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May Day 2022 marked a year when worker organizing crested in historic resurgence in the U.S.  Mass outrage against racism, embodied in earlier enormous Black Lives Matter protests, flowed into red-hot anger at the bosses’ exploitation of workers’ heroic frontline efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. The result? Workers walked off…

Mobilizing in Our Own Name:  Million Worker March –  An Anthology by Clarence Thomas DeClare Publishing, 2021   In a commentary introducing his anthology on the 2014 Million Worker March and its impact, Clarence Thomas writes: “On January 15, 2014, when he called me, brother Trent [Willis, now president of…

Gilbert was a member of the 31st IFCO/Pastors for Peace Caravan which recently traveled in Cuba. The Pastors for Peace Caravan visited Cuba Nov. 15-26 as witness to the artificial hardships created there by the ongoing, indefensible U.S. blockade of the island. The contingent also witnessed the Cuban peoples’ resiliency…

Vielerorts sind Brände außer Kontrolle. Es entstehen immer wieder neue Feuer. Die Menschen in den betroffenen Regionen sind nach einer Woche Dauereinsatz am Ende ihrer Kräfte. In Griechenland kommt zunehmend internationale Hilfe an. Auch NRW schickt knapp 60 Helfer nach Athen.