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Category Archives: Newsletter and Updates
A Guide to the US Blockade on Cuba – Hood Communist
We offer the following resource for better understanding the relationship between Africa and Cuba and the impact of US/EU sanctions on Cuba. — Read on hoodcommunist.org/2021/10/07/a-guide-to-the-us-blockade-on-cuba/amp/
Fundraiser by Aurora Pedro : In Solidarity with Indigenous Families
June 27th, 2022 marked the deadliest migrant smuggling tragedy in the U.S. To date, 53 are confirmed dead after being found in an 18-wheeler trailer in San Antonio, Texas. Among them are 22 from Guatemala. Many of these families are from Indigenous communities and face additional barriers such as language access and displacement from theirContinue reading “Fundraiser by Aurora Pedro : In Solidarity with Indigenous Families”
BAP Condemns US Backed Massacre of African Migrants in Morocco – Hood Communist
Video images captured the horrific actions of Moroccan security forces armed and trained by the United States through the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and working on behalf of the Spanish government, systematically beating and slaughtering African migrants on June 24, 2022. — Read on hoodcommunist.org/2022/07/07/bap-condemns-us-backed-massacre-of-african-migrants-in-morocco/amp/
Sierra Leone defends plan to unban abortion
Sierra Leone’s information minister has defended plans to decriminalise abortion – a contentious issue in the West African nation. — Read on tribuneonlineng.com/sierra-leone-defends-plan-to-unban-abortion/
CUBA – Abortion has been safe and free in Cuba for over half a century – International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion (SAWR)
News from International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion — Read on http://www.safeabortionwomensright.org/news/cuba-abortion-has-been-safe-and-free-in-cuba-for-over-half-a-century/
“They Fooled Us”
Seven months after the assassination of Haiti’s president, the true masterminds remain unknown. But a failed “coup” plot that preceded it provides new information about those involved — and what the US and Haitian governments may have known ahead of time. — Read on cepr.shorthandstories.com/they-fooled-us/index.html
Stacey Abrams: Bossed & Bought – Hood Communist
In 2020, Stacey Abrams led a coordinated campaign to neuter massive amounts of radical potential from Atlanta’s grassroots community. — Read on hoodcommunist.org/2022/06/30/stacey-abrams-bossed-bought/amp/
Biden Administration to finish Trump border wall, closing Friendship Park
The historic Friendship Park at the border of Southern California and Mexico is facing permanent closure as a result of upcoming border wall construction. This plan, approved by President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas,… — Read on m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/6/2108816/-Biden-administration-to-finish-Trump-border-wall-closing-Friendship-Park
Quote of the Week – July 6
“The bourgeois idealists realize that the larger becomes the section of exploited people who take part in active political struggles, the more acute will these struggles become; and all the more reason will there be for misgivings about the fate of capitalism.” – Claudia Jones