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Students & youth
Community activists in Philadelphia marched through Center City streets on April 5 to demand, “Build communities, not prisons!” ...
Posted Apr 12, 2012
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More than 300 students from across North Carolina stormed and occupied the University of North Carolina Board of Governors meeting....
Posted Apr 9, 2012
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Hundreds of students marched around City Hall in Philadelphia the afternoon of
May 25, chanting and waving colorful homemade signs. Speakers denounced plans
to close all 13 accelerated high schools (AHS) in Philadelphia....
Posted Jun 1, 2011
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Since the beginning of the people’s upsurge in Wisconsin in early
February, the students and workers have resisted in numerous mass actions. One
of the most courageous of these was a student occupation at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, which ended in the early morning hours of May 7 after the
students were evicted from their occupied space by the administration and
charged with “trespassing.”...
Posted May 11, 2011
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After suffering years of deep budget cuts that have wiped nearly $10 billion
from the public sector and facing even more devastating cuts this year, workers
and students from across North Carolina have set May 3 for a showdown over the
budget....
Posted May 1, 2011
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Larry Hales is a member of the CUNY Mobilization Network. Hales was a
leading organizer of last year’s March 4 student-worker action in New
York and of the upcoming March 24 demonstration set to march from City Hall to
Wall Street as the workday ends. Hales is also a member of Fight Imperialism,
Stand Together (FIST), a youth organization....
Posted Mar 23, 2011
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At Hunter College women make up 70 percent of the student body — a trend
that is being reproduced throughout the country, with more and more women
attending college. This makes any struggle for education a women’s issue....
Posted Mar 23, 2011
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Students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are entering
their fourth week of the occupation of their Arts building, protesting the
proposed 90 percent cuts to the theater program, the attacks on public sector
workers in Wisconsin, and all the proposed cuts to education and programs for
workers....
Posted Mar 23, 2011
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Students from the Social Justice Academy in Hyde Park militantly marched on
March 2, chanting, “SOS - Save our Schools!” SJA was one of 18
schools that Mayor Thomas Menino’s Boston School Committee voted to close
last December...
Posted Mar 10, 2011
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On March 2 students and and their labor-community allies protested at
Wayne State University as part of the National Day of Action to Defend Public
Education....
Posted Mar 10, 2011
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Students in high schools, colleges and universities throughout the U.S. walked
out of classes, mainly on March 2, to help launch a month-long protest against
cutbacks in public education, including the closing of schools and mass layoffs
of teachers....
Posted Mar 10, 2011
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A statement from the Fight Imperialism, Stand
Together youth organization....
Posted Feb 23, 2011
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Inside the state Capitol building in Madison, Wis., the halls normally filled with politicians and corporate lobbyists are now occupied by thousands of people. Banners and posters with messages of solidarity and slogans denouncing Gov. Scott Walker's attack on the public sector hang from every wall. ...
Posted Feb 21, 2011
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Students and faculty at the City University of New York, in opposition to
another tuition increase, held two disruptions at meetings of the Board of
Trustees in November....
Posted Dec 11, 2010
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In an echo of the Republic Windows and Doors occupation, which brought national
attention to immigrant workers’ fight for their rights in December 2008,
the battle to preserve the Whittier School Field House and Community Center has
received a groundswell of support....
Posted Sep 29, 2010
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Ahlam Mohsen, a 22-year-old student at Michigan State University, was arrested
Aug. 15 and charged with two felony counts after she threw a pie at Sen. Carl
Levin as an anti-war protest....
Posted Aug 25, 2010
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Candidates for the post of Arizona state superintendent of schools faced a
packed auditorium at a local high school during a public forum on Aug. 12. The
superintendent of schools position has taken on special importance here with
the draconian cuts to the education budget and a vicious attack on ethnic
studies....
Posted Aug 19, 2010
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As a consumer I have discovered that so many workers, such as clerks, food
service workers or bank tellers, have to take on a second job. It seems every
worker in these increasingly deskilled and low-paid jobs is now a salesperson,
in addition to the drudgery of the dull, unforgiving work they already have to
do....
Posted Jul 21, 2010
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Statement by the militant youth
organization Fight Imperialism, Stand Together....
Posted Jul 14, 2010
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Despite all the assurances by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, the recent passing of
Senate Bill 1070 is a racist attack against the U.S. working class. SB 1070
— which uses local police forces to question people about their
documentation, and criminalizes immigrant workers — smacks of South
African apartheid and a host of other repressive laws from U.S. history and
elsewhere....
Posted Apr 28, 2010
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Syracuse University students marched through the center of campus on April 16,
banged on pots and pans, drummed and chanted to oppose a corporate
“takeover” of their commencement. The SU administration has invited
CEO Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, the second-largest bank in the U.S., to
speak to the 2010 graduating class on May 15....
