The call for a general strike was the most concrete demand coming from the massive no kings day protests. And labor and pro-Palestine advocates are picking up the baton, demanding that unions in the U.S. shut it down and end US weapons and shipments to the apartheid state of Israel. And, after a border patrol agent shoots at man in DC during a routine traffic stop, a coalition of African American and Latinx activists demand that attacks in DC by ice and federal police end immediately. Plus Headlines, Federal workers line up for food aid, and more...
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