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Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 58, No. 43 Nov. 3, 2016 $1 PA student/teacher solidarity Education workers win strike By Joe Piette Philadelphia

Strong, spirited strike solidarity between professors, adjuncts and students has proven to be unbeatable. Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASS- HE) officials must have come to that conclusion before they signed off on a tentative agreement with the As- sociation of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties on Oct. 21 after a three-day strike. The state had proposed 249 changes to the contract with APSCUF members at universities in West Chester, East Stroudsburg, Bloomsburg, California, Cheyney, Clarion, Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg and Slippery Rock. In September, the union filed an unfair labor practice, complaining that state officials were not nego- tiating “in good faith” over the many demands. (wdadra- dio.com, Sept. 29) “We fought back virtually every one of [the contract changes],” said APSCUF President Kenneth Mash in an- nouncing the settlement. “And the amount of love and respect throughout this from our students, you can’t pay for that with money.” (New York Times, Oct. 21) The first strike in the 34-year history of the state-sup- ported university system was marked by student walk- outs by hundreds of students at 11 a.m. on Oct. 19. Stu- VICTORY FOR dent marches, organized by the PASSHE Student Power Network, joined up with their professors and adjuncts on picket lines because “we all understood what the STRIKING PASSHE administration was pushing, which were bu- reaucratic, cowardly measures that really sought to HARVARD WORKERS! change the fabric of our state system education,” said West Chester University student Sabina Sisterovich. The dining service workers of UNITE HERE Local 26 “The student turnout was also our response to a grow- have beaten back the billionaire university for a big ing sentiment amongst higher-ups that young people win. At 1 a.m. on Oct. 25, HUDS workers announced a are complacent and uninformed,” Sisterovich contin- tentative agreement that met their demands on health ued. “I think we showed that we are quite the opposite. benefits and wages. Hundreds of Harvard students We won’t make room on our campus for destructive, had militantly occupied the negotiating site in solidari- negligent and profit fueled changes, and neither will our ty, chanting, “If WE don’t get it, shut it down!” See more professors.” on p. 5. WCU, with 17,000 students, is the largest campus in the state system totaling 105,000. Students there orga-

nized a caravan on the second day to Harrisburg, Pa., to WW PHOTO: LIZ GREEN confront PASSHE Chancellor Frank T. Brogan. Brogan had told a Philadelphia House committee last spring that PASSHE has about the same funding as it did in 1997, with about 13,000 more students. In the past eight years, 900 staff positions have been cut. (theslateonline.com, April 18) NO MORE On Oct 21, WCU picketers marched to nearby West- 2-3 chester to confront Philadelphia Gov. Tom Wolf, a mem- STOLEN LIVES ber of the system’s board of governors. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that he was “extremely disappointed” in the strike and warned of detrimental effects on the system for years to come, claiming the system has lost 12 percent of its enrollment since 2010 and faces a $10 WWP candidate says Continued on page 4 ELECTIONS RIGGED FOR RICH 6 Subscribe to Workers World

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‘Black Lives Matter’ statewide  In the U.S. By Jim McMahan Education workers win strike ...... 1 Seattle Seattle schools say ‘Black Lives Matter’ statewide . . . . . 2 Protest honors Laquan McDonald ...... 3 “The #BlackLivesMatterAtSchool event in Mothers cry for justice ...... 3 Seattle yesterday was breathtaking. Never The execution of Deborah Danner ...... 3 before in the country has an entire district PA rally demands end to ‘death by incarceration’ . . . . .3 of educators risen up to declare that Black lives matter. It’s hard to even put into words BAYAN USA: Solidarity with Standing Rock ...... 4 the power of this event,” said Jesse Hagopian, Price, profits soar for life-saving EpiPens ...... 4 Black educator and co-advisor to the Black Support surges for militant Harvard workers’ strike . . . .5 Student Union at Garfield High School in Se- Harvard strikers show solidarity with COSATU ...... 5 attle. (iamaneducator.com) New York workers bus to Harvard protest ...... 5 Rallies were held at schools throughout Se- attle on Oct. 19, along with educational events. Buffalo protests anti-immigrant raids ...... 5 Lessons were taught on Black history and in- Chicago to host national Cuba meeting ...... 8 stitutional racism throughout the day. Commentary: Trump and the tide of lesser evilism . . . 10 A racist provocation led to the Black Lives PHOTO: SHARON CHANG  Around the world Matter day. For at least a year more than 100 Black men said, “There was a joyous atmosphere around the city. have welcomed students at different Seattle schools as ... There is so much work to be done to make Black lives Venezuela stymies regime change ...... 8 the students enter. The men, organized as Black Men truly matter at school. But at the rally for Black lives at Free Ana Belén Montes ...... 8 United to Change the Narrative, high-five the students to lunch time at my high school, Garfield, something hap- WFTU advances ‘class-oriented’ unionism ...... 9 present a positive image of Black men and to encourage pened that let everyone know that change is already hap- Behind Duterte’s shift toward China ...... 9 students in their studies. pening. No to U.S. anti-missile system in so. Korea ...... 11 The men had planned another demonstration in Sep- “One of our teachers, Janett Du Bois, revealed to ev- tember at John Muir Elementary, a multinational school. eryone in the middle of our rally that the police had  Editorial The event was announced in the local media. But racist murdered her son a few years ago. No one at the school The right to vote ...... 10 websites such as Breitbart also publicized it, and the knew about this. It was in that moment of seeing every- school received a bomb threat for hosting this positive one wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts that she found  WWP Presidential Campaign welcoming action. the strength to tell her story. Her bravery to go public has Syracuse, N.Y.: On the campaign road to revolution ...... 6 The school district cancelled the event but dozens of changed Garfield forever. I am so glad that she no longer ‘Elections rigged for billionaire ruling class’ ...... 6 Black community members, encouraged by Black Men has to suffer alone with the pain.” Trump, Obama, Clinton & the fight to end sexism ...... 7 United to Change the Narrative, showed up to welcome Along with the SEA, Social Equality Educators and the U.S. out of Syria, Yemen, Iraq! ...... 11 the students. Students and teachers were resolved to NAACP strongly supported the action. Even the school counter this racist threat. district supported it.  Noticias en Español A resolution by the Social Equality Educators, a pro- Photographs of teachers and students in their BLM Tiempo de liberar a Ana Belén Montes, gressive rank-and-file group, was presented to the Seattle shirts at all schools were taken to send to and give en- prisionera de conciencia ...... 12 Education Association’s Representative Assembly. The couragement to teachers around the country. More than Agua envenenada en cárceles de Pensilvania ...... 12 resolution called on SEA members to participate in an 200 scholars and professors nationwide signed a state- action by wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts at school, ment of support for the Seattle educators. Some leading together with Black Men United to Change the Narrative, social justice activists also sent a statement of support, Workers World on Oct. 19. The resolution passed unanimously. saying, “We’ve got your back.” 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl. Hagopian estimated that about 3,000 teachers and The Seattle teachers have fought hard to gain the plat- New York, N.Y. 10011 staff, out of 5,000 members, wore the BLM shirts. He form to expose racism in their community. Phone: 212.627.2994 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.workers.org Vol. 58, No. 43 • Nov. 3, 2016 Closing date: Oct. 25, 2016 Editor: Deirdre Griswold Managing Editors: John Catalinotto, LeiLani Dowell, Who we are & what we’re fighting for Kris Hamel, Monica Moorehead, Minnie Bruce Pratt; 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; gender identity or disabilities — all are tools the ruling ­socialist society — where the wealth is socially owned Andy Katz, Cheryl LaBash and production is planned to satisfy human need. This class uses to keep us apart. They ruthlessly super-ex- outmoded capitalist system is dragging down workers’ ploit some in order to better exploit us all. WWP builds Copyediting and Proofreading: Sue Davis, living standards while throwing millions out of their unity among all workers while supporting the right Bob McCubbin jobs. If you’re young, you know they’re stealing your of self-determination. Fighting oppression is a work- Contributing Editors: Abayomi Azikiwe, future. And capitalism is threatening the entire planet ing-class issue, which is confirmed by the many labor Greg Butterfield, G. Dunkel, K. Durkin, Fred Goldstein, with its unplanned, profit-driven stranglehold over the struggles led today by people of color, immigrants and Martha Grevatt, Teresa Gutierrez, Larry Hales, means of production. women. Berta Joubert-Ceci, Terri Kay, Cheryl LaBash, Workers built it all — it belongs to society, not to a WWP has a long history of militant opposition to im- Milt Neidenberg, John Parker, Bryan G. 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Led by mothers of color who lost their sons rate the second anniversary of the racist police murder from police murders — leaders of the Stolen Lives Proj- of Laquan McDonald. Speakers demanded swift justice, ect — participants sang: “We’re marching for our fami- an end to police brutality and structural change to en- lies. We’re marching ‘cause we know, the people are the sure community control of public safety. river and they can’t stop our flow!” — Photo and story by Jeff Sorel The Stolen Lives Project keeps a national list of peo- ple killed by law enforcement agents from 1990 to the present. Through grassroots efforts they have docu- mented more than 2,000 murders that are evidence of a national epidemic of police brutality. Stolen Lives is a The execution of Deborah Danner joint project by the Anthony Baez Foundation, the Na- tional Lawyers Guild and the October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminaliza- By Stephen Millies Sullivan not guilty of manslaughter. tion of a Generation. New York Almost five years before she was killed, Danner wrote —Photo and story by Anne Pruden a moving essay of what it’s like to live with schizophre- Deborah Danner was executed for being mentally ill. nia. “Flashbacks, depression and stigma” was how she The 66-year-old Black woman was killed Oct. 18 by New described her illness. York Police Sgt. Hugh Barry. Referring to the Bumpurs’ killing, Danner wrote that Barry was part of a team of six cops who confronted “it was not an isolated incident.” the elderly woman in her Bronx apartment. Claiming Danner was a skilled worker in the information tech- she was carrying a baseball bat, Barry fired two bullets nology field, dealing with management information that struck Danner. systems. Her family felt that the stress of performing With so many cops on the scene, concerned people are hi-tech jobs helped her disease to relapse. Danner was asking why Barry had to shoot. Even New York Mayor Bill fired from one job after she told her boss about having de Blasio declared that Danner “should not have died.” schizophrenia. In his eight-year police career, Barry has been sued She ended her essay with “I smile rarely, but I am sur- twice for brutality. New York City paid $25,000 to Greg- viving.” (New York Times, Oct. 19) Danner survived — ory Peters, who said he was pepper-sprayed and beat until Sgt. Barry killed her. up by Barry and another officer after leaving the B.B. Being labeled emotionally disturbed shouldn’t be a King Blues Club in 2010. (New York Daily News, Oct. 19) death sentence, but it’s often an excuse for cops to kill. An bent over and shot him in the head to finish the job.” But charges of brutality didn’t prevent Barry from being estimated 124 people with mentally illness were killed by (Huffington Post, Oct. 7, 2015) promoted. police across the U.S. in just the first six months of 2015. Capitalism barely tolerates people with mental illness Danner suffered from schizophrenia, a mental illness. (Washington Post, June 30, 2015) or any disablity. The billionaire class is willing to exploit Neighbors called 911 because they thought she was acting Mohamed Bah was also executed by New York police. them only if they can make a profit off their labor. irrationally. Instead of getting help, Danner was killed. The 28-year-old immigrant from Guinea worked as a To all the Trumps — including the big capitalists sup- cab driver while attending Borough of Manhattan Com- porting Hillary Clinton — millions of people with disabil- Never forget Eleanor Bumpurs munity College. ities are just broken machinery, fit only for the scrap heap. Thirty-two years before Danner was slain, another His mother, Hawa Bah, called for an ambulance on In socialist Cuba, people with mental illness and 66-year-old Black woman was killed in her Bronx apart- Sept. 25, 2012, because her son was depressed and act- other disabilities are treated with love and respect. They ment by police. Eleanor Bumpurs was slaughtered on ing erratically. Instead of medical assistance, police can’t be fired from a job, like Danner was. Cubans remem- Oct. 29, 1984, when Emergency Services Officer Ste- came and fired 10 shots at Mohamed in his Manhattan ber how police under the U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista phen Sullivan fired his 12-gauge shotgun twice at her. apartment. dictatorship in the 1950s used torture. Bumpurs was mentally ill and physically disabled. According to Bah family lawyer Debra Cohen, the firing Mothers whose sons were killed by U.S. police found Sullivan and other cops came to evict her from a New started after a stun gun fired by an officer struck another this out when they visited Cuba this spring. The delega- York City Housing Authority apartment because she was cop, who yelled out, “I’ve been stabbed. Shoot him.” A knife tion included two mothers from the Bronx, Iris Baez and four months late on her $98.65 rent. was conveniently placed at the scene. Juanita Young. That’s how much Black lives are worth under capital- Cohen said that “a police officer straddled Mr. Bah As singer Aretha Franklin would put it, socialist Cuba ism. In a trial without a jury, Judge Fred Eggert found while he was still alive and breathing on the ground, has what we need: respect. PA rally demands end to ‘death by incarceration’ By Joe Piette there were 370 elderly prison- Movita Johnson-Harrell, whose 18-year- Harrisburg, Pa. ers. There are now more than old son was shot and killed by two young 8,000 in Pennsylvania’s pris- men, described her decision to ask for More than three busloads of family, ons, though not all are sen- mercy for the two. “We must realize that friends and human rights activists from tenced to LWOP. (PA DOC FY young people frequently make poor choic- Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other cities 2011-2012 Cost & Population es. … We must also realize that while they gathered in Pennsylvania’s state capital Report) make poor choices they also have the ca- on Oct. 18 to demand an end to “death by To make matters even more pacity to grow and change. It is important incarceration.” inhumane, the DOC refuses to to recognize that part of human develop- A rally on the steps of Harrisburg’s treat almost 7,000 prisoners ment is making mistakes, but it is import- Capitol building featured speeches by — including political prison- ant to give young people the opportunity mothers and sisters of life-without-pa- er Mumia Abu-Jamal — who to redeem themselves. No child should role (LWOP) prisoners, people who have have hepatitis C, even though live their entire life behind bars. ... lost loved ones to violence, formerly in- medicines exist that would “I stand with the Coalition to Abolish carcerated people, members of the Coa- cure the deadly disease. Death By Incarceration,” Johnson-Har- WW PHOTO: JOE PIETTE lition to Abolish Death by Incarceration Felix Rosado, currently rell continued, “because I understand (CADBI) and other groups. nia is one of only six U.S. states that deny serving LWOP at State Correctional In- that one bad decision and my son could “Denying anyone the right to trans- parole to lifers. Prison rights activists call stitute Graterford, said: “Death by incar- have been on the other side of the gun. formation and redemption is an affront it the “other death sentence,” or “death by ceration is a cancellation of the distinct I also understand young people change to everyone’s humanity,” said Patricia incarceration,” because a life sentence in human capacity to be redeemed. It strips and can contribute positively to society Vickers of the Human Rights Coali- these states means your entire life. too many people of the opportunity to if given the resources and opportunity.” tion and CADBI. Representing a group Harsh sentencing tears communities participate in the healing our communi- (decarceratepa.info) of five Pennsylvania state representa- apart and disproportionately impacts ties desperately need.” (Decarcerate PA A sentence of death by incarceration tives, Jason Dawkins spoke about House Black and Brown people and especially fact sheet) at any age exacerbates the disparities of Bill 2135, a bill he has proposed, which poor people. More than 5,000 prisoners More than 480 people in Pennsylva- a systematically racist and anti-working would end death by incarceration and are serving LWOP sentences in Pennsyl- nia are serving juvenile LWOP — people class legal structure in the U.S. allow Pennsylvanians incarcerated for vania. More than 65 percent of them are convicted to life in prison as juveniles Prisons are concentration camps for life to apply for parole after 15 years. Black and 8.5 percent are Latinx, accord- — more than any other state. (Juvenile the poor. Outlawing LWOP would be one (­decarceratepa.info) ing to a Decarcerate PA factsheet. Law Center) The U.S. is the only coun- step in freeing hundreds of people from Not coincidently, the Pennsylvania try in the world that sentences children the hellholes of this state’s prisons. HB Cancellation of capacity to be redeemed Department of Corrections (DOC) in- to life without the possibility of parole. 2135 should be supported, but true justice Twenty-five countries have declared carcerates the second-highest number (­sentencingproject.org) will only be won when the whole system LWOP to be unconstitutional. Pennsylva- of elderly prisoners of any state. In 1980 At a rally on May 8 in Philadelphia, of mass incarceration is overthrown. Page 4 Nov. 3, 2016 workers.org BAYAN USA: Solidarity with Standing Rock

