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Tag Archives: Latinos
Car wash wage win
Another car wash in the Bronx unionized after a protracted struggle with the management of the company. Sunny Day Car Wash initially fired twelve workers for trying to organize a union. The workers, Mexicans and Ecuadorians, fought back and protested their dismissal for two months. Continue reading
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Tagged Bronx, immigrant workers, labor, Latinos, New York City, Sunny Day Car Wash, trade unions, United States, Wage
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Readers’ Views, January-February 2013, Part 1
From the January-February 2013 issue of News & Letters: RAVAGES OF CAPITALISM SHOW NEED FOR NEW WORLD The article on “Climate chaos and capitalism” (Sept.-Oct. 2012 N&L) is very relevant, especially the conclusion about how capitalism’s contradiction is that the … Continue reading
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Tagged absolute method, African Americans, American Civilization on Trial, Black liberation, capitalism, China, climate change, environment, feminism, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, G.W.F. Hegel, global warming, India, Japan, Karl Marx, labor, Latinos, Mali, New York City Marathon, New York Stock Exchange, News and Letters Committees, Ningbo, Nuclear power, Occupy Movement, Occupy Sandy Recovery, Occupy Wall Street, Paris Commune of 1871, people with disabilities, racism, Rape, Raya Dunayevskaya, Shifang, Syria, Three Mile Island, Timothy Tang, Trayvon Martin, Tuareg, United States, women's liberation, workers
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Readers’ Views, September-October 2012, Part 1
From the September-October 2012 issue of News & Letters: Readers’ Views, Part 1 CAPITALIST CRISIS AND REVOLT I appreciated Franklin Dmitryev’s Lead article in the July-August N&L, on “Spain, Greece, Europe: Capitalist crisis and revolt,” for showing how the so-called … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, African Americans, anti-war movement, Asturian miners, Asturias, Bob Dylan, capitalism, China, democracy, disenfranchisement, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, elections, English as a Second Language, feminism, gay rights, General Assemblies, global gag rule, Greece, Humanism, Israeli Defense Force, James Daly, labor, Latinos, lgbtq, Li Congjun, Mariano Rajoy, Marx: Justice and Dialectic, Medicaid, medicare, Middle East, Mitt Romney, NAACP, New York City, News and Letters Committees, Obama, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Movement, Occupy Patriarchy, Occupy Wall Street, Palestine, Paul Ryan, Pussy Riot, queer liberation, Rachel Corrie, racism, Raya Dunayevskaya, Roe vs. Wade, sexism, Spain, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Trotskyism, U.S. Supreme Court, United States Postal Service, voter suppression, women's liberation, workers, Xinhua News Agency, youth
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Readers’ Views, July-August 2012, Part 2
From the July-August 2012 issue of News & Letters: Readers’ Views, July-August 2012, Part 2 RICH AND DUNAYEVSKAYA: A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP Thanks for your In Memoriam to Adrienne Rich. It revealed a dimension that many who were appreciative of her poetry and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrienne Rich, automation, California Governor Jerry Brown, capitalism, Captive Genders, criminal injustice system, education, feminism, ILWU, immigrant workers, Karl Marx, labor, Latinos, lgbt, lgbtq, Marxist-Humanism, Medical cannabis, Nashville Tennessee, New York City, News and Letters Committees, Oaksterdam, Occupy Movement, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, philosophy of revolution, prison industrial complex, prisoners, queer liberation, Raya Dunayevskaya, students, teachers, Transgendered, Unite Against The War on Women, United States, women's liberation movement, workers
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Latino voice reaches beyond SHU walls
From the July-August 2012 issue of News & Letters: Latino voice reaches beyond SHU walls Pelican Bay, Calif.—I have been a prisoner at Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit (SHU) for well over 20 years. As is the case with so … Continue reading
NYC May Day march
From the July-August 2012 issue of News & Letters: NYC May Day march New York—There was a large May Day rally and march in New York City—but you would not have known it from reading The New York Times. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Chipotle Mexican Grill, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Community Food Alliance, CUNY Professional Staff, day laborers, doctors, environmental movement, Hospital Workers Local 1199, jornaleros, labor, Latinos, May Day, Musicians Local 802, New York, New York City, New York Times, nurses, Occupy Movement, Occupy the Department of Education, Occupy Wall Street, teachers, United Federation of Teachers, workers
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Urgent call from Whittier Parents Committee: Help needed tonight!
Urgent request from the Whittier Parents Committee. It appears an attempted demolition might be imminent. The Whittier Parents Committee is calling on all allies to show up at La Casita tonight (7:30 at 1900 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60608). … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago, education, La Casita, Latinos, Pilsen, students, Whittier Parents Committee, Whittier School
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