U.S.
New Brooklyn tenant’s coalition stands up to abusive landlords
June 22, 2022After a tenant passed out from carbon monoxide poisoning in her basement apartment, a neighborhood coalition formed to take on dangerous living conditions and unscrupulous landlords.
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Before Trump coup, Georgia elections official warned: ‘Someone’s going to get killed’
June 22, 2022"There were a lot of threats wishing death upon me,” election worker Shaye Moss testified. “Telling me that I’ll be in jail with my mother…things like, ‘Be glad it’s 2020 and not 1920.’”
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Detroit billionaire demands 10-year, $60 million tax break, taking money from schools
June 21, 2022Billionaire Dan Gilbert of Bedrock Management Services already got $200 in tax breaks and scored a prime piece of real estate for only $1.
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150,000 bring Poor People’s Campaign demands to D.C.: “We won’t be silent”
June 21, 2022The campaign and its allies will hold politicians’ feet to the electoral fire unless they move fast and forcefully to help solve the problems of poor and low-wage people.
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Juneteenth 2022: Demanding a Third Radical Reconstruction of U.S. capitalism
June 18, 2022Tens of thousands are in Washington, D.C., with the Poor People’s Campaign demanding an end to racism, poverty, and the war economy.
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