In just one week, 90 artists, musicians and writers from all over the world — including four Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists — enthusiastically offered their support for the struggle in Haiti for a rise in the minimum wage to 500 gourdes ($11.50) per day! For their statement and list of signatories, read more… [...]
Support Batay Ouvriye, an autonomous worker's organization in Haiti that is pushing to raise the minimum wage.
One Struggle member Amy interviewed war protester and Candidate for Govenor of California Cindy Sheehan. Cindy: Who am I? I'm a peace activist and a social justice activist and my son was killed in Iraq on April 4th 2004. Ever since then I’ve been fighting really hard for peace and against the empire, and today [...]
Sarah Cruz, an organizer from One Struggle, Miami will present on “Organizing at the Intermediate Level” and discuss the role of intermediate level organizing to build a combative, anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist mass movement in the U.S. Sarah has also worked in independent media as a fundraiser and producer with organizations such as Free Speech TV, WDNA Miami [...]
A brief, initial report: * The largest mobilization was in Cap-Hatien, with several thousand people. * In Ouanaminthe, there was a demonstration of about 1000 people, mostly workers from Codevi free trade zone and Caracol. * In Port-au-Prince, 600 workers from various unions came out of the factories to participate in a demonstration. The police [...]
On May 04, 2013, about 45 South Floridians rallied at the Walmart Supercenter in Davie to express solidarity with workers in Bangladesh. The death toll of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Savar, Bangladesh currently stands at 547 and is growing. The protesters chanted, “Walmart profits come in coffins!”, “When human rights are under attack, [...]
