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Call for a General Strike Beginning May 1st
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
06 Apr 2020
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Cooperation Jackson, based in Jackson, Mississippi, issued the call and list of demands to protect the people from both the virus and disaster capitalism. “The society that emerges from this crisis is going to be different,” said Cooperation Jackson spokesman Kali Akuno. “This could be good or bad. We’re not going back to what was.”

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