Solidarity

Essential Health Workers Hold Solidarity Picket On Day 38 Of Strike

January 18, 2025 Fight Back! News. Resist! Health Care, Minnesota, Solidarity, Strikes, Worker Rights and Jobs

Duluth, MN – At 4 p.m. on a blustery January 15 in Duluth, workers from Essentia Health-Deer River pulled up in a bus in front of the Essentia Health-Duluth hospital and began a solidarity picket in front of the main entrance to the hospital. The Deer River Essentia workers are represented by the Service Employees International Union, Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa (SEIU HCMNIA). January 15 marked their 38th day of an open-ended strike at their hospital and nursing home. The healthcare workers are striking over pay, saying that cost of living has gone up and they need real raises to keep paying the bills.

International Anti-Fascist Festival In Venezuela Ends With Resolution

January 13, 2025 Ultimas Noticias, Orinoco Tribune. Organize! Anti-fascism, Class Struggle, Fascism, Global South, Imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Self-Determination, Social Movements, Solidarity, Venezuela

The International Anti-Fascist World Festival For a New World, held in Caracas, Venezuela, in which more than 2,000 delegates from 125 countries participated, came to an end. At the closing ceremony of the festival, on Saturday, January 11, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro thanked the participants for attending the festival and pointed out that the proposals that have emerged demonstrate the vitality that this movement is gaining. “On behalf of all Venezuela, I thank you for coming to this unprecedented event,” said President Maduro, adding that “we are at peace, in democracy, in full exercise of our national sovereignty, and the people are moving forward in this new stage.”

Arab Street Corner Bakery Challenges Inequality with Cooperation

January 12, 2025 Mari Nishitani, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Arab Americans, California, Cooperatives, Restaurant Industry, Restaurants, San Francisco, Solidarity, Worker Rights and Jobs

Reem’s California is an Arab bakery shop in San Francisco. Proudly embracing the slogan “Arab Street Food made with California Love,” this restaurant serves traditional Arab bread infused with fresh, locally sourced ingredients from California. As soon as you step in, you will be welcomed by a vibrant mural titled “Seeds of Love” which includes a quote by Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan: “If it were in my hands, if I were able to flip this world, if I possessed the ability to fill this world with seeds of love.” This space is filled with the inviting aroma of freshly baked bread, a scent infused with the love, care, and mutual support of Palestinian Americans and local community organizers.

I Entered Law To Protect My LGBTQ Community

January 2, 2025 Zane McNeill, Truthout. Resist! Legal Profession, LGBTQ Rights, Solidarity, Transgender Rights

On December 4, 2024, Chase Strangio became the first openly transgender person to orally argue a case before the Supreme Court. Strangio, a co-director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project, appeared on behalf of the parents of a 16-year-old daughter challenging a law in Tennessee that banned puberty blockers, hormone therapies and gender-affirming surgeries for transgender youth. While the presence of Strangio in the country’s highest court is so important, many trans law students like myself worry we may not have the same opportunity in the future with the way things are headed.

The Cuban Five Victory: Reflections 10 Years Later

January 1, 2025 Diana Block, Orinico Tribune. Educate! Cuba, Cuban 5, Economic Blockade, Solidarity, US Imperialism

I can remember clearly the rush of joy I felt when I heard the almost unbelievable news that the last three members of the Cuban Five, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, and Ramón Labañino, had landed in Havana on December 17th, 2014, after 16 years of unjust incarceration in U.S. prisons. (The other two members of the Five, Fernando González, and René González, had been released previously at the end of their prison terms.) I had corresponded with Gerardo while he was in prison and seeing the pictures of him embrace his wife, Adriana Pérez, who was about to give birth to their daughter Gema, made it all seem even more miraculous.

Indigenous Runners Complete Journey For Mother Earth And Solidarity

December 31, 2024 Natasha Pentin, Mongabay Environmental News. Create! Colombia, Indigenous Peoples, Journey, Mother Earth, Solidarity

Silvania, Colombia — On a warm but overcast afternoon, hundreds of Indigenous representatives and spiritual leaders gathered to witness a remarkable convergence of native nations from across the Americas. Serving as ambassadors and messengers, runners took off from Alaska and Patagonia, some covering up to 16,000 kilometers (10,000 miles) across treacherous landscapes in seven months. Along the journey, they collected sacred staffs imbued with prayers from almost 200 native nations. The runners, also known as chasquis, the name for messengers in the Inca empire, said they embarked on the journey to honor ancestral wisdom, restore balance with mother nature, strengthen the identity of Indigenous peoples, and promote global solidarity.

Philadelphia Arena: ‘$50 Million, $100 Million, The Whole Thing Is A Sellout!’

December 18, 2024 Joe Piette, Workers World. Resist! China Town, Gentrification, Philadelphia, Solidarity, Stadium

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - For over two years, a growing movement has fought to stop the proposed construction of 76 Place, a basketball arena in Philadelphia that would threaten the existence of Chinatown, the last community of color in Center City. It’s the people against the billionaires. A poll of city residents revealed 70% disapproval of the arena at that location. The struggle is also against the billionaires’ government. There’s the federal government, where billionaires get what they want no matter which party is in office.

