons Rose was one of two passengers in a ing of this unarmed Black youth has been I want my mom to never feel that pain car stopped by police because it matched swift and smart. On the night it happened, I am confused and afraid. the description of a vehicle suspected of a major interstate artery, Route 376 East, I pretend all is fine being involved in an earlier shooting. was blocked and held for six hours. Every Rose and a second passenger were fleeing night and day since then, bridges and key I feel like I am suffocating the car when Rosfeld shot him in the back streets have been taken over. I touch nothing so I believe all is fine three times. Outside PNC Park on June 22, a black Antwon Rose Jr. I worry that it isn’t though Police released the driver of the car sedan made a run at the protesting crowd I cry no more after questioning him. The Allegheny at the close of a Pirates baseball game. I am confused and afraid. County Medical Examiner’s Office listed Luckily, nobody was injured. Let it be in the back! How do you justify that?” I understand people believe Rose’s death as a homicide. noted that despite the postgame traffic Antwon Rose Jr. had a future. Tia Tay- I am just a statistic Pittsburgh resident Shaun Mary congestion, and with cameras every- lor, who went to high school with Rose, I say to them I am different filmed the fatal encounter between Rose where, the sedan has not been located. said: “He wasn’t the person to be out here I dream of life getting easier and Officer Rosfeld. She says Rosfeld had Four people were arrested that day doing anything he didn’t have no busi- no reason to shoot Rose. Mary described when hundreds of demonstrators blocked ness doing. He wasn’t that boy.” (cnn. I try my best to make my dream come true Rosfeld’s behavior as harsh and very ag- streets in downtown Pittsburgh. Demon- com, June 23) gressive: He was “taking target practice strators with a sign, “Fire killer cops,” Three years before he was killed, Rose I hope that it does on this young man’s back.” Mary and marched to the Homestead Grays Bridge volunteered to work with an organiza- I am confused and afraid. other witnesses say Rosfeld never even where they blocked traffic for a few hours. tion that donates goods to communities Antwon Rose Jr., May 16, 2016 called out “Stop.” (triblive.com, June 24) The next day, hundreds of people in need. Gisele Fetterman, who put him Before joining the Pittsburgh force, linked arms at Freedom Corner and to work with the Free Store in Braddock, Betsey Piette contributed to this article. Rosfeld was a police officer at the Univer- marched in the pouring rain through sity of Pittsburgh. This January he left the downtown to Point State Park. The roar university force, a month after prosecutors went up over and over: “Shot three times Chicago rally says ‘Stop and listen! Our girls are missing!’

By Katherine Cavanaugh Instead, friends and families who are Chicago desperate to find their loved ones have posted fliers around their neighbor- As school let out for the summer on hoods. One family described how they June 19, a small crowd gathered on King combed their block looking for the body Drive on Chicago’s South Side to express of their missing neighbor in dumpsters their grief and outrage in the wake of and underneath cars. mounting awareness that at least five In the face of very little media coverage Black women and teenage girls have been or follow-through from police, 13-year- WW PHOTO: JEFF SOREL missing since March. These disappear- old Aziyah Roberts, of the Kenwood Chicagoans of all ages march to demand protection and empowerment for Black ances have occurred within a 2.5-mile Oakland Community Organization, took women and girls. radius of each other on the city’s poor, matters into her own hands. In less than working-class South and West sides. Two a week, Roberts and other youth orga- of them have been found dead. nizers mobilized their communities to Though the news of the missing women demonstrate at a Walk For Her March. Access to Naloxone has spread quickly among neighbors and They marched for 20 blocks down King through social media, the police have not Drive, demanding a response to the crisis issued any Amber Alerts for the missing from city officials. can save lives minors. The Chicago Police Department By Princess Harmony has consistently been dismissive of com- ‘Say her name!’ dispense the vital medication, Philadel- Philadelphia munity leaders’ growing concerns that The crowd grew as it progressed south, phia is acting as ground zero for opioid the disappearance of the victims could be chanting “Stop and listen! Our girls are In the opioid epidemic, which cost over overdose reversals in Pennsylvania. In connected. missing!” They drew supportive neigh- 63,000 lives in overdose deaths in 2017, the Kensington section of Philadelphia, a bors out of their homes and into the there has been no weapon that first re- survey done by the Philadelphia Depart- street. High school student Miracle Boyd sponders, addiction specialists and ad- ment of Health found that 79 percent of told the marchers, “If no one’s looking dicts ourselves have that’s been as suc- people who responded to the survey were out for our Black girls, we’ll protect our- cessful in saving lives as naloxone. trained to use naloxone and that 70 per- selves.” Other organizers took the mega- What is naloxone? Naloxone is a pure cent carried it in the past three months, phone to exhort the crowd to “say her opioid antagonist — a chemical that binds with 56 percent using naloxone to reverse name,” repeating the names of the miss- to and blocks a receptor stopping a phys- overdoses they witnessed. ing: Shantieya Smith, Victoria Garret, iological response — that can reverse the This is welcome news in a crisis that Sadaria Davis, Yasminda Mitchell and physical and mental effects of opioids. As claims more and more lives every day. Daisy Hayes. an antagonist, it binds strongly to recep- What more can be done to save lives in A constant theme at the march was a tors, knocking off most agonists — chem- this crisis? Increasing naloxone distribu- refusal to be defeated. Neighbors pledged icals that bind to and activate receptors tion, increasing access to medication-as- to protect and empower each other, many causing a physiological response — like sisted treatments such as methadone, drawing direct connections between the heroin, fentanyl and buprenorphine. buprenorphine and naltrexone, and dis- plight of the missing women and a larg- When naloxone removes the opioid ag- tribution of fentanyl testing kits. er, systemic scourge of domestic violence, onists from the receptors, the respiratory Anyone defending the lives and health sexual assault and misogyny. They vowed and mental effects immediately stop, al- of workers with addictions should push WW PHOTO: KATHERINE CAVANAUGH to renew commitments to ending vio- lowing the user to breathe and function for progressive, scientifically sound drug Aziyah Roberts, organizer of the We Walk lence against women. somewhat normally. addiction policy based on the principles For Her march. Continued on page 4 With states authorizing pharmacies to of harm reduction. Page 4 June 28, 2018 workers.org

Boston workers say, ‘Health care is a human right’

