Bill Camp Presenté! Hundreds at His Life Celebration for Labor and Cuba Solidarity

By Mark Friedman on October 18, 2024 from Sacramento CA.

Solidarity among workers, Bill Camp speaking at a CTC meeting in Cuba 2018.

They came from the labor unions, Cuba solidarity committees, human rights, Palestinian and Arab-American struggles, and the Democratic Party to celebrate the life of Bill Camp. Camp was the Executive Secretary of the Sacramento Central Labor Council from 1999 to 2014, and an icon of the labor movement here. (more…)

Cuba Proposes New Bills to Strengthen Links with the Diaspora

By Alejandra Garcia on June 30, 2024 from Havana

photo: Bill Hackwell

More than half a century of blockade against the island and the economic crisis it brings as a consequence -which is worsening with successive White House administrations no matter if they are Democrat or Republican – the main reasons why Cubans emigrate, according to common knowledge here and confirmed by experts. (more…)

Who Pays the Bill?

By Pasqualina Curcio on August 3, 2020

Caracas, Photo: Bill Hackwell

This is the title of OXFAM’s latest report from July 2020. In that report they propose that in order to face the (more…)

US Blockade Cost Cuba More Than $4 Billion in One Year

August 24, 2018

Ceramic factory, photo: Bill Hackwell

Between April 2017 and March 2018, U.S. policy towards Cuba intensified and the economic aggression and siege cost the Caribbean country more than $4.321 billion dollars, (more…)

The Human Carnage from Billionaires Carving Up the Planet to Build Their Empires Is Astounding

By Vijay Prashad on August 16, 2017

Photo: Bill Hackwell

Raoul Peck, the Haitian filmmaker, opens his new film – Der Junge Karl Marx (2017) – in the forests of Prussia. Peasants gather fallen wood. They look cold and hungry. (more…)

Criminalizing Critics of Israel: Congress Considers Sweeping Bills to Fine & Jail Supporters of BDS

July 21, 2017

Photo: Bill Hackwell

U.S. lawmakers are seeking to criminally outlaw support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel. (more…)

Obama has Fined 49 Companies Over $14 Billion for Violating the Blockade against Cuba since the “Thaw”

October 6, 2016

Photo: Bill Hackwell

Photo: Bill Hackwell

A total of 49 fines have been imposed, during Barack Obama’s Administration, to US and foreign entities for violating the US Embargo against Cuba according to the records of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Government. (more…)

Jose Pertierra: The U.S. Needs Immigrants

By Alejandra Garcia on February 8, 2025

Immigrant workers protesting Trump’s deportation policy. Photos: Bill Hackwell

U.S. President Donald Trump rose to power by making mass deportations of undocumented immigrants a central promise of his campaign. Today, those promises have become a stark reality, one that the world is watching with growing concern. Jose Pertierra, one of the top immigration attorneys in Washington, D.C. shared with this reporter, during an interview for the multiplatform Telesur, that the consequences of this decision will be immeasurable for the U.S. society. (more…)

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