BAYAN-USA, a progressive anti-im- “We stand with you in peatedly. “Chairman Dave Archambault II of the perialist alliance of over 20 Filipino or- resistance against the U.S. “The brute force from the Philippine Standing Rock Sioux reminds the world ganizations, sent a delegation to Stand- military state and its vio- military and police to protect the U.S. that Indigenous Peoples suffer from ing Rock, N.D., in solidarity with the lent dispersal of your peo- embassy is in line with maintaining U.S. poverty and environmental sabotage be- Sioux Nation in their fight against the ple, trumped-up charges, imperialism over the rights and welfare cause we are forced to subsidize for-prof- Dakota Access Pipeline — and all Indig- and human rights abuses. ... We stand in of the Filipino people. From our home- it corporations through schemes such as enous people protecting the water and solidarity, as police deploy military-grade land in the Philippines to the militariza- [DAPL]. … The U.S. government started lands, facing state repression and corpo- equipment, including armored vehicles, tion of communities by Urban Shield, to the construction of the DAPL without the rate plunder. The alliance issued a press surveillance helicopters, planes, drones, the killing of Berta Cáceres in Honduras, Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) release on Oct. 20 entitled “From the and attack dogs — knowing that this state and to defending Indigenous rights in of the Standing Rock Sioux Dakota and Philippines to Standing Rock: Water Is repression is endemic to U.S. imperial- Standing Rock, we denounce the crim- Lakota Peoples. ... Life, Land Is Life, Fight for Self-Determi- ism and the suppression of resistance all inalization of resistance and stand with “The IPMSDL strongly urges the U.S. nation.” Excerpts are printed here; see over the world. ... the protectors of land, water, and human government to respect the rights of In- full statement at tinyurl.com/gp5o83a/. “Similar to the 280 Indigenous tribes dignity all over the world. digenous Peoples within and outside its “We are here to carry messages of love, that have united here at Standing Rock, territories, … immediately halt construc- hope, solidarity, and resistance from SANDUGO, an alliance of national mi- ‘Protect our waters and territories; No to tion of the destructive [DAPL] and honor our homeland, the Philippines, which nority groups in the Philippines held a Dakota Access Pipeline!’ the obligations and treaties it has signed is comprised of dozens of distinct eth- protest at the U.S. Embassy in Manila [on and endorsed with respect to Indigenous nolinguistic tribes and national minori- Oct. 21] ... against U.S. imperialist plun- “The International Indigenous Peoples Peoples and human rights.” ties. We stand with you — the water and der and militarization, and [is] fighting Movement for Self Determination and IPMSDL calls for “Indigenous Peoples land protectors of North Dakota — as the to defend their ancestral lands and right Liberation in the Philippines (IPMSDL) Rights organizations and groups to sup- U.S. government continues to prioritize to self-determination. [Protesters] were stands in unity with the Standing Rock port the Standing Rock Sioux Dakota and corporate interests over your autonomy, violently dispersed with water cannons, Sioux Dakota and Lakota Indigenous Lakota Indigenous Peoples in their con- self-determination and ancestral rela- teargas, and over 50 people were injured Peoples in asserting their right to protect tinuing fight for their right to self-deter- tionship to the land and water. when a police van ... [ran] over people re- the waters of their ancestral lands. mination.” Price, profits soar for life-saving EpiPens

By Sharon Eolis, RN, FNP, ret. in 50 states. The government funds this — and Their Plan to Keep the Gravy vaccines to deal with tropical and infec- program. Train Rolling,” lists several other com- tious diseases and other ailments. The writer is allergic to bee stings; The only other self-injectable epineph- panies which charge exorbitant prices Cuban researchers recently developed while a teenager, she developed difficul- rine is Adrenaclick, priced at $450. But for life-savings drugs. It describes Big Heberprot P to treat foot ulcers from dia- ty breathing after a sting. A doctor ad- most insurance companies don’t cover it, Pharma’s fierce opposition to consumer betes. It potentially reduces amputations ministered epinephrine and an antihis- it isn’t widely available, and pharmacies pressure or government attempts at con- by 75 percent and is now being used in tamine. Epinephrine saved her life. can’t swap it for EpiPens when a prescrip- trolling prices. 26 countries. Cuba’s CIMAvax vaccine Amarria Johnson, a first-grader with a tion is written for Mylan’s product. Most In contrast, Cuba, which is a poor is proving effective in extending length peanut allergy, was in a playground when doctors and other health care providers country due to the nearly 60-year U.S. and quality of life for people with ear- a classmate gave her a peanut in 2012. are familiar with EpiPens, and patients blockade, makes medications accessible ly lung cancer. The blockade bans both Within minutes she had trouble breath- are familiar with its easy use. to all its people — due to the absence of drugs from use in the U.S. ing. When she was taken to the school profit-seeking drugmakers. The social- Eolis worked as an emergency room clinic, there was no prescription in her U.S. price-gouging vs. no profit motive ist country has developed research and nurse for 35 years and retired after name for an EpiPen — the brand name in Cuba biotechnology, producing medicines and eight years as a nurse practitioner. for epinephrine, which treats anaphylax- The U.S. pharmaceutical industry is is, a life-threatening allergic reaction, in part of the medical-industrial complex, a self-injecting pen. which stretches across the globe, reaping Amarria was pronounced dead at billions of dollars in profits. Yet, the capi- the hospital. The Hopkins Elementary talist government does little, if anything, School in Richmond, Va., had an EpiPen to control medication costs. Relations prescribed for another child on hand, but are often cozy between government offi- Education workers win strike was legally barred from using it. cials and Big Pharma executives. Continued from page 1 Soon after Amarria’s death, the Vir- In fact, the Oct. 22 New York Times re- felt an unequivocal comradeship with ginia State Legislature passed Amarria’s ports that Teneo, a global advisory firm million deficit. (Philly.com, Oct 19) their striking professors. Law, which required the state school sys- “with roots in the Democratic establish- When Sisterovich asked the governor To the beat of drums, triangles, banjos tem to stock EpiPens and allows school ment,” organizes salons for its clients at to join the picket line, Wolf replied, “You and other musical instruments, picket authorities to administer one to a child high-priced restaurants and private resi- should really get back to class.” lines at 10 sites on the WCU campus as without a designated prescription in a dences, which it did for Heather Bresch, well as a Philadelphia Center City loca- life- threatening emergency. chief executive of Mylan in 2011. The fol- A big win tion featured chants such as “Support Epinephrine, which has been around lowing year, she and a Teneo employee According to PASSHE spokesperson public ed! You heard what we said!” and for a century, costs less than $1 per dose. “met with President Obama’s senior ad- Kenn Marshall, the tentative agreement “Hey hey, ho ho! David Brogan has got to The EpiPen was developed in 1977 and viser, Valerie Jarrett, at the White House.” includes raises and measures to save on go!” priced at $57 per device when Mylan Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the health care costs. (New York Times, Oct. Picket lines were immediately ended Pharmaceuticals bought it in 2007. My- price last year of Daraprim, an antipara- 21) While all the details for the agree- as news of the tentative three-year agree- lan raised the price then, and in subse- sitic drug used to treat malaria and toxo- ment have not been made public yet, Ben ment was relayed to picket captains. The quent years. plasmosis, from $13.50 to $750 per pill. Kuebrich, WCU professor on line for ten- pact, which would run retroactively from The Food and Drug Administration It is often taken by people with AIDS or ure, explained that he and everyone he’s the June 30, 2015, end of the previous changed the protocol for epinephrine in transplant patients. Protests resulted in talked to “feel good about the results — contract through June 30, 2018, requires 2010 and recommended an EpiPen twin- a price reduction to $375 per pill, but a it’s a big win!” the approval of the PASSHE Board of pack, based on studies that showed some daily dose of two tablets adds up to $750. Instead of new rules demanded by Governors in Harrisburg. A legislative children needed more than one dose. My- Gilead Sciences, which makes the PASSHE that would have amounted to a assembly of APSCUF members must also lan developed a twin-pack and this year highly effective new hepatitis C medi- 20 percent pay cut, adjuncts reportedly approve the new contract before its 5,500 raised the price to $600. That meant My- cations, Sovaldi and Harvoni, charges will receive a raise of 1 percent each year. members can vote on it. The ratification lan raised the cost six-fold since acquir- from $84,000 to $94,000 for a three- Kuebrich said the 59-hour strike made process could take up to six weeks. ing the EpiPen. month course of treatment. The com- the union stronger because union mem- The Pennsylvania faculty strike may Since epinephrine loses potency after pany made a deal to sell Sovaldi to the bers at each of the 14 campuses now feel be a harbinger of more labor struggles at a year, people must buy new EpiPens ev- Egyptian government for $900 for each a new sense of solidarity with each other. other U.S. university campuses. ery year for themselves or their children course of treatment. It also allows India Among factors on why the strike was In August, the National Labor Rela- to both carry and have at home. Parents to manufacture generic versions of the so effective is the inclusion of adjuncts tions Board ruled that graduate students may have to purchase a set for their chil- drugs, which sell for $4 per pill. alongside tenured professors in AP- who teach at private universities are em- dren’s school if the facility doesn’t have Meanwhile, people in the U.S. are SCUF. This inclusion is a major reason ployees with full rights to join unions, a a program covering its purchase. Rel- fighting for these medications to be af- why the starting salary for WCU adjuncts sweeping decision that paves the way for atives may also need to stock the drug. fordable. Pennsylvania prisoners, in- is $46,610 (tinyurl.com/PASSHE-AP- student unionization on campuses na- For many low-income families, the cost cluding world-renown political prisoner SCUF), significantly over the national tionwide. (Wall Street Journal, Aug. 23) is prohibitive. Mumia Abu-Jamal, are suing the state average salary of $27,800 for adjuncts at And at Harvard University, dining hall Mylan developed a major marketing Department of Corrections to obtain the most U.S. universities. (glassdoor.com) workers have been striking since early campaign to get the medication into curative hepatitis C drugs. WCU is a teaching college, not a re- October. That strike is the first by Har- schools through its EpiPen4Schools pro- A March 17 article in AlterNet, “10 of search institution, so students who hope vard employees since 1983 and the first gram, and now services 25,000 schools the Worst Pharma Companies Rip-Offs to become teachers themselves someday ever during the academic year. workers.org Nov. 3, 2016 Page 5 Support surges for militant Harvard workers’ strike

