BY staff | San José, CA | 2/20/17
On Sunday, Feb. 19, a standing-room only crowd of more than 700 packed the San Jose Day of Remembrance event. Every year the San Jose Nihonmachi Outreach Committee (NOC) organizes this event to commemorate Executive Order 9066. Executive Order 9066 paved the way for the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II.
BY Freedom Road Socialist Organization | United States | 11/24/14
On Nov. 24, a Ferguson grand jury decision cleared police officer Darren Wilson of the murder of Michael Brown.
BY Freedom Road Socialist Organization | United States | 9/06/14
On July 17, Eric Garner, an African American father of six, was choked to death by New York City police, who then went through his pockets instead of calling an ambulance.
BY Jared Hamil | Tampa, FL | 8/26/14
On a rainy afternoon, Aug. 23, 70 people rallied in downtown here, demanding justice for Mike Brown of Ferguson, Missouri.
BY Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | Palestine | 8/19/14
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Aug. 19 statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
BY staff | Jacksonville, FL | 6/16/14
On June 10, Circuit Judge James Daniel pushed back Marissa Alexander's retrial date from July 21 to Dec. 1.
BY staff | Los Angeles, CA | 3/27/14
A mural commemorating the historic 1968 East LA Chicano high school walkouts was dedicated here, at Lincoln High School, March 25.
BY staff | Jacksonville, FL | 3/02/14
Florida State Attorney Angela Corey announced on March 1, 2014, that her office is seeking a maximum 60-year sentence in the retrial of Marissa Alexander, beginning in late July.
BY Preston Gilmore | Nashville, TN | 2/27/14
On Feb. 25 over 30 youth, mostly African American and Latino, rallied on Legislative Plaza at the State Capitol to demand an end to racial profiling and a repeal of Tennessee’s version of the “Stand Your Ground” law.
BY Fernando Figueroa | Jacksonville, FL | 2/16/14
The steps of the Duval County Courthouse were filled with protesters and community members on Saturday, February 15.
