The Latest from Black Rose/Rosa Negra
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Solidarity with the Toronto 900!
From Four Star: Between June 26th-27 2010, the G-20, an international organization between the protectors of capital, met to discuss how to secure profit during failing economic recession. Amidst housing and labor crisis, global poverty, lack of international medical care and aid, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and environmental disaster (THANKS BP!) they spent close…
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On Building Revolutionary Consciousness in Practice: Some Brief Reflections on the Insights of Paulo Freire
by Thomas Recently during a discussion on organizing strategy that I was observing, more than participating in, a friend and comrade of mine emphasized the importance of listening in organizing. He wasn’t talking about listening in the sense of listening only to figure out how to market your ideas in more attractive language, or the…
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Batay Ouvriye- A Worker’s Flag Day (May 18)
Batay Ouvriye Port-au-Prince, May 27th, 2010 In the context of the Workers Mobilization Month launched during the camps’ first march on April 28th, 2010, and following up on the various activities developed May First, May 18th was a major date (see our previous document: “The mobilization is launched!”). In Haiti, May 18th is Flag Day.…
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Anthony Kyser is not the threat – our bosses and landlords are!
Posted by atrain On Saturday May 8, Anthony Kyser stole toothpaste and crayons from a CVS Pharmacy located at 2634 S. Pulaski. The manager of CVS chased Kyser to a back alley where employees held Kyser to the ground while the manager choked him to death. An off-duty Cook County Corrections Officer on the scene…
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Twin Cities Nurses Prepare For Largest Nurses Strike in History
by S. Nappalos Over 12,000 Minnesota nurses are set to strike in 14 hospitals across the Twin Cities area. Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association, a union for nurses, are presently in contract negotiations with hospitals in their region. Negotiations have stalled over patient-to-staff ratios, with the union demanding strict safe-staffing ratios, and hospital management…
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Justicia Divina
por Carlos El Padre Anselmo, somnoliento y errático aún, activó la cerradura de la puerta doble que le separaba del resto de la residencia parroquial, (y básicamente del resto del mundo), para encontrarse ante la incomoda respuesta de un crujir trabajoso y rechinante hasta el ruido. Lamentó no estar en sueños y que su cuerpo le…
