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Thursday, May 27, 10-11:30 am ET
Virtual Forum
The Martin Luther King Center in Cuba, along with the Cuban Association of the United Nations (ACNU) and the Oxfam Program in Cuba, invites you to join next Thursday, May 27th, at 10 a.m. for the Virtual Forum: Right to Live Without a Blockade. The forum is part of the launch of a new Oxfam report on the impacts of U.S. sanctions on the Cuban people and on the life of women.
The report details how the U.S. Blockade against Cuba hinders development and Cuba's ability to carry out projects, it limits the development of capacities, the people's leadership, and the full exercise of their rights - particularly those groups that are most vulnerable. The report emphasizes the experience of women, illustrating the impacts of the Blockade on the Cuban population over these last six decades, and even more intensely, in this current moment of the global pandemic.
Suddenly a shard of history comes flying at me from the ebbing days of World War II, hitting me in the heart. You mean world leaders (not to mention all the rest of us) were serious about transcending — for good — the hell the world had just been through and . . . ending war?
In February 1945, President Franklin Roosevelt, on his return from the Yalta Conference with Great Britain and the Soviet Union, and two months before he died, gave an address to Congress, as quoted recently by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies:
When I began writing this piece about fifteen months ago, think back yourself, I wanted to write a snarky piece but that time has passed. Reality plays hard!
Today, 365 days have passed since Geoge Floyd’s murder was videotaped; therefore, the people are here, physically and culturally.
Let me walk us through a social contract: The Great Society, several peoples’ revolutionary movements, and now, what does it take to be anti-colonialist/anti-racist?
Many authors express their perspectives, my thoughts follow, I caution all who follow to be careful there has been a pandemic and economic collapse.
I started writing the article two days after my father, Reverend Doctor Leslie E. Stansbery, passed on February 29, 2020, and nearly two years after my mother, Margaret Dorothy Stansbery (Van der Zee) passed on January 17, 2018. The Trump presidency killed my parents, but more importantly the Great Society is passing as we breathe.
Wednesday, May 26, 2021, 1:00 PM
Join our community to take collective action to advocate for dignity for all Ohioans in the state budget. We will share brief reflections on prior trainings, the experience of delivering testimony and hosting impactful district meetings. Learn more about changes in the state budget and how you can take meaningful action to prioritize a strong recovery for all Ohioans, especially people who have been most impacted by the pandemic and the recession. Meeting Registration - Zoom.
“Immigration cases are often life or death matters.”
That’s the message Houleye Thiam, President of the Columbus-based Mauritanian Network for Human Rights in US (MNHRUS), has been sending throughout their organization’s campaign to ensure immigrants have access to counsel in immigration court. Immigrants have no right to a court appointed counsel and must pay for an attorney, a challenge for any working-class community members let alone those who are not citizens.
Date: Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm EST, 7:00-8:30pm Jerusalem Time (GMT+3)
Live Stream Link: https://youtu.be/kh4TMKZMw2M
Palestinian and Israeli activists and leaders will discuss their urgent yearning for peace and their belief that we must act in this unique window of history. Speakers will debunk the myths about this conflict that have impeded the peace process. Their goal is to convince the Biden Administration to bring Israeli and Palestinian leaders back to the negotiation table in order to work for a just peace.
For more information contact Joel Segal, Joel.R.Segal@gmail.com, +1 (571) 344-1518
Date: Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm EST, 7:00-8:30pm Jerusalem Time (GMT+3)
Live Stream Link: https://youtu.be/kh4TMKZMw2M
Palestinian and Israeli activists and leaders will discuss their urgent yearning for peace and their belief that we must act in this unique window of history. Speakers will debunk the myths about this conflict that have impeded the peace process. Their goal is to convince the Biden Administration to bring Israeli and Palestinian leaders back to the negotiation table in order to work for a just peace.
For more information contact Joel Segal, Joel.R.Segal@gmail.com, +1 (571) 344-1518
Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity is a repro justice, POC led org engaging young people & centering POC & LGBTQ+ folks in the South & Midwest. Tell your local elected officials that they must divest away from militarized police and invest in Ohio’s Black and Brown communities!
Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity is a repro justice, POC led org engaging young people & centering POC & LGBTQ+ folks in the South & Midwest. Tell your local elected officials that they must divest away from militarized police and invest in Ohio’s Black and Brown communities!
Sunday, May 23, 8-10pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom
Join the Revolutionary Socialist Network to discuss Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s article for The New Yorker, “We Should Still Defund the Police,” that had been published August 2020.
“Police brutality has been the single most important political rallying cry across Black communities for decades, because it is the most visceral evidence of the second-class citizenship of poor and working-class African-Americans. When the police can stop and question you, frisk and beat you, potentially arrest and occasionally murder you, then you are not an equal citizen. The consequences of Black encounters with the police and the broader criminal-justice system are life-altering and often life-shattering. Of course, the loss of a loved one from gun violence is also catastrophic, but it comes without one element that is specific to encounters with state violence: the abrogation of fundamental human and social rights.”