By Gerry Scoppettuolo resent 1,000 workers at Harvard, and we Cambridge, Mass. may be joining you on strike too soon!” Boston Immigrant workers are the backbone of Oct. 22 — More than 1,000 striking both Rivera’s union and Local 26. dining hall workers and supporters, mem- The huge Teamster presence was or- bers of UNITE HERE Local 26 in Boston, ganized by Boston Local 25, whose pres- shook and rattled Harvard University’s ident, Sean O’Brien, chaired the rally. ivory towers today in the biggest show of ”When you take on Local 26, you are tak- fightback and labor militancy yet, on the ing on 1.4 million Teamsters,” 18th day of their strike. Massachusetts Av- he shouted to the roaring enue was shut down for more than an hour crowd. Teamsters have do- as the multinational, multilingual union nated $10,000 to the HUDS members, 60 percent of whom are wom- strike support fund. en, chanted “Shut it down!” Earlier in the Unions from through the WW PHOTOS: LIZ GREEN day, a group of Harvard University Dining Northeast and Mid-Atlantic New York Service workers and supporters marched regions sent delegations by on the Head of the Charles Regatta, the car and bus to the rally. UNITE HERE Lo- world’s largest rowing event held on the cal 100 (New York City), Local 54 (Atlantic Workers bus to Harvard protest Charles River in Massachusetts. City) and Local 23 (Philadelphia) came, as The dining hall cooks, servers and dish- well as UNITE HERE International Pres- washers are showing by their resolve that ident D. Taylor. UNITE HERE Local 100 it is they — and not the wealthy Harvard recently won a major victory when the Corporation and its $37 billion endowment New York City Council passed the Work- — who are in control of their destiny. The er Retention Bill, which requires a 90-day HUDS strike is raising the crucial demand retention period for food service workers that “health care is a human right!” The when an owner or operator terminates a union is demanding no concessions on the food service contract for a corporate cafe- WW PHOTO: JOHNNIE STEVENS health care plan they currently have and teria, arena, cultural institution, etc. By Cathy Zeitz and down Massachusetts Avenue to City refusing the huge deductibles and copays They were joined by the Harvard Union Hall, where we had a second rally. Local that Harvard is trying to force on them. of Clerical and Technical Workers; the A busload of workers from UNITE 100 militantly chanted, “No contract, no The workers are holding the line for Massachusetts Nurses Association; United HERE Local 100 in New York arrived at peace!” and many other chants through- quality, preventive health care for work- Steelworkers Local 8751, Boston School Bus Cambridge Common in Massachusetts out the march. ers and their families, and their fight for drivers; International Electrical Workers on Oct. 22. They came in solidarity with On the way home, Maldonado strongly this basic human right has struck a chord Local 2222, Verizon workers; the Harvard the Harvard University dining hall work- stated that, in solidarity, Local 100 will worldwide. More and more education Union of Clerical and Technical Workers; ers, who have been on strike for better supply staff and resources to the Harvard workers are coming under attack from the American Federation of State, County health care benefits for several weeks. dining hall strikers’ campaign. Some of big business/big education institutions and Municipal Employees; Operating En- Members of Parents to Improve School the children on the bus chanted, “All day like Harvard, which are run by represen- gineers Local 877; and Service Employees Transportation and Community-La- and all night! Harvard workers on strike!” tatives of Citigroup, Bank of America and Local 509, human service workers and ed- bor United for Postal Jobs and Services Local 100 will celebrate the passing of a Goldman Sachs. They are also fighting for ucators. Food service workers from UNITE joined Local 100 on the bus. New York City food service worker reten- an annual base salary of $35,000. HERE Local 217 at the University of Hart- Local 100 shops represented on the bus tion bill on Oct. 31 at 4 p.m. on the steps At the rally, the Harvard 9 — striking ford, who are in the middle of contract ne- included New York Life, Hunter College, of New York’s City Hall. This bill will make women who were arrested last week for gotiations, came to show support. J.P. Morgan, Columbia University, Mont- sure cafeteria workers can’t be unfairly sitting down in the middle of Harvard In a sign of growing political support, clair State University, organized by Local fired when buildings undergo new owner- Square — promised to “get arrested again last week the Boston City Council vot- 100 Secretary-Treasurer José Maldonado ship. The new owners are now required to until we win!” They spoke from a huge flat- ed unanimously to endorse the strike. and Lead Organizer Shafiqur Rahman. keep the workers for 90 days; workers can bed truck stage provided by Teamsters Lo- Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons also Along with 1,000 Local 26 support- take violations to the Supreme Court. cal 25, and were followed by a long line of joined the rally. ers, we marched through Harvard Yard Workers united will never be defeated! students from the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. Students from Tufts University, North- Harvard strikers show solidarity with COSATU eastern University, the University of Massachusetts-Boston, the Massachu- The following edited solidarity statement was sent to the by the Harvard administration. setts Institute of Technology, and Wes- Congress of South African Trade Unions by the Harvard Uni- To force the Harvard administration to stop their support leyan and Yale universities came to show versity dining hall strike committee. for apartheid, we had a coalition with the Black students and support. On Oct. 17, 500 students got up To our sisters and brothers of COSATU, others. This coalition put on a rally of over 5,000 workers and students to demand Harvard divest from enslaving you, and in the middle of their classes and walked Our sisters and brothers of the Harvard dining hall workers at this rally we had COSATU leaders speak. COSATU’s words out. They marched past cheering strik- of the UNITE HERE union Local 26 voted enthusiastically to inspired us, because you used that time to support our strug- ers and held a rally in Harvard Yard. A send a solidarity message to you. gle and the strike that we were about to have. delegation from the Monica Moorehead/ We greet you with solidarity. Our solidarity back then led us to have successful struggles. Lamont Lilly Workers World Party Presi- For 40 years we have supported each other. During the ap- Today, we face the same opponents as then, from the Harvard dential Campaign marched too. palling South African apartheid government, our members were Corporation to Johannesburg. Again it is the “less-than-1%” The strikers’ militancy was matched by arrested many times in the battles to stop Harvard University exploiting the “over-99%.” the unprecedented display of labor soli- from supporting your enslavement by the apartheid government. Our issues we are fighting for today — health care, retirement darity at the rally. Roxana Rivera, pres- Some of the same corporations we are fighting today and layoffs — are similar to those of all workers of the world. ident of 32BJ SEIU’s District 615, joined — Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Citigroup Bank — Today, we are both on strike to stop this cruelty to workers. after participating in a similar action profited greatly from your slavelike work conditions. These Again: Solidarity. A better world is in birth. minutes before at nearby Tufts Universi- corporations lead the Harvard Corporation, which controls all ty. “On behalf of the 18,000 members of major decisions at Harvard. The Harvard University Dining Hall Workers Strike my union who do much the same kind of During apartheid, our dining hall workers refused to serve Committee, UNITE HERE Local 26 work you do, I tell you that we also rep- banquets for the South African apartheid government put on Ed Childs, Chief Steward Buffalo protests anti-immigrant raids By Tom Answeeney chanting “Cops and borders, we don’t need and the national call for legalization and the working class. ‘em! What we want is total freedom!” an end to deportations. These arrests are absolutely connected U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce- They demanded the release of the migrant That same day, Buffalo faith and labor to the resurgence of open racism in the ment arrested 25 migrant workers in four workers who were arrested, as well as full leaders held a protest in front of one of U.S., encouraged by presidential candi- Buffalo restaurants on Oct. 18. After police legalization for all migrant workers. the raided restaurants. They denounced date Donald Trump. The racist media la- racially profiled, harassed and demanded The protest was organized by People the arrests and advocated for the im- beled these undocumented workers as vil- identification from several families at a United for Sustainable Housing and sup- migrant workers, who have already had lains, and pushed the lie that immigrants suburban playground, the cops then gave ported by the New York Civil Liberties wages stolen and now face deportation. are to blame for the poverty of the work- their information to ICE agents, who be- Union, ICE Free NYC and Workers World The local police profiled the families ing class. A recession is blamed on work- gan spying on the families. This led to an Party. Demonstrators included youth at that suburban playground specifically ers who have pitiful wages, no access to investigation of the restaurants where they who are active in Buffalo’s Black Lives because they had come to a white neigh- many government services, no legal say in worked. (BuffaloNews.com, Oct. 18) Matter movement. borhood and were trying to live their the government that created the recession Two days later, several organizations Speakers connected these arrests to lives. And ICE followed up by doing its and no ownership of the businesses that and local activists brought a protest to the the struggle of more than 11 million un- real job: threatening migrant workers benefit from it. This narrative is absurd ICE field office, despite rain and high wind, documented people throughout the U.S. to prevent their organizing and dividing in the extreme, and we don’t buy it! Page 6 Nov. 3, 2016 workers.org Syracuse, N.Y. On the campaign road to revolution Present were members of a number of By Minnie Bruce Pratt organizations, including the local Black Syracuse, N.Y. Lives Matter group, the Palestine Solidar- ity Collective, the Radical Education Col- Monica Moorehead, Workers World lective and the Workers’ Center of Central Party’s 2016 presidential candidate, hit New York. Those in the discussion came the road for socialist revolution again not only from the U.S., but also had roots with a campaign meeting in Syracuse, in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, In- N.Y., on Oct. 23. dia, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Haiti and oth- A serious and enthusiastic crowd of ac- er Caribbean nations. tivists and organizers heard Moorehead Key organizers were there from the speak on a wide range of issues, includ- General Body’s militant 2014 occupation PHOTO: YANIRA RODRIGUEZ ing WWP’s commitment to the Black of Syracuse University’s administration Participants in the Oct. 23 discussion, with one holding out the WWP campaign program. Lives Matter movement; the connection building. Also participating were a United between the fight to end white suprema- families. She noted this solidarity must as a repressive force.” Auto Workers Local 774 member leading cy and the right to self-determination of include fighting LGBTQ oppression, like Moorehead stressed, “To respond, we the struggle against racism at his GM plant oppressed peoples and nations; and the the struggle against HB2, the anti-trans, need a unified left without sectarianism, near Buffalo; and a teacher active in the battle to end U.S. imperialist wars. anti-worker hate law in North Carolina. and we need to build a progressive move- recent big union win by the Association of Moorehead emphasized that the path “The current global economic crisis ment independent of any bourgeois polit- Pennsylvania State College and University to socialism must be based on building with fewer jobs,” said Moorehead, “is ical party.” Faculties, whose united full-time faculty broad solidarity and unity with struggles making youth of color more expendable An in-depth, two-hour discussion then and adjuncts struck at 14 colleges. like #NoDAPL in Standing Rock, N.D.; and thus more susceptible to police mur- followed among the multinational attend- The Moorehead/Lilly WWP presiden- the rebellions in Charlotte, N.C., Balti- der and mass incarceration. That capital- ees, most in their twenties and thirties, tial and vice presidential candidates have more and Milwaukee against police ter- ist crisis is the basis for the growing police where participants both voiced their con- obtained official status as write-in can- ror; and the continuing struggle against war against Black, Brown and Indigenous cerns and thoughtfully explored strategy didates on New York state ballots in the deportations of migrant workers and youth. We must fight to abolish the police and theory on how to move forward. Nov. 8 general election. WWP candidate: ‘Elections rigged for billionaire ruling class’ The following abridged remarks facing bigotry, like in North Carolina un- cause there are fewer and fewer jobs be- were made by Workers World Party der the heinous HB2 bill; every student ing created, along with massive cutbacks 2016 presidential candidate Monica facing student debt; every family fighting in services, which will certainly lead to Moorehead on Oct. 19 in response for decent housing, medical care, educa- more and more alienation and suffering. to the third presidential debate be- tion; people fighting for clean water from Our youth want to be unionized, not bru- tween Hillary Clinton and Donald Standing Rock, N.D., to Flint, Mich.; for talized by police terror. Trump. The remarks, recorded on a healthy food; a solution to climate change; The economic crisis will become even Facebook Live webinar broadcast, and an end to occupation and war. more devastating on a worldwide scale have been viewed by more than These important struggles and issues following the elections. These are the 3,400 people as of Oct. 23. Go to These elections are rigged to keep the are not being raised by Trump, Clinton or very issues not being raised by the Dem- “Facebook/monica moorehead lamont ruling-class parties, the Republicans and the big business parties they represent — ocrats and Republicans. They know that lilly 2016” to see the full talk. Democrats, in power by giving the false unless they are forced to talk about them. capitalism is at a dead end and cannot be Sisters and brothers, I am grateful for notion that these elections are all about We say that these elections are rigged reformed. All U.S. elections boil down to the opportunity to address you, not be- defending democracy for the majority. In against third-party candidates, be they which Democrat or Republican can best cause the debates had any kind of real sub- reality, it is really for the superrich, a tiny Lamont Lilly and myself, Jill Stein, Glo- administer the capitalist state by making stance to them but to reiterate some im- minority. ria LaRiva or others. Why are we being more acceptable deeper economic and portant points many of you already know. Obama stated, “Trump’s warnings kept out of these debates? What are the political attacks on all workers, starting The racist, misogynistic Donald Trump could abrade faith in the U.S. political big business networks so afraid of when with the most oppressed. has claimed that the elections are rigged system. One way of weakening America it comes to revolutionary and progressive So sisters and brothers, I know that so on behalf of the Democratic Party. But and making it less great is if you start third party candidates having equal time many of us are counting the days until the large drop in his poll numbers is in betraying those basic American tradi- in these debates? this horrific sham of an election is over, response to the 2005 videotape exposing tions that have been bipartisan and have The big business media are afraid of but the work will just be beginning. It his nauseating degradation of women of helped to hold together this democracy letting millions of people hear a mes- doesn’t matter who gets into the White all ages. To say that Trump is guilty of now for well over two centuries.” sage of independent mass organizing and House, because none of the growing dire sexual assault is truly an understatement. How ironic and hypocritical for fightback. They are afraid of any message conditions are going to fundamentally Trump once again targets “illegal im- Obama, being the first Black president challenging our movements to not be sub- change for the better for the workers and migrants” as the root cause for voter after all white male presidents, some of servient to the Democratic Party. They oppressed, here or worldwide. fraud along with African-American vot- them slave owners and KKK sympathiz- are afraid of any candidate that states We must take our organizing and mo- ers, a growing number of them disenfran- ers. During his eight years in office there that the fight against racism and white bilizing to an even higher level. We not chised, along with other people of color. have been more deportations of immi- supremacy is central to every oppression only must be ready to defend any rebel- But let’s be clear that voter fraud doesn’t grants — at least 2 million — and more in this country, as the Black Lives Matter lions sparked by police murder, but must come from the people but from the capi- police murders of Black, Brown and In- Uprising has shown. They are afraid of also go on the offensive to unite as many talist system itself. digenous people than during any other the clarion call for real solidarity — es- forces as possible to fight on an anti-cap- Workers World Party does agree with presidency, as well as mass shootings by a pecially for those facing racist repression, italist, anti-imperialist basis. That is the Trump that these elections are rigged, but growing number of alienated people. be they Black, Brown, Indigenous, Mus- role of a party fighting for revolutionary not for the reasons he espouses. These As Colin Kaepernick, the courageous lim, Arab, Asian, immigrant, etc. socialism, to rid this earth of institution- elections are rigged on behalf of himself quarterback, stated early on, these de- I want to raise the current economic cri- alized racism, sexism, LGBTQ oppression and the billionaire ruling class that he bates are “embarrassing” and boil down sis. A poll taken in October 2015 by Mar- and all forms of inequality in order to represents, just as they are rigged on be- to Trump and Clinton trying to outdo ketplace states that 39 percent of “Ameri- meet all human needs. half of Hillary Clinton and the billionaire themselves to appear less racist. Let’s not cans” are losing sleep over their finances. This message will be a major theme of class that she represents — especially her forget that Clinton once called Black youth We have to assume that this number is our Party conference Nov. 11-13 in New Wall Street backers and the Pentagon and “superpredators” and that Trump called even higher since you can be certain that York City, because we know that you can’t its allies, especially NATO, which seeks to for the death penalty for the Central Park undocumented workers and millions of vote away racism, you can’t vote away war enslave the workers and oppressed of the Five, Black youth falsely accused of rape in disenfranchised people were not counted. or inequality. You can vote for our candi- world along with their resources all for the 1980s who have since been exonerat- The poll said that “more Americans are in- dates by ballot in New Jersey, Wisconsin the sake of making profits. Just ask the ed. And let’s be clear that Clinton has never creasingly worried about losing their jobs, and Utah and with many state write-in people of Libya and Honduras, who had been a champion of women’s rights. the ability to pay their mortgage or rent campaigns, along with online petitions, their sovereignty violently taken away Yes, these elections are rigged: against and saving for retirement. Thirty percent because ours is a protest campaign from them when Clinton was secretary of every person of color targeted by police of Americans are very fearful that they against the entire capitalist system. Go to state. Now Clinton has set her sights on violence and mass incarceration; every will lose their job in the next six months, workers.org/wwp for more information. a possible war with Russia, which is de- worker fighting for a living wage and de- up from 10 percent a year ago.” I especially want to thank our support- fending the Syrian government against cent benefits, like the heroic strike of The permanency of this worldwide eco- ers on social media and in the streets for U.S.-NATO attacks. I guess having a the Harvard University Dining Services nomic crisis is at the heart of the police showing our campaign so much love and counterrevolution in the former Soviet workers; every woman facing humiliat- war on Black and Brown people, who are energy. Black Lives Matter! Long Live In- Union just wasn’t enough. ing objectification; every LGBTQ person becoming more and more expendable be- ternational Solidarity! workers.org Nov. 3, 2016 Page 7 Trump, Obama, Clinton and the fight to end sexism

