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‘Justice for Haiti! Let revolutionary Cuba live!’
By Maureen Skehan posted on July 26, 2021
Boston
A multinational, multigenerational, pro-socialist crowd, including Indigenous, Black, Latinx, immigrant rights, peace and justice, union, faith-based, youth, veterans, LGBTQ2S+ and disability rights organizers, converged at Park Street Station, Boston, July 24, for a militant and unified “People’s Speak Out and Rally” to demand “No U$ Intervention in Haiti, Reparations Now!” and “Let Revolutionary Cuba Live! End the U.S. Blockade!”
Dorotea Manuela speaking at Boston rally July 24. WW Photo: Maureen Skehan
Chantal Casimir, member, USW Local 8751, spoke at the Boston rally July 24. WW Photo: Stevan Kirschbaum
The Second Annual Boston Trans Resistance March, Vigil and Pride Fest uplifting the global Black Trans Lives Matter struggle and radical roots of LGBTQ+ Pride gathered in Nubian Square, Roxbury, on June 12. The rally was led by Athena Vaughn and Chastity Jamaria Bowick of Trans Resistance and…
Boston School Bus Drivers Union blasts bosses’ reopening schemes
By Steve Gillis posted on March 15, 2021
In direct confrontation with the U.S. ruling class’ monolithic drive to “reopen” schools and businesses, even as the pandemic continues to rage, Boston School Bus Drivers picketed their employer, Transdev, March 9. They gave voice to the outrage of frontline workers over this dangerous gamble with the lives of both the school children and the workers.
Nora Braggs and Steve Smith of Local 8751’s “Team Solidarity” leadership. (WW photo: Maureen Skehan)
The school bus drivers are members of the 1,000-strong United Steelworkers Local 8751. Along with USW monitors and leaders of Boston’s labor movement, they shut down deliveries and normal operations at the headquarters of Transdev, the international corporation that manages the school buses. At their morning break, hundreds of drivers converged from their three bus yards with picket signs demanding, “Worksite
Portland, Ore.
The majority Black workforce in Bessemer is challenging the world’s richest human, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, in their fight to be recognized by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). Bezos is so desperate to bust the union drive, he is illegally offering workers $2,000 to $3,000 “resignation bonuses.”
Speaking in East New York, part of Brooklyn, N.Y., outside an Amazon fulfillment center, Omowale Clay from the D12 Movement said: “A yes vote for the union will be a mighty blow against Amazon. A win in Bessemer will be a shot in the arm to organized labor, which will be heard around the world!”