Posted Apr 24, 2010
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‘”They say cut back, we say fight back!” demanded
protesters outside Granby High School on March 24 in Norfolk, Va., home to the
largest U.S. naval base....
Posted Apr 9, 2010
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Students at Syracuse University are mobilizing to stop the head banker of
JPMorgan Chase from delivering their 2010 graduation address in May....
Posted Apr 8, 2010
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The looming threat of a return to the dark days of Jim Crow segregation has
ignited a broad struggle against the racist new Raleigh school board
majority.
On March 23, the board was scheduled to take the second of two votes needed to
dismantle the system’s busing program and move to a “neighborhood
schools” model. It would mean the resegregation of the school system....
Posted Apr 1, 2010
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In response to Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s announced massive defunding of
and charter privatization program for Boston’s public schools, over 2,000
people shut down the streets surrounding a building where Menino’s
hand-picked Boston School Committee was voting on March 24 to approve nearly
$60 million in budget cuts. The boisterous protest was organized by the Boston
Teachers Union, the Coalition for Equal Quality Education, Boston Public
Schools Custodians, and the Boston School Bus Drivers Union to demand,
“Full Funding for Public Education, No Budget Cuts!”...
Posted Apr 1, 2010
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A citywide meeting held March 27 at the Central United Methodist Church in
downtown Detroit called for a united effort to address the escalating attacks
against working people, including school closures, education and other public
sector layoffs, and plans to seize municipal pension funds, downsize the city
and sell the Medical Center to an outside Tennessee-based corporation....
Posted Apr 1, 2010
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Capitalism is leaving tens of millions of workers without jobs. It is also
abandoning millions of children to flounder in a chaotic education system,
buffeted by school closings and teacher firings....
Posted Mar 18, 2010
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Spokespersons for corporate Detroit have issued plans to take total control of
the public school system as well as “shrink” the city over the next
decade. These efforts come amidst the worst economic crisis in Detroit since
the Great Depression. The city leads all other major urban centers in
joblessness with an official unemployment rate of 28 percent....
Posted Mar 18, 2010
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On March 4 more than 100 demonstrations were organized in 33 states against
the devastating cuts, layoffs and tuition hikes as part of the National Day of
Action to Defend Education, including campuses such as the University of
Maryland and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign....
Posted Mar 10, 2010
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The March 4 national action for education rights was a massive student and youth
outpouring that brought hope to many. But it was not only an upsurge of
university students, as welcome as that alone would be. Representative sectors
of the working class and of people of color joined the struggle and broadened
its meaning....
Posted Mar 10, 2010
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Statements issued in solidarity with the
March 4 National Day of Action to Defend Education....
Posted Mar 10, 2010
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Hundreds of thousands of students, teachers and other education
workers demonstrated, rallied, sat in and marched across the United States on
March 4. Protesting cuts in education budgets and layoffs, they raised the
powerful demand that education is a right of the working class. A national leader of this action is
Larry Hales of the youth organization Fight Imperialism, Stand Together....
Posted Mar 7, 2010
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The economic crisis in California spells hardship at the state’s public
universities as budgets are balanced through a combination of tuition hikes and
pay cuts for faculty and other workers....
Posted Jul 30, 2009
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LeiLani Dowell says: The People’s Summit and Tent City in Detroit was by
far one of the most amazing experiences I’ve ever had....
Posted Jun 25, 2009
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Hundreds of poor and working people have gathered at the National
People’s Summit and Tent City in downtown Detroit to put forward the
people’s vision of a future with guaranteed jobs and income, universal
health care, housing and utilities, and all rights that working class people
are currently denied under the capitalist system...
Posted Jun 17, 2009
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On May 20 at 6:20 a.m., a number of early morning trolley riders, including
students on their way to school, were stopped and questioned by Border Patrol
and Transit Security Administration officers at the Old Town trolley stop in
San Diego.
In a blatant act of racial profiling, people appearing to be Latina/o were
singled out, and all were asked for citizenship documents. Twenty-one people,
including three students under the age of 18, were arrested, handcuffed and
quickly deported....
Posted May 28, 2009
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More than 70 people, mostly students, participated in the founding conference
of Connecticut Students Against the War on April 25 at Wesleyan University...
Posted May 10, 2009
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Fight Imperialism, Stand Together calls for the release of Abduwali
Abdukhadir Muse—the young teen from Somalia who was brought to New York
and arraigned in a federal court—and that he be allowed to return to his
family in Somalia....
Posted May 3, 2009
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Hundreds of City College of New York students and faculty supporters
walked out in protest of a $300-per-semester tuition hike and faculty cutbacks
on April 22. The CCNY protest was lively and linked the struggle for student
rights with solidarity for striking Stella D’oro workers from Bakery,
Confectionary, Tobacco Local 50 in the Bronx....
