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'Anti-Zionist, Not Anti-Semitic' Venezuela, OAS y EUA 12 Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 59, No. 26 June 29, 2017 $1 ‘Anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic’ Chicago Dyke March opposes ‘pinkwashing’ By Workers World Chicago bureau at least one of these individuals is a interest groups. A Wider Bridge has (tarabnyc.org/cancelpinkwashing/) regional director for A Wider Bridge, been protested for provocative actions for using Israel’s supposed ‘LGBTQ The Chicago Dyke March, an annual an organization with connections to the at other LGBTQ events and has been tolerance’ to pinkwash the violent social justice-oriented queer community Israeli state and right-wing pro-Israel condemned by numerous organizations occupation of Palestine. celebration, is under attack “The Chicago Dyke by the mainstream me dia for March Collective is asking several pro- Zionist NYC PRIDE explicitly not anti- individuals to leave the June See Pride actions, page 5. Semitic, we are anti- 24 march. Zionist. The Chicago The organizers of the Dyke March Collective Chicago Dyke March have is- supports the liberation sued the following statement: of Palestine and all “Yesterday, June 24, oppressed people Chicago Dyke March everywhere. From was held in the La Villita Palestine to Mexico, neighborhood to express border walls have got support of undocumented, to go!” refugee, and immigrant Pinkwashing: Zionist PR communi ties under threat “Pinkwashing” is a of deportation. Sadly, our public-relations strat- celebration of dyke, queer, egy used to portray Is- and trans solidarity was rael as the only place partially overshadowed by in the Middle East that our decision to ask three is friendly to lesbian, individuals carrying Israeli gay, bisexual, trans and flags superimposed on queer people. It relies on rainbow flags to leave the a broad-brushed slander rally. This decision was Black and Brown high school students from the dance group Black Pride 4” and “Queer liberation! Fight for socialism!” of the entire Arab and made after they repeated- Left Our Mark led this enthusiastically received Workers Earlier, at a No Justice, No Pride: Reclaim Pride action, a Muslim world, which ly expressed support for World Party and People’s Power Assembly contingent in New group of LGBTQ activists marched directly in front of the is presented as “back- Zionism during conversa- York City’s huge Pride parade on June 25. The rainbow flag police contingent, carrying a banner reading, “No cops, No ward.” It is further based tions with Chicago Dyke on their signs and banners included black and brown stripes, banks.” After sitting down in front of the Stonewall Inn and on the egregious lie that March Collective members. acknowledging the lives of LGBTQ people of color. Signs linking arms, 12 were arrested. All were later released. Continued on page 5 We have since learned that included “NYPD out of Pride!” “Drop charges on the —Report by Workers World New York bureau WW PHOTO: BRENDA RYAN DETROIT battles STRIKES! tax foreclosures 2 Tennessee to Haiti 4, 11 MOVE memorial Linked struggles, unveiling, Disability rights: Philadelphia, June 24. anti-racism to anti-war 6-7 ‘ HEALTHCARE WW PHOTO: JOE PIETTE not wealthcare’ 3 7 Oscar López Rivera at the U.N. 8 Subscribe to Workers World 4 weeks trial $4 1 year subscription $30 Sign me up for the WWP Supporter Program: WW EDITORIAL 10 workers.org/articles/donate/supporters_/ Obamacare vs. Trumpsick Name ____________________________________ MILWAUKEE 11 Safe housing & Grenfell 10 Email _____________________________________ Phone ____________________________________ CUBA to U.S. Street _______________________________ Freedom fighters stay 11 City / State / Zip ________________________ WW PHOTO Workers World 212.627.2994 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl, NY, NY 10011 8 9 workers.org French elections Bolivarian Venezuela Page 2 June 29, 2017 workers.org Detroit against tax foreclosures and for people’s housing In the U.S. By Jerry Goldberg ‘Anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic’: Chicago Dyke March opposes ‘pinkwashing’..............1 A public forum on June 17 addressed New York Pride...........................................1 the continuing tax foreclosure crisis in Detroit against tax foreclosures, for people’s housing ....2 Detroit that has left thousands of fam- ‘Healthcare Not Wealthcare!’: Disability activists arrested . 3 ilies facing imminent eviction from Philly vigil against health care cuts .......................3 their homes. The forum was orga- On the picket line ........................................4 nized by the Coalition to Stop Uncon- stitutional Property Tax Foreclosures, Little Steel Strike: Capitalists expose their brutality, Part I . 