By Teresa Gutierrez ty pageants while young, underage wom- must be led by women, especially women called her a prophet. Democrats and in- en were half dressed. He has approached of color, but men must see women’s liber- dependents both loved her talk. Even Oct. 18 — The sordid video of Don- a stranger next to him on a plane, reached ation as their fight as well. conservatives were shaken by it. Glenn ald Trump’s vulgar sexist remarks has under her skirt and kissed her ag­ gressively To that end, the term “toxic masculinity” Beck, calling it “the most effective politi- opened up a widespread national con- — without her consent. He has sexually has encouragingly been added to today’s cal speech I have heard since Ronald Rea- versation on sexism and misogyny in the assaulted a woman journalist assigned by vernacular and to widespread discussion. gan,” said, “It kills me to say that.” (glen- U.S. and ignited deep outrage. her publication to interview him. As a 2015 Salon article noted: “The three nbeck.com) There are two important lessons that Without a doubt, Trump is a sexist most destructive words a father or mother The speech brought this writer to tears, progressives and revolutionaries must predator. He embodies the epitome of rul- can tell their young son is to ‘Be a man.’” despite the fact that Obama’s spouse has consider during this conversation. ing-class, straight, white male privilege. In an Oct. 13 New York Times article, deported Mexicans and other migrants in First, the scandal has brought to the But Trump’s reactionary sexist and rac- Jared Sexton expanded on Trump’s toxic record numbers — policies the First Lady surface the horrific nature of women’s ist base continues to blame women and masculinity: “Taking refuge in traditional has not opposed. oppression in capitalist society. Fighting back him. Thuggish followers have tried masculinity is a coping mechanism that Michelle Obama spoke to the heart sexism, along with fighting racism and to cover up Trump’s behavior by claim- works only so much as it deadens a man about the deep feelings women have police terror, must be at the top of the ing Hillary Clinton’s election would be a and his emotions. Their masculinity, al- about sexual predation and assault. She progressive agenda. As the U.S. may soon victory for sexism because her spouse, ready a coping mechanism, becomes toxic. shamed misogynists in the process. elect its first woman president, it is of the former President Bill Clinton, committed … I’ve heard men attack the character of Then she ended her words by calling on utmost necessity to fight sexism. And that sexual assault. women in the same tone that an uncle once everyone to ensure the election of Hillary fight must be considerably nuanced. Ominously, Trump supporters have used to call for the nuclear annihilation Clinton. But Clinton is no friend of the Second, the election campaign has stepped up their threats of violence of the entire Middle East and the murder people, despite glaring differences be- revealed that the political system ad- against Hillary Clinton with shouts of of every last Arab. I’ve heard men … then tween her and The Donald. ministered by Washington on behalf of “lock her up” and worse. Trump himself excuse it all with one of Mr. Trump’s pet Clinton is a well-documented warmon- Wall Street and the Pentagon is in deep promised to jail Clinton if he is elected — phrases: ‘We live in the real world.’” ger, a hawk who has the blood of the Hon- crisis. Capitalism at a dead end. Despite an unheard of threat by a U.S. presidential Sexton puts this into an economic con- duran, Libyan and Syrian people on her the demoralizing campaign shenanigans, candidate against a political opponent. text: “But the real world — complicated hands. She has historically backed the eco- workers and oppressed must not retreat, It is important to note what’s at the base foreign policy questions, confusing social nomic and political forces implicated in the but be inspired to build a revolutionary of Trump’s campaign, in addition to bitter change, economic dislocation — is pre- mass incarceration of millions, primarily movement like never before. sexism. Trump has gathered and galva- cisely what toxic masculinity is trying to Black and Brown people. She is aligned nized a corrosive and poisonous element. avoid.” At a time when the economic cri- with dismantling the federal welfare sys- A “shitstorm” of misogyny At its heart is racism. This current, always sis has closed factories, when Uber jobs tem, which ramped up extreme poverty for The recent video of Trump boasting present in U.S. politics, re-emerged with at $13 an hour are the best one can get, poor women and women of color. of sexual assault has unleashed and em- the election of the first Black president, a when home after home is foreclosed, toxic The progressive movement must fight a boldened Trump’s “deplorables” in their moment in history it refuses to accept. masculinity should be studied and fought Clinton administration tooth and nail on ­woman-hating. The video opened up That is at the heart of the slogan “Make against. these issues and beyond. We cannot stop wounds for many a victim of sexual as- America Great Again.” What Trump sup- That is why revolutionaries and class- until Washington jails killer cops and sault, with the Rape, Abuse and Incest Na- porters mean is “Make America Racist conscious fighters refuse to give up on stops mass deportations. The demands tional Network reporting that calls for help and White Male Again.” This base is an- male workers. Many of Trump’s “deplor- raised by young people who supported by women had jumped to about 800 a day. ti-immigrant to its core because migrants ables” are lost forever. But some cannot the Sanders movement — like the cancel- The Southern Poverty Law Center, are contributing in record numbers to and should not be given up on. lation of student debt — must be brought which monitors U.S. right-wing and hate the “browning of America,” a historical And real world violent attacks on wom- forward and expanded. groups, began to document anti-­women development they fear down to their rac- en must always be kept in mind. As nov- But the struggle against a Clinton groups a few years ago. It also tracks ist boots. elist Margaret Atwood has said, “Men are administration must be nuanced and “manospheres” — blogs and online fo- News accounts indicate women are worried that women will laugh at them, thoughtful. Just as was necessary during rums launching sexist attacks on women turning away from Trump’s campaign in while women are worried that men will the two terms of the first Black president, — and reported on those in “Misogyny: droves. Now Trumpites rant that wom- kill them.” Indeed, on Oct. 10 six women the struggle against Clinton must be fac- the Sites.” (splcenter.org) en’s right to vote should be repealed by walking in the vicinity of Trump Tow- tual and not sexist, pro-worker and not Mark Potok, editor of that report, re- abolishing the 19th amendment to the ers in New York City were accosted by misogynistic. marked: “I was completely astounded. I U.S. Constitution, which gave women a group of young men who tried to light Clinton must be attacked for her pro- had no idea that there was this dark world the vote only in 1920. This sexist assault them on fire. Those attempts were unsuc- gram, for her deeds and not for what she of woman hatred” where “misogyny had links Trump’s base to current right-wing cessful. (NY Times, Oct. 16) wears or what she looks like. Woman-hat- become an increasingly common means attacks on voting access for people of col- ing terms must not be used. Her body of articulating broader discontent.” (New or, who have fought to defend their right A Hillary Clinton warmonger presidency parts are off limits, no matter her crimes. York Times, Oct. 16) to the ballot from the abolition of slavery Trump’s misogyny was turned on its On Jan. 20, thousands will converge to this very day. head last week by a woman of color who in Washington, D.C., to protest the inau- Trump doubles down has endured not only racism and sexism, guration — likely of the first U.S. female Trump’s sexist crimes of verbal and Corrosive sexism & misogyny but hate mail and death threats. president. But a woman in the White physical assault have showed that wom- Woman-hating hurts everybody. It is First Lady Michelle Obama gave one House will mean little as long as decisions en’s oppression is alive and well under dangerous for women first and foremost, of the most stirring speeches of this elec- coming out of the Oval Office are con- capitalist society — not just abroad but but it is also damaging for children. Men tion season at a Oct. 13 campaign rally for trolled by the Pentagon and Wall Street. right here “at home.” The capitalist media as well are affected by the oppression of Clinton. Her words in defense of women Gutierrez is campaign manager for and U.S. administrations’ justification of women — the oldest oppression of all. and against the actions of Trump were Workers World 2016 presidential and imperialist war to “save women” have, in This is why the fight to end sexism must beautifully, dramatically eloquent. vice-presidential candidates Monica the past, located the oppression of wom- be revolutionary and class conscious. It Gloria Steinem, the 1970s feminist, Moorehead and Lamont Lilly. en as if it happens only in the Middle East or elsewhere. But now the video and Trump’s sub- The Moorehead/Lilly presidential campaign sequent denial of ever assaulting anyone have encouraged women sexually as- needs your donation now! saulted by him to come forward. At least 11 women have recounted the vilest inci- Workers World Party candidates — Monica Moorehead for dences. Trump has walked into teen beau- president and Lamont Lilly for vice president — have marched against the Republicans in Cleveland and the Democratic Party machine in Philadelphia. They have gone coast-to-coast speaking MARKET to workers and people of color about revolutionary socialism.

