JERSEY CITY, N.J. — A lively march and rally demanding independence for Puerto Rico drew some 60 people to City Hall here Aug. 29. “Puerto Rico has been occupied illegally by the U.S. for 128 years,” Jason Cruz, president of…
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Nearly 100 striking Teamsters, members of Local 639, and their supporters, held a lively rally outside of Verbal Beginnings here Aug. 27. “Who are we?” shouted one striker, “Teamsters!” the pickets yelled back. Verbal Beginnings is a…
MINNEAPOLIS — Some 150 people attended a political meeting and showing of “Cuba After Castro” at the Main Cinema here Aug. 26. The film, made by Abby Martin and Matthew Belen, is an interview with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who…
NEW YORK — Pathfinder Press has participated in the annual Grenada Day Festival, held in Brooklyn, since 2014. Inspired by news of the recent “Grateful Grenada Gives Back to Cuba” fundraising campaign on the island, volunteers at this year’s Pathfinder…
MONTREAL — A major political confrontation took place at City Hall here Aug. 24 when Projet Montreal, the opposition party, submitted a resolution calling on the City Council to sever all ties with Israel, falsely claiming Israel is an “apartheid state…
September 10, 2001 The following message by Puerto Rican independence fighter Rafael Cancel Miranda was sent to the participants in the World Festival of Youth and Students held in Algeria. Cancel Miranda spent over a quarter-century in U.S. prisons. Since…
SEATTLE — Over 100 unionists joined the striking UNITE HERE Local 8 workers on their picket line in front of the Embassy Suites Hotel Aug. 20. “We are fighting for ourselves, but also because if we win this strike it…
By the end of 1963 the nationwide movement fighting to abolish Jim Crow segregation was drawing in hundreds of thousands of working people and youth, imparting new confidence to fighters on frontline battles in the South and having a growing…
In a blow to constitutional rights, a U.S. Court of Appeals in Florida Aug. 5 upheld the government’s use of the notorious Foreign Agents Registration Act, adopted in 1938 as part of the U.S. rulers’ drive to enter the second…
SAN FRANCISCO — Fifteen spirited pickets from UNITE HERE Local 2 chanted and banged on pots Aug. 16 outside Hotel Spero here, concluding a five-day strike. The workers have been without a contract for four years. In March the hotel…