By Workers World Boston bureau

Twenty fired doctors, nurses and ther- apists marched into the Whittier Street Health Center on June 20 to reclaim their jobs and join their co-workers in an historic “Union Yes” vote. Outside the clinic in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, a militant crowd cheered to show union, community and patient support. With that vote, WSHC became the first community health center in New England where the professional staff is union strong. It was a stunning defeat of union busting and a historic victory against an orchestrated corporate attack on community health workers. The victory was powered by a broad union-community mobilization, led by Fired doctors, nurses and therapists along with supporters from the community outside the Whittier Street Health Center on June 20. Service Employees Union Local 1199 orga- PHOTO: HOWARD ROTMAN nizers under the banner “Health Care Is a WSHC for “objecting to management’s with this patient instead of a disjointed As a result, many small, urgent care and Human Right.” (tinyurl.com/y84dw6d7) impossible productivity demands.” Dr. 15-minute session.” primary care centers — some communi- A week earlier, on June 14, WSHC hu- Andalcio continued to organize for the ty ‘non-profits,’ others run by huge com- man resource managers and hired se- union victory while unemployed. Profits for the ‘nonprofit’ health company panies like CVS — are opening, drawing curity agents had seized the credentials Dr. Andalcio described conditions at Dr. Andalcio researched WSHC’s large numbers of health workers into of these frontline health care workers. the center as “like a speed-up on a man- “nonprofit” tax filings with the Internal smaller, unorganized workplaces.” Management violated patient safety and ufacturing assembly line ” — oppressive Revenue Service and found that WSHC’s Health care workers organize confidentiality by entering exam rooms working conditions, constant wage theft man­agement methods generated $1 to $2 and labs unannounced during clinical and intolerable management demands on million in profits annually from 2008 to SEIU Local 1199 is investing resourc- sessions. They then forcibly “escorted” workers to increase WSHC revenue. He 2016. es in other union drives similar to that at workers out of the building. backed up his assertions with a wealth This surplus was not used to benefit WSHC. It started with early victories at WSHC’s top-paid executives justi- of internal WSHC documents, emails, patients or the community. Instead the NYC’s Callen-Lorde Community Health fied the firings as driven by the health painstaking research and personal notes. WSHC CEO’s salary and benefits were Center, which services the LGBTQ com- center’s funding woes. But the Roxbury Management’s ramp up of “billable pa- doubled over the eight-year period. Ex- munity, and Chase Brexton Health Care, community, where many of WSHC’s pa- tients” an hour over the last two years has ecutive management also separately re- which began as a gay men’s health center tients live, expressed immediate outrage caused 90 percent turnover of primary ported $600,000 in investment interest in the Baltimore area and now has five in the streets. care and family medicine providers and income in its 2017 annual report. When centers serving all generations in their WSHC is an important resource for 150 percent turnover of nurses. Clinical this same management illegally fired communities as well as maintaining di- affordable or no-cost care for thousands staff now have to see patients at a rate of union organizers, it used the pretense versity. Now there are hopeful indications of poor and oppressed people, many un- 30 a day — with a strictly enforced max- of “funding shortfalls.” Meanwhile, staff of a wave of successful union organizing. insured or without adequate insurance. imum of 15 minutes with each patient to have gone without raises for years. Armsby observed: “A struggle-orient- The clinic also provides culturally com- examine, treat and and write a chart note After the June 20 union win, the strate- ed approach inspires active worker-or- petent and trauma-informed behavioral about their clinical plan! gy for SEIU organizers, explained Dr. An- ganizers in relatively small shops, like health services. Management pressure leaves health dalcio, is next to organize all WSHC jani- the 80 new members of SEIU at Whittier Community outrage quickly became a workers in a terrible triple bind: treat- torial, secretarial and administrative staff. Street Health Center. Doctors and other crisis for the city’s ruling class. ing patients with complex diagnoses and United contract negotiation is the goal. traditionally nonunion professionals are An overnight mobilization brought co-morbidities, while also meeting strict Gery Armsby, a health administration clamoring to be organized alongside RNs, hundreds of community members, labor productivity requirements and without worker at another Boston community medical assistants, and janitorial, admin- activists and health care advocates to a making a mistake that would cause harm health center, spoke with Workers World istrative and dining hall workers. This is mass rally outside WSHC’s door. to a patient and/or jeopardize their own about the significance of the victory: a momentous shift in consciousness that The truth behind the firings was ex- clinical license to practice in their field. “Hospitals, insurance companies and needs to be supported and nurtured.” posed: The fired doctors, nurse practi- Like many health centers based in health centers are increasingly operated “This level of solidarity reflects a de- tioners, registered nurses, nutritionists, historically Black communities, WSHC and motivated by Wall Street interests. sire, despite the atomization of the ‘gig’ behavior health counselors, dentists, op- serves patients coping with stark health This means a demand for increased prof- economy workplace, to fight together tometrists and ophthalmologists were all disparities, rooted in the stresses of rac- it, which comes in the form of rapid tech- against dead-end capitalism,” concluded involved in leading a union campaign to ism and poverty. Many WSHC patients nology upgrades to cut labor and a big Armsby. “Small shops should no longer organize WSHC’s workers — a federally suffer from, or are at increased risk for, surge in the price tag for specialized care be considered insignificant to this strug- protected activity. The illegal firings were diseases like asthma and chronic ob- and drugs.” gle, but rather seen as strategic to the timed to impact a June 20 union vote. structive pulmonary diseases, HIV, hep- Armsby noted: “The average length of goals of union justice for all health care Facing immense pressure from the atitis, nutritional deficiency, depression patient hospital stays has been forcibly workers and for health care as a human community and the progressive labor and anxiety, substance use disorders, reduced by management in recent years. right for the people.” movement, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and many other poverty- and minori- reportedly intervened to pull WSHC back ty-stress-related conditions. Chicago rally says and soften its anti-union tactics. The The profit-driven speed-ups at WSHC WSHC board and CEO waffled for 48 that forced providers to quit have nega- hours and then caved in as voting day and tively affected patients, leading to con- ‘Stop and listen! Our girls are missing!’ more mass protests loomed. stant cancellations, re-appointments with new care teams and inconsistent Continued from page 3 know I’m not going to stop. I have a home. Exposing health care ‘speed-up’ care. Dr. Andalcio noted: “We are en- I have people I can go to, and we’re not conditions couraged not to give longer visits because Older activists beamed as they watched going to stop.” Workers World talked with Dr. Sherar [WSHC] can only bill $150, so we tell [pa- the youth organizers lead the demonstra- Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson Andalcio, who explained he was fired by tients] to come back. Just give me an hour tion. Tish Taylor, a longtime member of the had attempted to minimize these trage- Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, knew dies by suggesting that two victims were she had to be there. “This child is lighting “involved with drugs and prostitution.” the way. What she needs is for us to show (CBS Chicago, June 13) But the Rev. Rob- Capitalism her the support of her elders,” Taylor told in Hood, who has been assisting some of this writer as Roberts took the megaphone. the victims’ families in dealing with the at a Dead End The march ended with a picnic outside police, commented to the TV station, “If El capitalismo Job destruction, Dyett High School. Though clearly en- it were any place else in the state of Illi- overproduction ergized and uplifted by the encouraging nois where it was predominately white en un callejón and crisis in the mood around her, Roberts became sol- or rich people, you would have a dragnet sin salida high-tech era emn when asked about her first reaction looking for people.” Fred Goldstein utiliza las leyes de la acumu- to news of the missing women and girls: The capitalist state’s refusal to mean- lación capitalista de Marx, y la tasa decreciente For more information on these books and “I had to do something because I’m a ingfully address this outrage to the Black de ganancia, para demostrar por qué el other writings by the author, Fred Goldstein, Black girl too, and it could have been me. community shows why it should be re- capitalismo globalha llegado finalmente a un go to LowWageCapitalism.com It could have been anyone. ... But look- placed by a state controlled by workers punto de inflexión. Available at all major online booksellers. ing at all these people, I’m excited, and I and the oppressed. workers.org June 28, 2018 Page 5 NYC resistance report: LGBTQ Pride for the people By Christian Cobb the abolition of police and Immigration New York and Customs Enforcement. In particu- lar, signs honored Roxana Hernández, a The LGBTQ Pride Parade in this city Black trans woman from Honduras who exists to celebrate and advance the fight died in ICE custody. A Black Lives Mat- for LGBTQ liberation. That is why we ter banner featured a rainbow Pride flag fight against corporatization of the march with the addition of the colors black and and against police being in Pride. brown. The Workers World Party banner But on June 24, this year’s Pride, the read: “Queer As In/Fuck The Pol(ICE)/ corporations and the police continued Black and Brown Trans Lives Matter.” their attempt to co-opt and pink-wash The contingent entered the parade the movement, while repressing young with our banners flying and signs held Black and Brown LGBTQ folks. Heritage high, accompanied by the young Black of Pride, the group that organizes Pride, dancers of Left Our Mark who have been continues to work with the New York Po- part of WWP Pride contingents for the lice Department, the same NYPD that past two years. An accompanying van has never stopped harassing, beating and blared music that could be heard a block killing LGBTQ folks. This year HOP add- WW PHOTO: BRENDA RYAN away. Marchers distributed over a thou- ed several more repressive components Workers World Party delegation at NYC Pride Parade June 24. sand Workers World newspapers, along to the parade. with hundreds of flyers for the PPA July First, HOP changed the course of the the issue of support for Black Lives Mat- they could still have lied to people about 13 rally in memory of Sandra Bland. She route, ending the march on 30th Street, ter and for abolition of police and ICE needing wristbands. was the young African-American wom- and cut off the last three blocks on Chris- in the coalition. Reclaim Pride original After achieving the victory of pushing an who died in police custody in 2015, topher Street that are filled with Black members include the NYC Democratic HOP back, Reclaim Pride people still sparking the #SayHerName movement. and Brown LGBTQ youth every year! Socialists Queer Caucus, ACT UP New wanted “no wristbands” for everyone in Contingent marchers assisted Black Also, HOP restricted the number of indi- York, and Rise and Resist. the parade, so the anti-wristband action and Brown youth who wanted to join viduals in a contingent to 200 members As many people gathered at the Re- went forward. Marchers arrived chant- us in jumping the barricades — right and added the requirement that everyone claim Pride resistance contingent meet- ing, raising the energy of everyone gath- in front of the cops. As the dancers en- in the parade had to have a wristband — a ing spot, some were engaging in a sep- ered there, and then the resisters took tered a routine, or as the militant ban- disgusting marker they wanted specially arate action, an anti-wristband march. apart and moved the barricades! Because ners passed by, loud cheers erupted. The oppressed people to wear. Individuals in the coalition planned to of this action, hundreds of people were contingent size grew to over 400 people, All these measures were to allow HOP march into the meeting area with no able to move into the waiting area with predominantly Black and Brown youth. to test how to control Pride next year, wristbands. no need for wristbands. We were a moving dance party set to the 2019, the 50th anniversary of the Stone- Minutes before this march was to take rhythm of liberation! We were creating a WWP contingent promotes resistance wall Rebellion. It was a test run before place, HOP rescinded its wristband re- true Pride parade! further restricting Pride in order to max- quirements — only for the resistance co- Our Reclaim Pride contingent was Pride is not for the corporations. It is imize tourist profits. alition. However, barricades were still set made up of WWP comrades, members of not for the police to tell LGBTQ people Workers World Party wasn’t going to up at the entrance for the coalition. HOP PPA and NYC Shut It Down, dancers and where, when and how we can celebrate. let this go by unchallenged. WWP, along members planned to check individuals their friends. Signs connected LGBTQ Everyone should be allowed into Pride to with the People’s Power Assembly, joined for which group they were with before liberation, sex workers’ rights, the im/mi- join the fight to abolish the police, abolish the Reclaim Pride Coalition, and raised letting people into the march. However, gration struggle, Black Lives Matter, and ICE and achieve LGBTQ liberation. Newark, N.J. ‘They stole us, they sold us, they owe us!’