Posted Apr 30, 2009
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Robert Mitchell, 16, affectionately known as “Tazzy” by his family
and friends, has become one of the latest victims of tasing by law
enforcement....
Posted Apr 22, 2009
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For the past 26 years, Black Workers For Justice has held its annual Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Support for Labor Banquet to help reaffirm the
commitment to the ongoing struggle for Black liberation and for full
workers’ rights especially in the U.S. South....
Posted Apr 11, 2009
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Students and youth from campuses and towns all over the region rallied on April
3 in front of the Bank of America and Wachovia financial centers to demand,
“Bail out the students, not banks!” Both banks are headquartered in
North Carolina and are the recipients of billions of dollars of federal bailout
money and the two biggest holders of student loan debt....
Posted Apr 8, 2009
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The prospect of deep budget cuts throughout the University of North Carolina system brought workers, students and faculty members out in Chapel Hill March 26 to rally
against layoffs, cuts in student services, and other cuts the university is
proposing to make on the backs of workers and students....
Posted Apr 4, 2009
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As the economic and financial crisis circles the globe, youth and students are
increasingly caught in its net. What is outrageous is that these terrible
hardships and the bleak outlook that youth face are inherent to the system we
all live under....
Posted Apr 2, 2009
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Commentary by a member of the Raleigh chapter of
the youth group FIST—Fight Imperialism, Stand Together: On March 21, Raleigh FIST traveled to the march in D.C. Eight of us went,
driving in a 1980s family van....
Posted Mar 25, 2009
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The alarming prospect of deep budget and service cutbacks, layoffs and the
closing of hospitals and other workplaces brought tens of thousands of workers
into the streets near New York’s City Hall March 5 for a monster
“Rally for New York.” The gigantic outpouring of throngs of union
and community protesters lasted for hours and stretched for blocks and blocks
in lower Manhattan....
Posted Mar 14, 2009
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Richard Durst, president of Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, claims to
have served in Vietnam alongside Bob Kerrey, the president of New School
University. Both went on orders from the U.S. government to repress the
Vietnamese people and their resistance.
Durst and Kerrey are once again repressing justified resistance—this time
from students at the institutions of higher education they have directed....
Posted Mar 14, 2009
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On Feb. 18, New York University students, along with students from other
colleges and universities throughout the metropolitan area, began occupying the
cafeteria in the Kimmel Center on NYU’s campus....
Posted Feb 28, 2009
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While some parents got some good news on Feb. 11, most of the over 800 parents
and children who attended the school closure meeting of the West Contra Costa
Unified School District (WCCUSD) did not. The school board voted to close four
schools this year and four schools next year. Parents, teachers and students
are outraged....
Posted Feb 28, 2009
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A case of judicial corruption in Pennsylvania has once again exposed the true
nature of the profit-driven prison industrial complex and the warehousing of
poor youth....
Posted Feb 19, 2009
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On Jan. 28 over 2,000 students from Arizona’s three state universities
descended on the state Capitol building in Phoenix to protest the
legislature’s proposal to slash university funding by over $140 million....
Posted Feb 8, 2009
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Since the invasion of Gaza began on Dec. 27, the idea of divestment and boycott
against Israel has spread to college campuses all over the country. A group
called Students for Justice in Palestine based at Hampshire College, a small
liberal arts school in western Massachusetts, has been advocating for
divestment at its school for the last two years....
Posted Jan 28, 2009
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Students at The New School in New York City formed the New School Radical
Student Union and occupied the dining hall of a New School building on Dec. 17,
demanding more accessible and democratic education....
Posted Dec 22, 2008
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Two cops in the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens, Greece, gunned down
15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos on Dec. 6. Hours after the shooting, young
people in Athens began to rebel against the cops....
Posted Dec 17, 2008
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Activists organized by the youth group FIST (Fight Imperialism, Stand
Together) protested at the Greek National Tourist Organization in New York on
Dec. 16 in solidarity with youth and workers in Greece....
Posted Dec 17, 2008
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Students and teachers at the City University of New York have been organizing
rallies at their college campuses and at the offices of the CUNY Board of
Trustees, protesting threatened cuts to their education....
Posted Dec 7, 2008
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LeiLani Dowell, a leader of Fight Imperialism, Stand Together and a Managing Editor of Workers World newspaper.
...
Posted Nov 20, 2008
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Still pumped with energy from the election of the first Black president,
several hundred oppressed youth marched through the streets of Greensboro, N.C., on Saturday,
Nov. 8, in memory of the 1979 coldblooded murder of five activists by the Ku
Klux Klan and to carry on the struggle for change that Barack Obama’s
election campaign has sparked....
Posted Nov 19, 2008
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Hundreds of progressive youth, predominantly Latin@, converged on the local
offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to demand an end to the raids on
the homes and workplaces of undocumented workers in San Francisco....
