RRN: #DefendYannick – Sign the Solidarity Statement

Monday, 2/9/15, the RRN will deliver this statement to Yannick’s attackers at CNOHA. Please help us reach 100 signatures before then! On January 30, an assassination attempt was made on Yannick Etienne, a militant of Batay Ouvriye (Workers Fight), in the SONAPI industrial zone of Port-au-Prince. The perpetrators were flunkies of the NGO/yellow union CNOHA [...]

RRN Update: Defend Yannick Etienne – Interview with Yannick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7YyP9TlkJU Denouncing Yellow Unions:  An Interview with Batay Ouvriye Organizer, Yannick Etienne “This is a question of using this as a business front, and it’s not really unionism… When you say union, we talking about independence, we talking about autonomous struggle, we talking about democracy, we talking about the rank and file really controlling [...]

RRN Update: Defend Yannick Etienne! SOTA-BO, Multiwear Negotiations

On January 30, an assassination attempt was made on Yannick Etienne, a militant of Batay Ouvriye (Workers Fight), in the SONAPI industrial zone of Port-au-Prince. The perpetrators were flunkies of the NGO/yellow union CNOHA (Central National Workers of Haiti). Some of the context of this attack revolves around ongoing negotiations between textile trade unions and [...]

Save our Siddhi

Jacksonville organizer and activist Siddhi is currently facing legal troubles over her participation at a Black Lives Matter protest. She, and the organization Burnpile Press,  is a good friend and ally of One Struggle. She is a member of our growing organizing community in Florida. Let's offer solidarity by donating to her legal fund, or [...]

Thinking Around the NSA

It is no longer a question that we are being monitored. Now, the question is how do we address the culture of acceptance regarding our loss of privacy and our organizing? The NSA began attempting to break old encryption technologies in 2000. Ten years later they could decode old encrypted data that, until then, was [...]

A Garment Worker in Bangladesh Speaks Out

by Stephanie McMillan Mina* was 15 years old last year when she started working at Pretty Group, a garment factory in Gazipur, a suburb of Dhaka, Bangladesh. She spoke of her situation: “We suffer a lot because they don’t give us enough salary. I receive 5000 taka (less than $65) per month. They don’t pay [...]