Los Ángeles Este, CA – La campana para derrotar la propuesta 21, una ley que permitirá que jóvenes menores de edad puedan ser enjuciados como adultos, llegó as su etapa mas avanzada. Miles de jóvenes a través del estado de California protestaron en el Este de los Angeles exigiendo “escuelas no prisiones.”

El libro nuevo, Crusade for Justice, Chicano Militancy (La Crusada por Justicia: Militancia Chicana), por Ernesto B. Vigil es una contribución muy grande a la historia Chicana y Estadounidense. La edición de la Prensa de la Universidad de Wisconsin que apareció en mayo de 1999 habla sobre la historia de Crusade for Justice (Crusada por Justicia) o CFJ y las luchas de sus militantes por la Liberación Chicana en el fin de los años 60 y los años 70.

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Stop the War! Stop McCain! working group of Students for a Democratic Society

We are publishing the following essay on the life and work of Fred Hampton to coincide with Black History Month, 2008.

Live from Death Row

The following is one in a regular series of commentaries by Mumia Abu Jamal from SCI Greene Prison

For nearly five months in the fall and winter of 1968-1969, San Francisco State College was paralyzed by a student strike.

Los Angles, CA – Aug. 29 marks the 32nd anniversary of the historic Chicano Moratorium. A little more than three decades ago, the largest Chicano/a mobilization ever took place to protest the Vietnam War. Large numbers of Chicanos were sent to fight the people of Vietnam. The people's movement challenged U.S. foreign policy, the high casualty rate of Chicanos in Vietnam and the negative effects that the war had on our community at home.

An important blow against racism and reaction was struck in Georgia, July 20. Cynthia McKinney's victory in Georgia’s 4th congressional district in the Democratic primaries means it is almost certain that her courageous voice will be heard again inside the halls of Congress.

Chicago, IL – Philip Cline, Acting Superintendent of the Chicago Police, was asked about Mayor Daley’s policing plan in the African-American Harrison District. “It makes our job easier,” he said, “like shooting fish in a barrel.”

To: Planning Committee SDS National Convention

On August 4, student activists and others will be meeting in Chicago to launch a new Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In the 1960s SDS was one of the largest and most influential radical student organizations.