Organizing under lockdown: online activism, local solidarity
Bernd Bonfert | zcomm.org | 2020-04-10
As the pandemic forces us into lockdown, activists across Europe demonstrate that there are still ways to organize and practice solidarity at a safe social distance…
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How Disabled Activists Are Fighting Isolation, Collectively
Brooke Anderson | zcomm.org | 2020-04-10
In the Bay Area, mutual aid projects are helping build community in a time of social distancing…
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Orange King COVID
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-10
Listen to Paul Street on this week's edition of CounterPunch Radio. One of the reasons to have joined Refuse Fascism and other activists in the streets demanding the end of the lethal Trump-Pence regime for the last three years and three months was the danger that the demented president and his white nationalist party in…
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COVID-19 Reaches U.S. Slaughterhouses
Martha Rosenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-10
Meat giant JBS USA Holdings closed its Souderton, Pennsylvania slaughter operation. Tyson Foods closed its Columbus Junction, Iowa pork slaughterhouse. Pennsylvania-based Empire Kosher Poultry temporarily closed its doors and Sanderson Farms asked employees at its Moultrie, GA slaughter operation to stay home. COVID-19 has hit U.S. slaughterhouses big time. In addition to management-ruled closures, employees…
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Saudi's Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
The bogus trial against Loujain al-Hathloul should compel governments around the world to put more pressure on the Saudis and demand al-Hathloul's immediate and unconditional release…
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