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Despite tropical storm and hurricane warnings, and the postponement of the Republican National Convention, some 1,000 protesters came out Aug. 26 and 27 to protest the reactionary Mitt RomneyPaul Ryan ticket. Read more coverage in an upcoming issue of Workers World.
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Representatives of the Baltimore Peoples Assembly gathered for a vigil and protest in front of the boarded-up house that Rudy Bell Sr., a homeless veteran, had made his home at 1607 W. Lexington Street. This was also where he was shot to death by Baltimore city police on Aug. 18. Bell is the 10th person killed by Baltimore police since the beginning of this year. Neigh- Friend of Rudolph Bell Sr. stands with Rev. Cortly CD Withbors said he suffered from erspoon schizophrenia. A neighbormicrophone displaying a handwritten pehood resident, who knew Mr. Rudy, as he tition of those who protested his killing. was affectionately called, spoke from the Report & photo by Sharon Black
By Steven Ceci Baltimore Two representatives of the Baltimore Peoples Assembly, the Rev. Cortly CD Witherspoon of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Sharon Black, an organizer for the All Peoples Congress, have refused a plea deal to do 10 hours of community service. The two activists were arrested for trespass on Aug. 6 at the Unity March to Stop Police Terror and for Jobs and Recreation Centers. Their trial is now set for Oct. 4. Witherspoon and Black marched with about 100 other people at the Aug. 6 march from East Baltimore to City Hall. Participants included victims and families of police abuse and killings, community activists advocating for jobs and recreation centers, and other groups, including the Occupy movement. At City Hall, the two activists, acting on behalf of the Baltimore Peoples Assembly, entered the building to present Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake a letter outlining what was voted on by the 142 representatives who attended the June 30 Peoples Assembly. The letter detailed a call for community control of police; his cousin, Hilton Vega who was also killed were shot 22 times, 11 in the back, by police detectives Patrick Brosnan and James Crowe. Allene Person and Josefa Villanueva attended. Timur Person, Persons son, was killed by police in the Bronx on Dec. 13, 2006, two days before his 20th birthday. Villanuevas son, George Villanueva, was framed by Hines for allegedly pushing policeman Alain Schaberger off a stoop to his death, an act Villanueva didnt do.
the firing and adequate charging of police who have shot, killed or brutalized community members; and other key issues, including providing jobs and keeping recreation centers and fire stations open. Black and Witherspoon requested a meeting with the mayor and asked for someone from her office to meet with them regarding these emergency issues or to agree to an expedited meeting date, considering that recreation centers were to close at the end of the week and that the problem of police terror is acute. As a result, both organizers were charged with trespass, taken to Central Booking and jailed until they saw a court commissioner the following day. Supporters meanwhile continued to rally outside City Hall. Both Witherspoon and Black assert that they are innocent, which is why they refused to plead guilty or to accept a plea deal. Their charging documents state that they were on the property of the mayor and City Council. Both see it as ironic since City Hall is the property of the people. Black and Witherspoons refusal to take a plea deal was met with cheers from the group that had gathered in their support for this preliminary court appearance. Michael Ojeda and Carmen Ojeda told how their 11-year-old daughter, Briana Ojeda, died of an asthma attack on Aug. 27, 2010, while a nearby cop did nothing. Detective Philip Atkins shot and killed 23-year-old Shantel Davis while she was in a car in Brooklyn on June 14. Davis sister, Natasha Duncan, and uncle, Harold Davis, told the crowd that Atkins whos had six federal civil rights suits filed against him lied when he said his Continued on next page
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U.S. and the state dropped the phony charges against him. Mallory spent almost two years in jail in Cleveland, where the Monroe Defense Committee carried out a vigorous campaign against her extradition to North Carolina. It was representing the MDC that three of us two Black, one white had driven from New York to Monroe in 1962 to support Williams and Mallory. Twenty- rst century racism Unlike that trip of half a century ago, this year we didnt have to conceal the fact that Blacks and whites were traveling together in the same car. On the approach to Monroe, everything looked different. Where a winding country road had once bordered the town, there was now a new four-lane divided highway flanked by endless chain stores and bank branches. I was looking for something familiar, something to jog my memory. We found it when we got to an older neighborhood next to the railroad tracks. There was the Monroe I remembered from 1962
