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/
Category Archives: Newsletter and Updates
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
[TONIGHT] Catch Me, DJ Radia, On KISL 88.7 FM in Avalon From 7-9 PM
I will be playing a variety of music this evening. Stream online here: https://kislavalon.com/listen-live/
Looking for Solace: Queerness in Ghana – The Republic
In Ghana, as in the rest of West Africa, queer people are subject to considerable repression, which may assume social and legal dimensions. — Read on republic.com.ng/october-november-2019/looking-for-solace/
Vacation
On vacation. Please hold.
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: “I Felt Like We Had Been Bamboozled In That Integrationist Moment” – Mary Helen Washington on Gwendolyn Brooks and The Other Blacklist
In this conversation we specifically focus on the work of Gwendolyn Brooks prior to her joining the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960’s, within the Black cultural and literary left that Washington analyzes in The Other Blacklist. — Read on millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/i-felt-like-we-had-been-bamboozled-in-that-integrationist-moment-mary-helen-washington-on-gwendolyn-brooks-and-the-other-blacklist
Aida Rends 