Raleigh, N.C. — On May Day, the NC Student Power Union mobilized more than 350 students from 10 colleges from all around North Carolina to participate in a demonstration against the Legislature’s regressive agenda. Students began their day with a rally at the North Carolina State University Bell Tower and then marched to the Civitas Institute, [...]
Carrying signs that read “I am Bradley Manning,” some 200 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and allied activists protested at the offices of the San Francisco Pride Board on April 29 in light of the board’s refusal to accept the selection of Pvt. B. Manning as a grand marshal of the 2013 San Francisco Pride [...]
Resistance to U.S. drone warfare intensified in upstate New York on April 28 as more than 250 people rallied at the gates of Hancock Air Base in Syracuse. The rally was organized by the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars. Thirty-one people were arrested in the action. Pilots at the base [...]
Detroit corporations and banks are driving more working-class, poor and nationally oppressed people out of the city’s downtown area. Government and business magnates are focusing on the Cass Center where they want to build a new sports stadium. Henry Street residents, mostly seniors, single parents, people with disabilities and marginalized workers, received a notice on [...]
Since March 25, the city of Detroit has been run by an unelected, 1%-beholden supreme dictator. On that day the elected mayor and city council, all African Americans, became a paper administration with no decision-making power. The only concession the new governor-appointed Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr made to city officials was to allow them to [...]
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 [...]
Over 500 parents and teachers, children and students, and their supporters gathered April 26 in front of Tweed Courthouse, the headquarters of New York City’s Department of Education, to condemn a week of high-stakes testing based on a curriculum that hasn’t been fully implemented. The theme of the rally was “Our children are NOT a [...]
Workers Memorial Day, April 28 Workers Memorial Day, celebrated internationally on April 28 since 1984, has taken on heart-wrenching importance this year with two devastating work-related accidents making global headlines at the end of April. In a small town near Waco, Texas, 14 people were killed and 160 injured when a fertilizer plant exploded on [...]
In 2010, Quelino Ojeda Jiménez was working atop a building at Chicago’s Midway Airport when he fell to the ground below. He suffered injuries that left him nearly quadriplegic and relying on a ventilator. Three days before Christmas 2011, Advocate Christ Medical Center, over the objections of his family and Jiménez himself, crying and unable [...]
Issued by the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five on April 26. One day after a matching-fund appeal was sent out by the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5, PayPal stopped all donations coming in and froze all assets in the committee’s account. The purpose of the appeal was [...]
