Selma, Ala. — The National Coalition of Leaders to Save Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is in the forefront of the struggle to fight the Supreme Court challenge that would render the 1965 Voters Act all but ineffective. On June 14, this coalition held a daylong caravan throughout Alabama. Rallies and marches were held in four towns and [...]
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A real answer to police terror
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Sharon Black December 14, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Excerpts from a talk given by Sharon Black, a national Workers World Party organizer and representative of the Baltimore People’s Assembly, at the WWP Nov. 17-18 conference in New York. See video at youtube.com/wwpvideo. Baltimore, like Gaza, is an occupied city. I’m not asserting that the people of Baltimore are suffering the same kind [...]
NYC protesters: Superstorm exposes capitalism
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Sharon Black November 4, 2012 » Add the first comment.
New York, Nov. 3 — The Peoples Power Movement held a protest in the center of Manhattan in front of the James A. Farley Post Office Building on 8th Avenue and 32nd Street to point out the huge contradictions of the capitalist system and to raise a “people’s program” of fighting for power. What was [...]
Baltimore vigil protests cop killing of homeless man
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Sharon Black September 2, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Representatives of the Baltimore Peoples Assembly gathered for a vigil and protest in front of the boarded-up house that Rudy Bell Sr., a homeless veteran, had made his home at 1607 W. Lexington Street. This was also where he was shot to death by Baltimore city police on Aug. 18. Bell is the 10th person [...]
