Labor-Community Alliance of South Florida Calls for Immediate End to the Shutdown: Stop Using Federal Workers and Public Services as Bargaining Chips, October 13, 2025 MIAMI, FL — The Labor Community Alliance of South Florida joins unions, worker advocates, and community organizations across the country in demanding an immediate end to the government shutdown. Federal […]
by Lorenzo Canizares 9/28/25 Today, I became aware of a letter written by Florida’s Republican Senator Rick Scott and New York State Democratic Congresswoman Elise Stefanik chastising the leaders of Australia, Canada, France and the United Kingdom for recognizing the Palestinian state. They claim to be representing a bipartisan sentiment of the United States legislature […]
by Carolina Ampudia 07/15/2025 Is Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Corruption a Warning for All of Us?
by Lorenzo Canizares 6/1/25 This past Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron urged the creation of an alliance between Europe and Asia to avoid becoming “collateral victims” of decisions made by global superpowers. Macron said this at a forum attended by U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth. In an article posted by Telesur on 5/30/25, the […]
by Lorenzo Canizares 5/14/25 There is a major struggle going on in Europe regarding the participation of Israel in the highly regarded music festival, Eurovision. A letter has been drafted and signed by more than 70 former participants calling for Israel to be banned from Eurovision. The letter states “[We] urge all members of the […]
by Lorenzo Canizares 4/30/25 There is light at the end of the tunnel in Ukraine. This is from an article by Oliver Lane in yesterday’s (4/28/25) Breitbart News “Trump: Hard Working Zelensky willing to give up Crimea for Peace.” In the article Lane says “Besides Russian recalcitrance, one of the most apparent stumbling blocks to […]
by Carolina Ampudia 03272025 Columbia University didn’t sell out like a sex worker—it did something far worse. As a labor organizer, former professor, and community advocate, I’ve had the privilege of knowing sex workers who are brilliant, principled, and deeply committed to justice. Their work is honest and consensual. They exchange labor for survival in […]
by Lorenzo Canizares 3/26/25 This coming Saturday (3/29/25), a massive rally is being planned in Miami at the Krome Detention Center to protest the inhumane conditions that immigration detainees are facing in the land of the free and the home of the brave. As per a 3/21/25 article by Alex DeLuca in Miami New Times, […]
by Lorenzo Canizares 3/20/2025 Encyclopaedia Britannica (EB) defines fascism as “a philosophy of government that stresses the primacy and glory of the state, unquestioning obedience to its leader, subordination of the individual will to the state’s authority, and harsh suppression of dissent. Martial virtues are celebrated, while liberal and democratic values are disparaged. Fascism arose […]
by Lorenzo Canizares 3/14/25 Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, CWA-AFL-CIO, has made the call for American workers to join forces in a general strike. Joe Maniscalco in an article posted in Portside 3/12/25 quotes Ms. Nelson, “We have very few options but to join together to organize for a General Strike.” […]