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END POLICE TERROR! DEFEND BLACK LIVES! Federación de Mujeres Cubanas Struggle-La-Lucha.org Vol. 3, No. 17 · Aug. 31, 2020 Suggested donation: $1 Socialist Unity Party Partido de Socialismo Unido Twitter: @StruggleLaLucha Facebook.com/strugglelalucha email: [email protected] • TikTok 2 • Stop unsafe school 3 • Evictions kill! 3 Postal workers 5 • FreeTransit • Portland, Ore. 5 Kenosha cops and • Election coup 6 • Fascism 7 • Belarus 8 • Bolivia 9 fascists work hand-in-hand • Fidel’s Birthday 10 • YouTube blocks Cuba 13 By Stephen Millies • Beirut, Lebanon 12 The 12-year old Black youth Tamir Rice had a toy gun when he was shot to death by a white Cleveland cop on Nov. 22, 2014. Armed fascist terrorists are driving up and down the streets of Kenosha, Wis., without inter- ference by police or sheri’s deputies. PROOFPROOF TRUMPTRUMP ISIS Nightly demonstrations have taken place in the city against police violence. Videos show 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse carry- ing his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. On the night of DESECRATINGESECRATING OUROUR Aug. 25, the white teenager allegedly shot to death From video of police shooting Jacob Blake in front two anti-racists, Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosen- of three of his children waiting in the car. baum, and wounded a third, Gaige Grosskreutz. Wannabe cop Rittenhouse had been a police ca- exercise their constitutional right and to poten- ANCESTORSANCESTORS det and plastered his Facebook page with “Blue tially protect property.” Lives Matter” lies. Many of the armed thugs belong to the “Keno- The killings occurred two days after Jacob Blake sha Guard,” an outfit formed by Kevin Mathew- was shot and paralyzed by Kenosha policeman son. The former member of Kenosha’s City Coun- Rusten Sheskey. A video showed the white cop fir- cil posted a “call to arms” on its Facebook page. It ing seven shots into Blake’s back while the Black was only taken down by Facebook after Huber and father was entering his own car. Three of Blake’s Rosenbaum were killed. children were in the back seat. Tucker Carlson justified the shootings on Police ocers in an armored car can be seen on Fox News. He asked, “How shocked are we that video tossing water bottles to Rittenhouse and his 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to main- fellow vigilantes, all of whom are armed. tain order when no one else would?” No attempt is made to arrest any of these racist To this ten-million-dollar-a-year hatemonger, thugs, even though it was after an 8 p.m. curfew. killing anti-racists is “maintaining order.” Carl- KUMEYAAY ancestral burial and sacred Instead, an ocer is heard saying, “We appreciate son had earlier defamed Jacob Blake. you guys. We really do.” Another fascist — Ann Coulter — applauded sites desecrated to make way for a Another video shows Rittenhouse walking past the shooter, Rittenhouse, writing, “I want him as police with his AR-15 over his shoulder. Members my president.” wall along the Southern border of the crowd were yelling for him to be arrested The Kenosha County sheri, David Beth, is just By Zola Fish because he had shot people. as racist. In 2018, referring to five accused shop- Police did nothing and Rittenhouse was allowed lifters who were Black, Beth said, “We need to On Aug. 19, a group of Kumeyaay Natives and lo- to return to Antioch, Ill., 20 miles away. There, in build warehouses, to put these people into it [sic] cal activists went out into the 105-degree heat to his hometown, Rittenhouse was finally arrested. and lock them away for the rest of their lives.” hold a Sacred Space prayer circle at a Kumeyaay Meanwhile, the paralyzed Jacob Blake is chained Is it any wonder that a Kenosha cop felt free to ancestral burial ground and ancient village at the to his hospital bed. pump seven bullets into Jacob Blake’s back? U.S.-Mexico border. The line is now spray painted Defending fascist terrorism Counterattacking Black Lives Matter by the Border Patrol to remind us not to cross. We met early in the morning and caravanned The Kenosha city police chief, Daniel Miskinis, Then there’s the bigot-in-chief who presided up the mountain to be met by the U.S. Army Corps refused to call the killings an act of homicide. He over a four-day hate fest known as the Republican of Engineers (ACOE) drilling into Mother Earth blamed the victims of fascist violence for their own National Convention. Kyle Rittenhouse loves Don- to plant dynamite to blow up the Kumeyaay an- deaths, since the killings occurred after curfew. ald Trump and was in the front row of Trump’s