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The Red Summer of 1919: Political Borders and a Manufactured Migration Crisis
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Over one million Black Americans migrated to the north during and after slavery; The Chicago Defender titled this mass migration The Exodus. For centuries Black Americans were hunted, killed and tortured…
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The Red Summer of 1919: An Overview
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series This week, we’ll explore the context and legacy of the Red Summer. The Red Summer was a time from April to September of 1919 when racist white mobs attacked, killed, and…
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GDC’s Abolition Work: 2024 in Review
This article aims to highlight some key moments, movements, battles, and organizing the GDC Abolitionist WG has been engaged and involved in, often alongside and in coalition with others.
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GDC Comrades answer: Why I joined a revolutionary organization
“I joined GDC to further commit myself to revolutionary struggle. Overturning capitalism and the oppressive structures tied up with it takes collective effort, and GDC is a piece of building that collective power. Revolutionary orgs are a necessity…
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Working Class Parenting in 2024
We always hear that it takes a village to raise a child. But in 2024, the village has disappeared. Parents are more stressed than ever with a lack of community, the cost of childcare, rent continues to rise…
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Palestinian Youth Movement targets genocide profiteers in arms embargo campaign
August 1st marked 300 days of the escalated genocide against Palestinians in Gaza perpetrated by the Zionist entity known as “Israel.” In that time, close to 200,000 Palestinians have been killed by weapons provided by the U.S. and…
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Cuba and Palestine
Same Enemy, Same Struggle In October 2024 while the United States proxy, Israel, was carrying out another massacre in Jabalia the electrical grid in Cuba went off-line plunging the entire country into darkness. What do the two seemingly…
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Comrade Hunter
Cohort Introduction My name is Hunter. I’m 24 years old, I was born at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan but raised in or around Austin, Texas. My family life was relatively complex, my mother and father were never…
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Building the 2025 Michigan delegation to Cuba
Nine organizers from the state of Michigan attended the 2023 National Network on Cuba’s 16th annual May Day Brigade. We didn’t know Michigan had one of the greatest state representations until we were in the country, so when…
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Housing
Housing is a core need that determines how people are able to show up in the world, how autonomously we can move, live, and exist, what sort of support we’re able to give others, and the amount of…