Last post was censored so here's another:
Big news!
Yaakub Vijandre has been been in ICE detention for opposing genocide/mistreatment of prisoners for ~11 months.
Today a fed'l magistrate judge DENIED the government's motion to dismiss his habeas petition!
Free Yaakub!
Very good news!
Today a fed magistrate judge DENIED in part the gvm't's motion to dismiss Yaakub Vijandre's habeas petition. A significant blow to Trump admin's effort to classify free speech as "domestic terrorism"
He is one step closer to release!
Our press release: 1/3
Yesterday ICE told us they were sending our client to Sierra Leone.
Today a panel of the 11th Circuit w/ 2 Trump nominees granted Chris Godshall-Bennett (@cgb_atty) & my motion to stop the deportation based on BIA errors. Our client is staying in the US!
The National Symphony Orchestra is the latest—and among the most prominent—of the classical music institutions in the US facing an uncertain and diminished future.
Workers can't negotiate with capitalist politicians, whether its Trump or the Democrats. Workers need an independent political movement to fight for what we need.
Democratic primary elections show volatility amid shift to the left
The events leading up to the vote reflect the systematic intervention of the party establishment to shift the election to the detriment of Hong.
https://t.co/nNNghoFLfh
I know there’s a pending case before the ECHR but my faith in bourgeois legal institutions in the heart of imperialism is next to nonexistent. Only the unified struggle of Russian, Ukrainian, and workers across the world can free him and end the war
https://t.co/e5H2P2I4OM
“The DSA is not a working class organization ... its function within the political system is not to represent workers but to manage them on behalf of the Democratic Party.”
https://t.co/85T8FXukF2
The idea that Fain and Boyer have presided over "historic wins" for the UAW is a fallacy. The recent negotiations at Nexteer and American Axle were sellouts. They threatened Mack workers in 2023 that if we didn't accept the contract our jobs would be gone.
Raymond L. Jensen Jr., a UAW organizer, was stripped of membership for two years and banned for life from union office on August 4. A court-appointed Monitor ruled his Facebook post threatening socialist UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman violated federal election rules.
@x00ge_ii63 It still impresses me every time I remember how WSWS was able to position itself as the hub of scholarly critique of the NYT’s 1619 Project. Their Covid reporting is also in a class of its own
Another finding of wrongdoing by the UAW.
"Lehman ... said he felt the monitor stepped in because other workers raised awareness of the post and stood by Lehman in saying the image was a step too far."
https://t.co/vODcMVxHyu
New York City Mayor Zohran #Mamdani has reversed his campaign pledge to support a $10,000 bonus for paraprofessional school aides, some of the city’s most exploited workers
#NYCEducators
https://t.co/D8SEpuSUGV
The UAW presidential candidate forum held online the evening of July 30 laid bare the gulf between rank-and-file Mack Trucks worker Will Lehman, a socialist, and the five other candidates contending for control of an apparatus sitting atop $1.25 billion in net assets.