The post Vacant Migrant Child Jail Building Stormed in Chicago on May Day appeared first on It's Going Down.
324 total views, 324 views today The following report and video documents a demonstration of several hundred on May Day in Chicago against the Heartland Alliance, a non-profit which interns migrant children. For a report on the Heartland Alliance, check out this tell-all expose from a former staff member. Also included below is the text from a... Read Full Article
The post May Day Shows Growing Power of Strikes As Trump Pushes for Return to Work appeared first on It's Going Down.
336 total views, 336 views today Historically, May Day 2020 may come to be seen as a turning point: both in the growth of autonomous and grassroots anti-capitalist responses to the burgeoning COVID-19 pandemic, and for the widespread cross-pollination happening between various social movements. Banners at 81 Bowery in New York City declared a #RentStrike. pic.twitter.com/MLiDcuv7p7 —... Read Full Article
The post Chicago, IL: IWW Grocery Store Workers in Logan Square Denounce Attacks During COVID-19 Pandemic appeared first on It's Going Down.
Report on members of the IWW Dill Pickle Organizing Committee mobilizing on May Day to alert customers to the inequity of their working conditions and the unjust termination of two co-workers. Grocery stores employees are on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Everyday, these essential workers are putting their lives at risk to ensure... Read Full Article
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While COVID-19 continues to upend life as we know it, its devastation is multiplied tenfold for those inside prisons and jails around the world. Prisoners and staff are being infected, and dying, at an unprecedented rate. As of press time, 32 people have died in the Bureau of Prisons, and 10 people have died in... Read Full Article
The post Phone Zap: Call and Email Giselle Matteson – Warden at CSP-Solano appeared first on It's Going Down.
Call for phone-zap at California State Prison, Solano. The coronavirus is spreading in the U.S prison system with new cases emerging daily. People in prison are sick and rebelling. Recently, Vice News did an interview with an incarcerated person who exposed the conditions of California Department of Corrections prisons and the system’s complete disregard for... Read Full Article
