U.S. and Canada

Brooklyn, N.Y., forum fights gentrification

Gentrification and displacement are hitting neighborhoods hard, nowhere more so than Brooklyn, N.Y. Organizing against the impact of austerity programs…

July 22, 2016

Justice for Teo Valencia

Teo Valencia, a Mexican-American man, was shot in the back with an AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle by an as yet…

July 22, 2016

DAY 15 – Is This What Democracy Looks Like?

A crowd of several hundred people moves down St. Clair Avenue in Cleveland, holding signs and chanting slogans.  They are…

July 21, 2016

Philly airport workers strike two hours – threaten strike during DNC

Over 600 workers and their supporters took over three of the four lanes of the departures roadway at the Philadelphia…

July 21, 2016

Grocery workers in struggle coast to coast

About 147,000 grocery workers, repre­sented by the Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), have been fighting for contracts from coast to…

July 21, 2016

Black farmers still seek justice

Black farmers in the South filed a federal class action lawsuit known as Pigford vs Glickman in 1997. Timothy Pigford…

July 21, 2016

One union: Labor against racism

Philando Castile’s “death by cop,” along with that of Alton Sterling, has sparked massive protests against racist state terror across…

July 21, 2016

Black Lives Matter marches on

July 18 — Outrage over the unchecked police killing of people of color continues throughout the U.S. Militant protests surged…

July 20, 2016

VP nominee Pence: Trump’s far-right puppet

During his pursuit of the Republican nomination, Donald Trump denounced the Koch brothers, the far-right capitalist moguls whom he accused…

July 20, 2016

Walmart workers protest Trump

New York City - One hundred fifty people stood outside Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue on July 7 and shouted:…

July 20, 2016