Washington, D.C. — The second day of the Poor People’s March for Jobs and Justice, May 12, began with excitement as women from the National Coalition of Leaders to Save Section 5 (of the Voting Rights Act), who drove from Selma, Ala., took the lead of the march with other women on Mothers’ Day. It was [...]
Oxnard, Calif. — About 300 people from across the state of California attended the historic “Justice for Our Communities! Families Organizing to Resist Police Brutality and Abuse” conference at the Oxnard Community College. Attendees at the April 27 meeting included families of police brutality victims and community organizations from as far away as Sacramento and San [...]
Taken from an April 18 audio column on prisonradio.org. The writer is a political prisoner at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, Pa. The riveting documentary, “Central Park Five,” was an explosive example of what scholar Michelle Alexander has termed, “The New Jim Crow” (the title of her recent book), but, upon reflection, we find that it [...]
U.S. Route 1, south of Baltimore Within hours of the start of the Poor People’s Campaign and March, which headed from Baltimore to Washington, D.C., on May 11, words had turned into action. Some hundreds of marchers defied Baltimore County cops who were blocking the way at a Walmart Supercenter in Halethorpe, Md. Most marchers [...]
The United National Antiwar Coalition, the broadest of the anti-imperialist coalitions active in the United States, issued the following statement on May 10 in the aftermath of the Israeli bombing of Syria. The May 2-3 and 4-5 nighttime bombings of Syria’s International Airport, military installations in a Damascus suburb and a military supply depot reportedly [...]
Fred Goldstein, author of the recently published work “Capitalism at a Dead End” and a member of the Secretariat of Workers World Party, spoke about the book to a full house at the Inquiring Mind bookstore in New Paltz, N.Y., on April 12. Students and community activists from the anti-war and anti-fracking movements in the [...]
The following is a May 9 national press release. Baltimore, Md. — On Saturday, May 11, 2013, community, civil rights, union and student activists will reclaim the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy by staging a two-day march entitled, “2013 Poor Peoples Campaign & March,” from the city of Baltimore to Washington, D.C. [...]
Leading community organizers in the Detroit area addressed a standing- room-only audience at Central United Methodist Church on May 4 when the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shut-offs presented a representative sample of documents related to the bond issues and loans that are at the root of the financial crisis in [...]
Coldwater, Mich., a town of 10,000 in the western half of the state, is no place one would expect to see a protest demonstration. These days, however, foreclosure defense activists go where they are needed. They have come May 3 to Coldwater from around the state to keep Matthew Murray and Beverley Murray and their [...]
U.S. Postal Service clerks, carriers, mail handlers and drivers have a lot in common with other postal workers in the capitalist world. In Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Greece, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, India, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, Canada and other countries, postal workers have gone out on strike in the last year to demand wage increases, [...]
