Detroit — A new restructuring plan has been issued for Detroit with no real input by the people of the city. Kevyn Orr, the state-appointed emergency manager, held a closed meeting on June 14 with creditors and some labor leaders at the Westin Hotel in the main terminal at Wayne County’s Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Orr’s meeting [...]
Solidarity with Turkish protesters at Zuccotti Park in New York City, June 8.
Progressive activists joined Turkish immigrants in Philadelphia’s Love Park on June 17 to express solidarity with the ongoing rebellion in Taksim Square in Istanbul.
Syracuse, N.Y — CNY Solidarity marched loud and proud at Central New York Pride on June 15. Youth activists organized and led the contingent. The number of marchers participating in the group doubled from the 2012 march. They held signs high that argued the need to link anti-racist struggle and the fight against lesbian, gay, bisexual, [...]
The top echelons of the Washington establishment have been stunned by the release of documents which show that the U.S. government has been involved in a program of massive spying not only on foreign governments and their citizens, but on its own citizens as well. Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old technical worker employed by Booz Allen [...]
The continuing campaign to gain compassionate release for Lynne Stewart — the grievously ill, imprisoned human rights attorney — is headed to Washington, D.C. Despite being approved for compassionate release, Stewart continues to be held in Carswell Federal Prison in seriously deteriorating health. Stewart’s spouse, social justice activist Ralph Poynter, will lead a continuing vigil [...]
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 [...]
The Baltimore People’s Power Assembly is organizing a national delegation to attend the July 1 mayoral inauguration of Chokwe Lumumba in Jackson, Miss. The Jackson People’s Assembly, which Lumumba helped found along with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, was instrumental in him winning 87 percent of the vote. The JPA calls for the direct participation [...]
Ocilla, Ga. — The Irwin County Detention Center sits just outside the town of Ocilla, population 3,400, in southern Georgia. With 200 workers, it is the largest private employer in Irwin County. Fields of cotton, peanuts and tobacco fill the countryside around Ocilla. Drought, unemployment and poverty plague its residents. The one-story, sprawling ICDC building [...]
Detroit — For nearly two years members of Asotrecol — the Association of Injured Workers and Ex-workers of General Motors Colmotores — have been living in tents outside the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia. They are still demanding justice for workers who were fired after they were injured on the job in GM’s Colombian plant. [...]