Despite threatened thundershowers, demonstration to demand justice for the that had been turned over by Gen. Sher- 50 people took to the streets of Newark, African Holocaust. POP Chairman Law- man to formerly enslaved Africans was N.J., on June 23 to demand reparations rence Hamm proclaimed the slogan ini- taken away by force. for Black people. tiated by the December 12th Movement: The Union army’s triumph would have Every year the People’s Organization “They stole us, they sold us, they owe us!” been impossible without the valor of for Progress — a dynamic grassroots Hamm described how Black people hundreds of thousands of Black soldiers group based in Newark — calls a rally and were betrayed after the Civil War. Land and sailors, 40,000 of whom died. Be- fore 1860, the vast majority of U.S. ex- ports were produced by Black people on slave plantations. COME OUT FOR PRIDE! Roger Wareham, a lead attorney for the reparation lawsuits filed in federal court, spoke from the December 12th COME OUT FOR WORKERS WORLD! Movement, which organizes in the Black une is Pride month, with of human interrelations and gender. Only and Latinx communities around human Jrallies and marches worldwide com- when class society became entrenched rights violations, particularly police ter- city’s devastated downtown is the head- memorating the 49th anniversary of the did rigid rules restricting gender and ror. The Reagan administration tried to quarters of the fantastically wealthy historic Stonewall Rebellion. Workers sexuality become the norm. That’s what jail Wareham and other activists in con- Prudential Insurance Company. Just di- World has a proud history of reporting we’re fighting to end today. nection with the failed New York Eight viding up Prudential’s $766 billion pile on and participating in the living strug- That analysis drives Workers World’s frame-up in the early 1980s. of assets among the estimated 46 million gle for LGBTQ justice and equality. Fore- view that the LGBTQ struggle is a vital Other speakers included representa- Black population would provide more most these days is fighting transgender component in the overall struggle to end tives from the Black Is Back Coalition, than $16,000 to every Black person in the oppression, which includes upholding capitalist oppression. So as part of the Black Lives Matter New Jersey and the United States. the rights of trans youth and adults to fight for the liberation of LGBTQ people, Green Party. The participants in this march and rally use public bathrooms of their gender and join the struggle against capitalist ex- Speakers pointed out that people were came from diverse backgrounds. Among assuring that transwomen, particularly ploitation and help build Workers World standing on land that was stolen from them was 81-year-old Clarence H. Se- transwomen of color, will no longer be at- newspaper. the Lenni-Lenape Nation, which is now niors, who was active with Workers World tacked or murdered for living their truth. We invite you to join the WW Support- fighting a New Jersey pipeline. Repa- Party during the 1960s and 1970s. Seniors Did you know that Workers World made er Program, set up 41 years ago to help rations were demanded for Indigenous fought segregation in Atlanta and was the a major theoretical contribution to the us publish anti-racist, anti-sexist, pro- peoples, too. second African American to receive a li- LGBTQ struggle? WW contributor and LGBTQ, working-class truth and build The activists marched down Market brary card there. He helped lead the Mon- staff member Bob McCubbin wrote “The campaigns needed to crush capitalism Street to the busy downtown intersec- roe Defense Committee, which fought for Roots of Lesbian and Gay Oppression: A and usher in socialism. Write checks to tion at Broad Street. Along the way peo- the freedom in 1962-63 of liberation fight- Marxist View” (World View Forum, third Workers World and mail them, with your ple raised their fists in support. Drivers er Mae Mallory, who died in 2007. Mallo- ed., 1993). Drawing on Frederick Engels name and address, to 147 W. 24th St., honked their horns for reparations. ry was framed because she helped Mabel and Dorothy Ballan for a dialectical ma- 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10011. Or click Newark was deliberately deindustri- Williams and Robert Williams, who orga- terialist explanation of LGBTQ oppres- on Donate on workers.org. Know that we alized and impoverished by the ruling nized armed self-defense against the Ku sion, McCubbin showed how early com- are grateful for your help in building the class in retaliation for its historic 1967 Klux Klan in Monroe, N.C., in 1961. munal societies accepted all expressions revolutionary press in the U.S. rebellion against racism. Yet within the — Report and photo by Stephen Millies Page 6 June 28, 2018 workers.org Protesters demand: ‘Reunite migrant families! No detentions or deportations!’

By Kathy Durkin for undocumented migrants’ rights, or- ganized the action. Siham Byah, a Boston Baltimore Outrage has been sweeping the U.S. activist who was deported to Morocco with mass protests erupting from coast last year, spoke over the phone about the to coast since April 6 when the Trump emotional trauma she and her 8-year-old administration announced a racist “ze- son suffered after being separated. ro-tolerance policy” for all migrants en- Demonstrators also heard several Sal- tering the country through the Mexican vadoran families describe conditions in border. That meant all im/migrants, in- their home country and their experience cluding asylum seekers, would be taken as im/migrants in the U.S. Other speak- into custody and deported. The vicious ers included Black Lives Matter and anti-immigrant program has resulted in Workers World Party representatives the arrests and imprisonment of thou- who explained the twin legacies of set- sands of adults. Law enforcement agents tler colonialism and slavery — and how have forcibly removed children from their the destruction and separation of fami- parents’ arms. lies have a long history in the U.S. They Children, including young babies, have agreed that people’s power is needed to WW PHOTO: SHARON BLACK been placed in detention facilities, tent confront these crimes. ated chants of “No deportations!” “No tentions, family separations and depor- cities, so-called “tender-age centers” and — Sam Ordóñez Durham, N.C. borders!” and “Free them all!” while fac- tations. In response, im/migrant groups foster care, against their parents’ will, WW PHOTO An anonymous tip on June 19 revealed ing the incarcerated. Many other people and their allies are fighting back. Grass- in at least 17 states. Journalists, politi- that the U.S. Department of Health and joined in and chanted along. roots groups are teaching communities cal officials and even medical personnel Human Services had placed over 300 mi- — Anne Pruden how to defend themselves and protect have been denied entry to these facilities. grant children in foster care in New York A crowd of several hundred anti-ICE their families after arrests. Hundreds Those who have gotten access to some City. Mayor Bill de Blasio claims he was protesters greeted Vice President Mike have attended trainings to defend mi- centers report “militarized” and “pris- unaware of the program, and the agencies Pence when he visited Philadelphia on grants across North Carolina. on-like conditions,” with buildings sur- that placed the children have refused to June 19. The demonstrators lined up In Graham, in Alamance County, home rounded by razor wire. Some tell of seeing release any information about them. The empty children’s shoes throughout Rit- to a Klu Klux Klan post office box and rac- young children lying on concrete floors following evening, news rapidly spread tenhouse Square, symbolizing the chil- ist Sheriff Terry Johnson, the community alone and in cages. through social media that detained mi- dren who have been stolen from their is protesting 287(g), the federal program Eyewitness reports, videos and pho- grant children separated from their fam- families and sent to U.S. im/migrant con- that sponsors collaboration between mu- tographs of children screaming for their ilies were flying into LaGuardia Airport centration camps. WWP, along with Jun- nicipal law enforcement and ICE. Over parents have enraged people worldwide. from Houston. tos, the Philly Coalition for REAL Justice, 100 people gathered outside the Ala- Protests have steadily increased in size, Hundreds of people responded to and the Black and Brown Workers Coop- mance County courthouse on June 13, at with tens of thousands in the streets in the call, including a WWP delegation, erative, led an offshoot of the protest with the second stop of the Mijente’s Chinga the U.S. Spontaneous demonstrations flocking to the airport on short notice. chants pointing out the enemy. La Migra Tour, to protest Johnson and have broken out in McAllen and other They witnessed the arrival of one group One demonstrator, arrested when a the collaboration of the local sheriff’s of- border towns in Texas and in many U.S. of children, who were quickly whisked Secret Service vehicle attempted to drive fice with ICE. Everyone chanted against cities, demanding the reuniting of chil- away. The crowd waited for another flight through the crowd, was released quickly local police repression and shared testi- dren with their parents. from Houston, but no children were seen after getting a disorderly conduct citation monials. Feeling the heat, the Trump admin- deplaning. A small group of activists and was greeted warmly by over two doz- — Workers World Durham bureau istration issued an executive order on waited until 5 a.m., but no more chil- en demonstrators at the precinct building. June 20, saying that parents and children dren appeared. An additional flight from — Ted Kelly Midwest/Southwest would no longer be separated. However, Houston, possibly carrying children, was Hundreds of residents attended edu- the order did not require the reuniting of diverted to Newark Airport, away from At an anti-ICE protest called by mem- cational forums in Iowa to protect com- over 2,300 with their parents, nor did it the crowds and publicity. bers of the Baltimore Teachers Union, munities and fight against ICE’s reign of specify how that would happen. Records — Nate Peters WWP members encouraged the crowd of of the children’s locations seem to be over 100 to shut down the street in front There was a “stroller rally” in Brook- missing, or the government is deliberate- of the ICE building in downtown Balti- lyn, N.Y., on June 24. A multinational Philadelphia ly withholding this information. more. Outnumbered and knowing they group of a few hundred people, mostly Under this decree, parents and chil- could not stop the crowd, the Baltimore families with toddlers or infants, met dren would be incarcerated together in Police Department barricaded the street in Sunset Park on behalf of im/migrant family detention. The Trump administra- and directed traffic around the block. families and opposing Trump’s vicious tion is trying to overturn the 1997 Flores Protesters blocked the street for over two policies. The group marched a few blocks court decision mandating that children hours and demanded the abolition of ICE to a planned rally outside the entrance of not be held in immigration detention for and that ICE employees quit their jobs. the Department of Justice’s Federal Bu- more than 20 days, and instead extend — Andrew Mayton reau of Prisons building. Im/migrants that period indefinitely. awaiting deportation are held there. The Trump administration’s racist, xe- The White House bigot in chief and his When speakers started talking, prison- nophobic and classist rhetoric is embold- lackeys are now seeking to deny undocu- ers were heard making noise in support. ening local law enforcement and ICE to mented im/migrants and asylum seekers Later, some of the demonstrators initi- increase raids, surveillance, arrests, de- due process and equal protection under the law, depriving them of the right to an attorney and a court Brooklyn , N.Y. hearing before a judge, in violation of federal laws. Their aim is the immediate deportation of undocu- mented individuals.

On June 30, nationally coordi- WW PHOTO: JOE PIETTE nated demonstrations will protest the abusive treatment of migrant adults and children by the Trump administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Only strong public pressure can push back these reactionaries. Workers World Party will join these actions. Here are some of the protests in which WWP members participated in recent days. East Coast Over 150 migrant rights activ- ists, organizers and allies gath- ered in Jamaica Plain, Boston, on June 24 to demand an end to fam- ily separation at the border and the criminalization of migrants. Movimiento Cosecha, a grassroots Aurora, Colo. Latinx organization which fights WW PHOTO: ANNE PRUDEN WW PHOTO: VIVIANA WEINSTEIN workers.org June 28, 2018 Page 7 Protesters demand: ‘Reunite migrant families! No detentions or deportations!’

