Wednesday May 22, 2013
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People's Struggles

UF students stand in solidarity with Samer Issawi!
Skye Schmelzer | Gainesville, FL | 3/22/13
On March 21, Palestine solidarity activists came together on the University of Florida campus to protest inhumane Israeli prison conditions and the...
Hunger Strike, Israeli Occupation, Palestine, Political prisoners, Samer Issawi
Chicago anti-war movement marks 10-year anniversary of Iraq War
Staff | Chicago, IL | 3/21/13
On the morning of March 20, 2003, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) news anchor opened the broadcast with the news that the bombing of Baghdad had...
anti-war, Anti-War Committee, drones, tenth anniversary of Iraq war, US imperialism
Idle No More founder protests, speaks in Minneapolis
Linden Gawboy | Minneapolis, MN | 3/21/13
After a spirited protest downtown, Indigenous rights leaders, including Nina Wilson, a founder of Idle No More, gathered here at the American Indian...
environment, Idle No More, Indigenous People, Oppressed Nationalities
Florida wage theft battle continues
Staff | Gainesville, FL | 3/21/13
The Alachua County Wage Theft Task Force went before the Alachua County commissioners on March 12 to demand a solution to the wage theft epidemic in the...
Alachua County Wage Theft Task Force, wage theft, workers struggle
National immigrant rights summit unites on demand: Legalization for all!
Staff | Riverside, CA | 3/20/13
On March 16, over 300 people, mostly Chicanos and Latinos, came to the University of California-Riverside for the Alliance for Immigration Reform National...
Alliance for Immigration Reform National Leadership Summit, FBI Repression, guest worker, ICE, immigrant rights, legalization for all
Iraq: 10th anniversary of U.S. crime against humanity
Sara Flounders | United States | 3/20/13
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following article from Workers World.
Iraq War, media lies
Syria says that Western-backed terrorists have launched chemical weapon attack
Staff | Syria | 3/19/13
The Syrian Arab News Agency charged that Western-backed terrorists launched a “rocket containing chemical materials on Khan al-Asal area in Aleppo...
chemical weapons, Free Syrian Army, Syria, US imperialism, Weapons of Mass Destruction
SDS holds national Day of Action for Education Rights
Stephanie Taylor | Minneapolis, MN | 3/18/13
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a national progressive student group, held a “Day of Action for Education Rights” on March 14. High school and...
Education Rights, SDS, Students for a Democratic Society
CIW 6-mile march protesting Publix declares “New day for farmworkers”
Staff | Lakeland, FL | 3/18/13
About 1000 people took to the streets here, March 17, marching six miles to the Publix Supermarket headquarters.
CIW, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Farmworkers, Lakeland, Publix
Save Public Schools Night exposes destruction of public education
David Hungerford | Irvington, NJ | 3/17/13
The Coalition to Save Our Homes held Save Public Schools Night here on March 11.
Capitalism, Coalition to Save Our Homes, Education Rights, Home Foreclosures, Public Schools, Wall Street
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