Rev. Pinkney was imprisoned on trumped-up charges of falsifying signatures on a petition to recall Mayor James Hightower of Benton Harbor, Mich., in 2007. The case, which went to the Michigan Court of Appeals, concluded when the court decided no evidence was necessary to convict Pinkney, and that his past organizing work created suspicion of motive to forge dates on the petition.
Many have said that this grievous miscarriage of justice was merely a front by the state to attempt to murder Pinkney, a Black community organizer in his 60s, via incarceration. Following a massive campaign in Michigan and across the U.S. to win his freedom, Rev. Pinkney was released on June 13.
The International Action Center, New Abolitionist Movement and Free Mumia Coalition (NYC) are hosting the event for this inspiring freedom fighter’s visit to New York. Those planning to attend should send an RSVP to iacenter@iacenter.org by Thursday, Sept. 28.
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…