small, white clapboard houses, now 50 years older but still with neat front lawns. Inside had been only the barest sticks of furniture. At that time, the only jobs Black men could get in the textile mills were as sweepers. The only jobs for Black women were as domestic workers for $15 a week. Today, the mills are shuttered and crumbling. We asked an African-American man in a fish store about jobs. He shook his head, There are no jobs. On the other side of the tracks, the houses are larger, newer, some made of brick. We found the library, a new building with a section on Monroes history. A white librarian told us proudly of being on a march last year to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides. How much has changed? She lowered her voice. There are still some who wont let go. Those some wield a lot of power. So much so that recent efforts to commemorate enslaved people who died while being forced to serve their masters in the Civil War ran into fierce resistance. The some didnt want any monument to Black people in Union County, N.C., including for those who fought for the Confederacy. There may not be cross-burnings in Monroe today, but the African-American community still knows terror. Its the economic terror of a white boss deciding whether you work or not. And its the police terror that upholds the bosses and fills the jails with people of color. There wont be any post-racial society in the U.S. until this terror has been eradicated. Email: dgriswold@workers.org
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Undocubus travelers stop in Selma, Ala., on their way to DNC protests. Four were arrested Aug. 28 in Tennessee.
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Demanding immigrant rights, undocumented immigrants on a bus tour traveling through Southern states will join the protests around the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 1. The Undocubus tour began on July 29 in Phoenix the jurisdiction of racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio and a hotbed of resistance to the states rabid anti-immigrant legislation. The tour will travel through New
Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee before arriving in Charlotte. The tours website proclaims: Riding the bus alone is a great risk because of the checkpoints and profiling that have become so common. But the ride is also an arena for mobilizing, where we will build with those who have a story to tell, who have realized the only secure community is
an organized one. We have overcome our fears and are ready to set a new example of courage. Participants are described as students, mothers and fathers, children, people in deportation proceedings, day laborers, and others who continue to face deportation, harassment and death while simply looking for a better life. (nopapersnofear.org) LeiLani Dowell
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By Bryan G. Pfeifer Charlotte, N.C. Delegations from across the country are traveling to Charlotte, N.C. otherwise known as Wall Street South to demand a world free of poverty, racism and war. The Coalition to March on Wall Street Souths army of organizers is working day and night to build protests during the Democratic National Convention Sept. 1-6. MOWSS organizers have helped to build a multi-city network of more than 20 organizing centers. They report that the Detroit Moratorium NOW! Coalition has chartered a bus, organizers from Occupy 4 Jobs and other groups are coming in vans from New York City, and activists from the South and elsewhere are joining the protests. For weeks, MOWSS organizers and supporters from many states have been on Charlottes streets distributing thousands of leaflets and posters and attending progressive events, including the Pride Charlotte festival on Aug. 25-26. Theyve helped defend womens health clinics, attended pro-environmental events and gone to city workers worksites and rallies. Elena Everett, of Occupy Durham and a MOWSS Coalition lead organizer, told WW, As an organizer from the South, the process of pulling together these mobilizations in this coalition has been and is inspiring. Its truly a grass-roots, homegrown, Southern-led coalition, and it proves that the peoples movement is alive and well in the South. Everett explained: The South has been historically underrepresented and underresourced. It exists in a legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. Its important for all justice-minded people to understand the importance and significance of our region. We have a third of the entire population of the country living in the South. The working conditions here are the worst in the country. If we really want change in our country, we need to focus on organizing the unorganized and putting forth the resources and solidarity necessary to help Southern organizers organize themselves in their own name. We need to make sure peoples voices are heard, so we need to mobilize and come together. Fighting for liberation Youth and students across North Carolina and beyond are a driving force in this mobilization.
