North Carolina

Pipeline activists to be sentenced

Three environmental activists will be sentenced by a Michigan judge March 5 after their Jan. 31 felony convictions for protesting…

February 27, 2014

North Carolina students fight cuts with walkout

“If they won’t let us dream, we won’t let them sleep.”— Anders Lustgarten, playwright  Frederick Douglass once said: “Power concedes…

February 25, 2014

North Carolina burning

They call it Moral Mondays and in North Carolina this means a movement of civil disobedience led by the Rev.…

February 15, 2014

Environmental racism grows in North Carolina

Although African-American communities in North Carolina are already more than twice as likely as others to be burdened with landfills…

February 1, 2014

Moral Mondays: the emergence and dynamics of a growing mass human rights movement

Introduction The Moral Mondays campaign in North Carolina that is mobilizing thousands to speak out against the legislative attacks on…

January 30, 2014

Fighting for reproductive justice in a sea of reaction

What is the state of abortion rights in the United States on Jan. 22, the 41st anniversary of Roe v.…

January 22, 2014

Juanita Starr Doares

Juanita Ann Starr Doares, a fighter for people’s rights, and against racism and injustice, died on Dec. 11. She was…

January 16, 2014

Unions join fast food workers in coast-to-coast actions

By Deirdre Griswold and Kathy Durkin Dec. 5 — The coast-to-coast movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 an…

December 10, 2013

South’s labor movement challenges North Carolina right wing

  Talk given at WWP conference by Peter Gilbert. When poverty and competition for jobs are intensified during a capitalist…

December 9, 2013

Workers demand $15-an-hour minimum wage

Unions join fast food workers in coast-to-coast actions Dec. 5 — The coast-to-coast movement to raise the minimum wage to…

December 5, 2013