Solidarity with the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela is our duty.
Solidarity with the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela is our duty.
Editor’s Note: The following is a transcription of a special episode of the Omali Taught Me Sunday Study, the first in a series discussing the unity of African and Mexican people in the struggle against the colonial state.
“I’m happy to report you stayed classy, San Diego.” That is how San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer addressed the community as local beaches and parks reopened on April 27. That class, however, was San Diego’s white ruling class.
As of May 8, there have been 4,929 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in San Diego County and 165 deaths. The death rate of 3.3 percent, San Diego County’s COVID-19 death rate is 55 percent of the U.S. national average. Tijuana, the Baja California city across the false border, comparatively has 1,136 verified cases—77 percent fewer cases than San Diego—but 226 deaths!