Solidarity: A Socialist, Feminist, Anti-Racist Organization

Time 2020-09-27 01:04:29

Web Name: Solidarity: A Socialist, Feminist, Anti-Racist Organization

WebSite: http://www.solidarity-us.org

ID:61020

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Feminist,Socialist,Solidarity,

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University of Michigan grad students strike for COVID-19, anti-policing demandsRobin ZhengSeptember 14, 2020During the 1975 month-long strike that garnered the University of Michigan Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) its first contract, agreements on affirmative action and non-discrimination were secured within the first week after more than half the undergraduate students boycotted their classes in solidarity.Since then, GEO has maintained a consistent record of hard-fought, precedent-setting contract victories that prioritize the well-being of historically disadvantaged groups, both within and beyond its own membership. These include childcare subsidies (2002, after a one-day walkout), trans-inclusive and trans-specific healthcare (2006 onward, including significant gains in 2020), improved disability accommodations (2011), fertility treatments (2014, a benefit secured for employees across the university), and the creation of paid positions for graduate students performing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) work (2017, after a strike authorization).On the picket line in 2020, GEO members regularly invoke this history of bargaining for the common good (or social justice unionism ) as part of their motivations for striking. Their demands for A Safe and Just Pandemic Response for All boldly address the two intertwined global crises that have come to define our times: the disastrous failure of our institutions to respond adequately to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the deadly state-sanctioned violence ceaselessly inflicted on communities of color by the police.GEO s COVID-19 demands include a more robust testing and contact tracing program, a universal right to work remotely, more flexible subsidies for parents and caregivers, and support for international students; while their anti-policing demands include disarming and demilitarizing campus police, reallocating 50% of U-M Division of Public Safety and Security funds, and cutting ties with the Ann Arbor Police Department and ICE.This is an abolitionist strike, a historic development unimaginable (and, to many, unintelligible) just a few years ago JVP denounces Zoom, Facebook and YouTube for censoring PalestiniansJewish Voice for PeaceSeptember 26, 2020New York City, NY (September 24, 2020) In an unprecedented campaign of coordinated repression, Zoom, Facebook and YouTube shut down an open classroom academic event dedicated to the voices of Palestinians and other political prisoners organized by Professor Rabab Abdulhadi, founding director of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies program, and Professor Tomomi Kinukawa, lecturer in the Women and Gender Studies Department at San Francisco State University.The...YouTube, Zoom and Facebook censor Leila Khaled for IsraelNora Barrows-FriedmanSeptember 26, 2020Major Silicon Valley companies censored an event at San Francisco State University on Wednesday.This means that during the pandemic, private companies closely aligned with the government have immense power over what can be said, even in an academic setting.Zoom, the web-based videoconferencing platform, announced Tuesday evening that it was prohibiting SFSU from using its software to host a planned webinar on Wednesday with Leila Khaled , the Palestinian resistance icon who is now in her seventies...In her Organizing Upgrade article, From Resolutions to Transformation: How Unions Are Organizing for Racial Justice , Stephanie Luce reported on how teachers, nursing home workers and telephone workers are re-imagining what “union” demands and organizing look like. Here, Boston teacher Ann Finkel reflects on her experience in light of Luce’s article.As a member of the Boston Teachers Union (BTU), I appreciated reading Stephanie Luce’s article on how a number of unions are organizing for racial...NBA Players Demand Democratic ReformK MannSeptember 17, 2020With an average height of 6’6” versus 5’9” for the general U.S. population professional basketball players are giants in the conventional physical sense. They recently proved they are moral and political giants as well. First, with the Milwaukee Bucks leading the charge, they halted play in the midst of their playoffs to state their opposition to racist police violence following the brutal shooting and paralysis of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on August 23 David Graeber, Anthropologist and