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  1. #PineAndRoses #NewEngland #DSA protests #ICEDetentions

    Posted by #MaineDSA and Wes Pelletier | Mar 27, 2025

    "Last week, the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine organized a protest of ICE detention of #ColumbiaUniversity student leader #MahmoudKhalil. Since then, ICE has operated as the #Trump Administration’s #SecretPolice, abducting a growing number of immigrant organizers for exercising their right to #FreeSpeech and protesting the U.S.-sponsored #genocide in #Gaza. The list includes #RumeysaOzturk, #YunseoChung, #BadarKhunSuri, #MomodouTaal, #RanjaniSrinivasan, as well as #farmworker organizer #AlfredoJuarezZerefino. Maine DSA member and Portland District 2 City Councilmember #WesPelletier spoke at the Portland Mahmoud Khalil protest and DSA chapters around New England issued a joint declaration reprinted below against the ICE abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk.

    New England DSA chapters demand freedom for Rumeysa Ozturk

    "Yesterday, ICE agents abducted Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student and pro-Palestine activist at Tufts.

    "The kidnapping comes after almost 400 #ICEArrests in Massachusetts, as well as the #doxxing of Ozturk by the pro-Isreal website #CanaryMission.

    "ICE’s abductions—of Ozturk, Khalil, and many others—is an unprecedented attack on basic #CivilRights in the name of U.S. Empire, whether those detained are peaceful #PoliticalActivists or undocumented #migrants seeking safety, jobs, and a better life.

    "We must stand up against this brazen attack on #Palestine, #FreeSpeech, and the #RightToProtest.

    "We must stand in solidarity with our neighbors and communities under attack from Trump, ICE, and all agents of #imperialism.

    "Governor Healey, the courts, and the Democratic Party establishment are not coming to save us—we must mobilize, agitate, and organize in our workplaces and campuses to defend working-class rights.

    In Solidarity,

    #BerkshiresDSA, #BostonDSA, #BostonUniversityYDSA, #CapeCodDSA, #ConnecticutDSA, #MaineDSA, #NortheasternYDSA, #RiverValleyDSA, #SimmonsYDSA, #SouthernNewHampshireDSA, #UpperValleyDSA, #WorcesterDSA"

    Source:
    pineandroses.org/news/new-engl
    #ResistICE #ResistFascism #Resistance #District13 #District13Resists #Fascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #TurReich #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  2. #USA, #Readout of #CDC Call with State Public #Health Partners Regarding Avian #Influenza and #Farmworker #Protection, cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/s0

    May 6, 2024 – Today, CDC Director Nirav D. Shah met with state health officials, public health emergency preparedness directors, state epidemiologists, and state public health veterinarians, and leadership from public health partner organizations to discuss farmworker protection and personal protective equipment (#PPE) for avian influenza.

  3. Tribute to the day labourer

    The occupation of day labourer is out of date. Yet, it was one of the most common occupations until before the First World War. Consequently, many of my ancestors worked as day labourers. Now what is a day labourer?

    #FamilyHistory #OldOccupations #JobsOfYesteryear #ForgottenOccupations #SocialHistory #DayLabourer #Farmworker

    #geneadon #geneadons
    @geneadons @geneadon.social

    evasboom.com/en/2023/11/21/ode

  4. Everyone Owes a #Debt to #Laborers
    smirkingchimp.com/thread/jim-g

    This #LaborDay, a day set aside as a national holiday in 1894, we commemorate the #laborunion movement, the demand for an eight-hour work day, better working conditions, #fairwages, and an end to #childlabor.
    #Genderequality, #racialequality, fair #farmprices, and #farmworker rights are separate issues but all related to the struggle of the #unions for a fair wage and decent working conditions.