Women prisoners in Central California Prison are battered by so-called wellness checks.
Articles
Prisoner beats legal odds to win guard retaliation suit
Jury unanimously finds that prison guards violated California prisoner Jesse Perez’s constitutional rights.
Queer Notes, January-February 2016
January 25, 2016Repression of Tunisia’s LGBTQ community; murders at Mexico’s Reina Gay festival; Ukraine bans employment discrimination against GLBT people; fundraising failure for U.S. opponents of same-sex marriage.
Handicap This! January-February 2016
A summary of disability rights actions around the world including: the savaging of overtime pay for personal assistants in Illinois; a bill in Madison, Wisc., seeking stronger rules for investigating abuse and neglect of children with disabilities; and the arrest in Chennai, India, of disabled rights activists.
Trans Victims Honored
A report on several Transgender Day of Remembrance events held in New York City in November 2015.
Detroit, Flint — Water is a Human Right
Discussion of the fight against water shutoffs in Detroit by a participant and a Flint resident discusses the problem of lead in the City of Flint’s drinking water.
Two-tier ruins Muni
The two-tier contract between the San Francisco Municipal Railway and the Transit Workers Union was shoved down workers’ throats.
Detroit teachers’ sick-out
Teachers in Detroit held a sick-out closing 60 schools, directed against Gov. Snyder and his Emergency Manager for Detroit schools.
Workshop Talks: Urgency of solidarity
Workers often ignore borders to solidarize with fellow humans. Solidarity needed now against atrocities against Syrian civilians and in support of Larycia Hawkins risking tenure to stand with Muslims under attack.
Risking jobs for union and respect
Workers in four maquiladoras in Ciudad Juarez began organizing to form an independent union and for higher wages, better working conditions and against sexual harassment.
Readers’ Views: January-February 2016, Part 2
Philosophy, theory and News & Letters; Flint Part Ii; Mumia Abu-Jamal; Voices from behind the bars.
Readers’ Views: January-February 2016, Part 1
California prisoners battle barbaric ‘justice’ system; Against ISIS attacks; Women under attack; Support Maati Monjib; The Burmese Way; Race, class & politics.
Comrades and friends remember Olga
Remembrances of Olga Domanski by comrades and friends.
Olga Domanski’s revolutionary life, 1923-2015: Readers’ Views
Readers’ Views on the revolutionary life of Olga Domanski.
In memoriam Olga Domanski, 1923-2015
January 24, 2016The world has lost a great fighter for liberation. Olga Domanski, one of the founders of News and Letters Committees, whose life’s work was the development and projection of Marxist-Humanism and the growth of its organizational expression.
Paris climate accord’s suicidal complacency spurs protests
The Paris Agreement on climate change reveals limits of what capitalism will do even in the face of catastrophe. The question is what kind of development can people in all kinds of countries achieve?
From The Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Women as thinkers and revolutionaries
Olga Domanski’s summary of the series on “Women as Thinkers and as Revolutionaries” by Raya Dunayevskaya.
Women WorldWide: January-February 2016
A brief roundup of what women are doing worldwide including: a report to the UN about the appalling status of women in the U.S.; The Cupcake Girls organization that supports sex workers in two U.S. states; and the British group Mumsnet that fights against the gendered marketing of children’s toys, books and clothing.
Review: Out In The Union: A Labor History of Queer America
Review of Review: Out In The Union: A Labor History of Queer America, by feminist anti-religious right activist Adele who writes an appreciative look at Miriam Frank’s important book.
‘Comfort’ women dispute agreement
January 23, 2016Article outlining the seriously flawed agreement between the governments of Japan and South Korea regarding the so-called “comfort women,” actually women kidnapped into sexual slavery to serve Japanese Soldiers during World War II. The article includes the list of demands of the surviving women who were left out of the agreement’s negotiations.
Woman as Reason: Olga Domanski: embodiment of Woman as Reason
An in memoriam to Olga Domanski from a women’s liberationist’s point of view.
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Editorial: Chicago’s racism on trial
On the deadly racism of the Chicago and U.S. police and the creative response from those struggling against it.
Editorial: Erdogan slaughters Kurds
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s slaughter of Kurdish civilians and activists is viewed in the context of world revolution and counter-revolution.
