WORKERS OF
ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

Updated:
June 26, 2008

Article Update - June 23, 2008

No to U.S. Colonialism
• Free the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners! Independence Now!
• Puerto Rican Activists Refuse to Testify for Grand Jury
• Demonstration Supports Puerto Rican Grand Jury Resister
• Crime Against Humanity
• Non-Aligned Movement Demands Independence for Puerto Rico at UN
• UN Calls On U.S. to Expedite Self-Determination of Puerto Rican People

Article Update - June 19, 2008

U.S. Troops Out of Korea Now!
• Vigorously Support Korean Reunification!

• South Koreans Demand the Resignation of President Lee Myung Bak
• Candlelight Protests in South Korea Grow Broader
• Candlelight Actions Unabated in South Korea
• Patriotic Era Full of Vitality with Bright Future
• Statement of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League
• DPRK-U.S. Negotiations Prove Successful
• U.S. Steps Up Arming of South Korea
• Criminal U.S. Germ and Chemical Warfare
• Text of North-South Joint Declaration

Article Update - June 16, 2008

Elections 2008
• Government Terrorism and Police Brutality Are Election Issues
• Government Increasing Violence Against the Youth
• Government Racism in Incarceration Rates - The Sentencing Project
• Hearing for UN Representative Affirms Police Torture and Abuse
• Students in Pipeline to Prison - Daniel G. Meyer, Youth Advocacy Project
• McCain and Obama Proposals: Changes in Tax Codes Will Not Change Direction of Economy
• A Power to Deprive - K.C. Adams

Article Update - June 9, 2008

Political Prisoners in U.S.
• Free the Cuban Five
• Worldwide Demonstrations Demand Freedom for the Cuban Five Now!
• Politics Motivated Decision in Cuban Five Case - National Lawyers Guild, June 5, 2008
• Response to Court Ruling on Cuban Five Appeal - International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five, June 5, 2008
• An Appeal to Trade Unionists to Champion the Cause of Justice for the Cuban Five
• Cuban Parliament Approves Declaration on Cuban Five Case - Cuba News Agency
• Pastors for Peace Caravan: Solidarity Not Charity!
• U.S. Cuba Friendshipment Caravan Stops in the U.S.

Article Update - June 5, 2008

Elections 2008
• System of Bringing Parties to Power Blocking Democracy
• Voting Laws Mean Millions More Blocked from Voting
• Voter ID by the Numbers - Center for American Progress
• Voting Rights Advocates Say America Is Unprepared for Big Turnout for November Election - Hazel Trice Edney, The Louisiana Weekly

Article Update - June 2, 2008

Bush Is the Terrorist
• Long Live the Cuban Revolution
• A Cynical Maneuver that Masks the Administration’s Complicity with anti-Cuba Terrorism Made in the U.S. - National Network on Cuba, Wednesday, May 21, 2008
• Cuban Five Day After Protest Actions - National Committee To Free The Cuban Five
• Links Proven between U.S. Diplomats and Terrorists
• Chief of U.S. Interests Section Channeling Money from Terrorists in Miami to Mercenaries in Cuba - Alberto Nuñez and Pedro De La Hoz, Granma International, May 22, 2008
• Comrade Fidel Castro: Martí’s Immortal Ideas - May 22, 2008

Article Update - May 23, 2008

Days After United May Day Actions
• Oppose Gestapo-Style ICE Raids Against “Undocumented” Workers
• No Raids in Our Community!
• Justice for Postville! ICE Must End Raids, Cease Detentions and Deportations - National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
• Solidarity Statement Concerning Guatemalans in Detention after ICE Raid in Postville, Iowa - Amalia Anderson, Carlos Ariel, Axel Fuentes, Reginaldo Haslett Marroquín, Ana Nájera Mendoza
• ACLU Demands Government Restore Legal Protections to Meatpacking Workers
• Iowa School District Left to Cope with Immigration Raid’s Impact - Mary Ann Zehr, Education Week
• Texas Activists Reject Government Plans for Identification Checks During Hurricanes
• DRUM Youth Win Immigrant Education Victory - Drumnation.org

Article Update - May 20, 2008

Commemorating Al Nakba
• Join Actions in Defense of Palestine
• Worldwide Demonstrations Defend Palestine
• Popular Conference for Palestinians in the U.S. - www.palestineconference.org
• Radio Free Palestine - International Middle East Media Center
• Activists Disrupt Event for 60th Anniversary of Israel - International Jewish Solidarity Network
• “Schlockettes” Oppose Zionism at Radio City - notimetocelebrate.wordpress.com
• Protesters Denounce U.S.-Israeli Apartheid - Ian Chinich
• Right of Return in Aida Refugee Camp
• Gaza Humanitarian Crisis Escalates - Al Mezan, May 7, 2008
• The Palestinian Death Toll Keeps Rising - Yasmin Abou-Amer, May 10, 2008
• The Right of Return — A Basic Right Still Denied - Al Awda Palestine Right of Return Coalition Factsheet
• Presidential Candidates Silent on al Nakba
• Statements by Presidential Candidates on Israel’s 60th Anniversary

