[WSMDiscuss] Press Release: People’s Strike! July 1 Broadcast

[Jai Sen]

Apologies, I forgot to paste in the link to the broadcast ! : https://youtu.be/28MyB3sDXNw <https://youtu.be/28MyB3sDXNw> 


> On Jun 30, 2020, at 2:33 PM, Jai Sen <jai.sen at cacim.net> wrote:
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> Tuesday, June 30, 2020
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> Viruses in movement…, People in movement…, Resistance in movement…, The US in movement…
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> [The US is aflame, its people are still afire…  Here, the announcement by People’s Strike - which among many other things, strikes on the first of every month ! - of their Programme for tomorrow, July 1 :
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> Press Release: People’s Strike! July 1 Broadcast <https://peoplesstrike.org/2020/06/30/july-1-for-immediate-release/>
> For immediate release
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> The nationwide coalition of the People’s Strike is broadcasting eight hours of programming on Wednesday, July 1, 2020, from 9:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m. EDT as part of its response to the COVID-19 crisis and systemic inequality, injustice, and resistance. 
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> Segments of the broadcast will include:
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> On-the-ground updates from uprisings in cities including Seattle WA, Minneapolis MN, Philadelphia PA, New York NY, Jackson MS, Atlanta GA, Charlotte NC, and Tappahannock VA.
> Labor coverage with reports from the International Longshore and Warehouse Unions 
> Black and Brown Unite and Fight – a discussion of the historic Harlem-based rally and future plans linking original Black Panthers, Young Lords and young organizers from Latinx, African, Black, and Indigenous communities. Featuring Johanna Fernandez
> Arts and culture coverage with music and poetry from Immortal Technique, Raymond “Nat” Turner, Dave Lippman, and others
> Discussion of Black liberation uprisings and international struggles, including updates from Lamis Deek and Khalad Barakat (Palestine); Juliana Goes (Brazil); Zhun Xu (China); Jai Sen and Komal Mohite (India); plus reports Canada, the removal of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, England, and global  solidarity actions with the Palestinian-led  July 1st Day of Rage Against Settler-Colonial Annexation
> Interviews with activists and academics about Black farmers and Black ecologies, including discussions about post-Katrina New Orleans, Black Appalachian communities and environmental resistance, Puerto Rican Environmental marginality, and the craft of beekeeping
> COVID-19  update and political analysis
> Guests will include:
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> Rose Brewer, People’s Strike leader from Minneapolis, MN
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> Johanna Fernandez, professor of Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College; author of The Young Lords: A Radical History (2020)
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> Lamis Deek, Palestinian human rights attorney and advocate; leader of the Viva Palestina medicine convoy to Gaza
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> Juliana Goes, Afro-Brazilian organizer and educator
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> Justin Hosbey, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Black Studies Research, UC Santa Barbara
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> Jillian McCommons, doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of       Kentucky
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> Danielle Purifoy, board chair of North Carolina Environmental Justice Network
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> Jai Sen, moderator of the World Social Movements Discussion bulletin
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> Rob Wallace, evolutionary biologist and author of Big Farms Make Big Flu
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> Zhun Xu, professor of Economics at Howard University
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Jai Sen

Independent researcher, editor; Senior Fellow at the School of International Development and Globalisation Studies at the University of Ottawa

jai.sen at cacim.net <mailto:jai.sen at cacim.net>
Now based in New Delhi, India (+91-98189 11325) and in Ottawa, Canada, on unceded and unsurrendered Anishinaabe territory (+1-613-282 2900) 

CURRENT / RECENT publications :

Jai Sen, ed, 2018a – The Movements of Movements, Part 2 : Rethinking Our Dance. Ebook and hard copy available at PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/>
Jai Sen, ed, 2018b – The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us Move ? (Indian edition). New Delhi : AuthorsUpfront, in collaboration with OpenWord and PM Press.  Hard copy available at MOM1AmazonIN <https://www.amazon.in/dp/9387280101/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1522884070&sr=8-2&keywords=movements+of+movements+jai+sen>, MOM1Flipkart <https://www.flipkart.com/the-movements-of-movements/p/itmf3zg7h79ecpgj?pid=9789387280106&lid=LSTBOK9789387280106NBA1CH&marketplace=FLIPKART&srno=s_1_1&otracker=search&fm=SEARCH&iid=ff35b702-e6a8-4423-b014-16c84f6f0092.9789387280106.SEARCH&ppt=Search%20Page>, and MOM1AUpFront <http://www.authorsupfront.com/movements.htm>
Jai Sen, ed, 2017 – The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us Move ?.  New Delhi : OpenWord and Oakland, CA : PM Press.  Ebook and hard copy available at PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/>
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