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For unions that don’t have many immigrant members, joining an existing network is a concrete way to support immigrant workers in your community. Do you know what groups are organizing around immigration in your community? Can you build relationships and support their work? For those that do, when leaders are detained or facing deportation, unions and worker centers may have
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De Turkse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu heeft recentelijk aangekondigd dat Turkse staatsburgers die in het buitenland “actieve steun” verlenen aan “terreurorganisaties” gedenaturaliseerd zullen worden. Met andere woorden: de Turkse AKP-regering gaat de Turkse nationaliteit afnemen van mensen die haar in politiek opzicht niet bevallen. Opposanten zijn al snel “terroristen” in de ogen van de Turkse staat. Op Facebook
Verder lezen 5 ReactiesIt is crucial to connect the everyday racism experienced by sub-Saharans in Morocco with the overt racism of the deadly EU border regime: the militarisation of the border as the EU spends millions to build fences (in 2015 Morocco built a fourth razor wire fence and deep trench at the border to Melilla with EU funding), the refusal of a
Verder lezen 1 ReactieThere’s an old, grainy black-and-white video floating around YouTube that shows Black Panther Bobby Lee addressing a group of poor white migrants from the South and Appalachia. “I wanna introduce a man that come over here tonight from another part of town but he’s fighting for some of the same causes we’re fighting for… so I’m gonna introduce you to
Verder lezen Reageren?In response to reports that Donald Trump will nominate Andy Puzder as U.S. Secretary of Labor, the Fight for $15 released the following statement from Carl’s Jr. cook Rogelio Hernandez from Santa Monica, Calif. and Hardee’s cashier Lacretia Jones from Richmond, Va.: “Putting one of the worst fast-food CEOs in charge of national labor policy sends a signal to workers
Verder lezen Reageren?Today, on French TV, on a famous silly entertainment program (the Mad Mag), some White host mocked a Black famous guy by doing blackface. The host, Andreas Kastrinos, was then so proud of himself that he let the program post it on Twitter. He was praised. Everyone laughed. Well *almost* everyone. The Twitter Afropean community did not find it at
Verder lezen Reageren?By Fight for $15’s accounting, its actions have raised wages for 22 million workers. Still, employers in the United States pay less than $15 an hour to some 64 million workers. Over the past four years, Fight for $15 has reached beyond its base in fast food restaurants and launched organizing efforts with a broad range of poorly-paid workers: home
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Een rondje langs de bekende nieuw-rechtse fora brengt geen verrassende nieuwe inzichten rond het nieuws over het AIVD-onderzoek naar Geert Wilders. De verontwaardiging gaat niet verder dan “meten met twee maten”, “grotesk” en de eenentwintigste eeuwse dooddoener “vrijheid wordt de mond gesnoerd”. Het rechtse ‘mens-erger-je-niet’-en roept “moord op de vrijheid” en stelt de loyaliteit van andere politici ter discussie. Uiteraard
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Op 20 december geeft Patrisse Cullors, mede-oprichter van de Black Lives Matter-beweging, de vijftiende Vrijheidslezing in politiek-cultureel centrum De Balie. Na de lezing gaat Cullors met Jessica de Abreu, Ioana Tudor en Levi Gijsbertha in gesprek over de strijd tegen racisme. Gideon “Gikkels” Everduim verzorgt de inleiding. Bijeenkomst Dinsdag 20 december Vanaf 20:00 uur De Balie Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10 Amsterdam
Verder lezen Reageren?“We will resist and resist until we win!”, chants Sebahat Tuncel before her mouth is forcibly shut by half a dozen police officers who drag her along the floor and detain her in early November. Nine years ago, a convoy of victory signs, cheerful slogans, and flowers received Tuncel as she was released from prison to enter parliament, having been
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