The forums’ main speakers were Pris- cila Martinez, Texas immigration coali- tion coordinator for the Workers Defense Action Fund, and Salvador Cervantes, Midwest regional coordinator for the Fair Immigration Reform Movement. Cervantes said there must be an end to the “brutality that is happening to our immigrant communities under this ad- ministration.” (Times-Republican, June 25) Speakers advised individuals not to talk to law enforcement without a lawyer, sign any documents or answer the door if a stranger approaches. Instead they sug- gested organizing a plan with family and friends in case ICE comes knocking. — Mike Kuhlenbeck Activists held a press conference out- Durham, N.C. side the soon-to-open migrant detention WW PHOTO center in downtown Houston on June terror there. Due to the ICE raid on Mt. 20. They stressed that no one — children, San Francisco Pleasant and the 10th anniversary of the unaccompanied minors or families — PHOTO: ALICE LOAIZA raid in Postville, residents gathered in should be imprisoned on Emancipation Marshalltown on June 19, Iowa City on Avenue, where the Southwest Key compa- 23 to proclaim that “families belong to- New Orleans June 20 and Des Moines on June 21 for ny intends to open the center. (It took a gether.” They demanded an end to #45’s forums titled “Keeping ICE Out of Iowa: long struggle to win the name change of zero tolerance policy and insisted that Deportation Defense Discussion.” These the street from that of a so-called Confed- migrant families not be detained or im- teach-ins discussed how to confront fed- erate “hero.”) prisoned. WW’s banner read, “Abolish eral officials in the midst of anti-immigra- The following day, the newly formed ICE! Open the borders!” Slogans on signs tion crackdowns. Free Los Niños Coalition demonstrated had similar themes. The American Friends Service Com- outside Southwest Key, which operates — Terri Kay mittee, Center for Worker Justice of East- several detention centers and is now re- By June 17, outrage had built to a ern Iowa, Eastern Iowa Community Bond modeling a homeless shelter into a deten- boiling point over the mistreatment of Project and Iowa Citizens for Community tion facility for unaccompanied minors. undocumented families, and a sponta- Improvement were the main hosts of the Armed guards and barbed wire encircle neous demonstration began outside the forums. Madeline Cano, ICCI communi- the Houston building. Portland, Ore., ICE facility. Members of ty organizer, wrote in a public statement, About 400 people demonstrated in the surrounding community and organi- “Stand up to ICE and tell them ‘not in our front of the Southwest Key construction zations, including WWP, joined to show town!’” site on June 23. Led by Immigrant Fam- solidarity. What started as a trickle of The CWJ statement promoting the Iowa ilies and Students in Struggle, they took protesters and a few people camping out City event read: “Come hear from two off on a spontaneous march through the mushroomed into a 50-tent village with high-profile immigration organizers who downtown area, chanting loudly. a wall of anti-ICE placards and daily pro- have worked to stop deportations, collab- — Gloria Rubac tests. tagged “Free food and water,” “Medical,” orated to develop local policies that wel- West Coast Department of Homeland Security “Engineering,” “Kids” and “Quiet Space.” come immigrants, and fought against laws agents dressed in riot gear had to escort Translators and volunteer lawyers assist like SF 481.” Gov. Kim Reynolds signed San Diego’s downtown streets were over 20 employees out of the building im/migrants who have arrived at the ICE this legislation, which impassable for much of the morning of and through the crowds. On June 20, @ office. Donated funds are given to im/ Philadelphia demands that local law June 23 as tens of thousands of people OccupyICEPDX had a victory when the migrants to cover transportation costs to enforcement officers act demonstrated at the ICE field office in the ICE facility had to shut down for “safety appointments. as ICE accomplices, must federal building to express their outrage reasons” until “security concerns” were Over 1,000 demonstrators, including adhere to detainer re- at the Trump/ICE attacks on im/migrant addressed. city officials, packed the streets around quests and “allow a sher- families. A Muslim family sent a message Mayor Ted Wheeler said the ICE agen- the empty ICE facility on June 24. They iff to hold a suspected of solidarity in Spanish, English and Ara- cy was “on the wrong track” and stated denounced Trump’s policies of separating ‘illegal’ immigrant for 48 bic: “No matter where you are from, we’re that the city would not interfere with the children from their parents and sending hours after a scheduled glad you’re our neighbor.” peaceful protesters or clear the occupa- asylum seekers to detention camps. Oc- release.” (WHO TV, June At the same time, several thousand tion encampment. cupiers vow to stay until ICE is abolished, 19) people demonstrated at the U.S./Mexico Many groups have coordinated to sup- immigrant families are reunited and all Marshalltown resi- border, targeting the Otay Mesa ICE of- port the sophisticated commune with asylum seekers are freed. dent Mike Fitz told WHO fice. As of June 25, a sit-in was still block- mounds of donated food, water and funds. Occupations and demonstrations are TV that SF 481 was “dis- ing traffic in front of the building. Makeshift protective barricades line the spreading to towns and cities all over Or- gusting. … If I wanted to — Bob McCubbin corner of the building where a busy high- egon, with similar demands. live in Nazi Germany, I Hundreds of people rallied in blazing way turns into the camp. Canopies are — Joshua Hanks and Lyn Neeley would go back 75 years heat at Chelsea Manning Plaza on the and live there.” Embarcadero in San Francisco on June Portland, Ore.

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WW PHOTO: VIVIANA WEINSTEIN WW PHOTO: BOB MCCUBBIN WW PHOTO: LYN NEELEY Page 8 June 28, 2018 workers.org STATEMENT FROM FIRE Fight for Im/migrants & Refugees Everywhere Resistance is rising to fight U.S. atrocities against im/migrants and refugees, ‘I’m going to the border to represent those with massive marches set for June 30. Taking part in those protests, including in Atlanta who want to abolish ICE and ­police. at the U.S./Mexico border in McAllen, Texas, is the new group, FIRE, which issued the following call: Death to capitalism and to imperialism, which The news from the border has been icies hatched in Washington and Wall ­create the conditions that force migration.’ impossible to ignore, even for those who Street. People fighting on their own be- Lizz T, FIRE, Atlanta tend to overlook the war on im/migrants. half is the only solution. Parents weep as their children are ripped The aim of FIRE is to melt ICE, Immi- vironment, even as floods, storms and/ free rein to take their children! The exec- from their arms to be taken to concentra- gration and Customs Enforcement. Not or expanding deserts displace millions. utive order also allows migrants to be de- tion camps and placed in cages. The Bor- to reform it, or change its management, Climate change and capitalist austerity tained indefinitely and asks the Pentagon der Patrol shoots an unarmed Indigenous or any other half-measure. To fight for have devastated Puerto Rico, leaving al- to open camps on military bases. Guatemalan woman in the head. A trans im/migrants, we must get rid of ICE en- most 5,000 dead and displacing tens of The Democratic Party and the corpo- woman fleeing patriarchal violence is left tirely. It means dismantling concentra- thousands more. rate media loyal to it seem content with to die in a so-called “ice box.” tion camps for immigrants and tearing This criminal treatment is not unique this “solution,” as long as it is followed up But is this inhumanity and destruc- down any racist border wall that Trump to the U.S. While trying to pass refu- with an electoral victory in November. tion of families new to this country? How tries to build. Fighting gees onto neighbor- The Democrats are desperate to portray many families were destroyed in the for refugees means un- ‘This is the moment to ing countries, many themselves as defenders of migrant fam- genocide and forced displacement of the derstanding that many bring our movement European states con- ilies when in truth they were enthusias- Indigenous Nations of this land? During im/migrants are flee- fiscate their valuables tic participants in creating this horror. slavery, African people were auctioned off ing conditions at home ­together. Children’s lives before placing them Even beyond the record of “deporter in after being torn from their families and created by the U.S. depend on our resis- in camps. The imperi- chief,” Obama, whose administration put in chains. In the 1940s the U.S. forced And we must under- alist countries vie for built many of these detention centers Japanese immigrants and their descen- stand the global char- tance. No borders in the cheap labor and natu- in the first place, or the Clinton-era law dants into internment camps. In recent acter of this crisis. workers’ struggle!’ ral resources while co- that drastically lowered the threshold for times, the prison system, for-profit or The root cause of operating to deny the deportation, the Democrats have always government-run, has separated millions migration in this age Q Wideman, FIRE, Durham, N.C. most basic humanity been complicit in the crimes of U.S. im- from their families and communities. is imperialism, the to their victims. perialism. FIRE — Fight for Im/migrants and Ref- highest stage of capitalist development. This country’s working class has not sat It falls upon the workers and the op- ugees Everywhere — is a newly formed, Whether through wars and military idly by. There have been demonstrations pressed of this country to fight to end multinational, multigender, grassroots strikes in the Middle East, far-right coups in cities across the country, including oc- these crimes and for liberation from the movement comprised of migrant rights in Honduras in 2009 and Brazil in 2016, cupations of ICE centers, with countless system that fosters them. We won’t be advocates, students, teachers, unionists, or draining countries’ wealth so they are more planned for the coming weeks. fooled by partial retreats and a kinder socialists, Black Lives Matter, anti-im- unable to respond to natural disasters In the face of working-class power, the face to concentration camps. We call on perialists and other activists. We believe like the earthquake in Haiti, imperialism Trump administration has hastily issued the multinational, multigender working that not just the Republican Party, but creates the conditions that im/migrants an executive order, hoping to pacify the class to join with us to dismantle ICE and the Democratic Party as well, is to blame and refugees are fleeing. growing people’s resistance. But facts the racist, sexist, homophobic, transpho- for this crisis. Migrants have been forced The ruling class also creates refugees are stubborn, and this so-called “retreat” bic imperialist system that created it. into the U.S. and Europe because of pol- through its blatant disregard for the en- does not begin to end the policy of family We ask you to help us do something separation. simple, though not easy: Fight for Im/ Trump hopes to resolve the crisis by migrants and Refugees Everywhere — ‘I’m going to the border because I won’t tolerate evil replacing child concentration camps with FIRE! settler-colonialists imprisoning and torturing people family ones, as if the problem were not To contact FIRE: the concentration camps themselves! At Website ourfire.net, just for crossing imaginary lines on stolen land.’ the same time, he ramped up the status of email [email protected], postal Nat, FIRE, Boston “illegal” border crossings from a civil of- ­address FIRE, c/o Solidarity Center, fense to a criminal one. Once parents have 147 West 24th Street, 2nd fl., 10011, ­ a criminal conviction, the state again has or call 212-633-6646. As a people’s movement grows Can it stop the jailings and deportations?