ELECTIONS The candidates attended the Border Convergence in Tucson, Ariz., Monica How Democracy Oct. 7-9, and then traveled to California, where they spoke Lamont Lilly Moorehead Serves the Rich at ­various events between Oct. 9 and Oct. 21. During the week by Vince Copeland of Oct. 24, they visited the upstate New York cities of Syracuse, But we can’t do this without your support! Rochester, Buffalo and Albany, as well as Huntington, W.Va., We are a working-class party and our only source of income is The paperback (296 from people like you. Help us get out the voice for revolutionary pages) can be ordered and Baltimore. The campaign ends the month with a meeting from online booksellers in Detroit on Oct. 29. Visit our website: workers.org/wwp/cam- socialism to counter the Clinton war machine and Trump’s racist, or directly from paign-news. anti-people offensives. World View Forum at In the remaining days before the Nov. 8 election, we have a Contributions are urgently needed, no matter how small or large. 147 West 24th St., 2nd floor, New York, NY chance to reach many more people with meetings, ads, online Please make a generous donation today at workers.org/wwp/ 10011 at a discounted price of $15, voting and social media. donate. Mail checks to Workers World Party 2016 Presidential which includes shipping. Paid for by the Workers World Party Presidential Campaign Committee. Campaign Committee, 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10011. Page 8 Nov. 3, 2016 workers.org Chicago to host national Cuba meeting

By Cheryl LaBash longstanding organizing in solidarity caravan plans; the defense of Floridian lic event on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 7:30 with Cuba and its vibrant labor, Black Albert Fox, who is facing a $100,000 fine p.m., which will be held at the University The National Network on Cuba, an Lives Matter, Puerto Rican liberation and for travel to Cuba; discussion of ethical of Illinois at Chicago Student Center East, umbrella organization of Cuba solidarity, anti-war movements. travel and Cuba; participation by U.S. Room 302, 750 S. Halsted. travel, social justice and anti-imperialist The new diplomatic relationship be- doctors who graduated from Cuba’s Latin More information about the NNOC is groups, will hold its national meeting at tween the U.S. and Cuba officially begun American School of Medicine; Vencer- available at NNOC.info. There is a regis- the University of Illinois in Chicago Nov. on Dec. 17, 2014, means new challenges emos Brigade ‘responsables’; and much tration fee for representatives of member 18-20. It is the first national meeting in and opportunities for building the bonds more. A business meeting with co-chairs, organizations and visitors. many, many years outside of New York of friendship with Cuban leaders and the elections and acceptance of new member For membership information or ques- City or Washington, D.C., where partici- Cuban people. The return to Cuba of the organizations is also on the agenda. tions, write to NNOC20012002@yahoo. pants will hear directly from Cuban dip- last three imprisoned Cuban 5 heroes, Ge- Please spread the word about the pub- com. lomats and representatives of the Cuban rardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, and Institute of Friendship with the Peoples. Antonio Guerrero, who joined previously Sandra Ramirez, director of ICAP’s released René González and Fernando North American division, and Leima González, is an indelible symbol of what a Free Ana Belén Montes now! Martinez, also from ICAP, are traveling united global movement can achieve. from Cuba. A representative from the Included in the agenda are information- U.S. Cuban Embassy in Washington, al panels on such topics as updating the D.C., will also participate. Pictures taken current fight to stop the Internal Revenue by renowned Cuban photographer and Service from revoking the 501(c)(3) non- videographer Roberto Chile of Cuba’s profit status of the Interreligious Founda- historic revolutionary leader Fidel Castro tion for Community Organization, parent will be displayed in celebration of Fidel’s of the Pastors for Peace Friendshipment 90th birthday this year. Caravans plus many other progressive Chicago was chosen for its active and social justice projects, and upcoming Venezuela stymies regime change PHOTO: 25TH JUAN RIUS RIVERA BRIGADE Puerto Rican Juan Rius Rivera Brigade of the Cuba Solidarity Committee during their last By Chris Fry cratic norms.” (abcnews.go.com, Oct. 22) trip to Cuba, carrying a banner calling for the release of Oscar Lopez and Ana Belén Montes.