Article Update - May 12, 2008

Workers March on May Day
• Militant United Actions Defend the Rights of All
• All Out for May Day 2008 - U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization
• West Coast Ports Shut Down on May Day - Clarence Thomas, ILWU, Local 10, Bay Area, California
• Tucson Mayday March Opposes Militarization, Demands Rights for All - Arizona Indymedia
• San Francisco State Students Walk Out, Join Workers on May Day - www.indybay.org
• Rochester Holds Successful May Day Rally and Celebration
• Hamilton Steelworkers Protest Massive Loss of Manufacturing Jobs
• Only the Workers Can Find a Solution to the Problems of the Economy - Joint May Day Statement of USW Locals 1005 (Stelco) and 7135 (National Steel Car)
• Workers Must Take Up Political Renewal to Extricate Society from the Crisis! - Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)

Sixty Years of Struggle Against U.S.-Israeli Genocide
• Calendar of Events for Al Nakba: Defending the Right to Return

Article Update - May 7, 2008

• Photos: Militant May Day Actions Around the U.S. and the World

Article Update - May 5, 2008

No to SPP! Yes to the Rights of All
• Our Security Lies in Our Fight for Rights
• Welcome to New Orleans and the People’s Summit!
• Protestors to Drown Out Bush with Cultural Resistance
• Toronto Rally Demands Binding Referendum on Canada’s Participation in the SPP
• Letter Calling on Congress to Halt the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) - Alliance for Responsible Trade
• SPP: Stop the Privatization of Public Policy and Our Nation - Mexican Action Network on Free Trade (RMALC)
• Bush on NACC Recommendations: “I’m looking forward to implementing them.” - Stuart Trew, Council of Canadians, in New Orleans
• Statement on the Security and Prosperity Summit in New Orleans - Ted Lewis, Global Exchange, Mexico Program Director
• A Bush “Showcase” or a U.S. Gulf Coast Tragedy? - Common Frontiers, Canada, April 7, 2008
• Extraordinary ALBA Summit Begins in Venezuela

Article Update - May 2, 2008

Workers March on May Day
United Militant Actions Defend the Rights of All

Article Update - April 30 , 2008

May Day 2008
• All Out for May Day 2008
• Full Rights for All! Legalization Now! Stop Racist Raids & Deportations! - Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition
• Stop the Raids! Full and Immediate Legalization for All - Frente Contra las Redadas, Los Angeles
• Third Grand March and Boycott
• Repeal Employer Sanctions Now! - Break the Chains Alliance
• Rally for Immigrant and Worker Rights - New York May 1 Coalition
• Beyond Borders Documentary to be Shown May 1
• We Are All Humans! No One Is Illegal! - National Immigrant Solidarity Network
• Longshoremen to Close Ports on West Coast to Oppose War and Defend Rights - Jack Heyman, ILWU member
• Sacramento:Support of May 1, 2008, International Workers Day
• Vermont AFL-CIO Calls on Workers to Support West Coast May Day Strike - Vermont AFL-CIO, April 16, 2008
• May Day Actions Planned Nationwide - Vivirlatino.com

Article Update - April 22, 2008

Defending the Rights of All!
• New Orleans Actions Say No to Bush and No to SPP!

Article Update - April 7, 2008

No to SPP! Yes to Rights of All!
• All Out to Support New Orleans
• April 9-20: New Orleans Film Festival Defends Rights, Opposes SPP
• April 21 – 23: The People’s Summit
• April 20: Second North American Meeting of Energy Sector Organizations from the U.S., Canada and Mexico - Common Frontiers, Canada

Article Update - March 21 , 2008

Defend New Orleans! No to SPP
• Stop the Security and Prosperity Partnership! Tool of U.S. Annexation, Fascism and War!
• Calling for International Days of Action April 18-21 to Stop the SPP!
• Minnesota Bridge Collapse and the SPP
• U.S. Acts to Increase Use of U.S. Military in Canada and Further Control Canadian Armed Forces
• USNORTHCOM & FEMA Training Exercise in Texas
• Integrating Military and Civilian Forces for Use Against the Peoples
• FYI: USNORTHCOM and NORAD

Article Update - March 17, 2008

Testimony Condemns Government Crimes
• IVAW Hearings Defend Humanity and Advance the Fight to End the Wars Now!