Contiued from page 1 In fact, all of #45’s tactics evoke Nazi tary detention of migrant workers. period. The proposal suggests these tent Germany. According to an exclusive June 22 ar- cities be built to last between six months ments and pay reparations for the riches Today’s outcry is in response to the ticle in TIME magazine, “The U.S. Navy and one year.” they have stolen, people will continue to “zero tolerance policy,” an administrative is preparing plans to construct sprawling While the focus now is clearly on the flee. rule issued in April by #45 and Attorney detention centers for tens of thousands southern border, the movement must be This major humanitarian and political General Jeff Sessions. Under this policy, of immigrants on remote bases in Cali- prepared to turn its attention to these en- crisis stems from the global economic anyone crossing the border without a visa fornia, Alabama and Arizona, escalating campments. Young people in particular crisis, which is wreaking havoc on the is automatically labeled a criminal. the military’s task in implementing [the] are ready to “shut shit down” — clearly people and the planet. Many crossing the border today actu- ‘zero tolerance’ policy … according to a one of the answers to this current crisis. That the most powerful country in ally qualify for asylum as victims of state copy of a draft memo obtained by TIME. #45 is holding out to get the billions the world has a president the likes of terror and other qualifications. Yet this “The Navy memo outlines plans to needed to build the wall, and his real es- #45 during this global crisis is trou- legal and humane process is being done build ‘temporary and austere’ tent cities to tate developer pals and construction vul- bling enough. But both the Democratic away with. In fact, #45 announced he house 25,000 migrants at abandoned air- tures are salivating all over it. and Republican parties have historically wants to end due process altogether. Pho- fields just outside the Florida panhandle The movement, however, can stop the demonstrated that they have no real solu- tos of dozens of migrants shackled togeth- near Mobile, Alabama, at Navy Outlying building of the wall. tions and are in fact part of the problem. er in front of a judge are mind boggling. Field Wolf in Orange Beach, Alabama, and A June 25 Ipsos polling survey found For all their fervor against #45, the Dem- #45 issued an executive order June 20 nearby Navy Outlying Field Silverhill.” that the U.S. and Canada were the “two ocratic Party will not break from the cap- putting zero tolerance on hold. But con- The article continues: “The memo also most tolerant and inclusive” countries in italist system that spawned him. flicting reports from the administration proposes a camp for as many as 47,000 the world toward immigrants. The study In fact, it was former Secretary of State have indicated that the policy will none- people at former Naval Weapons Station suggests that most people in this country Hillary Clinton who in 2009 approved theless continue, one way or another. Concord, near San Francisco; and an- are “at odds with the nativist position of the policies forcing migration today. What is being promoted by the govern- other facility that could house as many the current administration.” That is what ment now is “family internment,” exactly as 47,000 people at Camp Pendleton, the we are witnessing across the country today. #45 digs in as in the days of the heinous internment Marines’ largest training facility located Comrade Fidel Castro once stated that Over 2,300 children have been camps during World War II set up to along the Southern California coast. The he believed fascism would never take wrenched away from their parents and hold people of Japanese ancestry. This planning memo proposes further study hold in the U.S. He had a great deal of families — if the numbers are to be trust- amounts to “handcuffs for all,” as the me- of housing an undetermined number of confidence in the people of this country ed. It could even be many more. dia have pointed out. migrants at the Marine Corps Air Station to stop it. Some of the adults have already been Nowhere are there plans for how or near Yuma, Arizona. Let us hope that today we are witness- deported without their children. That it- if the government will reunite the more “The planning document estimates ing the beginning of a great movement, self is inhumane. Children in one shelter than 2,300 children who have already that the Navy would spend about $233 one that can be sustained to not only stop in Texas have been given psychotropic been separated from their families. In- million to construct and operate a facility #45’s fascist tactics at the border but end drugs, evoking Nazi Germany. stead, what is being planned is the mili- for 25,000 people for a six-month time capitalism once and for all. workers.org June 28, 2018 Page 9

News conference by MOVE 9’s Debbie Africa, released after 40 years

By Betsey Piette that this is a victory, yet 40 years of sepa- East Lansdowne, Pa. ration is not over for our family.” Mike Africa Sr., one of the MOVE 9 still At a press conference in East Lans- in prison, is scheduled to appear before downe, Pa., on June 19, MOVE 9 member the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Debbie Sims Africa made her first public Parole (PBPP) in September. Janet and appearance since being released from Janine Africa’s next parole opportunity is prison after nearly 40 years of incarcera- in May 2019. Three other members of the tion. She had been imprisoned since Aug. MOVE 9 remain incarcerated. Two died 8, 1978, following the Philadelphia police in custody. attack on the MOVE Organization. Sims Africa was one of nine MOVE Free all of the MOVE 9! members, collectively known as the Thomson, an attorney with the Peo- “MOVE 9,” who were convicted and sen- ple’s Law Office, represented Sims Africa tenced to 30 to 100 years in prison follow- throughout her parole proceedings. He ing the altercation. She was eight months noted: “This is an historic moment for pregnant at the time and gave birth in jail Debbie, her family and the MOVE Organi- to her son, Mike Africa Jr. She has been zation. We consider this a big, important WW PHOTO: JOE PIETTE incarcerated for his entire life. Mother step towards freeing all of the MOVE 9.” Debbie Africa and Mike Africa, Jr and son spent time together outside of Janet and Janine Africa appeared be- prison for the first time on June 16, fol- fore the parole board on the same day as Carolyn Engel Temin, the Philadelphia the MOVE house and murder of 11 MOVE lowing her release. Sims Africa, but they were denied parole. district attorney’s office first assistant, members on May 13, 1985, affected im- Flanked by her son and her attorney, Thomson said it was hard to understand wrote letters to Leo Dunn, PBPP chair- prisoned MOVE members, Sims Africa Brad Thomson, Sims Africa said at the the board’s rationale for not releasing the person, on behalf of DA Larry Krasner, recounted their profound disbelief when press conference: “I have not yet caught other two women, given that each has saying that she was “confident” that Janet prison guards told them about the attack, up with my emotions on how happy it maintained Department of Corrections and Janine Africa “will not pose a threat refusing to accept that it had happened. makes me to see my family and to be records as exemplary as and nearly iden- to the Philadelphia community,” and that Mike Africa Jr. said that Janet and Ja- united with my son for the first time in all tical to that of Sims Africa. their “continued incarceration does not nine Africa had children who died in that those years. As happy as I was to be with Thomson said: “Based on statutes make our city safer.” However, the PBPP fire. Now, the same state that killed their my family, it is a bittersweet victory for regarding parole in Pennsylvania, the lied, claiming the “negative recommen- children refuses to grant the mothers pa- me because my sisters Janet, Janine and board made the correct decision with dation of the prosecuting attorney” was a role. He read Janet Africa’s letter about the rest of the MOVE 9 are still in prison Debbie, but they should have made the basis for denial. (onamove.com, June 19) Sims Africa’s release: “Everybody here, in the same situation that I was in. They same ruling for Janet and Janine. The Thomson asserted: “We are hoping especially the lifers and long termers deserve parole, too.” facts in all three cases and other mem- that moving forward we will be able to are lifted and motivated by Debbie leav- Mike Africa Jr. echoed this sentiment: bers of MOVE 9 show that none of them win release for the remaining six people.” ing. Tell her she took a piece of our heart “After being born in jail and never being should have been convicted in the first When asked about the impact of calls on when she left, but it balances out because with my mom or dad, I’m happy to be with place. There is no rational basis for keep- their behalf to the PBPP, he replied, “It is she left a piece of hers with us.” my mom at home for the first time ever in ing them incarcerated.” important that the parole board recog- Events in Philadelphia will mark the almost 40 years. But my family is still in- All MOVE 9 members have been eligi- nize that Debbie and the rest have people 40th anniversary of the Aug. 8, 1978, po- complete because my dad is still in prison. ble for parole since 2008; each has gone who support them, [and] that they are lice attack on MOVE. See onamove.com The MOVE Organization has experienced through numerous hearings. Sims Afri- not a threat to the community.” for information about the Aug. 8 Day of so much hate and anger from the system ca’s May 10 hearing was her ninth. When asked how the state’s bombing of Resistance for the MOVE 9. Bryant Arroyo: On the inside, speaking out

