{"id":418994,"date":"2025-09-12T17:31:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418994\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T17:31:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:31:25","slug":"cpusa-members-add-street-heat-on-wall-street-communist-party-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418994\/","title":{"rendered":"CPUSA members add street heat on Wall Street \u2013 Communist Party USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CPUSA<\/p>\n

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CPUSA members brought an energetic contingent determined to help make \u201cgood trouble\u201d with broader working class and democratic forces at the recent March on Wall Street<\/a> called for by Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network.<\/p>\n

\nRead about the march in People\u2019s World<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"The day marked 62 years since Dr. Martin Luther King\u2019s \u201cI have a Dream\u201d speech at the 1963 March on Washington.<\/p>\n

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Thousands of leaders and activists from across the civil rights and labor movement marched. Together, they highlighted big business backing for Trump and MAGA\u2019s attack on African Americans, immigrants, and the multi-racial working class as a whole.<\/p>\n

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Communist Party members held up banners and placards specially designed for the action.<\/p>\n

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Opposition to the administration\u2019s attacks on DEI and affirmative action, its racist mass deportation drive and armed takeover of U.S. cities, and the special targeting of Black mayors took center stage.<\/p>\n

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The assault on federal workers, collective bargaining rights, voting rights, and public education were likewise among the central issues animating the marchers.<\/p>\n

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Trump \u201cis illegally imposing his anti-democratic, racist, and anti-migrant will on communities that don\u2019t accept his dictatorial ambitions and the chaos of his anti-scientific administration,\u201d one attendee said.<\/p>\n

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32BJ organizer Alvin Carter told Wall Street bankers, bondholders, and CEOs writing checks for political campaigns and super PACs, \u201cYou are the reason that we have folks who aren\u2019t voting for voting rights in the halls of Congress today!\u201d<\/p>\n

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AFSCME President Lee Saunders reminded the marchers of Dr. King\u2019s proclamation in 1963 that the U.S. had written its citizens of color a \u201cbad check.\u201d MLK said that check came back marked \u201cinsufficient funds.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat is why we are here on Wall Street today,\u201d Saunders added. \u201cIf anyone has the power to make good on that check, it is the billionaire bankers and big corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Shaylyn Cochran of the Lawyers\u2019 Committee for Civil Rights Under Law pointed out 300,000 Black women have been removed from the workforce by Trump\u2019s executive orders.<\/p>\n

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The administration\u2019s cancelling of collective bargaining rights for over 1.3 million federal workers, where Black union members are especially concentrated, amounts to the largest act of union busting in U.S. history<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\nSend a letter to Congress: End union busting!<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cWhen the Trump administration terminated its contract with the unionized workers, it terminated its contract with the American people,\u201d AFGE President Everett Kelley protested.<\/p>\n

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Party members also distributed materials to help build the campaign to boycott Target<\/a>. Following Trump\u2019s election, the $40 billion retail corporation quickly terminated DEI initiatives it had formerly established in response to massive Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. The Target boycott has led to significant drops in foot traffic and profits, and the replacement of the company\u2019s CEO.<\/p>\n

\nTake the Boycott pledge: Time to target Target<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cIf we do not get out and march, if we do not speak up, [Trump] will completely erase the freedoms our parents and our grandparents fought, bled, and died for,\u201d Rev. Al Sharpton declared from the stage.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWall Street\u2019s profits, in part, are built on the super-exploitation of African Americans,\u201d CPUSA co-chair Joe Sims reflected on the days\u2019 events. \u201cNot only is there a racist wage differential, but they targeted Black and Brown homeowners during the subprime swindle and made billions. They owe us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Check out the March on Wall Street photo album<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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