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PLEASE SHARE WIDELY: Facebook shuts down community, women’s groups and activists’ pages without cause .. Eng/Esp

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Contact: Sharon Black and Attorney Alec Summerfield
Phone: 410-218-4835
#FacebookCensorship #DefendPeoplesRights #ReactivatePPA

Groups announce campaign to restore pages and to fight censorship

On Friday, January 22, 2021, Facebook disabled the main pages of two major community organizations, Peoples Power Assembly and Women In Struggle / Mujeres En Lucha, and activists around the country who have played roles in either group, extending it’s purge to Puerto Rican activist Berta Joubert-Ceci; Greg Butterfield, Struggle La Lucha writer; Cheryl La Bash, co-chair, National Network on Cuba; Maggie Vascassenno, Los Angeles Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice; and others.

It also included PPA page editor Charlene Lady J. Jenkins, a founder of “What’s Up Baltimore,” whose Baltimore grassroots network was shut down as a result.

In addition, 16 individual activists’ profiles were disabled, which means that close to a dozen other…

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PLEASE SHARE WIDELY: Facebook shuts down community, women’s groups and activists’ pages without cause .. Eng/Esp

Posted on January 25, 2021
Struggle – La Lucha for Socialism
Versión en español a continuación
Contact: Sharon Black and Attorney Alec Summerfield
Phone: 410-218-4835
#FacebookCensorship #DefendPeoplesRights #ReactivatePPA

Groups announce campaign to restore pages and to fight censorship

On Friday, January 22, 2021, Facebook disabled the main pages of two major community organizations, Peoples Power Assembly and Women In Struggle / Mujeres En Lucha, and activists around the country who have played roles in either group, extending it’s purge to Puerto Rican activist Berta Joubert-Ceci; Greg Butterfield, Struggle La Lucha writer; Cheryl La Bash, co-chair, National Network on Cuba; Maggie Vascassenno, Los Angeles Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice; and others.

It also included PPA page editor Charlene Lady J. Jenkins, a founder of “What’s Up Baltimore,” whose Baltimore grassroots network was shut down as a result.

In addition, 16 individual activists’ profiles were disabled, which means that close to a dozen other progressive pages and groups were frozen when their administrators were disabled, including: the Baltimore Harriet Tubman Solidarity Center, ICE Out of Baltimore, Prisoners Solidarity Committee, Youth Against War & Racism, and Baltimore and Maryland Amazon Workers.

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25 de enero: Movilización estatal del Movimiento Pensionista contra el Pacto de Toledo y la ‘reforma Escrivá»

Más de una decena de colectivos llaman a salir a la calle con “una gran movilización” en decenas de ciudades y poblaciones de todo el Estado contra las propuestas del Pacto de Toledo y el “desarrollo que de las mismas pretende hacer el ministro de Seguridad Social, José Luis Escrivá”.

Por Kaos. Estado Español Publicado el 24 Ene, 2021

Colectivos de pensionistas de todo el Estado “ante la agresión que las recientes recomendaciones del Pacto de Toledo y la política de Escrivá suponen para el sistema público de pensiones” reiteran su “rechazo frontal a la sustitución complementaria del sistema público, por medio de los planes privados de empresa, vía convenios, con soporte de dinero público y apoyo gubernamental y a costa de los ingresos de la Seguridad Social” debilitando con ello “seriamente la caja única de las pensiones”.