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· MENTIRAS SOBRE COREA · TRUMP 12 Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 59, No. 11 March 16, 2017 $1 As prison profits soar ICE terrorizes migrants By Teresa Gutierrez However, this chilling terror over the migrant com- back against growing assaults on all the people in this munity in the U.S. is big business for the prison- country. The 13-year-old daughter of Romulo Avelica-Gonza- industrial complex. While migrants live in fear, prison While Trump openly singles out immigrants, racism lez was recording a video as immigration agents picked CEOs salivate. and police terror against African-American commu- him up, just after he had dropped her off at school in nities are also cornerstones of his administration. The Trump/Bannon/ICE roundups profitable Los Angeles. Trump/Bannon/ICE unholy alliance is a big boost to the All the time she was recording, she was sobbing. Trump’s entire presidential campaign was predicat- racist occupying forces that are the police. (Washington Post, March 4) ed against immigrant workers in this country. Law and Prisons and police go hand in hand. A New York The incident shook up not just Avelica-Gonzalez’s order, building a wall and banning Muslims are the cor- Times headline on March 10 read, “Trump immigration daughter and entire family, but students and teachers nerstones of his administration. All are racist and hate- crackdown is great for private prison stocks.” throughout the city. ful and anti-worker. All this while his administration Two companies that have rightfully earned the hatred Reports are rushing in of immigrants being picked up destroys access to health care. of the anti-mass incarceration movement, Co reCivic just like that, not just at schools, but in courthouses, at It is all aimed to divide the working class at a time (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) and GEO events advocating for immigrants and at workplaces. when unity is most urgent if the working class is to fight Continued on page 5 In other words, no place is safe. Across the U.S., immigrant communities are desperately pre- paring for roundups. Many, if not all, are living in total anxiety, not knowing what to do or how to do it. Teachers are consoling students, ‘No to DAPL, but are also asking hard questions: “Have you talked to your parents? yes to sovereignty! Do you have power of attorney?” ’ (Los Angeles Times, March 3) Indigenous This is the kind of anxiety and march in terror parents, children and im- Washington, D.C., migrant workers are living with on March 10. every moment of their lives since See report the inauguration of President on continuing Donald Trump. struggle against Children are being kept from Dakota Access school. Doctors’ and lawyers’ ap- Pipeline, pointments are being missed. page 10. Restaurants and businesses are suffering as more and more mi- grants stay home from school, work or shopping. Editorial MAY DAY: Mass strike! 10 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: WOMEN WORKERS RISING Trump attacks, at home & abroad 3 War crimes against Syria 9 Guatemalan children fire deaths 11 Subscribe to Workers World 4 weeks trial $4 1 year subscription $30 Sign me up for the WWP Supporter Program: www.workers.org/supporters_/ Name ____________________________________________ Email ______________________________Phone __________ Street _________________City / State / Zip_________ PHOTO: VICTORIA PICKERING Across U.S., demonstrators linked labor struggles with migrant solidarity, anti-racist and women’s issues, LGBTQ+ lives, Workers World 212.627.2994 and more. Here, workers chant ‘Resist!’ as they march in Washington, D.C. See pages 6-7. 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl, NY, NY 10011 workers.org Page 2 March 16, 2017 workers.org Unarmed Black victim of police shooting to face trial By Tristen Schmidt and Terri Kay At the beginning of last week’s pre-trial hearing, In the U.S. San Francisco Moore’s attorney, public defender Brian Pearlman, As prison profits soar – ICE terrorizes migrants............1 appealed to the judge as Moore was brought into the A three-day, pre-trial hearing here ended with the courtroom in jailhouse orange, shackled and in chains. Unarmed Black victim of police shooting to face trial.......2 judge’s decision to permit multiple felony charges to pro- Moore’s family, neighbors and a number of community From health care to war in Asia – Trump attacks ..........3 ceed to trial against Sean Moore, a 43-year-old Black supporters were present in the courtroom, along with Nurses return to work, struggle continues ................4 man with mental health needs, who was the unarmed members of the press. victim of a police shooting. On Jan. 6, Moore was con- Pearlman told the judge he had requested that Moore Striking Rockford school worker: ‘They need us’ ..........4 fronted on the steps of his home by San Francisco police be allowed to appear in street clothes. Pearlman also stat- Memphis cops serve McDonald’s .........................4 officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino, after a noise com- ed that there had