BY Freedom Road Socialist Organization | United States | 9/01/05
We express great sadness and extend our solidarity to all who have lost loved ones and their homes in the great disaster that has struck the South and New Orleans in particular.
BY Staff | Newark, NJ | 5/21/05
Fight Back! talked on May 8 with Elizabeth (Bonnie) Moore, whose son Rasheed, 26, was killed in January by Newark, NJ police officer Thomas Ruane (see Fight Back! March/April 2005.) Fight Back! also talked with Earl Williams, whose son Earl Faison was killed by Orange, NJ policemen in April of 1999.
BY Arthur Henson | Newark, NJ | 2/09/05
Rasheed Fuquan Moore, 26, was killed Jan. 24 by Newark police officer Thomas Ruane in a 12:30 a.m. shooting incident. In the same incident, Ruane’s partner, officer Nicholas Popolizio, shot Richard Guy, 26, in the leg.
BY Staff | Georgia | 8/05/04
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.
BY Randy Evans | Chicago, IL | 7/01/04
Chicago, IL - Residents of the Woodlawn neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side are fighting to hold on to our neighborhood. We are threatened by gentrification, which is happening in many poor areas of the city.
Arenda Troutman, Brinshore Development, LLC., Bronzeville area, Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago’s South Side, Donna Ramey, gentrification, North Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood, Residents of the Woodlawn neighborhood, threatened by gentrification, Troutman Faces Unified Black Community, Woodlawn neighborhood
BY Staff | Chicago, IL | 10/01/03
Activists in Chicago, led by Comite Exigimos Justicia (CEJ, or the We Demand Justice Committee), marched on Area 5 Police Headquarters on Aug. 16 to demand a meeting with Deputy Chief Dayna Sparks.
BY Adam Price | San Jose, CA | 10/01/03
In late September the Census Bureau reported that, for the second year in a row, household income fell, the number of poor rose, and more Americans lacked health insurance
BY Stephanie Weiner | Chicago, IL | 9/01/03
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.”
BY Stephanie Weiner | Benton Harbor, MI | 7/01/03
On June 17, the African American community of this southern Michigan city rebelled against police terror. Police chased down, without justification, a 28-year old Black motorcyclist, Terrance Shurn.
BY Stephanie Weiner | Chicago, IL | 3/01/03
Aaron Patterson is one of the four death row inmates pardoned by Illinois Governor Ryan on Jan. 10.
Re: International Workers Day 2013 in Havana, Cuba
Long live socialism, death to capitalism, long live revolution of workers.
Re: May Day: Thousands rally for immigrant rights in Milwaukee
organizers said there were 10,000 people this year. That sounds about right!
Re: Venezuelan people elect Nicolas Maduro as president to succeed Chavez
Viva maduro! Long live the Bolivarian Revolution!
Re: ‘No new Korean war’ is the message from Twin Cities peace vigil
May Peace in Korea. Regards from Indonesia.
I hope other cities do actions like this one. The rich people who tell US Generals what to...