The minimum wage demanded by garment workers in Haiti is almost nothing compared to the lowest wage allowed by law in the United States: Only $11.50/day or $1.44/hour. But it will go a long way to improving the lives of these workers. The current minimum wage is only 300 gourdes (85 cents an hour), and [...]
This August, OS traveled to New Haven, Connecticut to talk with folks at the People’s Art Collective about organizing at the intermediate level as a response to the low level of political consciousness in the U.S., and as a tool to build organization at all levels – mass, intermediate, and revolutionary. […]
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 speech given at a One Struggle event, July 28, 2013, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL I was invited here to speak for few minutes on Imperialism and its effect on Bangladesh, which is where I am from. I was hesitant, because truthfully I know nothing about imperialism or politics, besides the basics politics [...]
If we want to free ourselves from this omnicidal nightmare, then we must organize ourselves, must become strong enough so that together we can dispossess the dispossessors, take back our collective means of subsistence, and annihilate capitalism as a system. Only then can we build an alternative way of life that is sustainable and free [...]