been no history of outbursts to neces- Protest demands freedom for farmworker ................5 plaint from a neighbor. sitate the shackles. The judge claimed since no jury was Officer Cha first pepper sprayed and then shot Moore present in the pre-trial, it was all allowable. He only con- International Women’s Day: Women workers rising .......6 twice, seriously wounding him. Moore was initially hos- sented to release one of Moore’s wrists from the shackles Ida B. Wells: Anti-lynching crusader.......................7 pitalized, but is now being held in jail on $100,000 bail. so that he could write and communicate to his attorney. Lynne Stewart: People’s lawyer, freedom fighter .........7 Public defender Jeff Adachi said in a news conference: The district attorney tried to claim that neither officer “This is a situation that could have and should have been was required to testify, as they were “victims” and pro- Behind the murder of Berta Cáceres ......................8 avoided. This is a situation where Mr. Moore did not tected from testimony under a related victim protection New York guv to import Israeli repression ................9 have to be shot. If the officers had used de-escalation statute. The judge denied their coverage as “victims” and Pawnee Nation courts to try energy companies . 10 techniques, they could have gone home.” (San Francisco the officers will be required to testify at Moore’s trial. It Chronicle, Jan. 18) was established during the pre-trial that the two officers ‘No to DAPL, yes to sovereignty!’ ........................10 each had had about two years of experi- ence and neither had received any de-es- Around the world calation training. U.S. escalates aggression in Syria ............................ 9 The judge also agreed with Pearlman’s Upcoming European elections reveal deep divisions.....11 argument that the officers had no justi- Outrage over death of Guatemalan children ................11 fication to attempt arrest when they first approached, as neither had witnessed Editorial the claimed noise violation reported by May Day: Struggle for a mass strike! .....................10 Moore’s neighbor, for which the neighbor had not filed a citizen’s arrest. Noticias en Español Pearlman, attempting to get the charges dropped, also presented two cas- Mentiras sobre corea .................................. 12 es related to rights of people in their own Trump y burócratas sindicales........................... 12 homes, one validating that a front porch is part of a person’s home (U.S. v. London) and another establishing that police can seek voluntary interviews as long as they don’t demand egress (People v. Poole). The judge held that despite these rights and the lack of justification for the attempted Workers World arrest in the first place, there were enough 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl. questions about the following events to al- New York, NY 10011 low the charges to be heard by a jury. Phone: 212.627.2994 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.workers.org Vol. 59, No. 11 • March 16, 2017 Closing date: March 14, 2017 Editor: Deirdre Griswold Managing Editors: John Catalinotto, LeiLani Dowell, Kris Hamel, Monica Moorehead, Minnie Bruce Pratt; Who we are & what we’re fighting for Web Editor Gary Wilson Hate capitalism? Workers World Party fights for a degrading people because of their nationality, sexual or Production & Design Editors: Coordinator Lal Roohk; socialist society — where the wealth is socially owned gender identity or disabilities — all are tools the ruling Andy Katz, Cheryl LaBash and production is planned to satisfy human need. This class uses to keep us apart. They ruthlessly super-ex- Copyediting and Proofreading: Sue Davis, outmoded capitalist system is dragging down workers’ ploit some in order to better exploit us all. WWP builds Bob McCubbin unity among all workers while supporting the right living standards while throwing millions out of their Contributing Editors: Abayomi Azikiwe, jobs. If you’re young, you know they’re stealing your of self-determination. Fighting oppression is a work- Greg Butterfield, G. Dunkel, K. Durkin, future. And capitalism is threatening the entire planet ing-class issue, which is confirmed by the many labor Fred Goldstein, Martha Grevatt, Teresa Gutierrez, with its unplanned, profit-driven stranglehold over the struggles led today by people of color, immigrants and Berta Joubert-Ceci, Terri Kay, Cheryl LaBash, means of production. women. Milt Neidenberg, John Parker, Bryan G. Pfeifer, Workers built it all — it belongs to society, not to a WWP has a long history of militant opposition to im- Betsey Piette, Gloria Rubac handful of billionaires! But we need a revolution to perialist wars. The billionaire rulers are bent on turning Mundo Obero: Redactora Berta Joubert-Ceci; make that change. That’s why for 59 years WWP has back the clock to the bad old days before socialist revolu- Andrea Bañuelos, Ramiro Fúnez, Teresa Gutierrez, been building a revolutionary party of the working tions and national liberation struggles liberated territory Carlos Vargas class inside the belly of the beast.