Activist of the 99%Hannah ArchambaultSeptember 15, 2020David Graeber’s heartbreaking early death is a great loss to leftist scholarship, popular political discourse, and political action. His work was broad-ranging and explicitly anti-capitalist, and he wrote and advocated along these lines for decades. He wrote extensively on theories of anarchist practice and tactics in terms of direct action and prefigurative politics, principles that he applied in his own activist work throughout his life.In addition to his fundamental role in shaping the Occupy...Professor Rabab Abdulhadi gave this presentation on the situation in Palestine and the growth of the global solidarity movement to a webinar on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 sponsored by the Detroit branch of Solidarity, Jewish Voice for Peace - Detroit, U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) - Detroit and Palestinian Youth Movement - Detroit. Dr. Abdulhadi emphasized the importance at this critical time of movements coming together to oppose racism and colonialism everywhere, from the USA to Palestine....The Fires Currently Raging in California, and Climate ChangeBarry SheppardSeptember 2, 2020Record wildfires in the San Francisco Bay Area rapidly erupted in less than two weeks, in the midst of a scorching heat wave.As of August 24, nearly 120,000 have fled their homes as 1.2 million acres have burned, greater than the state of Rhode Island. Two of the wildfires rank as the second and third largest in California’s history – and they’re still growing. The largest was in 2018.This is happening during the pandemic, which has caused increased difficulties for those evacuated from their...Athletes Making Sports MatterDavid FinkelAugust 28, 2020APRIL 5, 1968 the night after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. was the opening of a crucial playoff series between the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers. Reluctantly, the players from both teams went ahead with the game, although their hearts weren’t in it in an atmosphere that sportswriter Leonard Koppett called “subdued.” It’s never been clear to me how much pressure they may have been under, but evidently those players, some of whom were civil rights fighters,...Will the Military Support a Declaration of Martial LawGarett Reppenhagen, Veterans for Peace, Interviewed by Bill ResnickAugust 27, 2020Recently, Veterans for Peace issued a statement condemning the deployment of troops in the U.S.: “Veterans For Peace condemns the inflammatory statements of Donald Trump. His declaration of calling for military troops on US soil to quell people exercising their First Amendment right is inflammatory and incredibly dangerous. We stand unequivocally with the protestors who are in the streets calling for an end to senseless police killings and white supremacy.In addition to the...The Significance of August 5th and Prospects for the FutureRadical SocialistAugust 25, 2020August 5th will go down in Indian history as the day aggressive, chauvinistic nationalism, in its most fascistic form, but also with a deeper implantation in society than any other ultra-right fascist-type force, succeeded in throttling the First Indian Republic.It is incontestable that the constitution, the political practices, of independent India always had a Hindu, and Brahminical tilt. However, what was one element among many became, in the hands of the RSS, and the entire range of political...The September-October 2020 AGAINST THE CURRENT (#208) features:The Pandemic & the Vote—The EditorsBlack Lives Matter & the Now Moment—Anthony BorguesOpening Up the Schools?—Robert BartlettToward Class Struggle Electoral Politics—Barry Eidlin interviews Meagan Day & Micah UetrichtBehind Lebanon's Catastrophe—Suzi Weissman interviews Gilbert AchcarSolidarity depends on the generous contributions of its friends and allies to continue its work.États-Unis : L’affrontement final a déjà commencé et le monde entier retient son souffle ! NPA 67 Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste Strasbourg, 2020-09-06 01:25:32On Will the Military Support a Declaration of Martial LawPodcast Interviews: We Need To Spread This Freely and Crises of US Capitalism Transnational Solidarity Network, 2020-08-30 09:10:37On On the Attack on Robert Cuffy at the Mass March to Defund the NYPDMulti-Party Democracy Bill Totten s Weblog, 2020-08-13 21:01:32On Adorno's The Authoritarian PersonalityThe IMF, the World Bank, and South Asia in the face of COVID-19 - Afro Asia Forum, 2020-08-06 05:33:32On Pakistan: Corruption in PrivatizationThe IMF, the World Bank, and South Asia in the face of COVID-19 - Atlantic Council, 2020-08-05 16:58:57On Pakistan: Corruption in Privatization

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