From Argentina to Yemen, from Brazil Comparison with U.S. Pinkney case By Berta Joubert-Ceci our values and our political system on it. to Syria, from the Democratic Republic of Right now the Rev. Edward Pinkney “We have displayed intolerance and Korea to Iran, U.S. imperialism has con- rots in a Michigan prison. He was sen- Ana Belén Montes is a Puerto Rican contempt toward Cuba for most of the ducted non-stop “regime change” cam- tenced to up to 10 years because some woman facing a 25-year prison sentence last four decades. We have never respect- paigns. These political, economic and of- of the signatures on the recall petitions for passing information to Cuban intel- ed Cuba’s right to make its own jour- ten military campaigns are all designed to for Benton Harbor’s mayor contained ligence agencies. She has already served ney towards its own ideals of equality do one thing: overturn those governments the wrong dates. Unlike what happened 15 years in the Psychiatric Unit Detention and justice. I do not understand why we that put up an obstacle to the rapacious in Venezuela, none of the signatures in Center at the Federal Medical Center, must continue to dictate how the Cubans greed of U.S. banks and corporations. Michigan were found to be invalid. And Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas. should select their leaders, who their For the last 19 years U.S. imperialism no evidence was presented that Rev. Montes was charged with conspiracy leaders cannot be, and what laws are ap- has tried to overturn Venezuela’s pro-so- Pinkney had anything to do with discrep- to commit espionage, a penalty generally propriate in their land. Why can’t we let cialist government now led by President ancies on the petitions. paid with death. Her defense team was Cuba pursue its own internal journey, as Nicolás Maduro. In 2002 it mastermind- But Rev. Pinkney was standing up to able to reach a “lesser” penalty, which in the United States has been doing for over ed a military coup against President the giant multinational Whirlpool Corpo- itself has buried her alive due to extreme two centuries?” Hugo Chávez, whose seizure by rightists ration, which runs the politics and courts conditions of isolation. She cannot re- Interestingly, the end of her state- sparked a huge popular uprising that in Benton Harbor. He was supporting the ceive visits, email or calls or use a com- ment is similar to President Obama’s stopped the coup leaders and the Penta- oppressed African-American community puter. There are only a small number of announcement regarding U.S.-Cuba rela- gon in their tracks. Washington and the there. Those were his crimes in the eyes people to whom she has access, including tions in December 2014. Montes stated, Venezuelan rightists have never stopped of Wall Street and its minions. her mother. “My greatest desire is to see amicable re- their subversion. The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezu- There is now an extremely urgent sit- lations emerge between the United States The latest attempt was a right-wing ela has used revenue from the country’s uation. Ana was diagnosed with breast and Cuba. I hope my case in some way signature drive for a recall election of vast oil reserves to fund key social pro- cancer and a few days ago underwent a will encourage our government to aban- President Maduro. An Oct. 21 ruling by grams that have greatly lifted the living mastectomy, after which she will receive don its hostility towards Cuba and to the Venezuelan National Electoral Coun- standard of the country’s poor people. chemotherapy. Given her isolation, the work with Havana in a spirit of tolerance, cil cancelling the recall for 2016 has sty- Chávez won election after election until extent of the cancer or even where the mutual respect, and understanding.” mied U.S. imperialism’s plans. For now. he died in 2013. surgery was performed is not known. Montes’ work did not pose a risk to the The initial petition drive, the council Venezuelans elected Maduro to a five- U.S. or its “national security.” On the con- Admirable work announced, contained 605,727 irregu- year term as president that year. But then trary, it prevented hostile U.S. military larities, over 30 percent, including signa- the world price of oil collapsed, causing Unknown to many people, this woman operations against Cuba that would have tures from over 10,000 deceased people. extreme economic problems for Venezue- is the very image of immense generosity cost thousands of lives, from both Cuba (telesurtv.net, Oct. 21) la, including a spike in inflation. The Mad- and sacrifice. and the U.S. The information Ana Belén This is a key setback. It means that uro government has struggled to preserve What was her crime? Here we could passed to Cuba was solely so that nation even if the recall campaign succeeds gains for the workers and poor, including repeat that famous quote from Che, the could defend itself. next year, the pro-socialist vice president proclaiming a 50 percent pay increase for internationalist, who said that “the true The work she performed for 16 years was would take over when Maduro would be workers and debit cards with emergency revolutionary is guided by great feelings completely voluntary; she was not pres- forced to step down. This would leave cash for the poorest Venezuelans. of love ... love of humanity, of justice.” It sured, nor did she receive — nor accept — progressive forces in office at least until Venezuela’s reactionary capitalists was that deep love of justice which led a penny for this great sacrifice. It is such regular elections are held in 2018. have used the problems, seeing in them Ana Belén to prison. a noble example that the U.S. authorities Because presenting false signatures on an opportunity to further destabilize the In these days, when there is a renewed have only been able to describe it as mad- a petition is a criminal offense, the gov- country’s economy and government. Fac- effort by Cuba and millions of people in ness, locking her in a psychiatric prison. ernment has ruled that eight right-wing tory owners have restricted production solidarity with the Cuban Revolution to A book written by none other than politicians, responsible for the recall and diverted up to 40 percent of needed end once and for all the criminal U.S. Scott Carmichael illustrates her devotion. campaign, cannot leave the country. commodities to illegal street sales and blockade against Cuba, it is imperative to Carmichael worked at the Defense Intel- Frothing at the mouth, the right-wing even to other countries. Some organized remember the sacrifice this Boricua wom- ligence Agency, the same agency where leaders have gone so far as to press the gangs have been hired to firebomb gov- an made to benefit millions of Cuban lives. Ana Belén worked as a senior analyst on military to stage a coup. “Hopefully the ernment buildings and attack govern- Nothing illustrates this desire for jus- Cuba. This agency advises the president, armed forces will have people respect the ment security forces. tice more than her statement to the court the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs of Staff constitution,” said Henrique Capriles, In response to the rightist offensive, on that condemned her on Oct. 16, 2002: “I and has great influence on their actions. head of Justice First and one of the lead- Sept. 1 thousands of Venezuelans packed engaged in the activity that brought me Carmichael was a counterintelligence in- ers of the rightist MUD (Mesa de la Uni- Avenida Bolivar in the capital city of Ca- before you because I obeyed my con- vestigator — a “mole hunter” — who was dad Democrática) coalition. racas to support Maduro. The workers science rather than the law. I believe our in charge of investigating Ana. Republican Florida Senator Marco Rubio and poor have a right to defend their sov- government’s policy toward Cuba is cruel In his book, “True Believer,” you can is leading the U.S. charge to overturn the ereign country from attack by Venezue- and unfair, profoundly unneighborly, and perceive the meticulous work and sacri- Venezuelan government, promising “con- lan capitalists and the imperialist colos- I felt morally obligated to help the island fice of this brave woman. Although the crete consequences” for “violating demo- sus that stands behind them. defend itself from our efforts to impose Continued on the next page workers.org Nov. 3, 2016 Page 9 World Federation of Trade Unions advances ‘class-oriented’ unionism By Martha Grevatt nents. The unions combined have 92 mil- Africa. A recurring theme was the need On the road toward demolishing capi- Durban, South Africa lion members, an increase from 74 million for class-struggle unionism. From the U.S. talism, “Class-oriented trade unionism is at the 16th Congress held in 2011 in Ath- delegation, Cherrene Horazuk cited the an absolute necessity,” said Nzamande on For U.S. labor activists, who have to con- ens. They were attracted by the theme of Harvard cafeteria strikers and striking the final day of the congress. tend with a conservative labor bureaucra- struggle “for the attainment of contempo- Allina nurses as rare positive examples of Giving the closing speech, Mavrikos cy that at times promotes “partnership” rary workers’ needs against poverty and class-struggle unionism in the U.S. said, “We have to uplift the content and with employers, the World Federation of wars generated by capitalist barbarity.” the forms of our struggle with the direct Trade Unions’s emphasis on militancy, Some 17,000 people from all over Capitalism condemned aim of the emancipation of the working internationalism and “class-oriented” the world watched the congress on the Speaker after speaker openly con- class from the capitalist exploitation.” unionism was a breath of fresh air. ­internet. demned capitalism, privatization and The congress re-elected Mavrikos The WFTU held its 17th Congress in While Europe was well represented other neoliberal economic schemes, in- as General Secretary and Mzwandile Durban, South Africa, Oct. 5-8, drawing and over 20 observers came from the cluding attacks on pensions and on public Makwayiba, president of South Africa’s over 1,500 delegates and observers from U.S., the majority of voices were from workers. They also condemned imperial- National Education, Health and Allied 244 unions in 111 countries on five conti- workers of the “global South” — Africa, ist wars against Syria, Yemen, Afghani- Workers Union, as President. The inter- Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. stan and Iraq; the proliferation of precar- national governing body expanded the Keynote speakers included WFTU ious work; Islamophobia and xenophobia; number of African representatives from General Secretary George Mavrikos, the Israeli occupation of Palestine; the eight to 12; all but eight members are book’s purpose was not to create sympa- Congress of South African Trade Unions imprisonment of Huber Ballesteros, Os- from the global South. This reflects the thy, it is impossible not to feel admiration President Sidumo Dlamini, South Af- car Lopez Rivera and other political pris- worldwide changes in the character of the and respect for her. rican President Jacob Zuma and South oners; the absolute impoverishment of working class — the transfer of work to African Communist Party General Secre- over 500 million people, the majority in low-wage countries while the wealth be- Solidarity with Ana tary Blade Nzamande. Africa; climate change; attacks on labor ing produced flows back to the capitalists Solidarity with Ana Belén Montes has COSATU, Zuma’s African National rights; theft of water resources; the op- in the imperialist powers. grown in the last year, with the stron- Congress and the SACP together represent pression of women; deaths due to unsafe COSATU and WFTU joined in a long, gest organizing in Cuba and Puerto Rico. the Tripartite Alliance that was forged work; rising unemployment; the right- spirited march on Oct. 8 to the Curries Support has also been expanding inter- during the long struggle to defeat racist wing coup in Brazil; and other world Fountain Stadium where COSATU was nationally, particularly in Brazil, where apartheid. The speakers were proud of the problems created by capitalism. founded. Freedom songs from the an- groups in solidarity with Cuba have decision to hold the Congress — the first “Only revolution can put an end to ti-apartheid struggle blared from CO- picked up the banner of Ana Belén. Peo- on the African continent — in Durban. this,” said a German delegate. A female SATU sound trucks. Brazilians chanted ple supporting her release have written Dlamini explained that the unions in delegate from Cameroon attacked “the “Fora Temer” — Temer Out. (Temer is to Obama, like Irish Nobel Prize winner South Africa “are still struggling to cor- capitalist system that is killing us.” An Brazil’s current president, placed in office Mairead Maguire and Cuban troubadour rect the imbalances of the present,” such Egyptian speaker said, “The struggle by an illegitimate “parliamentary coup.”) Vicente Feliú. as the “unforgivable” contrast between should be against capitalism.” As a lead- AITUC led chants of “Down, down cap- There have also been voices of support CEO salaries and workers’ wages. Zuma er of the All India Trade Union Congress italism; up, up socialism.” A short rally for her release in the United States, France, pointed out that “in 1962 WFTU was al- (AITUC) put it: “The whole world runs followed the march. Argentina, Chile, Galicia and the Domini- ready in the trenches with us.” because of workers. Why should those The WFTU Congress was a huge step can Republic. Progressive U.S. songwriter Union leaders from almost every coun- who produce food go hungry, who pro- forward for the world labor movement, David Rovics wrote “Song for Ana,” which try in attendance took the floor. One after duce clothes go clothesless, who produce one that will help make real the slogan you can watch at Youtube.com. another expressed how honored they were medicine not get health care? Capitalism “Workers and oppressed peoples of the In Cuba, known personalities such as to be gathering in the heroic land of South should be demolished.” world unite.” Silvio Rodríguez have called for her re- lease. Several groups, including CubaX- AnaBelénMontes, held a concert last Sep- tember to commemorate the 15 years she has been in prison. Behind Duterte’s shift toward China On Oct. 21, René Gonzalez, one of the heroic Cuban Five, wrote an open letter By Deirdre Griswold Capital Region around Manila have the ters pay people in the Philippines wages asking that people write to Ana: “Ana lowest poverty figures, ranging around far below those in the U.S. Belén Montes, the courageous Puerto An announcement by President Rodri- 3.9 percent. Many young people who CNN quotes a senior State Department Rican woman imprisoned for protecting go Roas Duterte of the Philippines, made have left to find work overseas send re- official, Daniel Russel, as saying after a Cuba from the U.S. policies of aggression, during a state visit to Beijing on Oct. 20, mittances home to their families. meeting with the Philippine foreign min- has been operated [on] because of breast that his country would reorient its for- Poverty is highest in the more agricul- ister that Duterte’s remarks have fueled cancer. ... Although she is not allowed to eign policy toward China and away from tural provinces. According to the NSCB, growing concerns in “corporate board- receive mail, the message of thousands of the United States has opened up the pros- the Mindanao Region had the highest rooms.” letters arriving to her prison door would pect of major infrastructure development poverty levels, ranging from 42 to 47 per- CNNMoney speaks to bankers and surely be a powerful one. Please join in in this Pacific islands nation of more than cent. Duterte was a mayor and congress business people. In other U.S. media ori- this effort and write a letter or a postcard 100 million people. member from Mindanao before becom- ented to the general public, the attacks on to Ana.” Ever since the U.S. defeated Spain in ing president. Duterte have centered more on his blunt That message echoes the previous one the war of 1898 and took over its colonies, So it should be no surprise that there style and his relentless campaign against that Ana’s cousin, Miriam Montes Mock, Washington and Wall Street have treated is much enthusiasm among the people of drugs, in which many accused drug lords made through the Working Committee the people of the Philippines as a source the Philippines for Duterte’s visit to Chi- have been killed by police. No mention is for Ana Belén Montes in Puerto Rico: “I of low-wage labor and their land as a base na and the resulting agreements in infra- made, of course, of the fact that U.S. pris- ask all my friends to send their messages for military operations in the Pacific. U.S. structure development, trade and other ons are full of people convicted of nonvio- to President Obama at [email protected] neocolonial domination over the islands economic areas. lent crimes connected to drug possession house.gov, the U.S. Prisons Authority, to has been absolute in political, economic and that many police killings of people of Duterte has support — Carswell Prison at crw/execassistant@ and military terms, interrupted only by color allegedly involve drugs. but not on Wall Street bop.gov, showing your concern for the the equally harsh occupation of the Phil- Nor is anything being said in the me- health of Ana and demand her release, ippines by Japanese imperialism during But in Washington and on Wall Street, dia here about what plans the Pentagon ask for a compassionate release. World War II. the reaction is dismay and increasing and other U.S. agencies of violence and “I ask you to send a copy of your mes- As a result, the Philippines has been hostility, even when cloaked in diploma- repression may be discussing in response sages to the Five Heroes Network (cinco- mired in poverty and underdevelopment. cy. There are dire warnings that Duterte’s to Duterte’s move. But history has shown [email protected]) so that they statements about pivoting toward China that the U.S. political establishment has Millions in extreme poverty circulate through the network and see if and away from the U.S. will bring eco- no respect for sovereignty or peaceful ne- we can somehow get them to Ana, so she In 2006, the National Statistics Coor- nomic ruin. gotiations when it considers the core inter- can see that she is not alone and that hun- dination Board of the Philippines report- CNNMoney on Sept. 24, in a segment ests of the imperialist ruling class at risk. dreds, thousands of people in Cuba and ed that nearly 29 percent of the popula- entitled “This industry is freaking out However, there is a mitigating factor in the world accompany this struggle for tion lived on less than $1.25 per day. In over the Philippine president’s anti-U.S. against the U.S. resorting to violent in- life and freedom.” 2013, when the NSCB conducted its most rhetoric,” reported that Duterte’s com- tervention to bring the Philippines more To write to Ana: recent survey, the percentage living at ments “sent a shudder through industries securely back under its control. ANA BELÉN MONTES 25037-016 this level of poverty had barely changed, that rely heavily on the U.S. market, par- It is the fact that there has long been an FMC CARSWELL while the cost of just putting food on the ticularly the big business of handling call armed as well as a civil anti-imperialist FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER table every day had risen in those seven center work and other tasks for American opposition in the Philippines that enjoys P.O. BOX 27137 years from $39 to $127 a month. companies.” The implication is that these much support among the masses. Should FORT WORTH, TX 76127 In this same period, poverty in many U.S.-owned call centers will go some- the U.S. move too directly or violently to You can also send emails to other countries around the world had de- where else if the owners are angered by thwart the direction now being taken by [email protected] and creased significantly, especially in China. the government’s attitude. Duterte, the resulting reaction of the peo- anaBelé[email protected]. The more urban areas in the National What it doesn’t mention is that the cen- ple could spiral out of U.S. control. Page 10 Nov. 3, 2016 workers.org The right to vote

Is there a contradiction between denouncing elections tied men were allowed to vote for Parliament. The exten- “The shift comes just as Republican nominee Donald in the U.S. as part of the process that allows the 0.01% to sion of suffrage to non-landowners, then to women, and Trump has been exhorting his supporters to be vigilant rule over the 99% — and at the same time championing in this country to African Americans came about only about the supposed threat of voter fraud.” the people’s right to vote? after years of struggle. Trump has said he won’t accept any other result than We don’t think so. Even then, many stratagems have kept workers, espe- victory, meaning he will charge “fraud!” as soon as the It’s a fact that presidential elections here are pur- cially of color, from voting. That’s why the Voting Rights election is over. chased at such a high price — and the corporate media Act of 1965 was necessary. That is laughable, but the threat to voters is no laugh- are so determined to stifle any candidates but those But now, admits Bloomberg Businessweek of Oct. 13: ing matter. Especially in areas with a high concentration of the two big business parties — that only those who “For the first time in a half-century, Americans will go of people of color and immigrants, voter intimidation is have first been vetted and proven dependable by the su- to the polls in November without the full protection of already being planned by right-wing groups. per-rich make it to the White House. the Voting Rights Act. Following a 2013 U.S. Supreme Voting is not going to undo capitalism. Only a people’s It’s also a fact that tens of millions of workers and Court ruling invalidating a key section of the 1965 law, revolution can do that. But the people have to exhaust all oppressed peoples hope that by voting they can bring the U.S. Department of Justice has had to curtail its fed- other avenues of struggle before they are convinced of about some improvement in their conditions. eral observer program, under which trained monitors the need for revolutionary change. Furthermore, the right to vote was not given to every- oversee access to ballot boxes in areas historically prone Revolutionaries must vigorously defend the right to one. In Britain, for example, for a long time only proper- to discrimination. vote, even while exposing capitalist elections.