Posted Nov 14, 2008
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Boston’s communities of color are fighting back against attempts by the
city and the School Committee, appointed by the mayor, to dismantle
desegregation and return to racist, segregated “walk-to” or
“neighborhood” schools....
Posted Nov 9, 2008
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With banks collapsing and the economy in a state of ruin, colleges around the
country are not making it any easier for their students to attend at such a
difficult time. In fact, tuition is rising all around the country....
Posted Nov 9, 2008
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So many young people depend on financial aid to go to college. Many other young
people depend on the tax benefits of being claimed as a dependent on their
parents’ tax return.
Recently, in attempts to stifle the voice of the young, voting officials have
threatened to take these things away from young people if they dare to
vote....
Posted Oct 9, 2008
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For the first time in 26 years, the Windsor University Faculty Association went
on strike Sept. 17 at the University of Windsor, a university of 16,000
undergraduate and graduate students in southern Ontario....
Posted Oct 4, 2008
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A huge noisy crowd, mostly students, held the largest anti-war
demonstration in years at the State University of New York at Buffalo....
Posted Oct 2, 2008
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This summer has seen record-breaking temperatures in many parts of the United
States. It has been particularly hot for millions of young people who have
spent the sweltering summer days hitting the pavement in search of a job, only
to return home sweaty and still unemployed....
Posted Aug 11, 2008
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On Jan. 17 Baron “Scooter” Pikes, a first cousin of Mychal Bell,
one of the Jena 6, died after being taken into police custody in Winnfield, La....
Posted Aug 2, 2008
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Chanting, shouting and raising their fists in triumph, the travel ban
challengers of the 39th Venceremos Brigade, the U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange and
the African Awareness Association marched across the Peace Bridge from Fort
Erie, Ontario, into Buffalo, N.Y., in open defiance of the U.S. blockade of
Cuba....
Posted Jul 19, 2008
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The Arizona State Senate has introduced legislation aimed at destroying all
ethnic studies programs in Arizona public schools....
Posted Jul 7, 2008
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The youth group FIST—Fight Imperialism, Stand Together—held an
engaging discussion group focusing on the economic crisis on June 26....
Posted Jul 2, 2008
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Fight Imperialism - Stand Together (FIST) is holding discussion groups
every Thursday evening in New York....
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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Some of the largest banks in the country are now ceasing to extend student
loans to those attending junior colleges, community colleges and technical
schools....
Posted Jun 12, 2008
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Students with the Baltimore Algebra Project, along with community supporters,
have been protesting the cutting of $3 million from a youth fund called
"Peer2Peer."...
Posted Jun 5, 2008
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Students, teachers and their allies gathered in Boston May 24 to speak out
against the unjust deportation of their beloved teacher, Obain Attouoman, an
Ivory Coast citizen....
Posted May 28, 2008
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Five University of North Carolina students have been arrested after 16 days of
peacefully occupying the office of UNC Chancellor James Moeser....
Posted May 11, 2008
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At the May Day march and rally in New York City on May 1, among the thousands
of people who participated were a significant number of young, energetic people
of all nationalities....
Posted May 7, 2008
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April 22 - Several students and workers from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill are entering the sixth day of a sit-in in Chancellor
James Moeser's lobby, the longest sit-in at UNC since 1993. About 25
students and workers entered the administration building on April 17 and have
been occupying it ever since....
Posted Apr 25, 2008
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Excerpts from two articles in 1968 - one on the
racist murders of Black youth by the National Guard in Orangeburg, S.C.;
another on the rebellions that followed the assassination of the Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr....
Posted Mar 29, 2008
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Every student who is attending or is applying to college right now
must be horrified by what is taking place in the financial markets. In
February, it became clear that what was originally reported by the mainstream
press as a crisis in the risky subprime mortgage market, was now affecting what
have been traditionally thought of as incredibly stable investments - like
bonds for student loans....
Posted Mar 20, 2008
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Excerpts from two WW articles in 1968.on the 1968 French uprising began on May
3....
Posted Mar 20, 2008
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After a police attack at Miami Edison Sr. High School that resulted in the
arrest of 27 students charged with disturbing a school function, resisting
arrest with violence and rioting, the campus erupted in protests on March 3....
Posted Mar 7, 2008
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Fight Imperialism, Stand Together held a militant forum against racism and
violence against women in Boston on Dec. 15, calling for a fight back movement....
Posted Dec 20, 2007
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Three members of Raleigh, N.C., FIST (Fight Imperialism-Stand Together)
speaking at a Sept. 8 meeting shared a life-changing experience with their
community....
Posted Sep 12, 2007
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Members of FIST and Workers World Party traveled to Cuba from July 18 to 28
to defy the travel ban and to witness the gains of the socialist
revolution....
Posted Aug 16, 2007
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