BY staff | New York, NY | 6/13/13
Jess Sundin, of the Committee to Stop FBI repression, spoke on a panel at the Left Forum here, June 8.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 6/13/13
About 25 protesters gathered in front of the Hennepin County government building here, June 11, to protest the massive National Security Agency spying program and to support whistleblower Edward Snowden.
BY staff | United States | 6/11/13
Lynne Stewart, a heroic and long-time progressive lawyer, is serving a ten-year prison sentence in Fort Worth, Texas for ‘material support of terrorism,’ after serving as defense attorney for Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman. On June 9 Fight Back! spoke with her husband, Ralph Poynter, about her case.
BY Meredith Aby | United States | 6/10/13
In a whirlwind news week the public has become aware that the majority, if not all, of U.S. telephone calls are monitored by the NSA (National Security Agency) and have been for seven years, that the U.S. government is monitoring emails through a secret NSA program called PRISM, and that Edward Snowden is the whistleblower that made these revelations possible.
BY Committee to Stop FBI Repression | United States | 6/06/13
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Committee to Stop FBI Repression.
BY Matt Hastings | Tampa, FL | 6/03/13
On June 1 over 50 activists rallied at the MacDill Air Force Base, calling for the release of whistleblower Bradley Manning.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 6/01/13
Hundreds of people marched through the streets of downtown Minneapolis on May 31 to demand justice for Terrance “Mookie” Franklin, a 22-year-old African American man killed by the police in a South Minneapolis home on May 10.
BY staff | Washington, DC | 5/18/13
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, said on May 17 that it plans to file a complaint against a Minnesota judge who inappropriately questioned defendants on their religious beliefs and equated mainstream Islamic principles with terrorism.
BY Mick Kelly | Minneapolis, MN | 5/17/13
About 200 Somalis, mainly women, converged on the Federal Building here, May 16, for the sentencing hearing of two Somali humanitarian workers.
BY Lawrence Hamm | Newark, NJ | 5/11/13
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from People's Organization For Progress (POP) chair Lawrence Hamm, from a May 10 Newark, New Jersey press conference.
Re: Milwaukee rally supports Palestine, says "Don't award apartheid!"
Way to go, Milwaukee Palestine Solidarity Coalition!!
Re: UPS Teamsters in Tampa Bay organize for ‘no’ vote on proposed contract
AND THE FAT CATS GET FATTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VOTE NO!!!
You go UPS brother and sisters! Fight that "CORPORATE GREED!"
Re: The Obama Doctrine: Kill civilians to save them from ‘terrorism’
Amazing article on drone strikes.s
Re: Florida Governor Scott stops bill allowing driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants
This is clearly a racist, anti-immigrant move. While other states are giving driver's...