Trump and the tide of lesser evilism WW Commentary

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first tion.” This is the basis of Trump’s appeals We must remind the workers and pro- importance for the revolution. To ensure that we will definitely achieve success on the issue. gressive forces at home and abroad that in our revolution and will not lead the masses astray, we must pay attention to But Trump is running for office to rep- the only guarantee against catastrophic resent the U.S. imperialist ruling class, war is building a militant, united fight- uniting with our real friends in order to attack our real enemies. which has devoted decades of effort to back against capitalism — starting right ~ Mao Zedong breaking up and taking over the Russian in the U.S. Federation. There is no sign this class is We must patiently and firmly warn the By Greg Butterfield be profitable for his real-estate interests. reversing itself regarding Russia. international anti-war and anti-imperi- Those of us who have been fighting Whatever Trump’s personal program alist movement against the trap Trump I first arrived in New York in the spring Trump for years, even decades, under- as president, he would be constrained to has laid for them, just as we warn people of 1990, an enthusiastic young white stand that he is a war criminal of the first serve the interests of this class and re- here against the trap Clinton has set for worker from the Midwest, eager to be- order — in the domestic class war — just stricted by all sorts of pressure from the the struggles against racism, sexism and come a revolutionary. I quickly learned as Hillary Clinton is guilty of war crimes Pentagon’s officer corps, just as President anti-LGBTQ oppression at home. that one of the most difficult struggles abroad. Barack Obama has been. Those who truly want peace, who want being waged in the city, one that required to see U.S. aggression defeated, need to a lot of determination and courage, was Two (class) war criminals Class-conscious glasses make common cause with the struggles defense of the Central Park Five. The 2016 presidential election is fre- Can anyone believe that Trump — an for justice being waged inside the U.S. This group of Black and Brown teen- quently characterized as unprecedented oligarch claiming to be a populist enemy We must be brave enough to swim agers, not much younger than me, had and down-right bizarre. So imagine how of the elite, a stirrer-up of racism and na- against the tide of lesser-evilism, whatev- been framed up just a year before. The it looks to people living outside the United tional chauvinism, is a friend of peace? er form it takes, and have the courage to New York Police Department forced States, especially in countries like Russia, Who could fall for such a thing? tell the truth to the workers of the world, them to confess to the brutal rape of a Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, the Donbass re- Sadly, it seems, some do. Just as oth- even at the risk of temporary isolation. white woman. These youths and their publics. These and and many other coun- ers can fall for Clinton posing as the This is an urgent task of anti-impe- communities were demonized by the tries have been demonized, subjected to last defense of the rights of women, im- rialists, anti-war activists, anti-fascists media and politicians, both conservative sanctions, Western-sponsored terror and migrants, the LGBTQ community and and all revolutionaries in the U.S. at this and liberal. drone bombings or even open warfare. African-American people. Clinton was moment. Leading the charge against them was It may come as a surprise to many ac- part of the campaign to criminalize and Donald Trump, a wealthy casino owner tivists in the U.S., who in recent years scapegoat society’s most oppressed and and real-estate developer. Trump took have been involved in the Black Lives downtrodden, labeling them “predators.” out full-page ads in all four of the city’s Matter struggle, the fight to defend ref- Those who fall for Trump or Clinton leading newspapers calling for reinstate- ugees and immigrants, and the battle to succumb for the same reason — fear. ment of the death penalty to be used raise the minimum wage, that many peo- Many workers and progressives in the Agua envenenada against the Five. He never missed an op- ple abroad, including some opponents of U.S. feel compelled to support Hillary portunity to harangue them in the media. U.S. imperial power, could view Donald Clinton despite their better judgement. en cárceles His exploitation of the Central Park Trump as the “lesser evil.” Some even fall into the trap of desperate- Five case helped make Donald Trump a But right now, millions around the ly trying to justify her behavior out of fear Continua de página 12 national celebrity. world are afraid of the consequences of of Trump’s fascist-tinged campaign. tañas a menudo dejan residuos químicos. Despite the community’s determined growing U.S. aggression directed at Rus- In the U.S., we on the left are more ac- Para la preparación y el lavado de carbón organizing, led by Pan African revolu- sia, which includes the possibility of open customed to this kind of labeling of the se emplea un “baño químico” para sepa- tionary Elombe Brath, despite our ongo- warfare or even a nuclear exchange. The Democratic Party as the “lesser evil.” rar el carbón de otros minerales, que de- ing protests and exposure of the criminal conflict has escalated over Washington’s But this year, there are many workers jan aguas residuales tóxicas. conduct of the police, prosecution and plans for regime change in Syria, its sup- and progressives abroad (and to a lesser Éstas a menudo se almacenan en pre- media, the Five were convicted and sen- port for the far-right junta in Ukraine extent in the U.S. as well) who seem driven sas y estanques que se pueden romper, tenced to long prison terms. and the further expansion of NATO mili- by the same kind of desperation to support inundando y contaminando los acuíferos Eventually the true perpetrator of the tarism to Russia’s western border. Trump. They excuse his misogyny and subterráneos. El residuo de aguas graso- rape confessed, and after another long Before this election campaign, Trump racism. They embrace conspiracy theo- sas y negras también se almacena en po- battle, the Five were finally freed. never once spoke out against U.S. eco- ries, for example, that the women coming zos subterráneos que se filtran y contam- But the impact of the case was long nomic and military aggression anywhere forward against Trump’s sexual abuse are inan las aguas subterráneas. lasting, and hardly accidental. The cam- in the world. He supported the scape- “creations” of Clinton and her supporters Las minas abandonadas son fuentes paign waged against them was an essen- goating of Muslims and others after the meant to help steal the election from him. de drenaje ácido de minas (AMD) que se tial stepping stone in New York ruling 9/11 attacks in New York, which laid the It’s a tough thicket to cut through. produce cuando el material de pirita [N. class efforts to “redevelop” large swaths basis for the invasion of Iraq and the en- There’s only one way to navigate it: with del T.: material sulfúrico incendiario] re- of the city. This so-called “redevelop- tire “war on terror.” class consciousness. As Workers World acciona con el agua y el oxígeno. El AMD ment” forced mostly Black and Brown But Trump is a canny enough politician Party’s Campaign Manager Teresa Guti- acidifica el agua, ayudando a disolver los working-class and poor communities out to know that U.S. interventions in Afghan- errez wrote recently, we have to “put on metales pesados que luego se vierten en of the city while escalating police power. istan, Iraq and Syria, because they are our class-conscious glasses.” los ríos. Existen altos niveles de AMD en It turned much of Manhattan — and later costly and go on endlessly, are unpopular. Divide and conquer is always the strat- las afluentes del río Schuylkill. Brooklyn and now parts of Queens and He is also highly selective in his “an- egy of the U.S. ruling class. In this case, Es difícil demostrar que la produc- the Bronx — into a kind of gated commu- ti-war” declarations. While cultivating a it is to divide the international struggles ción de carbón provocó la contaminación nity for the well-to-do. reputation for seeking cooperation with against war from the domestic struggle del agua en Mahanoy y Frackville. La The tactic that began in New York Russia, he has threatened war against against racism and national oppression. SCMA, gestionada por Pennsylvania spread across the country, and eventually China, Syria, Palestine and Mexico, to The danger is that, at a critical mo- American Water, filial con ánimo de lu- to Europe as well. name just a few. ment, those who struggle against U.S. cro de American Water, no ha informado Trump led the charge against the Cen- To put it bluntly, there is a sector of imperialism — those who should be natu- de la contaminación del agua. American tral Park Five, not only because he is a rac- U.S. white supremacists that supports ral allies — will be posed against one an- Water ha causado varias catástrofes de ist bigot of the worst sort — which he most isolationism and friendship with Russia other as enemies. And only imperialism salud relacionados con el agua en Vir- certainly is — but because he knew it would because they view it as a “white man’s na- can benefit from that. ginia Occidental y no ha respondido a las workers.org Nov. 3, 2016 Page 11 No to U.S. anti-missile system in so. Korea

By Workers World New York Bureau THAAD. Like the Star WW PHOTO: JOHNNIE STEVENS Wars program started by Eighty people came out Oct. 20 in New racist Reagan, THAAD is “It was future Secretary of State York City to protest the installation of the really a nuclear first-strike Dean Rusk — a war criminal who Terminal High Altitude Area Defense weapon. helped kill millions of Vietnamese and (THAAD) anti-missile system in south “If the utterly mad gen- Laotian people — who drew up the Korea. erals and admirals in the map that divided Korea along the 38th The event was part of worldwide rallies Pentagon think that they parallel. that took place in Washington, D.C., Cal- are protected from retal- “Wall Street banksters like Rocke- ifornia and Korea. The New York protest iation by THAAD, they feller lawyer John Foster Dulles pro- was held in Manhattan’s Koreatown, near are much more likely voked the Korean War in which 4 mil- Herald Square. to launch a nuclear first lion Koreans were killed. Dropping Many Korean Americans spoke in strike on the Democratic napalm and white phosphorous bombs opposition to this dangerous weapons People’s Republic of Korea on human flesh didn’t satisfy U.S. big system. So did representatives from the and the People’s Repub- business. Future Treasury Secretary Filipino group BAYAN and Veterans for lic of China. That’s what Lloyd Bentsen demanded atom bombs Peace. Both the Raging Grannies and a Generals Curtis B. LeMay be dropped on ­Koreans. duo from the Catholic Worker movement and Lyman Lemnitzer wanted to do a half ers were burned alive by the U.S. atom “Instead of installing THAAD, what performed. century ago. bomb dropped on Hiroshima — an act of the U.S. needs to do is to sign a peace Representing the International Ac- “What Koreans need to be protected total barbarism. Forty years earlier Pres- treaty with the Democratic People’s Re- tion Center, Steve Millies told the crowd, against is from what Dr. Martin Luther ident Teddy Roosevelt got a Nobel Peace public of Korea and get out of Asia. The “As a retired Amtrak worker I know this King Jr. called ‘the greatest purveyor of Prize for handing Korea over to the Jap- Pacific Ocean is not a U.S. lake. THAAD missile system is a nuclear train violence’ — Wall Street’s war machine. anese Empire in a treaty signed in Ports- “No to THAAD! U.S. out of Korea! wreck. There’s nothing defensive about “Thirty thousand Korean slave labor- mouth, N.H. ­Korea is one!” U.S. out of Syria, Yemen, Iraq!

Oct. 24 — In a period of less than two perialism is incapable of making a “hu- CAMPAIGN STATEMENT weeks, the United States has expanded manitarian” intervention. its military intervention into three major The Pentagon intervenes to impose Pentagon is directing a coalition force of ments worldwide against U.S.-NATO in- areas of conflict in Southwest Asia: Ye- the economic and strategic dominance 100,000 in the attempt to conquer Mosul. tervention there. WWP presidential can- men, Iraq and Syria. of the transnational corporations and the Prior attacks on a smaller scale carried didate Monica Moorehead, a signatory, The Workers World Party 2016 Pres- 0.01% of capitalists who rule the United out by a similar “coalition” flattened the urges all to support the petition circulat- idential Campaign opposes all three States. It is no more capable of bringing smaller Iraqi cities of Ramadi and Fallu- ed at handsoffsyriacoalition.net. imperialist military interventions and peace to the world than it is of eliminat- jah, leaving hardly a building intact. The Not only in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, but demands that the U.S. withdraw all mili- ing racism and police brutality at home. battles not only drove out IS fighters, who wherever U.S. imperialism intervenes, tary forces from the region. Let us be precise about these three fled to IS-controlled areas in Syria, but whether in Afghanistan, Libya, Korea, No matter how Washington explains ­attacks: terrorized the population. Some analysts Somalia, Pakistan and Ukraine or by its role and whatever pretext it gives for The Navy destroyer USS Nitze fired argue that one object of the attack on Mo- subversion in Latin America, it brings the intervention, the Pentagon’s role in Tomahawk cruise missiles on Oct. 13 sul is to drive IS fighters to Syria to create misery to the people, squanders wealth the region and in each country is reac- against the Ansrullah movement in Ye- problems for the Syria-Russia alliance. better used at home and turns U.S. youth tionary, harmful and dangerous. U.S. im- men — also called the Houthis. Prior to into cannon fodder for the capitalists. this Washington supplied weapons and Support petition against U.S. role in Syria The WWP 2016 Presidential Cam- logistical support to the monarchy in The U.S.-led war against Syria raises paign demands the U.S. remove its Continua de página 10 Saudi Arabia that has been slaughtering the possibility of a direct confrontation bloody hands off the world’s people and preocupaciones del público. civilians in Ansrullah-controlled areas of between the U.S. and Russia, two states end Pentagon interventions everywhere. Los prisioneros en la cárcel de la Prisión Yemen for more than a year. armed with thousands of nuclear weap- WWP vice presidential candidate South Central Regional de Charleston en The U.S.-coordinated coalition, includ- ons. Anti-imperialist activists in the Lamont Lilly visited Syria in February Virginia Occidental no fueron notificados ing U.S. air attacks, U.S. Special Forces, United States, to their credit, have begun 2015 as part of a solidarity delegation cuando un tanque que contenía un pro- the Turkish army, the pro-U.S. Kurdish a process of mobilizing anti-war move- from the International Action Center. ducto químico de preparación de carbón peshmerga, the Iraqi army, police and sectarian militias, opened a full-fledged UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE se derramó en el río Elk, contaminando STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION el agua y afectando a 300.000 personas attack on Oct. 18 on Mosul in the coun- 1. Publication Title: Workers World en 2014. Al no saberlo, se bañaron y bebi- try’s northeast. Mosul is Iraq’s second 2. Publication Number: 053-990 most populous city and has been under 3. Filing Date: October 27, 2016 eron el agua tóxica. 4. 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¡Proletarios y oprimidos de todos los paises unios! workers.org Vol. 58 Núm. 43 3 de noviembre 2016 $1 Brigada puertorriqueña Juan Rius Rivera del Comité de Solidaridad con Cuba durante su último viaje a esa isla portando pancarta pidiendo la excarcelación de Tiempo de liberar a Ana Oscar López y Ana Belén Montes. Belén Montes, prisionera de conciencia