Cameron Aviles, 18, a student at Durham Technical Community College, is a peoples poet, member of Occupy Durham and a volunteer MOWSS organizer. Aviles told WW why this march is important: The reason why we march is obvious. Were marching because something is wrong with the world or else people wouldnt be wasting their precious time, sweat and tears to make something this big happen. There will be thousands of us. Thousands of us who could be working. Thousands of us who could be doing homework or studying. Thousands of us who could be spending time with our families. But instead we are bringing our families out to witness and participate in something unprecedented. Fighting for liberation is our job. Lifetime Charlotte resident Bryan Perlmutter is a MOWSS volunteer organizer and a member of the North Carolina State University chapter of Students for a Democratic Society. As he participated in a city workers informational picket at Charlotte City Hall on Aug. 6, he talked to WW about the city and why it was chosen for the DNC: Its evident as you walk around Charlotte that its a city centered around Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Duke Energy. Its clear if you look at political donations and the policies of the Democrats and who theyre really supporting and that it is the big banks, corporations and big utility companies that are passing the burden along to the people. [The Democratic Party] picked this state and specifically this city to prop up the banks and corporations that theyre working for. Added Perlmutter: I see a lot of intersections between the struggles of students and the struggles of workers right now. [I]ts important that we support each other. We have a common theme in that were both being hurt by the banks and corporations, the 1% that are profiting off our education and profiting off the work of city workers and all workers. So its important that we stand together and really come together around our common interests. All our struggles are connected. With solidarity and with support we can join together and overcome the forces that are trying to keep us down. Contact the Coalition to March on Wall Street South: phone 704-266-0362; Twitter @WallStSouth; email info@ wallstsouth.org; go to wallstsouth. org or southernworker.org. Visit the Charlotte Solidarity Center and MOWSS convergence space at 516 E. 15th St.
Schedule of EVENTS
Sat Sept 1
Festivaliberacin!
Kicko day-long concert/festival, starting at noon, in cultural space Area 15, 516 E. 15th St. Organized by students, youth, LGBTQ people and immigrants. Features teach-ins, speak-outs, workshops, discussions, spoken word. Cultural performances by Jasiri X, Rebel Diaz, RDACBX and other peoples artists.
Sun Sept 2
MARCH ON
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he Republican and Democratic parties in this election appear to be arguing over the size of the government. Republicans say it must be shrunk to balance the budget. Democrats counter that mean Republicans want to cut especially those programs meant to help those in need whose numbers increase as the economy sheds jobs. Looking at the question this way is totally misleading. It is not the size of the government that is the problem. It is the social class that controls the government and uses it for its own interests. Seen this way, the difference between the two parties becomes narrow indeed. Both serve the interests of the tiny fraction of 1% who control all the productive wealth of this country and much of the world. No matter which party is in office, the powerful government positions are held by people who have run huge corporations and banks or served them in the courts. Look at all the cabinets of the past 50 years. How many cabinet secretaries, Democrat or Republican, have risen in politics by being bankers, industrialists and corporate lawyers? And how many by clerking in stores, picking crops, working in hospitals, sewing garments or building labor unions? The Democrats claim to represent the middle class, by which they mean workers with stable jobs a shrinking category. They appear to reject the outright racism and snobbery of the
up to 4 million foreclosures. With the banks being paid full value by the government on their inflated home loans, and making millions of dollars in fees on foreclosures, they have no incentive to work with homeowners. As a result, the modest modification programs announced by President Obama have been a failure, helping less than onequarter the number of families who have applied. (New York Times, Aug. 19) By the FHFAs own estimate, 11.1 million mortgage loans are underwater, meaning the mortgage amount owed is greater than the value of the home. The FHFA acknowledges that the reduction in house prices has resulted in a decline in housing wealth from 2005 to 2011 of $7 trillion. (FHFA Review of Options report) Despite this reality, FHFA director Edward DeMarco has refused to implement any programs that would reduce principal on mortgages. A July 31 New York Times article implied Demarco was defying President Obama by this refusal. DeMarco, however, is a temporary appointment of President Obama, who could fire and replace him. President has authority to take action The foreclosure crisis shows no signs of slowing. In addition to the 10.9 million foreclosures between 2007 and 2011, in a January speech William Dudley, president of the New York Federal Reserve, predicted an additional 3.6 million foreclosures for 2012-2013. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own approximately 180,000 vacant homes. The FHFA plans to sell these homes cheap to investors like Goldman Sachs who helped create the foreclosure crisis so they reap more profits as rental properties. (Real Estate Insider, Dec. 4) The struggle to stop this foreclosure epidemic, which is devastating the lives of millions in the U.S., involves several forms, from anti-eviction home defenses to the launching of a political movement that targets the federal government for bailing out the banks at the peoples expense. We must demand that President Obama immediately implement a threeyear federal moratorium to halt all foreclosures and related evictions, and that he place a director over the FHFA who will begin reducing principal to market value on home mortgages for the benefit of homeowners and their families. The vacant homes held by the federal government must be used to house the homeless, not line the pockets of investors, and the government should implement a jobs program to rehabilitate these homes for peoples use. Goldberg is a peoples anti-foreclosure attorney in Detroit and a leading organizer of the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions & Utility Shutoffs.
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By G. Dunkel As August began, students in community and senior colleges all over Quebec voted to suspend the student strike that began in the spring and spread to hundreds of schools. The student struggle is reflected in a provincial election set for Sept. 4. The party leading in the polls, the Parti Qubcois, had supported the students and their demands. Its platform called for maintaining the current situation of no tuition for Quebec residents in the community colleges and no increase in senior college tuition. The PQ even selected a student leader, one of the moderates, as one of its candidates for a seat in Quebecs National Assembly. Despite the strike cancellation and the imminent election, the students showed they are determined to remain in the streets. On Aug. 22, some 100,000 students and their supporters mobilized in the afternoon at Place du Canada in downtown Montreal. Both a representative of the nurses union and the Quebec Womens Federation were among the speakers. Jeanne Reynolds, co-spokesperson for the student union group, CLASSE, insisted that the movement will continue before, during and after the election. Many placards and banners on the march brought up the key issues of the student movement: No hike in university tuition fees and repeal of the anti-democratic Bill 78, which became Law 12 when passed last May. Some placards addressed the issue of amnesty for the more than 3,000 people who face charges for taking part in student protests since the beginning of the strike. According to media reports, two of the three major Quebec labor federations didnt take part in the march because it was illegal under Law 12. The student group CLASSE has refused to respect Law 12. The march also contained many broad, anti-capitalist themes. The lead banner read, in French, Broad Mobilization Against Neoliberalism. The speeches the students gave at the wrap-up rally were mostly militantly anti-capitalist.
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Two days later, the 100th night march in support of the student strike took place, drawing over 10,000 people even though the cops declared it illegal.
ARIZONA
Paul Teitelbaum Tucson, Ariz. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer issued Executive Order 2012-06 on Aug. 15, denying all state and local public benefits to undocumented youth who apply for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals process announced by the Obama administration in June. Brewers order was issued on the same day that DACA eligibility began. This racist, anti-immigrant order is the latest outrage from Brewer, who signed SB1070 into law and outlawed the teaching of Mexican American Studies in Arizona. The DACA process is a concession wrung out of the Obama administration by the struggle of fearless, undocumented youth demanding the passage of the DREAM [Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors] Act, a proposed law that would grant legalization to children who came to the U.S. before they were 16 years old. Under the slogan, Undocumented and Unafraid, these youth have become known as DREAMers. They have risked deportation, held sit-ins at congressional
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to free Nelson Mandela from apartheid South Africa. She knows the people can win freedom for the Cuban 5. The conference highlighted the fight for education and public jobs a point of struggle in communities across the U.S., in Mexico and many other countries. Maribel Vzquez Lozano, a leader in the Cuban Union of Education, Science and Sport opened the conference along with Anbal Melo Infante, representing the Confederation of Cuban Workers International Department. Melo Infante stressed,We have an obligation to support those teachers and students who are creating a movement to oppose the privatization of education. He called such privatization in Mexico, Chile, Europe and the U.S., selling a human right. Melo Infante rebutted the corporate medias lies about the current steps to modernize the Cuban economy, asserting the adjustments underway are aimed at meeting the needs of the people. There is no privatization of the economy in Cuba, he said, only a proposal to open minor areas of the economy to self-employment. The main economic engine will remain in the hands of the state, which will guarantee the social conquests of the revolution free health care, free education through graduate levels, social security, employment and retirement for all Cubans. The highly educated Cuban population is what makes it possible for Cuba to share its benefits around the world, Melo Infante said.
