NY meeting celebrates 60 years of Cuban Revolution

Vol. 83/No. 8 - February 25, 2019
NY meeting celebrates 60 years of Cuban Revolution

NEW YORK — Over 150 people attended a Feb. 8 celebration here of the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and a send-off for Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations Anayansi Rodríguez Camejo, at podium, who is returning to Cuba to assume…


Cops who killed Eric Garner ‘should be put in jail’

Vol. 82/No. 30 - August 13, 2018
Cops who killed my son “should have been indicted, convicted, be in jail,” Gwen Carr, speaking above at July 17 New York press conference, told Militant. Her son Eric Garner was killed four years ago by cop Daniel Pantaleo. NYPD said July 16 it will start disciplinary proceedings against him and his supervisor.

NEW YORK — Four years after New York police officer Daniel Pantaleo put a chokehold on Eric Garner and killed him outside a Staten Island beauty supply store, the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board said it will hold disciplinary hearings…


NY hospital workers picket against pension, health cutbacks

Vol. 82/No. 28 - July 30, 2018
Local 1199 SEIU hospital workers picket Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York July 12, one of more than 100 actions statewide protesting bosses’ moves to cut pensions, medical care and training.

NEW YORK — “Everybody’s fighting back,” some two dozen workers chanted as they joined an informational picket line outside the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center here July 12. “Nurses, fighting back. Housekeeping, fighting back. Food service, fighting back,” they…