4 composed of many community groups Drop all charges against the #BlackPride4 ................5 including the Moratorium Now! Coa- Fightback unity cheered at Buffalo Pride .................5 lition, Detroit BYP100, the Detroit People’s Platform, the After foreclosing on families’ homes, and being paid off San Francisco Trans March................................5 United Community Housing Coalition and the American by the government through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Sylville Smith’s life matters Civil Liberties Union. for their losses, the banks then sold the foreclosed homes La vida de Sylville Smith importa .........................6 Bernadette Atuahene, Wayne State University visit- at vastly reduced prices to investors. These investors fur- Family protest Seattle cops’ killing of Charleena Lyles.....6 ing law professor and coalition organizer, described the ther contributed to the tax foreclosure crisis by renting ‘Juvenile lifers’: Demanding justice in Detroit .............6 scope of the crisis. Professor Atuahene explained how the properties or placing unsuspecting buyers into land between 2011 and 2015, one in four properties in De- contracts; not paying the property taxes; and allowing Justice for Nabra vigil in Miwaukee .........................6 troit was foreclosed on for unpaid property taxes by the the homes to go into tax foreclosure leading to the evic- On Al-Quds Day in Chicago, ‘Israel out of Palestine!’ .........6 Wayne County treasurer, a number not seen since the tions of unsuspecting occupants. A speaker at the forum, United National Antiwar Coalition links struggles ............7 1930’s depression. When you combine the effect of tax Sonya Bennett, described how this process left her family Youth remember MOVE with historic marker ................7 foreclosures with the 65,000 mortgage bank foreclosures facing the loss of their home this fall. Newark march: ‘They stole us, they sold us, they owe us!’ ....7 that also took place, Detroit has approximately one-third Forum speakers also explained how tens of thousands Milwaukee says ‘Hands Off Cuba and Venezuela!’...........11 fewer occupied homes now than ten years ago. of Detroiters were denied poverty tax exemptions which Property tax rates are calculated based on the home’s would have reduced their property tax rates anywhere Around the world tax assessment. Atuahene pointed out that despite the from 50 percent to paying no taxes at all, when the city Oscar López boosts Puerto Rican independence struggle ....8 Michigan Constitution explicitly providing that no prop- and county withheld information about exemption enti- New neoliberal party monopolizes French parliament.......8 erty can be assessed at more than 50 percent of its market tlements to Detroit families. A representative of the ACLU Bolivarian Venezuela resists USA and OAS plots..............9 value, between 2009 and 2015, 55 to 85 percent of homes described its class action lawsuit challenging the uncon- in Detroit were over-assessed. The taxes levied based on stitutional tax assessments and for Fair Housing Act vio- Behind the Grenfell Tower disaster: capitalism ..............10 the inflated assessments on these homes and the ensuing lations in the denial of the hardship exemptions. Monica Cuba: Refuge for U.S. civil rights fighters ....................11 foreclosures for unpaid taxes that occurred, were in bla- Patrick, from We the People of Detroit, linked the fight Haitian workers strike for $12.50 a day.......................11 tant violation of the Michigan Constitution. against water shutoffs to the anti-tax foreclosure fight. Editorial Predatory lending targeted Black communities Banks benefit from federal bailout funds ‘Obamacare’ vs. ‘Trumpsick’ .................................10 Professor Atuahene presented data showing how The forum also discussed the denial of federal Hard- Noticias en Español home property values in Detroit declined from $80,000 est Hit Funds to homeowners to pay off delinquent Venezuela resiste ataques OEA/EUA .....................12 in 2007 to less than $20,000 in 2011, and are at around property tax bills. Hardest Hit Funds are the pittance $30,000 today. This was a direct result of 65,000 bank provided homeowners from the $750 billion bank bail- foreclosures in the city between 2005 and 2009, when out. The Michigan State Housing Development Authority Workers World the banks targeted Detroit’s African-American residents ( MSHDA), which administers the Step Forward program 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl. for predatory, fraudulent, subprime and adjustable rate that distributes these federal funds, placed so many im- New York, NY 10011 mortgage loans. Detroit, which formerly had the highest pediments to residents’ eligibility for them, they made the rate of African-American homeownership in the country, Phone: 212.627.2994 Continued on page 3 now
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