May Day 2021 – International Workers’ Day!
By Martha Grevatt posted on May 4, 2021
May Day began in the U.S. in 1884 after labor federations called for worker strikes and protests for the eight-hour day. 400,000 workers answered the call countrywide on May 1, 1886. That year eight worker organizers, some immigrants, were arrested and framed for the May 4 bombing of a Haymarket Square rally in Chicago. Five were sentenced to death; four were executed and a fifth died in his cell. An 1889 international socialist conference declared May 1 International Workers Day, in part to honor the Haymarket Martyrs. The day was revitalized in the U.S. in 2005 by the Black-led Million Worker March, and in 2006 by the Latinx immigrant workers’ mass strike. In 2021 the day was commemorated around the world; Workers World Party helped organize a number of actions across the U.S.
Judge upholds gag order on SF Bay View editor
Judge upholds gag order on SF Bay View editor
March 13, 2021
Banners bold and brave ringed the street in front of private prison profiteer GEO Group’s so-called 111 Taylor St. Apartments, actually a halfway house for returning federal and state prisoners, on Sunday, March 7, for the Free Malik rally that brought 200 supporters to the tough Tenderloin in downtown San Francisco. Malik Washington is the SF Bay View’s new editor, who risked a return to prison to publicly expose a covered-up COVID outbreak at the center. – Photo: Terry Scussel, ProBonoPhoto.org
Malik Washington now faces sanctions – and maybe a return to prison – for telling the press and public about a COVID outbreak at a private halfway house.
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