Por Berta Joubert-Ceci que hizo esta boricua en beneficio de mil- Esta labor que por 16 años ella real- eración. Hay además varios grupos, entre lones de vidas cubanas. izó, fue totalmente voluntaria; ni hubo ellos el de CubaXAnaBelenMontes que el Ana Belén Montes es una mujer puer- Nada ilustra mejor ese deseo de jus- presión alguna y ni un centavo recibió pasado mes de septiembre conmemoró torriqueña sobre quien pesa una sen- ticia que su declaración ante el tribunal – ni aceptó – por este gran sacrificio. Es con un concierto los 15 años que ha esta- tencia de 25 años por pasar información que la condenó el 16 de octubre de 2002. un ejemplo tan noble que las autoridades do en prisión. a agencias de inteligencia cubanas. De “Su señoría, yo me envolví en la activi- estadounidenses sólo la han podido cal- El pasado viernes 21 de octubre, René esos, ya ha cumplido 15 en la Unidad dad que me trajo ante usted porque obe- ificar de locura, encerrándola en una González, uno de los Cinco Héroes cu- Psiquiátrica del Centro de Detención decí a mi conciencia en lugar de la ley. Yo prisión psiquiátrica. banos, escribió una carta abierta pidien- Carswell en Fort Worth, Tejas. Los cargos creo que la política de nuestro gobierno Es interesante que uno de los docu- do que se le escriba a Ana. Escribe René: imputados fueron de conspiración para hacia Cuba es cruel e injusta, profunda- mentos que ilustra su abnegación, pro- “Ana Belén Montes, la valiente mujer cometer espionaje, una pena que se paga mente inamistosa, y me sentí moralmente ceda de un libro escrito nada menos que puertorriqueña encarcelada por prote- generalmente con la muerte. obligada a ayudar a la isla a defenderse de por Scott Carmichael, quien trabajaba en ger a Cuba de las políticas de agresión El equipo encargado de su defensa nuestros esfuerzos de imponerle nuestros la misma agencia donde Ana Belén se de- de los Estados Unidos, ha sido operada pudo lograr una “pena menor”, lo que valores y nuestro sistema político. Hemos sempeñaba como analista superior sobre a causa de cáncer de mama…. Aunque realmente ha sido una muerte en vida mostrado intolerancia y desprecio hacia Cuba, en la Agencia de Espionaje de De- ella no puede recibir correo, el mensaje debido a las extremas condiciones de Cuba por la mayor parte de las últimas fensa, DIA por las siglas en inglés. Esta es de miles de cartas llegando a la puerta de aislamiento. No puede recibir visitas, ni cuatro décadas. Nunca hemos respetado la agencia que aconseja al Presidente, al su prisión sería uno potente. Por favor, correos, ni llamadas, ni usar computa- el derecho de Cuba de transitar su propio Pentágono y a la Junta de Estado Mayor e únete a este esfuerzo y escribe una carta dora. Solo hay un reducido número de camino hacia sus propios ideales de ig- influye sobre las acciones a seguir. o una postal a Ana”. personas a las cuales puede tener acceso, ualdad y justicia. Yo no entiendo por qué Carmichael era investigador – caza to- Ese mensaje hace eco del pedido que la entre ellas, a su madre. nosotros continuamos dictando como los pos – y estuvo a cargo de la investigación prima de Ana, Miriam Montes Mock hizo En estos momentos, existe una situ- cubanos deberían seleccionar sus líderes, de Ana. En su libro “True Believer” (Ver- a través de la Mesa de Trabajo por Ana ación sumamente urgente. Fue diagnos- quienes estos no pueden ser, y que leyes dadera creyente), se puede conocer el mi- Belén Montes en Puerto Rico. ticada con cáncer de mama y hace po- son apropiadas en su tierra. ¿Por qué no nucioso trabajo y el sacrificio de esta vali- “Le pido a todos mis amigos que en- cos días se le realizó una mastectomía, podemos dejar a Cuba seguir su propia ente mujer. Aunque el propósito del libro víen sus mensajes al presidente Obama luego de la cual recibirá tratamiento de vía interna, tal y como los Estados Unidos no era crear simpatía por Ana Belén, sino [email protected], a la Autori- quimioterapia. Dada las condiciones de ha hecho por más de dos siglos? todo lo contrario, es imposible que no des- dad de Prisiones de EUA, a la Prisión de aislamiento, lo que incluye no tener acce- Interesantemente, el final de su pierte admiración y respeto por su trabajo. Carswell (crw/[email protected]), so a más información, no se sabe la ex- declaración es precisamente similar a la mostrando la preocupación por la salud tensión del cáncer y ni siquiera dónde se esencia de lo que el pasado diciembre el Solidaridad con Ana de Ana y demanden su excarcelación, pi- realizó la cirugía. presidente Obama anunció en cuanto a La solidaridad con Ana Belén Montes ha dan por su liberación humanitaria. Les Trabajo meritorio las relaciones de EUA con Cuba: “Mi may- ido creciendo en el último año, siendo los pido que pongan copia de sus mensajes Desconocida por muchas personas, or deseo es el de ver relaciones amigables círculos más fuertes en Cuba y en Puerto a la Red Cinco Héroes (cincoheroes@ esta mujer es la imagen misma de una in- emerger entre los Estados Unidos y Cuba. Rico. El apoyo se ha ido extendiendo inter- listas.cujae.edu.cu) a fin de circular esos mensa generosidad y sacrificio. Yo espero que mi caso de alguna manera nacionalmente, particularmente en Brasil, mensajes por la Red y tratar también de ¿Cuál fue su delito? Aquí podríamos impulsará a nuestro gobierno a abandonar donde grupos de solidaridad con Cuba han hacerlos llegar a Ana de alguna manera, repetir esa famosa cita del Che, el Che su hostilidad hacia Cuba y a trabajar con recogido la bandera de Ana Belén. Voces para que ella pueda conocer que no está internacionalista y solidario que dijo “el La Habana en un espíritu de tolerancia, en pro de la excarcelación de Ana se han sola y que cientos, miles de personas en revolucionario verdadero está guiado por respeto mutuo, y entendimiento”. expresado escribiéndole a Obama como la Cuba y en el mundo la acompañan en esta grandes sentimientos de amor… amor a la Hay que recalcar que como resulta- Premio Nobel irlandesa Mairead Maguire lucha por la vida y por su libertad”. humanidad, a la justicia”. Fue ese profun- do de su trabajo, no hubo ningún riesgo y el trovador cubano Vicente Feliú. Para escribir a Ana: do amor a la justicia lo que condujo a Ana para EUA ni su “seguridad nacional”. En el mismo Estados Unidos, en Fran- ANA BELÉN MONTES 25037-016 Belén a prisión. Por el contrario, pudo evitar operaciones cia, Argentina, Chile, Galicia y la Repúbli- FMC CARSWELL En estos días en que hay un renovado hostiles militares estadounidense contra ca Dominicana, han surgido voces de FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER esfuerzo por parte de Cuba y de millones Cuba que hubiera costado miles de vidas, apoyo a su liberación. El estadounidense P.O. BOX 27137 de personas solidarias con la Revolución tanto cubanas como estadounidenses. La David Rovics le dedicó una canción FORT WORTH, TX 76127 Cubana por terminar de una vez el crimi- información que pasó Ana Belén a Cuba, ­youtube.com/watch?v=T8A-ldHiDyk. También pueden enviar correos a nal bloqueo estadounidense contra Cuba, fue exclusivamente para que esta nación En Cuba, personalidades conocidas [email protected] y es imprescindible recordar el sacrificio pudiera defenderse. como Silvio Rodríguez han exigido su lib- [email protected]. Agua envenenada en cárceles de Pensilvania

Por Betsey Piette jor Tillery, un abogado de prisioneros, Los presos, los guardias y los resi- potable”, y el Departamento de Salud de escribió el 12 de octubre: “No hemos dentes de La Belle han experimentado Pensilvania afirmó que el ambiente no “Tendría que estar loco para bañarse tenido agua limpia aquí por más de cu- alarmantes tasas de cáncer de riñón, contribuye al riesgo de cáncer. en esa agua”, le dijo un guardia de la atro meses. El agua es de color marrón tiroides y de mama, informó la revista prisión SCI Mahanoy a Mumia Abu-Ja- y apesta. Los guardias beben agua em- Vice en mayo de 2015. La prisión Fayette Minería de carbón amenaza agua mal después de ver la negra y mal oliente botellada. Nos quejamos y primero nos se construyó sobre una mina de carbón; del Schuylkill agua que posaba en su tina. Sin embargo, dijeron que no pasaba nada. Luego, por su vertedero de cenizas de carbón produ- La Autoridad Municipal del Condado el agua tóxica en Mahanoy y en otras pri- tres días hace un mes más o menos, a los jo residuos de partículas finas que vuelan de Schuylkill (SCMA) proporciona ser- siones de Pensilvania, no le ha dejado a prisioneros se les dio un galón de agua hacia la ciudad y la prisión. Las cenizas vicios de agua y alcantarillado para la los prisioneros más opción que la de uti- embotellada al día. Desde entonces, se de carbón contienen productos químicos mayor parte de la provincia y parece ser lizar el agua o no bañarse. ha regresado a beber y ducharse con tóxicos y cancerígenos; 3,4 millones de el proveedor de Mahanoy y Frackville, Para los detenidos, entre ellos Abu-Ja- agua sucia”. toneladas de la misma todavía se deposi- aunque el DOC no lo confirma. mal, quien sufre de Hepatitis C sin tratar, tan anualmente cerca del sitio. Dos lagu- El área contiene minas subterráneas el agua tóxica exacerba las condiciones de ¿Es culpable el carbón? nas de charco de carbón, que se sospecha abandonadas, además de minas activas de salud existentes. Él sufre de picazón ex- Aunque los prisioneros de Mahanoy y contaminan el agua potable, aumentó el la Compañía de Antracita de Reading. Allí cesiva relacionada con Hepatitis C. Frackville recientemente dieron la alar- riesgo de cáncer a 1 de cada 50 residentes. se practicó la extracción de la capa superi- Los funcionarios del Departamento de ma, los problemas de contaminación de El Centro de Derecho Abolicionista, or del terreno en la cima de la montaña. La Correcciones (DOC) han hecho poco por agua y aire en otras prisiones de Pennsyl- un bufete de abogados de interés públi- mina más grande de este tipo en Reading, remediar la crisis del agua, y dicen que vania vienen de años. En la SCI Fayette co, citando la prohibición de la Octava situada en el origen de la vertiente oeste lo están “arreglando” mientras racionan en La Belle-Pensilvania, los prisioneros Enmienda contra el “castigo cruel e in- del Río Schuylkill, podría estar contami- periódicamente agua embotellada. Los y guardias reportaron problemas serios usual”, comenzó a investigar las quejas nando el agua de las reservas usada por las prisioneros de Mahanoy reciben tres va- de salud en el 2010, incluyendo dificultad de 75 presos de Fayette. La investigación prisiones de Mahanoy y Frackville. sos de agua al día con las comidas. para respirar, mareos y llagas y tumores del DOC del estado en el 2015 dijo que el Los explosivos que rompen las mon- Desde la prisión SCI Frackville, Ma- en el cuerpo. agua cumplía con los “estándares de agua Continua a página 10