U.S.
Chicago teachers say remote learning only way to keep kids safe
July 24, 2020"We call on the schools and the mayor of this city to have a heart...make sure our students can be educated remotely until it is safe,” declared Stacy Davis Gates, Chicago Teachers Union vice president.
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Nurses trash Trump secret police threat to U.S. cities
July 23, 2020“Without identification, there is no way to hold these officers accountable, and there is no way to know if they are really federal officers. We cannot allow an American secret police.”
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Cities challenge Trump’s dispatch of federal law enforcement officers
July 23, 2020The $3 trillion Heroes Act, not Trump storm troopers, would provide them with the real help they need.
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D.C. activists hoping to jump-start organizing among the unemployed
July 23, 2020The Claudia Jones School for Political Education recently hosted an Unemployment and Tenant Organizing Town Hall for residents in the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) area.
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‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘Show Me $15’ ring out at St. Louis strike
July 21, 2020Striking workers and activists took to the streets—either with their cars or their feet—and rallied outside a McDonald's store.
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