Article Update - March 14, 2008

Opposing War in Iraq and Afghanistan
• March 13-16, Washington, D.C - Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan - Iraq Veterans Against the War
• Winter Soldier Schedule
• Opposing War in Iraq and Afghanistan - ILWU Resolution Calls for May Day Work Stoppage
• Take Action in the Nation’s Capitol: End the War Now! All U.S. Troops Home Now! - www.5yearstoomany.org
• Support the Troops Who Refuse to Fight - Colonel Ann Wright, U.S. Army (Retired)

Article Update - February 25, 2008

2008 Elections:
• The Working Class Must Lead the Fight for Change
• Vote Against Establishment Continues
• The Conception of “Shared Prosperity”

Article Update - February 22, 2008

Hands Off Cuba
• Red Salute to the Cuban People and Their Revolution!
• Message from Cuban President Fidel Castro, Historic Figure of the Cuban Revolution
• Reflections of Comrade Fidel - February 22, 2008
• Join in the Work to Free the Cuban Five
• Prepare for the Cuban Five Court Decision: Organize “Day After” Protests and Press Conferences - National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
• Letter to Rice, Mukasey and Chertoff Demands Visiting Rights for Families of Cuban Five
• Do Not Use Labor’s Name to Attack Cuba

Article Update - February 11, 2008

All U.S. Troops Home Now
• D.C. Actions March 13-16: Iraq Veterans Target Crime of Occupation - Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, indymedia.org
• Action to Block Military Recruiters in Berkeley - CodePink

Viva Viva Palestina
• Continued Resistance Sets Stage for Negotiations and Further Struggle
• Hamas Talks in Cairo - Hiyam Noir, PalestineFreeVoice, January 31, 2008

Article Update - February 7, 2008

Organize for a New Direction
• Strengthen Independent Organizing As Central to the Fight for Change
• Super Tuesday: People Continue Challenging the Democratic Party
• Nader Wins California, McKinney Leads in Arkansas and Illinois - Green Party of California News Release, February 6, 2008
• Delegates, Votes and Decision Making

Elections in Cuba
• Victorious Full Slate Vote Expresses Cuban People’s Unity of Action
• Results of Full Slate Election
• Information on the Cuban Electoral System
• National Assembly Sets Work for 2008
• Cuban President Fidel Castro’s Message to Cuban National Assembly, December 27, 2007

Article Update - February 4, 2008

State of the Union
• Organize for a New Direction for the U.S.
• Bush Speech: A Call to Further Eliminate the Responsibility of Government to Society
• Some Basic Indicators of the State of the Union
• Hunger and Homelessness Survey
• Workers Are Producers Not “Consumers”! - K.C. Adams

Elections 2008
• People Prepare for Feb. 5th Primaries and Caucuses
• Edwards Abandons Race and Stand of “Two Americas”
• Obama and the Demand for Change that Favors the People
• Some Basic Information on Primaries

Article Update - January 28, 2008

Salute the Palestinian Resistance

• People of Gaza Take Action to Liberate Themselves
• Palestinians Break Gaza Siege
• Palestinian American Congress Condemns the Israeli Blockade of Gaza as Barbaric and Inhumane - Palestine American Congress, January 23, 2008
• Israeli Organizations Demand End to Israeli Crimes Against Gaza- AIC, Bat Tsafon, Gush Shalom, ICAHD, PHR, Women’s Coalition for Peace January 21, 2008
• Hamas Leader Calls for Ending Blockade Against Gaza - January 23, 2008
• U.S. Blocks UN Action to End Gaza Siege
• Non-Aligned Movement Condemns Attacks on Palestinian Civilians in Gaza - Prensa Latina, January 23
• UN Human Rights Council Calls for Urgent International Action to End Grave Israeli Violations in Occupied Palestinian Territory - UN News, January 24, 2008
• Tightened Siege on Gaza Reaches Unprecedented Levels and Endangers the Life of 1.5 Million Civilians - Statement of Gaza Community Mental Health Program, January 22, 2008

Article Update - January 21, 2008

Consequences of Neo-Liberal Agenda in U.S.
• Promised Trickledown Prosperity Turns into Trickledown Homelessness
• Mortgage Crisis Hits States and Cities Hard
For Your Information
• Data and Anecdotes of Homelessness & Poverty
Dark World of International Usury
• U.S. Economic Crisis and the Mortgage Rescue Plan - K.C. Adams

Article Update - January 14, 2008

FBI - US Military Out of Puerto Rico
• Protests Denounce Grand Jury Witch Hunt of Puerto Ricans

Torture is a Crime
• Close Guantánamo! Stop Torture! Punish the Guilty!
• The World Demands: Close Guantánamo!
• No More Torture, No More Indefinite Detention, Shut Down Guantánamo! - International Federation for Human Rights
• Close Guantánamo Now! - Center for Constitutional Rights
• Yemen Calls on U.S. to Close Guantánamo - Press TV, Iran, January 12, 2008

Housing is a Right
• Defend Public Housing in New Orleans
• San Francisco Action Defends Right to Housing - Green Ribbon Campaign
• Buffalo Defends Rights in Palestine and New Orleans