Author Archives: Biko

Drop the Charges Against Dedan Waciuri

As is usually the case after mass protest, when people are no longer in the streets, government and law enforcement gear up to punish those who participated in the resistance. They want to send a message to hundreds of thousands across the country that they will not tolerate challenges to their authority and murderous behavior. In cities and towns across the country, local authorities are reviewing video and news reports hoping to single out leaders of the nationwide uprisings in the wake of the George Floyd murder by the Minneapolis Police Department on May 25.

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North Carolina Public Service Workers Union-UE Local 150 and Black Workers for Justice at post election rally in Raleigh

Black Workers for Justice Calls on International Community to Monitor US elections

We Need International Observers to Protect the Democratic Right of the Black Vote!

Since the 2016 election there has been incessant talk of Russian, and sometimes Chinese and other countries interfering in US elections. Yet It has long been known that the US interferes in elections across the world. Whether covert or open, scholars have reported at least 62 electoral interventions between 1942 and 1989.  When their favored candidate is facing a serious challenge, they have insisted on election observers and have been critical of results when other credible observers have been satisfied.

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A History of the Women’s Commission of Black Workers For Justice

The Black Workers For Justice grew out of the 1981 struggle of three Black women workers, Mildred Davis, Christine Smith and Luvenia Cooper, against retaliation and discrimination at a K-Mart department store in Rocky Mount, NC.  It was from this foundation of fightback that the organization that became BWFJ established as a central pillar recognizing the triple oppression and exploitation of Black women workers: as women, as workers and as Black people.  This includes the full participation, development and leadership of women in the labor movement and the Black Liberation Movement as well as  sisters’ rights and responsibilities to participate in the planning, maintaining, organizing, education campaigns and leadership within our organization.  When  BWFJ wrote “Where We Stand”, our creed and program of BWFJ, we made sure to include a point on the equality of sexes and against sexism.

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National Reparations Day!Reparations Now!

National Reparations Day! Reparations Now!

In August we commemorate Black August to honor Black Freedom Fighters and Black Resistance. This year, in addition to lifting up those fighters killed by the state and our political prisoners, we focus on a key demand of our movement, Reparations.

On August 15, thousands across the US, with support from allies in the Caribbean, Africa and Europe will participate in National Reparations Day. The Day was called by the December 12th Movement to recognize two critical events in our just struggle to be made whole from the damage and destruction of slavery. In 2001 at the World Conference Against Racism the delegates declared that the Trans- Atlantic Slave Trade and slavery were crimes against humanity. The second marker was the August 17, 2002 Millions for Reparations National Rally held in Washington, D.C. the 117th anniversary of the birth of Marcus Garvey.

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