On July 7th Haitians filled the streets, burned and looted stores, and erected barricades to block roads. Despite the government’s efforts to use the Brazil vs Belgium World Cup match as a distraction from their 30 - 50 % increases in fuel prices, Haitians clearly were not fooled. Protests went on across the country for [...]
Brazil soccer fans cry out as they watch their team lose 2-1 to Belgium in a World Cup quarter final in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 6, 2018. (Silvia Izquierdo / AP) Soccer is a sport for the people but it doesn’t give any benefits to the people. Thirty-two countries leave [...]
This fourth of July, as fireworks fill the skies, the star spangled banner plays, and Americans stuff our faces with hot dogs, hamburgers and apple pie, liberals, the "left," conservatives and fascists are all vying for their variation of how to "Make America Great Again." We’re taught that democracy is an objective concept, and that [...]
Our radios play recordings of children’s screams and our newsfeeds are filled with endless images of bleak detention centers: six and seven year-olds in cages, on matts with emergency blankets, and younger toddlers are even legally barred from being touched or consoled after being ripped from their parents. Trump’s new “zero-tolerance” policy has set in [...]
Modern Industrial Agriculture: A Success? Little thought is given to how food is produced. When we are hungry, we eat the food in our pantry. When we run out of food, we go to the supermarket. Before our eyes is a seemingly endless bounty of food as we walk the aisles of the brightly-lit, climate-controlled [...]
In 2012, One Struggle visited Haiti and met with SOTA-BO union textile workers. SOTA is affiliated with Batay Ouvriye (BO). BO is an intermediate level organization born out of a mass movement in Haiti. Since the 1980’s they have hustled with fierce commitment to organize and grow, constructing textile unions, neighborhood groups and peasant [...]
Earth Day 2018 is marked by extreme contradictions. Scientists around the world agree that climate change, caused by an increase and trapping of greenhouse gases within the earth’s atmosphere, is our reality. Ocean temperatures and acidity, sea levels, and coastal flooding are on the rise because of temperature shifts. At the same time, President Trump [...]