Stratos Pagdatoglou 🇨🇺 🇻🇪
@stratos5a.bsky.social
educator, union member, leftist, admirer of Cuba, Social and Solidarity Economy
Nurse released from ICE detention after pressure from Maine labor movement." Unions did what unions do, they organized," RN Ashlynn Ward told People's World following Debora Kapisha’s release. #labor @nationalnurses.bsky.social #HealthCare #ICE
Nurse released from ICE detention after pressure from Maine labor movement
PORTLAND, Maine—Debora Kapisha, the Maine Medical Center nurse detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week, has been released from custody, National Nurses United announced on Thursday.
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The meaning of Tell: Why the West Bank may be nearing a breaking point. "The meaning of Tell does not lie solely in the number of dead. It lies in the fact that Palestinians, confronted by armed settlers and soldiers, refused to retreat." #Israel #politics
The meaning of Tell: Why the West Bank may be nearing a breaking point
The events in Tell, southwest of Nablus, were not an isolated act of violence. They were a warning. For years, Israel has treated Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank as open spaces for mili...
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Pearson wins primary, but racist map may block him from Congress. Republicans sliced up Black-majority Memphis into three districts to silence the voice of its voters. #elections #politics #news
Pearson wins primary, but racist Republican map may block him from Congress
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—On the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson won the Democratic primary for a congressional seat Republican lawmakers had specifically redrawn t...
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A teacher in Kansas was arrested for clapping for speakers who spoke up against a data center. Now, the city of Emporia is moving to virtual only meetings, citing "public safety." In their own words, Lux Claridge, tells us what happened. @mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/city-that-ar...
Is a peace consensus developing within the U.S. working class? And if so, what does that mean for the war economy, and the capitalist class that profits from it? Join us Friday at 10:30 for the discussion. www.youtube.com/@cpusa
Last Jan. 6 case dropped, but history’s verdict on coup remains. Every legal judgement against the men who tried to overthrow the government at Trump's direction has now been erased from the books. #politics #news
Last Jan. 6 case is dead, but history’s verdict on Trump’s coup remains
The final prosecution to come out of Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, attempted coup is officially dead. On Aug. 4, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta reluctantly granted the Trump Justice Department’s reques...
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Election results show mass movements can beat corporate cash and lobbyists. Results in Michigan and elsewhere sent a message that progressives in labor and allied movements are growing stronger. #politics #elections
Election results show mass movements can beat corporate cash and lobbyists
DETROIT—Primary election results Aug. 4 showed corporate donors—as well as pro-Israeli government lobbyists—that it’s not going to be easy for them to buy voters anymore.
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DDHQ Race Update (est. 64% in): Michigan US Senate Democratic Primary Abdul El-Sayed (D): 499,463 (50.0%) Haley Stevens (D): 460,366 (46.1%) Mallory McMorrow (D): 38,316 (3.8%) Follow more results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/283906
Warehouse workers in Canada approve collective bargaining agreement with Walmart. It’s the first contract ever concluded with the retail giant anywhere in North America. #Walmart #Labor #news
Warehouse workers in Canada approve collective bargaining agreement with Walmart
MISSISSAUGA, Canada—In a historic moment for organized labor, 800 Walmart workers at a warehouse in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga voted overwhelmingly to approve their first-ever collective bargai...
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"He made me Odysseus… I'll take it." Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed reacts to a Republican AI attack ad depicting him, Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as communists inside the Trojan Horse. Subscribe to zeteo.com for more.
The death count trap: Why tallying victims won’t stop Israel’s genocide. "The very least we can do is refuse to turn our backs or reduce the genocide before our eyes to numbers." #Israel #Gaza
The death count trap: Why tallying victims won’t stop Israel’s genocide
The words “killed,” “injured,” “maimed,” and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly. Take, for example, a headline like: “13 Palestinians Killed in Ga...
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Cuban foreign minister: ‘Cuba is not a threat to the United States.’ U.S. policy of strangling the economy of the island nation roundly condemned. #Cuba #politics #news
Cuban foreign minister: ‘Cuba is not a threat to the United States’
HAVANA—Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla told the National Assembly of People’s Power this week that the international political context in which the Cuban Revolution defends the interes...
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Ceuta border catastrophe kills dozens; racist right seizes anti-immigrant opportunity. Communist parties in the region condemn the use of refugees as geopolitical weapons. #Morocco #Spain #Immigration #politics
Ceuta border catastrophe kills dozens; racist right seizes anti-immigrant opportunity
Over 50,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish colonial exclave of Ceuta on July 30, only to face a series of mass deportations and military deployments by the Spanish government. The number...
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El-Sayed lead widens with support of broad coalition in Michigan. Progressives do battle in gerrymandered Tennessee and Missouri. #politics #elections
El Sayed lead widens with support of broad coalition in Michigan
DETROIT—Primary elections this week are reflecting a fighting mood across the country against the Trump agenda, with voters saying they are fed up with excuses and apologies from lawmakers who are not...
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