Part 1 of Bryant Arroyo’s story, which as Kelly writes, “was just one story. One story among millions. PART 1– ‘You’re in prison too.’ By Ted Kelly SCI Frackville, Pa. Some of them are eating Bryant calls them “the corporate raiders.” lunch with their children and When he says, “I hate to break it to Even from within the grandchildren. Others are you,” he’s talking about power in our so- confines of a state correc- sitting silently, facing a blank ciety. The people don’t have it. The corpo- tional institution in rural wall together, arms inter- rate raiders have seized it from us. Pennsylvania, Bryant Ar- twined with their spouse’s. royo is on the move. Just It’s a Sunday morning. These Roots of the struggle in the last few months he loved ones surrender their A man who has now spent a quarter has spoken at Harvard car keys and wallets, turn out of a century behind bars, Bryant Arroyo University and Haver- their pockets and willingly knows what it is to experience powerless- ford College, testified at a cross over the gated thresh- ness. He is one of the 2.2 million people roundtable discussion on Joe Piette, old that separates the “free” who are imprisoned right now by the prison conditions in Cen- Bryant Arroyo from those in bondage. United States government, and therefore ter City Philadelphia and and Ted Kelly The person we came to he is a member of the most oppressed been the keynote speaker PHOTO: BENJAMIN IRVIN see is a Puerto Rican man sector of the working class in this coun- at the 2018 Yale Environmental Forum. who grew up in Lancaster, try. He describes the position of the pris- “I’m on tour!” Bryant exclaimed in one forced to wear. He’ll clap you on the shoul- Pa. His father owned a grocery store that oner as being “completely indigent.” of our recent phone conversations. der after making a joke or gently grab hold was bought out from under them by gen- This is a clear echo of the political That conversation, like all the speech- of your forearm as he gets more emphatic. trifying land-grabbers when Bryant was platform that “prisons are concentration es he delivers live from a prison phone If ever he pauses, it is to great effect. a child. His family was left scrambling for camps for the poor,” reverberating from a booth, are interrupted intermittently It was during one such pause, in the a steady source of income. By the time he time in history when Workers World Par- with a monotone prerecorded message: midst of talking about the “distractions was supposed to be in tenth grade, Bryant ty maintained an active Prisoners’ Soli- “This is a call from the Pennsylvania De- and divisions” that keep our class from had dropped out of school to find work. darity Committee. This committee was partment of Corrections … .” ` organizing itself, that Bryant leans in He speaks passionately about the les- so organized and well-respected among The calls are disconnected after fifteen close and punctuates his point: sons his father taught him about the prisoners that in September 1971 it was minutes. At the roundtable event in Philly “Because I hate to break it to you, but grocery store customers, many of whom invited to send a representative into the this spring, Bryant was only able to an- you’re in prison, too.” were desperately poor, disabled and el- Attica prison yard to assist those rebels swer one question from the group before He’s not referring to the fact that Joe derly. “We treat them with respect when in negotiating for their demands. getting cut off. That’s why his Yale address Piette and I are sitting with him in the they walk in this store,” Bryant’s father It’s an event that WWP First Secretary was prerecorded and hosted on Prison- visitation room at SCI Frackville, where would insist, regardless of the person’s Larry Holmes described as “the Black Radio.org, where many of his addresses Bryant is currently living out a sentence background. “We serve them and they Liberation Movement’s Paris Commune can be heard. Each recording contains a of life without parole for a crime he did serve us,” he’d say, pointing up at the light moment.” The Attica demands included voice that is thoughtful and deliberate as not commit. (He is still fighting to over- above their heads — a reminder of how the right to a union, vocational training, it recites highly poetic rhetoric. turn this unjust conviction.) the bills got paid. pay scales, a limited-hour workweek, In person, Bryant is energetic and talk- We sit together on molded rubber seats Bryant doesn’t hesitate to name the health care and injury compensation — in ative. His jovial demeanor isn’t constrict- in the packed chamber where prisoners people who created the conditions of des- short, to be considered workers. “This is a ed by that deep maroon jumpsuit he is are huddling together with their visitors. titution and misery in his community. class issue,” the Attica statement said. Page 10 June 28, 2018 workers.org

San Diego, NYC Rallies for Palestine On Waters, immigrants San Diego honors Palestinian rescue and violence worker Workers World Party People all over the country — indeed, All the corporate media are using hosted a rally and vigil in all over the world! — are demonstrating Trump’s attack to condemn violence on San Diego on June 22 in against the latest obscene steps taken the part of those who resist him and call honor of Palestinian rescue by the Trump administration in its war for “civil discourse.” They dwell on the worker and volunteer med- against im/migrants and refuge seekers. militant actions of those protesting the ic Razan al-Najjar, as well They are haunted by the images of im/mi- violence of the capitalist state, while ac- as all the martyrs killed grant children trembling and sobbing as cepting the day-in, day-out rule of ter- in Gaza during the Great they are yanked away from their parents. ror by generals, cops, prison guards and March of Return. One of those speaking out against this Immigration and Customs Enforcement Najjar was murdered by extreme official cruelty is Rep. Maxine agents as normal and not even worthy of the Israeli Defense Force Waters, who became the subject of nu- discussion. on June 1 as she went to the merous talk shows, editorials and Oval This is the oldest trick in the book. aid of an elderly injured pro- Office tweets after she called on people When the Vietnam War was on, and tester at the Gaza boundary to confront and denounce the politicians thousands were dying every day because fence that imprisons Pales- responsible for this policy. of that horrific assault on the Vietnam- tinians. An IDF sniper shot Waters is a longtime liberal Democrat, ese people’s right to self-determination, the 21-year-old nurse as she WW PHOTO: GLORIA VERDIEU re-elected many times by her largely those here who tried to stop the war were advanced with her hands up Black constituency in Los Angeles. She is accused of violence if they burned draft to show she was unarmed. She was clear- beast and honoring all the lives that have not a typical politician. She has been out- records or scuffled with Army recruiters. ly identified as a rescue worker. been lost in Palestine. Workers World spoken in supporting Cuba against the Those fighting this exploiting and re- The Great March of Return began in newspaper was distributed to receptive U.S. blockade and opposing the Iraq war, pressive system need to consider the re- late March, affirming the right of Pal- park attendees, and several productive and she sided with her constituents in the lationship of forces when devising what estinians to return to their homeland. conversations ensued, including with a Watts neighborhood of LA when poverty tactics to employ in the struggle. But it is Since then the Israeli military has killed group of preteens from a YMCA summer and police brutality pushed them to rebel not a moral issue. Malcolm X put it right hundreds and wounded thousands at the camp. in 1992. when he said in 1964 that Black peo- Gaza boundary, including 223 paramed- — Workers World San Diego bureau That a Black elected official, a woman, ple must fight for their freedom by “any ics, seemingly targeting rescue workers would vigorously call for in-your-face means necessary.” All the morality in this deliberately. New York rallies for Palestinian protests against his vicious attacks on struggle is on the side of the oppressed, San Diego protesters gathered at the freedom fighter im/migrants enraged Trump, who in a who have met with violence from the re- Balboa Park fountain for the evening ral- At a June 23 picket in New York City tweet insulted her intelligence and ac- pressive state at every turn. ly. In addition to members of WWP, there in front of the office of the Friends of the cused her of encouraging violence — even Confront the racists and warmakers! was support from the Committee Against IDF, protesters briefly blocked access as his agents were violently breaking up Stop the attacks on im/migrants by any Police Brutality, the Party for Socialism to the doors, while chanting against the im/migrant families. means necessary! and Liberation, and Labor San Diego, FIDF’s fundraising for war crimes, rac- as well as several members of the local ism, occupation and apartheid. Ralliers Palestinian community and unaffiliated also distributed flyers and carried signs Im/migrant rights solidarity from India community members. to demand freedom for imprisoned Pal- Demonstrators held signs demanding estinian leader Khalida Jarrar. The ac- The Socialist Unity Centre of justice for Palestine and an end to U.S. tion was organized by Samidoun: Pales- India (Communist) and its mass support for the racist apartheid state of tinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. organizations are carrying out sol- Israel, and affirming that Jerusalem is Jarrar has been imprisoned without idarity protests against the sepa- Palestine’s capital. Also on display was a charge or trial for nearly a year under ration of families and attacks on large, full-color painting of health worker “administrative detention,” with a new migrants and refugees in the U.S. Razan al-Najjar by WWP member Codie. detention order issued by the Israeli oc- Participating in an action on June Carl Muhammad led the crowd in chants cupation military on June 14. Jarrar is a 25 were the Delhi State committees of “From Palestine to Mexico, Border leftist, feminist, Palestinian parliamentar- of the All India United Trade Union walls have got to go!” and “¡Viva, viva, ian, aligned with the Popular Front for the Centre (AIUTUC), All India Mahi- viva! ¡La lucha Palestina!” Liberation of Palestine and a longtime ad- la Sanskritik Sangathan (AIMSS), WWP member Bob McCubbin ad- vocate for Palestinian prisoners’ freedom. All India Democratic Students dressed the crowd, calling for the U.S. to Joe Catron, U.S. coordinator of Sami- Organisation (AIDSO), and All In- get out of the Middle East and expressing doun, said at the rally: “Khalida’s decades dia Democratic Youth Organisa- the party’s full support for the Palestin- of solidarity with Palestinian political tion (AIDYO). These groups held a joint grants at the U.S.-Mexico border by the ian right of return to occupied Palestine. prisoners and the prisoners’ movement demonstration against the gross viola- Trump administration. Another WWP member, Rahui Suré inspire all of us supporting the same tion of human rights of refugees and mi- — Report by Workers World staff Saldivar-Soto, spoke on the importance struggle. Her administrative detention of fighting from within the belly of the by Israeli occupation forces is a clear ef- fort to impede her work, particularly her role in efforts to hold Israel accountable The Movement for Black Lives calls at the International Criminal Court for its crimes against Palestinians.” (For more information on Jarrar’s struggle, see tinyurl.com/y79g7kss.) for Black, Brown, Indigenous solidarity — Workers World New York bureau The following statement was issued by The Movement for Black Lives at policy.m4bl.org. The Movement for Black Lives joins MiJente and the na- at the border pushes all of us to call into question the state New York City tional call to shut down U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, apparatus, and its continued operation as a detriment to abolish ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), and the lives of Black, Brown and Indigenous people across the resist a fascist future where families are caged. world. We understand that this moment represents the continued As a member of The Majority, a coalition representing legacy of detaining, abusing, and separating Black, Brown movements and organizations across the country, we are and Indigenous people. This is an intentional legacy, bol- united in calling for all of our communities to come to stered by policies and safeguarded by police, judges, and together to protect and defend each other. Whether it is the elected officials meant to harm and destroy our communities murdering of Black children by police like Antwon Rose and our commitment to a different and just world. Further, in Pittsburgh or the caging of children and families at the we are also clear that it is the violent and oppressive role of border, it is more clear than ever that freedom will come as a the United States abroad, and specifically in Central Ameri- product of our collective work. ca, that has displaced many of these families and led them to “We must love each other and support each other” is more this country seeking safety. than a chant — it is a mandate for how we must show up in As a movement that is pro-Black, pro-woman, pro-LGBTQ, these times. We are freedom fighters who stand on the shoul- pro-migrant and pro-family, we are appalled by this Ad- ders of our Ancestors and side by side with our comrades ministration’s actions. Children and their families belong in as we fight for a world in which our collective liberation is safe places, not detention camps. The internment of children realized; join us. PHOTO: JOE CATRON workers.org June 28, 2018 Page 11

France Where and when will it stop?

