U.S. and Canada

Tennessee students fight low pay

The United Students Against Sweatshops 2015 conference at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville did more than talk. Hundreds of marchers…

March 15, 2015

Public hearing demanded for 2014 East Harlem explosion

One year ago on March 12, a horrendous explosion in East Harlem killed eight people and injured many more. For…

March 15, 2015

Selma workers continue struggle for rights

Selma, Ala. -- Among the many tens of thousands of people who marched in a sea of humanity across the…

March 12, 2015

Madison, Wis., rally demands justice, union jobs

Madison, Wis. -- Hundreds of youth, students, workers and their allies marched on March 11 to demand justice for Tony…

March 12, 2015

U.S. psychological association colludes in torture

A Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on the CIA’s use of torture at Guantánamo Bay and other locations states…

March 12, 2015

U.S. ranks as world’s worst in jailing women

Women are the fastest growing prison population in the U.S. due primarily to harsh sentencing for nonviolent crimes and drug…

March 12, 2015

Stop crude oil ‘bomb trains’

March 7 — In the past three days, two trains carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in North America, one…

March 12, 2015

On International Women’s Day, marches, rallies target police violence and low wages

Ever since the first International Women’s Day was observed in 1911, women all over the world have been commemorating IWD…

March 11, 2015

Selma 50 years later — Fight’s still on against racism and for liberation

Selma, Ala. — A jubilant, determined crowd of more than 100,000 people marched over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma,…

March 10, 2015

Justice Dept. on Ferguson: Rampant racism but no indictment of killer cop

On March 4, the U.S. Department of Justice issued two seemingly contradictory reports. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder officially announced…

March 10, 2015