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Mother’s Day at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility
On Mother’s Day 2024, the GDC Abolitionist Working Group organized a Solidarity with Mothers Day Protest at the Huron Valley Women’s Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti, Michigan. This was in part to support our incarcerated comrade Krystal Clark who…
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En lugar de alojar a nuestros vecinos, la ciudad de Lansing utiliza viviendas vacías para entrenamientos del SWAT
El 12 de marzo en Lansing, Mich. los departamentos de policía local convirtieron dos casas vacías en South Hayford Avenue en un campo de entrenamiento para SWAT. Lo hicieron sin avisar con antelación a los residentes y, en…
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Instead of housing our neighbors, the City of Lansing uses vacant homes for SWAT training
On March 12 in Lansing, Michigan, local police departments turned two vacant houses on South Hayford Avenue into a SWAT training playground. They did this with no advanced notice to residents and instead went lazily knocking on a…
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Cuban Workers, Internationalism, and the Celebration of International May Day
Part of GDC’s International May Day 2024 Campaign Viva la Revolución! When millions of Cuban workers shout these words during today’s May Day celebrations they honor Fidel Castro’s legacy and the 1959 revolution. They also honor the living…
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The Brazilian Landless Workers/Peasants Movement
Part of GDC’s International May Day 2024 Campaign The Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, the Landless Workers Movement in English, grew out of the popular peasant response to the military dictatorship installed in Brazil in 1964. This…
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Haitian Resistance to US Imperialism & Colonialism, MOLEGHAF
Part of GDC’s International May Day 2024 Campaign In Haiti, May 1st is known as Agriculture & Labor Day and celebrates Haitian farmers, the Haitian natural environment, and Haitian cultural traditions. This celebration honors the Haitian labor struggle…
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The American Indian Movement and Indigenous Internationalism
Part of GDC’s International May Day 2024 Campaign The American Indian Movement (AIM) is a revolutionary grassroots Indigenous organization founded in Minneapolis in 1968 by Lakota, Dakota, and Anishinaabe people that fought for the sovereignty and liberation of…
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1973 Arab UAW workers strike
Part of GDC’s International May Day 2024 Campaign On November 29, 1973 nearly 2000 Arab workers (and some Black workers) at Dodge Main (Chrysler’s Hamtramck factory) went on strike as a political stance against the UAW bureaucracy’s support…
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Palestinian Trade Unions and the Call to Action for International May Day
Part of GDC’s International May Day 2024 Campaign Days into the zionist bombardment of Gaza, a broad coalition of Palestinian Trade Unions across Palestine in October called people internationally to refuse to build or transport arms to israel,…
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The Haymarket Affair
Part of GDC’s International May Day 2024 Campaign Enacted into law in the USA in 1867, the 8 hour work day went unenforced. In 1884 the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions called for May 1, 1886…