Cubas education system Vzquez Lozano presented details about the Cuban education system, including its ideological roots in the formulations of Jos Mart and Fidel Castro. Castro linked the unequal and low level of education with Cubas neocolonial economic system in his 1953 History Will Absolve Me speech at his trial after the attack on the Moncada Barracks. Emphasizing the primacy of education for socialist Cuba, Vzquez Lozano drew applause saying, Without education, there is no revolution. One of the first acts of the revolution was to create 10,000 classrooms and employ all the unemployed teachers, but it didnt guarantee classrooms everywhere. In 1961, a massive literacy campaign went to the far corners of Cuba, eliminating illiteracy in one year. This dedication to education is shown 50 years later in the Yo s puedo (Yes I can) literacy method developed by Cuban educators and used around the world. A concrete benefit of the growing continental integration represented by ESNA, Yo s puedo originates from a radio literacy program developed by Cuban educators working in Haiti. More than 5 million people in 28 countries have conquered illiteracy using this program since its inception in 2001, including its Braille version for blind people. Internationalist in intent, it is designed to help people 15 years of age and older who have never gone to school develop skills to participate more fully in their society.
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Este artculo es la introduccin al libro, El capitalismo en un callejn sin salida, Destruccin de empleo, sobreproduccin y crisis en la era de la alta tecnologa un punto de vista Marxista, por Fred Goldstein. Traducido por Manuel Talens y Atenea Acevedo. Revisado por MO. El capitalismo, sistema de produccin con fines de lucro, est en un callejn sin salida. La plaga del desempleo masivo, el subempleo, los bajos salarios, la destruccin de los beneficios, los recortes de servicios sociales y el aumento de la pobreza ha sobrepasado sus lmites y est hundiendo en un desastre sin alivio a la clase trabajadora multinacional y a los pueblos oprimidos del mundo. Adems de la amenaza a la clase obrera, la estructura vital que sostiene el medio ambiente del planeta est en grave peligro. Toda una generacin de trabajadores/ as se enfrenta a un futuro sombro. Para una mayora cada vez ms numerosa, el capitalismo slo guarda en reserva desempleo, trabajo marginal no calificado y bajos salarios, ya que cada vez son ms las habilidades ahora incorporadas en el software y en la maquinaria. La tecnologa y la competencia salarial orquestada por la patronal a escala planetaria siguen impulsando la cada de los salarios. Entre las consecuencias polticas y sociales ms venenosas de la crisis se encuentran la intensificacin del racismo, el crecimiento de la industria carcelaria, el aumento de la persecucin de inmigrantes y trabajadores/as indocumentados/as y la guerra contra las mujeres y lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y transexuales. La clase dominante busca sembrar la divisin entre las masas por todos los medios posibles con el fin de desviar la atencin del fracaso del sistema econmico y del obsceno crecimiento de la desigualdad. stas son las ltimas e inevitables consecuencias de las leyes del desarrollo capitalista que impulsan la evolucin de un sistema basado en las ganancias. El capitalismo ha entrado en una nueva etapa, en