The lifesaving struggle to free Lynne Stewart, “the people’s lawyer,” continues. Following a full-house rally on May 9 at St. Mark’s Theatre in New York City, a vigil was held in Foley Square on May 15. The latter activity was held near the Manhattan federal courthouse where, in 2010, Stewart was unjustly convicted and sentenced [...]
La administración de Obama está proponiendo recortes del Seguro Social por un total de más de $127 mil millones durante la próxima década. El Congreso y los políticos han sido comprados, protegiendo a sus amigos ricos a expensas de los/as trabajadores/as. Quieren cortar nuestras redes de seguridad social y nuestros derechos. Cuando se aprobó la [...]
The Obama administration is proposing Social Security cuts totaling more than $127 billion over the next decade. Congress and politicians have been bought off, protecting their wealthy pals at the expense of average workers. They want to cut our social safety nets and our rights. When the Social Security Act was passed in 1935, there [...]
As the United States commemorates the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, a document which officially ended slavery in those states and regions that rebelled against the Union during the Civil War, one is also reminded of a not-so-noble 1863 event in New York City. From [...]
Another status conference pertaining to the Central Park 5 civil lawsuit against New York City and the New York Police Department was held on Feb. 19. Supporters filled the large federal courtroom in downtown Manhattan to indicate their justifiable outrage regarding the lack of progress in bringing closure to this horrific, racist injustice. Twenty-three years [...]
An important film documentary about the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal premiered in New York City on Feb. 1. “Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal” explores through prison interviews, archival footage and narrations, the life of a political prisoner known as “the voice of the voiceless.” It was written and directed by Stephen Vittoria [...]
Jan. 1, 2013, is the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Effective Jan. 1, 1863, during the Civil War, the document declared that enslaved people of African descent in all states rebelling against the Union would be “forever free.” In commemoration of this anniversary, the U.S. Postal [...]
The documentary film, “The Central Park 5,” is showing in theaters here even as a federal civil rights lawsuit regarding the case proceeds against the city of New York and its police department. One is reminded of the case of the “Scottsboro Boys.” In both instances, innocent Black teenagers were falsely accused, convicted and imprisoned [...]
New York — The Russell Tribunal is an International People’s Tribunal organized to bring to light Israel’s recognized violations of international law and to advocate for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine and Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights. This fourth and final international session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine focused on “U.S. [...]
Joseph “Jazz” Hayden no longer faces fourteen years of imprisonment for bogus weapons charges in his arrest last December. Hayden has been filming the New York Police Department’s illegal stop-and-frisks in his Harlem community. To date this year, there have been more than 600,000 young Black and Latino men stopped, questioned and frisked for just [...]
Philadelphia — On April 24, in celebration of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 59th birthday, hundreds of people from several East Coast cities rallied outside the Center City office of Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams to demand Abu-Jamal’s release. An award-winning journalist and former Black Panther Party member, Abu-Jamal spent nearly 30 years on Pennsylvania’s death row falsely accused of killing a Philadelphia police officer. When a decades-long, global movement succeeded in winning his release from death row in Dec. […]
