WW photo: Joseph Piette
In response to the outrageous Chicago court decision exonerating the police in the killing of unarmed, 22-year-old Rekia Boyd, shot in the back of the head by Chicago police Officer Dante Servin, angry Philadelphia protesters on April 20 shut down rush-hour, Market Street traffic outside the 30th Street train station. Police attacked the demonstrators’ right to free speech, arresting Alkebu-Lan Marcus. Protesters followed up by marching in the streets to the 16th Precinct at 39th and Lancaster, and then to the 18th Precinct at 55th and Pine, where Marcus was released. He has been charged with disorderly conduct and three other misdemeanors.
Anyone who thinks that the U.S. policy of continued arming and fully supporting the Israeli…
This appeal was sent to Workers World by Marcia De Campos Pereira in Brazil, former…
Part 1 discussed “Digital labor and material.” Part 2 takes up how capitalism uses Artificial…
This article was first published by Workers World on May 7, 2020. It is being…
Denver Students set up a tent city on April 26 on the Auraria campus of…
Chicago For decades the Labor Notes conference, organized around the slogan “put the ‘movement’ back…
