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Philly activists demand: ‘Stop the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline!’ By Joe Piette posted on July 21, 2021 Members and friends of Philly Water Protectors, an environmental justice group, gathered July 16 outside a TD Bank in Philadelphia’s Center City. TD Bank loaned Enbridge $10.8 billion for a pipeline project that threatens 200 bodies of water, including the Mississippi River’s headwaters, and imperils Indigenous sites, waters and lands. With their artwork, posters, banners and musical instruments, demonstrators expressed their opposition to TD Bank for funding the Enbridge Line 3 tar-sands oil pipeline. This 340-mile-long conduit would transport 750,000 barrels of tar sands a day from Alberta, Canada, through untouched wetlands in northern Minnesota to Superior, Wis. ....
Despite solitary and banning, resistance continues By Joe Piette and Bryant Arroyo Joe Piette and Bryant Arroyo Incarcerated people depend on their voices being heard outside the walls for their grievances against prison officials to be effective inside. Without public pressure from family, friends and other supporters, the prison guards, supervisors and administrators can literally get away with murder. Bryant Arroyo has been a voice from inside Pennsylvania prisons for years. Arroyo is serving a life sentence for a crime he did not commit. He is still contesting this in court. He has dedicated himself to organizing from the inside and mobilizing prisoners to fight back against the horrendous conditions authorities impose on incarcerated workers. ....
Print issue returns Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Workers World suspended printing and mailing of the newspaper on March 19. We have continued publishing articles on workers.org, along with a weekly PDF of what would have been the printed version. We are pleased to announce that we have resumed printing and mailing on a monthly basis, for now. Subscribers should have received a printed paper in September and October. Print subscriptions will still be extended in consideration of the temporary suspension of printing and the currently more limited print schedule. We recommend that subscribers with internet access get our free email subscription and share our articles with your contacts and on social media. ....
Hunger strikers in Pennsylvania solitary win demands By Joe Piette posted on July 15, 2021 Philadelphia Prisoners in solitary confinement who went on a hunger strike June 23 in the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix Pennsylvania’s largest prison ended their difficult struggle July 6 with a stunning victory. At SCI Phoenix, July 6. WW PHOTO: Joe Piette According to Levittown Now, more than 20 incarcerated people were demanding the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PA DOC) “acknowledge that they are being held in a currently undefined ‘intensive management unit’ (IMU) and provide a policy and guidelines in the department handbook for it; provide people being held in this unit with programming and mental health services; give incarcerated people a path out of solitary confinement; and end long-term solitary confinement in the sta ....
Philadelphia: March against Israeli apartheid By Betsey Piette posted on July 13, 2021 Hundreds of people carrying Palestinian flags, protest signs and banners gathered at City Hall for a March Against Israeli Apartheid July 10. A spirited march up the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to the Art Museum followed, with speakers on a sound truck leading chants the entire route. One popular chant was “We don’t want your ‘two states,’ we want all of ‘48” in reference to Palestinian territory designated as the “state of Israel” in 1948. The event was organized by Philly for Palestine and co-sponsored by Philadelphia chapters of Jewish Voice for Peace, Students for Justice in Palestine, CAIR and IfNotNow along with the Philadelphia Free Palestine Coalition, Boycott Divest Sanction and Workers World Party. Sponsors also included Temple University and Swarthmore College SJP and JVP-Swarthmore. ....