By Rémy Herrera 2018 FIFA World Cup, an event that pro- Meanwhile, Macron’s lack- Paris vides a maximum dose of the “opium of eys announced his plan to French TV reports on CGT demanding cutoff of gas to the people”? build a new private swim- the French president’s residence. Earlier the workers cut June 25 — During the conflict at the This government offensive comes at a ming pool in Brégançon, the power off as the prime minister was speaking. French national railway (SNCF), Pres- time when the right-wing (UNSA) and re- presidential holiday resort ident Emmanuel Macron has argued formist (CFDT) union confederations are on the French Riviera — at taxpayers’ Pôle emploi, responsible for helping the that the “reform” he has imposed, for breaking up trade union unity, and the expense. And that the presidential cou- unemployed find a job! which the French Parliament has already most combative unions (CGT, SUD-Rail) ple has decided to replace the china They will join the thousands of laid-off passed implementing legislation, will not have announced they will continue the dishware at the Elysée Palace (the pres- Carrefour employees — 2,500 announced lead to privatization of the rail sector. strike this summer, when over 60 percent idential residence) for 500,000 euros, or job cuts — who learned on June 15 that But the Minister of Economy and of the population goes on holiday. close to $600,000! the shareholders’ meeting of this giant Finance, Bruno Le Maire (previously On the same day, a video circulated on retail company (third biggest worldwide, minister under Nicolas Sarkozy), has Workers counterattack the internet showed the president declar- Walmart being first) had awarded its CEO introduced legislation (which he calls The workers’ counterattack was not ing that a “wild amount of money” is spent a departure bonus of 13 million euros and a “Pact”) that amounts to a privatiza- long in coming. Nearly 150 workplaces on social needs. Are we to understand an annual pension of over half a million tion program under the guise of helping were occupied by electricians and gas that Macron’s next demolition project will euros as reward for his management. small and medium-sized businesses and company employees on June 14 — prov- seek to cut public expenditures that re- How long will these predatory and cyn- reducing government debt. ing that even if you love soccer’s World duce poverty (income and social benefits ical officers and directors, supported by This new legislation would transfer Cup, you can still get passionate about for poor households, income floors for the the government, be allowed to continue state-owned shares of ADP (the company class struggle. In many offices where elderly, housing allowances, etc.)? their systematic destruction and looting? that manages Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle workers had gathered to hear manage- That would be a big blow against the Recent actions indicate not for long. and Orly airports, number one in Europe ment’s rationales for privatizing energy, workers. A recent official report indi- On June 21, the CGT Mines-Energie Fed- for freight and mail), ENGIE (formerly they saw the bosses lower their heads cates that the number of poor children is eration demanded that the gas supply to GDF-Suez, the third largest non-oil ener- without saying a word, barricade them- exploding: nearly 20 percent of French the Élysée Palace be cut off, as happens gy group in the world) and La Française selves in their offices or run away! children now live below the poverty line. to millions of French households. A few des Jeux (lotteries and sports betting) to Union members occupied more than They come mainly from single-parent days earlier, near Toulouse, Prime Minis- the private sector. The state’s stock sale 220 sites on June 21. Here and there, in families and/or unemployed families. ter Édouard Philippe was forced to make would also affect Air France (where the the middle of entrance halls, strikers in The government says that unemploy- a speech in the dark and without a micro- unions remain mobilized in an unre- bathing suits installed inflatable swim- ment is falling. In fact, the requirements phone because of a power cut organized solved labor conflict), Orange (telecom- ming pools and soaked in comfort while to obtain unemployment benefits have by the CGT. munications) and the automobile indus- waiting for their children to be invit- become so onerous that many unem- Herrera is a Marxist economist, try (Peugeot, Renault). ed to do the same on the weekend! This ployed people are no longer counted or a researcher at the Centre National How far will the neoliberals manage reminded people of the historic Popu- included in the statistics. What does this Recherche Scientifique, who works at to erode state control of these industries, lar Front strikes in 1936 when workers mean for the government? It just laid off the Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne, especially with people distracted by the played pingpong in occupied factories. 4,000 employees of the public agency, Paris. WW staff translated this article. Europe Humanitarian migrant crisis deepens

By G. Dunkel tors Without Borders, with 629 people cept both ships. European National Council at the end of on board, including children, pregnant On the weekend of June 23-24, Salvini June. The regimes directing Poland, the A humanitarian and political crisis is women and people with medical prob- insisted that 1,000 migrants on the coast Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary brewing in the European Union over the lems. After a few days the Spanish gov- of Libya be picked up by the Libyan coast — which form the V4 “Visegrad Four” issue of im/migrants. Millions upon mil- ernment agreed to accept the ship, and guard, rather than European nongovern- group — avoided taking part in this lions of people attempting to escape wars the French government said it would ac- mental organizations. meeting. They refuse to take in asylum and violence, poverty and persecution of cept some of the rescued passengers. In Germany, which has accepted more seekers from other EU states. all sorts in sub-Saharan Africa, the Mid- Salvini did the same thing to the Life- than 1 million refugees, a section of Given all the political maneuvering dle East, Afghanistan and North Africa line, a ship operated by a German non- Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition has and jockeying over the migrant issue, have fled toward what they see as more governmental organization that had res- taken a much harder line than Merkel the 28 EU countries have to take into ac- stable prosperity in Europe. cued 230 people off the Libyan coast. He and wants Germany to stop taking any count that the unions and many political The refugees are willing to take serious even tried to make it hard to deliver sup- new refugees. President Emmanuel Ma- parties in the front line states — Spain, burdens and risks getting there. Smug- plies to the ship and insulted the people cron in France is under pressure from a France, Italy and Greece — know in their glers, who offer a spot on underpowered, onboard, calling them “human meat.” semi-fascist, right-wing party called the bones and in their foundational histo- overcrowded rubber dinghies, charge The Maersk Alexander, a container National Rally (previously the National ry that solidarity is the most important high prices. Crossing the Mediterranean ship that picked up 113 refugees but also Front). tool in the arsenal of the working class. Sea is dangerous. Of the 44,000 refugees had cargo for Sicily, has been denied per- Merkel and Macron held an emergen- This solidarity lies behind all the rescue who have attempted so far this year, more mission to enter Italian waters as well. cy, off-the-record meeting on June 24, to missions accomplished since waves of than 1,000 failed to survive, according to The new Spanish government, trying to come up with a solution to the migration immigrants began crashing on Europe’s the UNHCR, the U.N. Refugee Agency, on present a progressive face, is likely to ac- crisis, to present to a full meeting of the shores in recent years. June 25. (data2.unhcr.org) The political crisis was brought to a high point by the recent election in Italy. PUERTO RICO A coalition government of the Five Star Movement and the racist League took control, with League leader Matteo Sal- ’Occupation is a crime’ vini becoming a vice premier and min- ister of the interior. Salvini immediately Chanting “Occupation is a crime — la-Oscar Committee for Decolonization began the process of closing the coun- from Puerto Rico to Palestine,” Puerto began at Hunter College and concluded try’s refugee reception centers, which Rican activists and supporters marched at Ralph Bunche Park across from U.N. held hundreds of thousands of refugees. and rallied near the United Nations on headquarters. There protesters unfurled When Salvini made a campaign-style June 18. an enormous Puerto Rican flag while de- tour on June 3 of southern Sicilian ports The occasion was the meeting of the manding an end to U.S. occupation and — all of which have seen large debarka- U.N. Special Committee on Decoloniza- reparations for 120 years of colonial rob- tions of refugees from Libya, particularly tion, which heard testimony from former bery. They also demanded freedom for in Pozzallo — he was met with bands of political prisoner Oscar López Rivera Nina Droz Franco, a Puerto Rican polit- left opponents carrying signs that read, and others describing the rising poverty, ical prisoner arrested during the general “Welcome refugees.” These opponents displacement and devastation following strike in San Juan on May Day 2017. held their own against Salvini’s support- hurricanes Irma and Maria, compound- Another rally was held at nearby Dag ers, who want to see 700,000 people im- ed by ongoing U.S. austerity measures Hammarskjold Plaza. mediately expelled. embodied in the Puerto Rico Oversight, A summary of testimony given to the Precipitating a humanitarian crisis, Management and Economic Stability Act U.N. Committee can be read at tinyurl. Salvini also closed Italian ports to the (PROMESA). com/ybv92j47. Aquarius, a rescue ship operated by Doc- A march organized by the Mande- — Report and photo by Greg Butterfield Correspondencia sobre artículos en Workers World/Mundo Obrero pueden ser enviadas a: [email protected]

