A slavery story and a denial in the U.S

A Journal of People report

Slavery is a now a political issue in today’s United States. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell opposes paying government reparations to the descendants of American slaves. One of these debates is concerning Senator McConnell’s ancestors owning slaves. Census records show his family benefited from the slaves’ labor.

A report by NBC News said:

“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said recently he opposes paying government reparations to the descendants of American slaves, has a family history deeply entwined in the issue: Two of his great-great-grandfathers were slave owners, U.S. census records show.

Climate crisis threatens human food supply, finds UN report

A Journal of People report

Slavery is a now a political issue in today’s United States. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell opposes paying government reparations to the descendants of American slaves. One of these debates is concerning Senator McConnell’s ancestors owning slaves. Census records show his family benefited from the slaves’ labor.

A report by NBC News said:

“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said recently he opposes paying government reparations to the descendants of American slaves, has a family history deeply entwined in the issue: Two of his great-great-grandfathers were slave owners, U.S. census records show.

Disablement, oppression, and political economy

by Marta Russell

Socialist Project | August 07, 2019

It is often claimed that disabled persons are invisible, disregarded by mainstream society, and irrelevant to the workings of society. This analysis has attempted to explain that the “unemployables” have been deliberately shut out of the labor force due to a capitalist economy that so far has dictated their exclusion by measure of economic calculations that favor the business class. It further posits that disabled persons are further oppressed in capitalist societies by having been purposely shifted onto social welfare or segregated into institutions for similar reasons – to keep workers who could not be profitably employed out of the mainstream workforce but also to exert social control over the entire labor supply.

Farmworkers rise up against Trump and labor exploitation

by David Bacon

People’s World | August 12, 2019

Marchers take part in the Farmworker March for Dignity 2019, on August 4, 2019, in Whatcom County, Washington. | David Bacon

The article that follows was previously published in Truthout.

Washington State today is ground zero in the effort to hold back the massive use of agricultural guest workers by U.S. growers, and to ensure that farmworkers, both those living here and those coming under the H-2A visa program, have their rights respected. For a second year, on August 4 workers and their supporters marched 14 miles in 90-degree heat through berry fields just below the Canadian border, protesting what they charge is widespread abuse of agricultural labor.

Support Venezuelans in Feeding Themselves

 REVOLUCIONALIMENTARIA | July 24, 2019

Support Venezuelans in Feeding Themselves: Emergency Solidarity FundThe Venezuelan economy is choked by sanctions that have blocked access to food, medicines and finances, costing an estimated 40,000 livesand undermining the right to food. Ordinary Venezuelans struggle to put food on their tables on a daily basis. This campaign is a concrete way to support existing, effective grassroots solutions. 

More Sanctions Against Venezuela Means More Suffering

Real News Network | August 07, 2019

The Trump administration’s new sanctions freeze all of Venezuela’s U.S.-based assets and those of anyone who helps Maduro which will only increase poverty, says Venezuelan economist Francisco Rodriguez.

U.S. doesn’t want dialogue: turns to economic terror and shows plan to impose its tutelage on Venezuela

by Aram Aharonian

Pressenza | August 09, 2019

El Grupo de Lima sostuvo una reunión en Santiago, Chile. Abril 15, 2019. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido

The blockade and the new sanctions that freeze all Venezuelan assets in U.S. territory, ordered by the regime of Donald Trump, is nothing more than another act of economic terrorism that seeks, in the first place, to break the dialogue between the constitutional government and the opposition and marks the attempt to impose a tutelage on the country.

The decision was applauded by the opposition Juan Guaidó, self-proclaimed interim president last January, and whose credibility and ancestry has come in low, according to all opinion polls.