CAMBRIDGE, Mass.––On March 31, 2016 a Pinellas, Florida sheriff’s deputy was responsible for the drowning deaths of three teenage African girls, Laniya Miller, Ashaunti Butler (both 15 years of age) and Dominique Battle (16). Despite an attempted cover-up by the Sheriff’s Department, there is police evidence that Howard Skaggs, head of the Department’s DUI undercover unit pursued the three girls in a county-prohibited high-speed chase, with no official markings or blue lights

Wednesday, July 12, 2017 Committee for International Labor Defense Business Meeting| 6:30 PM (All are welcome.) Educational | 7:00 – 8:00 PM Justice for 3 Drowned Black Girls The 3 drowned girls Dominique Battle Laniya Miller and Ashaunti Butler. were brutally drowned by the Pinellas County Sheriffs Department in St. Petersburg FL in March of last year. The Uhuru Solidarity Movement has been actively defending them. The US and world labor movement has a profound interest i

Reprinted courtesy of People's World CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – On September 14, the issues of race, class, and affordable housing converged in the powerful wake of an August 31 Black Lives Matter action which “condemned” Cambridge City Hall and handed “eviction notices” to every member of the City Council for their lack of substantive action on the affordable housing crisis facing working people of all backgrounds, and especially people of color. Three of the “Cambridge 4” BLM activ