¡Proletarios y oprimidos de todos los paises unios! workers.org Vol. 60 Núm. 26 28 de junio 2018 $1 Otra vez guerra Declaración de FIRE encubierta en ( Fight for Im/migrants & Refugees Everywhere*) La resistencia está aumentando para luchar contra las atrocidades estadounidenses Nicaragua EDITORIAL contra in/migrantes y refugiadxs, con marchas masivas convocadas para el 30 de junio. Participando en esas protestas, incluyendo en la frontera EUA/México en McAllen, Texas, Cuando el New York Times comienza a promover el “estado de está el nuevo grupo FIRE, que emitió el siguiente llamado: derecho” en otro país, como lo hizo en un artículo de opinión el pasado mayo, y otros medios de comunicación corporativos meten la Las noticias recientes de la frontera han sido de pasar a los países vecinos, muchos estados cuchara, siempre debemos prestar atención. imposibles de ignorar, incluso para quienes europeos confiscan sus objetos de valor antes Eso es para que podamos saber qué país el imperialismo estadoun- normalmente excusarían la guerra contra lxs de llevarlos a campamentos. Los países impe- idense se está preparando para desestabilizar. inmigrantes. Lxs progenitores lloran cuando rialistas compiten por mano de obra barata y Esta vez - una vez más - es Nicaragua, donde Estados Unidos sus hijxs son arrancados de sus brazos para recursos naturales al mismo tiempo que co- pregona la necesidad de reemplazar al presidente Daniel Ortega y el llevarlos a campos de concentración y colocar- operan para negar la humanidad más básica gobierno sandinista. los en jaulas. Una mujer guatemalteca indíge- a sus víctimas. Nos corresponde señalar que el nicaragüense mencionado por la na desarmada recibe un disparo en la cabeza La clase trabajadora de este país no se ha prensa estadounidense como la “oposición” a lxs sandinistas es Juan por parte de la Patrulla Fronteriza. Una mujer mantenido en silencio. Ha habido manifesta- Sebastián Chamorro, un “portavoz” de la “Alianza Cívica por la Justi- trans que huye de la violencia patriarcal es de- ciones en ciudades por todo el país, incluyendo cia y la Democracia”. Su tía es la expresidenta Violeta Chamorro, cuyo gobierno pertenecía a una coalición de partidos políticos derechistas jada morir en una llamada “caja de hielo”. ocupaciones de los centros de ICE, y hay un respaldados por Estados Unidos que luchaban contra las fuerzas san- Pero, ¿es esta inhumanidad y destrucción de sinnúmero más de estas planificadas para las dinistas de liberación nacional en la década de 1990. familias nuevas en este país? ¿Cuántas familias próximas semanas. Desde mediados del siglo XIX, los EUA han afirmado el “derecho” fueron destruidas por el genocidio y el despla- Ante el poder de la clase trabajadora, la ad- de su Doctrina Monroe a colonizar y explotar a Nicaragua como su zamiento forzado de las naciones indígenas de ministración Trump ha emitido apresurada- propio patio trasero. Y desde el principio, lxs nicaragüenses se han este país? Durante la esclavitud, lxs africanos mente una orden ejecutiva, esperando pacifi- resistido, incluyendo la rebelión revolucionaria encabezada por el fueron subastados después de ser arrancados car la creciente resistencia de la gente. Pero general Augusto C. Sandino en las décadas de 1920 y 1930. de sus familias y encadenadxs. En la década los hechos son obstinados, y esta llamada “re- Cuando el Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional triunfó en de 1940, los EUA forzaron a lxs inmigrantes tractación” dista mucho de haber terminado 1979, aún tuvo que vencer a la posterior guerra secreta orquestada por japoneses y sus descendientes a ingresar en con la política de separación familiar. la CIA que involucraba actos terroristas, así como a una campaña de campos de internamiento. En los últimos tiem- Trump espera resolver la crisis reemplazan- propaganda patrocinada por Washington. pos, el sistema penitenciario, con fines de lucro do los campos de concentración de niñxs con Ahora EUA intenta nuevamente socavar a Nicaragua, aprovechan- o administrado por el gobierno, ha separado los de la familia, ¡como si el problema no fuer- do las protestas que se tornaron violentas después de que el gobierno millones de sus familias y comunidades. an los campos de concentración! Al mismo anunciara una disminución planificada en los beneficios de la seguri- FIRE es un movimiento multinacional y tiempo, incrementó la pena por el cruce fron- dad social. Más tarde, el gobierno rescindió la movida. multi-género de base formado por defensorxs terizo “ilegal” de una ofensa civil a una crim- Hay mucha evidencia de que la violencia fue promovida por la de los derechos de lxs inmigrantes, estudi- inal. Una vez que lxs progenitores han sido oposición reaccionaria y proimperialista. Pero el informe del 29 de antes, profesores, sindicalistas, socialistas, condenados por una ofensa criminal, ¡el esta- mayo de Amnistía Internacional (AI), afirmaba que el actual gobi- del Movimiento las Vidas Negras Importan, do nuevamente tiene libertad para llevarse a erno sandinista estaba involucrado en “asesinatos extrajudiciales” y antiimperialistas y otrxs activistas. Creemos sus hijxs! La orden ejecutiva también apunta “represión”. que no solo el Partido Republicano tiene la a permitir que lxs inmigrantes sean detenidos Esta ciertamente no es la primera vez que AI ha servido como un culpa de esta crisis, sino también el Partido indefinidamente, y le pide al Pentágono que megáfono de propaganda para los intereses de EUA. Pero esta vez, Demócrata. Lxs inmigrantes han sido for- abra campamentos en bases militares. Camilo Mejía, un nativo de Nicaragua, y preso de conciencia de Am- zados ingresar a EUA y Europa debido a las El Partido Demócrata y sus leales medi- nistía Internacional en 2004, ha respondido de forma convincente. Mejía no fue encarcelado por Nicaragua. Fue encarcelado por EUA políticas tramadas en Washington y Wall os corporativos parecen estar contentos con como veterano de la guerra de Irak, opositor y objetor de conciencia. Street. Y la única solución es la gente luchando esta “solución”, siempre que sea seguida con En una “Carta abierta a Amnistía Internacional”, Mejía enfatiza: en su propio nombre. una victoria electoral en noviembre. Los “El informe [de AI] se alimenta de reclamos de quienes están en un El objetivo de FIRE (fuego) es derretir ICE demócratas están desesperados por presen- lado del conflicto y se basa en evidencia profundamente corrompida; (hielo). No para reformarlo, ni cambiar su tarse a sí mismos como los defensores de las en última instancia, ayuda a crear el espejismo de un estado genocida, gestión, ni ninguna otra medida a medias. familias de inmigrantes cuando, en realidad, generando a su vez más sentimiento antigubernamental a nivel local y Para luchar por lxs in/migrantes, debemos fueron entusiastas partícipes en la creación en el exterior, y allanando el camino para una intervención extranjera des­hacernos por completo de ICE. Signifi- de este horror. Incluso, más allá del récord de cada vez más agresiva”. ca desmantelar los campos de concentración Obama “deportador-en-jefe” sobre el tema, Mejía enfatiza que Estados Unidos se opone al gobierno sandinista para inmigrantes y derribar cualquier pared que incluye la construcción de muchos de es- por sus intentos de mantener la independencia del “orden económico fronteriza racista que Trump intente ­construir. tos centros de detención en primer lugar, o la neoliberal impuesto por los Estados Unidos y sus aliados”. Luchar por lxs refugiados significa entender ley de la era Clinton que redujo drásticamente Mejía señala que las mejoras realizadas por este gobierno de lib- que muchxs in/migrantes huyen de las condi- el umbral para la deportación, lxs demócratas eración nacional incluyen el acceso universal a la educación primaria, ciones en sus países creados por EUA. Y debe- siempre han sido cómplices del imperialismo secundaria y universitaria; y un modesto y excelente sistema de mos entender el carácter global de esta crisis. estadounidense. atención médica accesible para todos. Él señala: “Aproximadamente La raíz de la migración en esta era es el Le toca a lxs trabajadores y oprimidxs de el 90 por ciento de los alimentos que consumen los nicaragüenses imperialismo, la etapa más alta del desar- este país luchar por la terminación de estos se produce en Nicaragua, y cerca del 70 por ciento de los empleos rollo capitalista. Ya sea a través de guerras y crímenes y por la liberación del sistema que provienen de la economía de base, en lugar de las empresas transna- ataques militares en Medio Oriente, golpes nos trajo aquí. No nos engañan las medidas cionales”. de extrema derecha en Honduras en 2009 y parciales y una cara más suave de los campos Mejía dice que “la audacia del éxito” del gobierno sandinista “volvió Brasil en 2016, o agotando su riqueza para que de concentración. Exhortamos a la clase tra- a poner a Nicaragua en el punto de mira de la intervención estadoun- los países no puedan responder a los desastres bajadora multinacional y multi-género de este idense”. naturales, como el terremoto en Haití, el im- país a unirse a nosotrxs para desmantelar el Seguramente, nosotros en EUA no necesitamos ningún recordato- perialismo crea las condiciones por las cuales ICE y el sistema imperialista racista, sexista, rio de la propaganda abierta estadounidense que manipula el pens- amiento público, piense en la demonización del Iraq independiente, lxs in/migrantes y refugiadxs están huyendo. homofóbico y transfóbico que lo creó. Libia y Siria. La clase dominante también crea refugiadxs Le pedimos que nos ayude a hacer algo sim- Y es muy común que las agencias encubiertas estadounidenses por su completo desprecio por el medio ambi- ple, aunque no sea fácil: Luchar por In/mi- manipulen lo que pueden ser demandas válidas de personas en otro ente, mientras inundaciones, tormentas y la grantes y Refugiados por Doquier (FIRE). país, en cooperación con los reaccionarios de la clase dominante. La expansión de los desiertos desplazan a mil- * Luchemos por In/migrantes y Refugiadxs clase dominante estadounidense siempre intentará convertir los mov- lones. El cambio climático y la austeridad cap- por Doquier imientos progresistas en su opuesto: para desviar a las personas de un italista se combinaron para devastar a Puerto Para contactar a FIRE: sitio web ourfire.net, ­ posible camino revolucionario. Rico, dejando alrededor de 5.000 muertes y email [email protected], dirección postal Nuestro deber en EUA es resistir esta propaganda capitalista desplazando decenas de miles más. FIRE, c/o Solidarity Center, 147 West 24 abierta y encubierta. Nuestro deber es exponer implacablemente Este tratamiento criminal no es exclusivo Street, 2nd fl., New York, NY, 10011, todos los trucos del imperialismo y oponernos a todos los crímenes de los Estados Unidos. Al tratar lxs refugiados o llame al 212-633-6646. del imperialismo.