1/ The maintenance of the decaying capitalist system is prioritized over human lives.
2/ The U.S. will go to any length to protect the functioning of the economy and continue to seek profits.
3/ Austerity politics means that COVID-testing has been largely taken over by private companies instead of a coordinated mass testing effort. Meaning some people have been charged up to $850 for a single test and as Omicron spiked, some have had to wait weeks for their results.
4/ Private pharmaceutical companies have been protecting exorbitant profits at the cost of allowing millions of people around the world to get even their first vaccine – what many of called a vaccine apartheid (@tri_continental).
5/ Federal, state, local governments and public organizations are entirely structured to protect business interests over the lives of the people.
6/ Motivated by complaints from corporations over labor shortages, the CDC shortened the COVID isolation period for asymptomatic people to 5 days from 10 days (@NPR). The CDC isolation change only furthers public distrust of any official COVID policy or recommendation.
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We make no apologies for calling for the destruction of an apartheid and colonial state that is actively engaging in a genocide of the Palestinian people that has already killed over 25,000. The right-wing attack on the new mass movement in defense of the Palestinian people attempts to conflate the call for an end to the apartheid-constructed state of Israel as a call for the destruction of the Jewish people, and to label those who make the call as antisemitism. This is utterly and completely false. This is a propaganda trick by the apologists for genocide.
Would anyone be asked to apologize now for calling for the destruction of the Apartheid South African state? The New York Post used to call Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid activists “terrorists.” Thirty years later, everyone admits that after a righteous struggle, it was a good thing that Apartheid South Africa was erased from history and replaced with a democratic state.
Rather than an ethno-religious state, we stand for a democratic Palestine, as determined by the Palestinian people, based on the full right of return of all Palestinian refugees. Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived together in peace before the colonial project of Zionism was imposed on them. We want to replace colonialism and ethnic supremacy with democracy — that is no incitement to genocide! Historic Palestine shows the possibility for co-existence among peoples of all faith traditions.
Together with @codepink & @tri_continental, we've launched a public letter standing against the new McCarthyism that is targeting peace activists, critics of US foreign policy & Chinese Americans. Together we can stop the return of the Red Scare! READ HERE https://t.co/NSy992wsh9peoplesforum.org/sign-on
From The New York Times to Fox News, there's a resurgence of the Red Scare that once shattered many lives and threatened movements for change and social justice. Today many antiwar & left organizations, intellectuals, organizers & activists have joined in solidarity.
We stand against the rise of a new McCarthyism targeting peace activists, critics of US foreign policy, & Chinese Americans. We continue in our mission to foster peace & international solidarity, countering the narrative of militarism, hostility, & fear. peoplesforum.org/sign-on
🗓 Today marks the end of the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944, and the beginning of 79 Years of IMF Terrorism, Dollar Domination and neoliberal policies in the Global South.
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From July 1 to 22 in 1944, 730 delegates gathered in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire for the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, which would become known as the Bretton Woods Conference.
The Conference was called to ‘ensure greater political stability’ to prevent World War III, but in reality, it was a gathering of bourgeois British & US economists plotting a new world economic order that ensures expanding profit of Global North at the expense of Global South.
🏫 Today, June 16 1976, young people in South Africa organized a peaceful march against a 1974 decree that made it mandatory for Black highschools to use the Afrikaans language–‘language of the oppressor’–as the medium of instruction. This is known as the #Soweto uprising
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Agitated by Black Consciousness, growing economic & political injustice, 30,000 youth–as young as 12 yrsold–took to the streets.
When the students were met w/ violent state repression, they stood firm and fought back. Some estimate that there were 700 fatalities that year.
Later, students shifted to more sophisticated tactics in organized units, such as ambush, barricade, subterfuge & the destruction of symbols of racist oppression
In solidarity, Black communities & over 250,000 workers went on strikes, inflicting significant damage on the economy
You might’ve heard that Joe Biden renewed Cuba on the State Sponsors of Terrorism List. Being on this list isn’t just a label, it has serious consequences for everyday Cuban people.
1. In fact, Cuba should be on the sponsor of PEACE list
Cuba was placed on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list by Trump in 2021 for hosting peace talks to end the civil war in Colombia.
Just days ago, Cuba brokered a ceasefire, helping to resolve a civil war that raged on for over 70 years and resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. Trump decided to punish Cuba for promoting peace, and Biden is following suit!
Today marks 47th anniversary of #LandDay, a 1976 general strike & uprising against Israeli occupation & expropriation of Palestinian land & the murder of 6 Palestinians by Zionist forces in response.
Today is commemorated annually, reminding the world that resistance against the Zionist theft of land & destruction of life will continue until the liberation of Palestine. #FreePalestine