cestors and their historical villages for the wall But Miskinis says that it’s okay for vigilantes Des Moines, Iowa, rally in January. of white supremacy. We held circle and prayed at to break the curfew. The police chief claimed they The Black Lives Matter movement is the biggest many dierent sites and at each site the ACOE had were just “armed civilians who have come out to Continued on page 11 to stop all work. Due to the eorts of some dynamic female youth leaders from the La Posta Band of Diegue- no Mission Indians, one of the twelve bands of the Baltimore #SayHerName Kumeyaay Ipai, Tipai Nation, the ACOE is behind schedule, three weeks now. The Kumeyaay have historically lived in the San protest elevates voices of women vets Diego border region for over 12,000 years. Places along the border line play a part in their creation By Sharon Black Annetta Johnson, a veteran story. Among places scheduled to be dynamited from Baltimore, led the pro- and dug up, then filled with concrete and steel, Baltimore — The Peoples test. Earlier, she attended the is an ancestral cemetery near the community of Power Assembly and Women march for Vanessa Guillén in Jacumba. The Kumeyaay believe there are souls In Struggle/Mujeres En Lu- D.C. Johnson is the founder of attached to bones and the bones are being dese- cha held a rally and march to Purpose Driven Journeys and crated so the U.S. president can get his monument “Say Her Name” at the Gar- has spoken out on the lack of to himself and to white supremacy. matz Federal Courthouse in services for women and Black Midden soil has been found where the ACOE downtown Baltimore July 30. veterans. is currently working. Within the midden soil is It coincided with a march in Ellen Barkfield, an organiz- proof that this land has always been Native. The Washington, D.C., for murdered Army Spc. Vanes- er with the Philip Berrigan Memorial Chapter of artifacts found in midden soil tell a story of vil- sa Guillén, who was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas. Veterans for Peace, also spoke out. Barkfield was lages, religious life and cemeteries of the Kumey- The event also highlighted women killed by police, also stationed at Fort Hood. She gave a moving ac- aay ancestors. Middens are an archive of ancient including Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Korryn count of her own experience of sexual assault and lifestyles and environments. Middens can pre- Gaines and others. Continued on page 2 Continued on page 2 Page 2 August 17, 2020 STRUGGLE H LA LUCHA Trump, China, TikTok, Tulsa. Free speech? By Jasmine Johnson Tok users see the hypocrisy in ban- is in full support of this ban. ning one app for collecting the user’s Another factor that may have On Aug. 5, President Donald Trump personal information but not the played into this was the sabotage announced that he’s planning on other apps. It’s obvious that Trump of Trump’s Tulsa rally. TikTok us- banning TikTok due to “security and his supporter’s only issue is that ers had shared videos on how to get risks” and the fact that the app col- this is someone from China who is free tickets for Trump’s June 20 rally lects data of the users. There are lots collecting this information. in Tulsa, Okla. He went on Twitter of people happy (mostly right-wing Not once has Trump ever men- to say, “Almost One Million people Trump supporters) about this deci- tioned banning Facebook or Ama- requested tickets for the Saturday sion due to the fact they’re not okay zon for their collection of data in- Night Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma!” with the idea of their information formation. An alternative to the ban Despite bragging about getting one being collected by someone in China. is for ByteDance, the company that million RSVPs, fewer than 6 thou- That’s despite the fact that TikTok, owns TikTok, to give up ownership sand turned out. Trump couldn’t fill like many other websites and apps, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Amazon and to companies like Microsoft. Even his 19,000-person capacity arena. has a terms-of-service in which it so many more were already collect- if Microsoft were to buy TikTok, I’m not defending any of the com- explains that “by agreeing you ac- ing users’ data. It’s evident that this Trump said a fee would have to be panies, but it’s obvious that this is cept our privacy policy.” This pri- has nothing to do with security and paid to the U.S. Treasury. This isn’t Trump and his supporters being vacy policy explicitly explains the everything to do with the anti-Chi- just among Trump and the right. very anti-China. This is also his way information they collect.