Olga Domanski, 1923-2015
January 7, 2016The world has lost a great fighter for liberation. Olga Domanski, one of the founders of News and Letters Committees, whose life’s work was the development and projection of Marxist-Humanism and the growth of its organizational expression.
Paris climate accord vs. humanity’s future
December 19, 2015Paris Accord reveals limits of what capitalism will do even in the face of catastrophe. The question is what kind of development can people in all kinds of countries achieve? So long as the vision of an alternative, liberatory path of development is not made concrete as the energizing principle of a movement, a vacuum is left for false alternatives.
Reader’s Views: November-December 2015, Part 2
December 16, 2015readers views, nov dec 2015, part 2
Readers’ Views: November-December 2015, Part 1
readers views nov dec 2015 part 1
Philosophic Dialogue: Behind Marković’s turn to fascism was rift with Marx’s humanism
Philosophic dialogue discusses Markovic’s turn to fascism.
Stop Rikers cruelty
December 15, 2015Prisoner supporters speak out on draconian proposals for Rikers Island jail.
Flint water crisis
Flint water was contaminated with dangerous lead levels.
Letter from Mexico: Ayotzinapa’s new point of departure?
Universality of the movement for Ayotzinapa’s disappeared students
Youth in Action, Nov.-Dec. 2015
McGill Univ. tent city for fossil fuel disinvestment; New Delhi College of Art protest; Westmount High School student picket supports teachers; Beirut “You Stink!” protests
Defend Maati Monjib
Moroccan professor on hunger strike in protest of suppression of rights of journalists
Voices from People’s Climate March
December 13, 2015Many voices spoke at Chicago’s People’s Climate March.
The Raza wants theory
The Raza needs theory that includes struggles within U.S. borders, not simply how to support other people’s struggles. There are issues unique to our existence. Nationalism of the oppressed is applied Internationalism.
Queer Notes: November-December 2015
December 11, 2015Roundup of actions by LGBTQ people including: protests of the movie “Stonewall”; fighting to decriminalize homosexuality in Tunisia; a domestic violence awareness campaign in Boston; high membership in LGBTQ youth group in Russia; and the fight to rename a street in Salt Lake City after Harvey Milk.
Rally against murders of Trans people of color
Murdered Trans people of color remembered in Brooklyn, New York.
Land struggles in Honduras
A historical look at Hondurans struggle for their land.
Canada’s election: a sense of uncertainty
Uncertainty in Canada after its federal election.
Prisoners speak on Hugo ‘Yogi’ Pinell
Prisoners mourn and remember assassinated prisoner Hugo ‘Yogi’ Pinell.
Killing Mockingbird
Review of Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman.
Voices from Chernobyl chart disaster
Review of Voices from Chernobyl: The oral history of a nuclear disaster.
Kurds rage at Erdogan
December 10, 2015Kurds protest at Chicago’s Turkish consulate against recent massacre in Ankara
World in View: Deadly war waged on Yemen’s civilians
Saudi’s seven-month-long campaign of death and human suffering has been abetted by logistical support from the Obama administration. The Houthis they purport to oppose wasted the popular welcome they received entering Sana’a in 2014 by allying with former oppressor, ex-ruler Saleh, and imposing their own brand of narrow sectarian rule.
World in View: Terror and old prejudice in a changing Turkey
Behind the bombing that killed over 100 peace marchers in Ankara, the state equated the Kurdistan Workers Party with ISIS despite the heroic struggle to defend Kobane.
World in View: Mexico’s ‘La Migra’
Mexico takes millions of dollars from the U.S. to stop Central American immigrants from crossing Mexico’s southern border. Gangs prey on those who make it into Mexico.
From The Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Black masses, youth and the needed U.S. revolution: philosophy and reality
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: “Black masses, youth and the needed U.S. revolution: philosophy and reality” looks at the possibility of revolution in the U.S. and the importance of Black masses as vanguard.
How not to defend schools
Detroit public school teachers rally in support of school boiler operators.
Latina worker speaks
In San Quintin Baja, California, women agricultural workers force the state to the bargaining table as they fight for the education of their children and experience development in the process.