Posted: June 19th, 2009 | Author: Anne Jaclard | Filed under: News, Women's Liberation, Youth | Tags: feminism, imperialism, iran, labor, protest, student, Youth | No Comments »
The brave Iranians demonstrating against the ruling regime deserve our support. At least 13 have been killed already. The government has allowed the protests (so-called vigilantes attack protesters afterwards), but it continues to arrest prominent reformers and to attempt to stifle the flow of information by limiting Internet access and pressuring reporters to stay away. Yet hundreds of thousands—Tehran’s mayor says three million were in its streets Monday–continue to protest, risking bullets and long jail terms under harsh conditions.
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Posted: June 2nd, 2009 | Author: MHI | Filed under: Economic Crisis, Economics, Events | Tags: capitalism, Economic Crisis, event, labor, seminar, underconsumption | 3 Comments »
UPDATE: Video for the June 23 meeting is now available.
Confronting Capitalism’s Economic Crisis
–Meeting & 4-part Seminar–
all events at TRS, 44 East 32nd St., 11th floor,
New York, NY, from 7 pm to 9 pm
sponsored by Marxist-Humanist Initiative
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Posted: May 8th, 2009 | Author: Andrew Kliman | Filed under: Economic Crisis, Economics, News | Tags: crisis, economy, jobs, labor, unemployment | 1 Comment »
Is the worst over?
A couple of hours ago, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the number of nonfarm payroll jobs fell in April by an estimated 539 thousand, and that the unemployment rate increased to an estimated 8.9%, from 8.5% in March. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 4th, 2009 | Author: Anne Jaclard | Filed under: Events | Tags: audio, feminism, iraq, labor, left forum | No Comments »
The National Organization for the Iraqi Freedom Struggles (on the web at NO-IFS) sponsored the panel “Building Solidarity with Iraq’s Civil Resistance” at this year’s Left Forum.
Houzan Mahmoud, International Representative of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), had been scheduled to speak but was unable to make the trip to NYC. We hope she will come later in the year. The talks at the panel were, in this order: Bill Weinberg on various civil society organizations and the need to solidarize with them; Anne Jaclard on the work OWFI has done and its significance for freedom movements; and Michael Zweig on the recent conference he attended in Iraq at which a number of labor unions formed a coalition.
Building Solidarity with Iraq’s Civil Resistance, Part 1
Building Solidarity with Iraq’s Civil Resistance, Part 2