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The Hakwye Worker is an online blog dedicated to bringing you news and analysis from a pro-labor, pro-worker standpoint about local, national, and global politics. We are a local group of labor, environmental, anti-war, and social justice activists working to build a branch of Socialist Action, a nationwide revolutionary party founded to struggle against capitalist exploitation and inequality, in the Eastern Iowa area.
U.S. Government Steps Up Deportations Against Haitians
Another example of the criminal policies of imperialism: after pursuing a policy of destruction and domination against Haiti since its independence, after overthrowing the Haitian government in the wake of last year’s earthquake, using it as an excuse to establish even tighter control, after re-introducing cholera to the island and massacring its people, after banning […]
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January Issue of The Hawkeye Worker is Out!
January 10, 2011
The first issue of 2011 can be downloaded here. You can also pick up a copy for 25 cents at one of the following events: 11th – Rally to Defend Marriage Equality @ the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines. 9AM. Sponsored by One Iowa; endorsed by Socialist Action and the Justice for Our Neighbors Coalition. […]
Posted in: The Hawkeye Worker
Video from Immigrant Rights Forum
December 20, 2010
Yesterday’s forum received notable press coverage, from the Gazette to KGAN to, of all places, Florida Today. Below is the link to a recording of the full event. http://www.neighborhoodnetworknews.com/video/wmf/political/socialists/cr_sc121810.html
Posted in: SA campaigns
Tomorrow: Public Forum: Defend Immigrant Rights and Make C.R. a Sanctuary City!
December 17, 2010
Latino, black, Asian, Arab and white, immigrants with and without papers, we are all Iowans. Immigration policies that limit our civil rights and divide our families are barbaric and untenable. Come to our public forum to discuss with and hear from Socialist Action activists and a guest speaker from El Salvador on the repression that […]
Posted in: SA campaigns
Dual Protests in Defense of Education
October 8, 2010
Socialist Action and the Wild Rose Collective gathered outside the C.R. School District Board Secretary’s Office as part of the National Day to Defend Education, demonstrating in defense of education and public services, raising the demand of “Money for jobs & education, not wars and occupation!” and “If capitalism can’t afford our education, we can’t […]
Posted in: SA campaigns
THIS THURSDAY: National Day to Defend Education and Public Services!
October 3, 2010
Outside the C.R. Community School District – Board Secretary’s Office 900 Blairs Ferry Rd. NE Cedar Rapids, IA * On Thursday, a mass coalition of unions, student groups, antiwar assemblies and socialist parties will be taking to the streets in a National Day of Action to defend education – and vital public services. Say NO […]
Posted in: SA campaigns
C.R. Antiwar Movement on the Rebound
September 27, 2010
Socialist Action in Cedar Rapids participated in an anti-war march / protest in the Linndale Mall called for by Women for Peace – Iowa, drawing in total around ten people and raising our demand of “U.S. Out of Afghanistan and Iraq NOW!” amongst the public. We were well received amongst the general public present, highlighting […]
Posted in: antiwar, SA campaigns
UPCOMING EVENTS
Jan. 22nd - Free pizza dinner plus screening of The Trotsky, a revolutionary comedy. Stay tuned for time and location information. Check the latest edition of The Hawkeye Worker for more events.
The Hawkeye Worker 
January 14, 2011
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