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Eyewitness to Kids in Cages

In the beginning of March, I traveled to my birthplace of Dallas, Tejas. I made the difficult decision to travel and visit family after two years. I have always possessed conflicting feelings about what returning “home” means to me. In a state that historically was part of México and tries to erase this fact. On land historically belonging to indigenous people that was stolen. I am reminded of the quote, “We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us.” Yet, the racist politicians in power fight to keep those who have been forced to migrate due to U.S. imperialist invention from seeking refuge. As immigrants and Xicanos being told and made to feel that we do not belong. A state that loves our “culture” but in the same vein demands that we only speak English.

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AMLO’s MORENA at a crossroads as Mexico heads towards midterm elections

As Mexico heads towards midterm elections, it’s a key moment to analyze the trajectory of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his political party, the Movement for National Regeneration (Morena). While there was mass euphoria after his triumph against the traditional PRI-PAN dictatorship in 2018, three years into his mandate, the limits and betrayals of his political project are in full view.

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Bolivia: The golpistas must be punished

The return to power of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party after the 2019 coup, has been followed by a swift effort to hold the golpistas accountable. In response, the US media has taken up the State Department’s line, shedding crocodile tears over alleged civil rights abuses. Ironically, these same voices utterly failed to condemn a right-wing coup which led to a year-long period of political violence that left at least 30 dead and thousands more injured or arrested. These disingenuous commentators are now wringing their hands over the arrest and prosecution of the guilty parties. Those of us concerned with genuine democracy in Latin America should ignore them, looking at similar machinations that previously occurred in Brazil.

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#WatchingForChange: Las Deportaciones Continúan Bajo el Mandato de Biden

“La Administración puede decidir no deportar a nadie, dejando de lado la Orden de Restricción Temporal (TRO). La moral, la humanidad y las obligaciones internacionales que exigen a la Administración que cumpla. De lo contrario, Estados Unidos está fletando aviones de la muerte”.

Han pasado menos de tres meses desde que el presidente Biden asumió el cargo. A pesar de la salida de Trump, muchas organizaciones y activistas por los derechos de los inmigrantes reconocen que la lucha está lejos de terminar. El primer día que tomó posesión de su cargo, Biden firmó una orden ejecutiva para una moratoria de deportaciones de 100 días, una pausa de deportaciones de ciertos individuos seleccionados.

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Black Struggle is Class Struggle

Whether or not Amazon, a global behemoth and now trillion-dollar corporation, will be forced to eventually collectively bargain with a unionized workforce at its fulfillment center warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama hinges upon the votes of nearly 6,000 workers. Despite its characterization as a Red State in the Deep South, the workers in Alabama are at the forefront of a new effort to re-build the U.S. labor movement.

If successful, the union drive by mail-in vote concluding on March 29th would mark the first time an Amazon facility in the U.S. is successfully unionized. A pro-union vote would be a win for the entire of the working

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Guatemala: We’re hurting for 56, we’re missing 41

March 8 is a key date for the feminist movement in different parts of the world. In Guatemala, in addition to the demands against machista violence and to expand reproductive rights, there is also the demand for justice for the 56 adolescents and girls of the massacre at Hogar Seguro. “On March 8, 2017, the State of Guatemala is going to commit a violent and feminicidal act against 56 girls who were seeking to escape from the Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción, where they were enduring abuse and demanding rights to recreation, food and education” explains Lorena Cabnal, defender of the Red de Sanadoras Ancestrales del Feminismo Comunitario Territorial (Network of Ancestral Healers of Territorial Community Feminism).

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Guatemala: Nos duelen 56, nos faltan 41

El 8 de marzo es una fecha clave para la lucha antipatriarcal en diferentes latitudes del planeta. En Guatemala, a las reivindicaciones contra la violencia machista y para ampliar los derechos reproductivos, se suma también la reclamación de justicia para las 56 adolescentes y niñas de la masacre del Hogar Seguro. “El 8 de marzo de 2017 el Estado de Guatemala va a cometer un acto violento y feminicida contra 56 niñas que buscaban escapar del Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción, donde vivían abusos y reclamaban derechos a recreación, alimentación y educación” nos explica Lorena Cabnal, defensora de la Red de Sanadoras Ancestrales del Feminismo Comunitario Territorial.

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¡Ganamos con la huelga!

Lilly Thorne encabezó una huelga en Hops Burger Bar en la ciudad de Greensboro, en Carolina del Norte el 24 de diciembre de 2020. Esta huelga fue una de muchas huelgas organizadas esporádicamente por trabajadores de restaurantes y comida rápida durante la pandemia. Aquí, Lilly relata los hechos de la huelga con Tina Trutanich para Puntorojo y conecta las luchas en el trabajo con la identidad queer y la construcción de sindicatos antirracistas en el sur de los Estados Unidos y otras partes.

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Biden’s immigration proposal: a path to nowhere

The election of Joe Biden and the return of Democratic Party control of Congress has raised hope that Trump’s disastrous immigration policies could be undone. Separated and incarcerated families long to be reunited and freed, refugees blocked into deadly camps at the border wait for legal channels to be reopened, undocumented workers cut out of pandemic relief efforts endure dangerous working conditions and economic devastation, and all Trump’s other orders designed to be cruel and inhumane urgently need to be reversed.

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When we strike, we win!

On December 24, 2020, Lilly Thorne led a strike at Hops Burger Bar in Greensboro, North
Carolina. The strike represented one of many sporadic restaurant and fast-food workers’ strikes
during this pandemic. Lilly recounts the strike with Puntorojo and connects workplace struggles
with queer identity and anti-racist union building in the United States and beyond.

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