Human Rights = Right To Live!: Sanctions Kill! Webinar December 10

December 8, 2024 Workers World. Organize! Cuba, Human Rights, Nicaragua, Palestine, Sanctions, Solidarity, US Sanctions, Venezuela

On International Human Rights Day, Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024, learn how U.S. sanctions violate human rights, with speakers from Palestine and diplomats from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. Also speaking will be representatives of the Sanctions Kill / Americas Without Sanctions Campaign and Zone of Peace. Human Rights Day is observed annually around the world on December 10, the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which enshrines rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being. As this Human Rights Day approaches, we are horrified that the genocidal terror on Gaza is not only continuing but spreading throughout the region.

Support Koreans against Yoon!

December 5, 2024 Workers' World. Resist! Coup Attempt, Coups, Martial Law, Solidarity, South Korea, US Imperialism, Worker Rights and Jobs, Yoon Suk-Yeol

The labor unions and mass organizations of the people of South Korea deserve the support of everyone who wants to struggle against war and dictatorship. They are fighting at this time — Dec. 4, 2024 — to rid the Seoul regime of its autocratic, anti-worker, pro-war President Yoon Suk-Yeol. On Dec. 3 Yoon declared martial law and sent elite troops to seize the National Assembly. His coup attempt failed, and the Congress voted to lift the coup. Yoon’s own cabinet members had dissented in fear of defeat, and Yoon was forced to retreat within hours of his martial law declaration.

The Hidden Story Of Britain’s Anti-Apartheid Militants

December 2, 2024 Marcus Barnett, Jacobin. Strategize! Apartheid, Militancy, Solidarity, South Africa, United Kingdom (UK)

At an East London cinema last summer, several dozen people in their late sixties and early seventies took to the stage. After being beckoned forwards by the compere, the veteran South African revolutionary Ronnie Kasrils, the shying group of mostly retirees received repeated standing ovations from loved ones, politicians, and diplomats filling out the private screening. Afterward, they chatted at the cinema bar and signed pamphlets and books, while their proud children and grandchildren took selfies with the actors who had portrayed their family members in the film they had just enjoyed.

Canada’s Postal Strikers Refuse To Throw New Hires Under The Bus

November 24, 2024 Danielle Smith, Labor Notes. Resist! Canada, Postal Workers, Solidarity, Strikes, Worker Rights and Jobs

Roughly 55,000 postal workers in Canada are on strike, fighting to raise their wages, protect their work, and shape the future of Canada Post. They’ve been in negotiations since November 2023, after agreeing to a two-year contract extension in 2021 due to Covid. “We definitely don’t want our jobs to become a race to the bottom,” said Tracey Langille, president of Canadian Union of Postal Workers Local 548 in Hamilton, Ontario. “We want solid jobs, living wages, decent benefits, and the ability to retire with dignity as well.”

Grassroots Launch Coalition To Defend African Stream

November 5, 2024 Defend African Stream, Popular Resistance. Resist! Africa, Censorship, Media, Solidarity

Several African-led grassroots organizations and independent media outlets have coalesced to launch the Coalition to Defend African Stream, an initiative to demand the U.S. State Department and tech giants reinstate African Stream’s accounts following tech bans in September that denied 2.5-million subscribers their human right to access Pan-Africanist, anti-imperialist news across several platforms. African Stream is a Pan-Africanist, anti-imperialist digital media outlet that had as many as hundreds of millions of people watching, engaging and sharing its journalism prior to the bans.

Cuba: Power Outages Prolonged Due To Delays In Energy Recovery

October 20, 2024 Telesur, Resumen English. Educate! Cuba, Economic Blockade, Energy, Solidarity, Venezuela

Today, Cuba once again experienced a total power outage after the recovery process of the National Electric System (SEN), initiated the day before following a blackout caused by a failure at a thermoelectric plant, failed. The Caribbean nation is unable to purchase or modernize its electrical machinery due to the draconian, unilateral blockade of the US. The process of re-energizing the SEN was then initiated, gradually restoring power to certain areas of the country with the goal of expanding and connecting them to eventually reach the thermoelectric plants and restart them. However, a new total disconnection thwarted the progress that had been made.

Solidarity With Samidoun And Khaled Barakat, Designated As ‘Terrorists’

October 16, 2024 Dalal Zainabi and Saheli Chowdhury, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Repression, Samidoun, Sanctions, Solidarity, Terrorist List

Orinoco Tribune strongly condemns the designation of the Palestinian prisoner solidarity organization Samidoun as a “foreign terrorist entity” by the governments of the United States and Canada. Orinoco Tribune also condemns the branding of Palestinian activist Khaled Barakat, a Canadian citizen, as a “terrorist” by the US government and the imposition of targeted sanctions against him. Orinoco Tribune considers this designation to be a thinly veiled attempt to silence Palestinians and pro-Palestine voices and suppress the legitimate humanitarian efforts of Samidoun and other organizations working for the Palestinian people.

People Of South Asia Reaffirm Solidarity With Palestine

October 9, 2024 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Resist! Genocide, India, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Solidarity, United Nations (UN)

Thousands of people participated in rallies and protest gatherings all across the South Asia region as part of international calls for mobilization to commemorate a year of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, express solidarity with the Palestinian people, and to raise the demand for an immediate ceasefire. Protesters carried Palestinian flags, banners condemning the genocide, and chanted slogans in support of the Palestinian resistance. A large number of young university students joined the protests as well, defying various restrictions imposed by their respective governments on the display of such solidarity with Palestinians.

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