Moscow conference stands with Novorossiya, Palestine and Black America
AGM President Alexander Ionov with AGM members and UNAC Co-Coordinator Joe Lombardo outside the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. A conference on the Right of Peoples to Self-Determination and Building a...
View ArticleProtests revive MLK’s struggle legacy
National days of action were held from Jan. 15, the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to Jan. 19, the national holiday commemorating him. Activists with the People’s Power Assembly, the...
View ArticlePeople with disabilities half of people killed by cops; disability rights...
Disabled-rights groups are among the most energetic advocates of solidarity with African-American victims of police murder. Some 34 disability activist groups across the country have signed a statement...
View ArticlePasco, Wash., protesters demand justice for farm worker
Antonio Zambrano-Montes The community of Pasco, Wash., is outraged. Hundreds of residents of this largely Latino/a community have taken to the streets to protest the Feb. 10 police killing of unarmed...
View ArticleStolen Lives rally focuses on Eric Garner
A “Stolen Lives” rally was held near the Brooklyn, N.Y., public housing where police victim Eric Garner of Staten Island once lived. A September 1994 victim of killer cops, Nicolas Heywood had lived in...
View ArticleOscars & mass incarceration show why BLACK LIVES MATTER
Delphine Matthews, Monica Moorehead, Rain Robbins Africa, Berta Joubert-Ceciand Ikea Coney speak at Philadelphia Black History Month Forum on Feb. 24.WW photo: Joseph Piette On Feb. 24, two days shy of...
View ArticleA lesson in liberalism: Ramsey Orta, Mayor de Blasio and the cops
Orta (left) with family, supporters, Sept. 5, Staten Island, N.Y.WW photo: Johnnie Stevens New York — Ramsey Orta, whose cellphone video of killer cop Daniel Pantaleo choking to death unarmed Eric...
View ArticleLupe Ochoa, yet another police victim
A crowd of family, friends and supporters gathered at the corner of 98th and Bancroft streets in East Oakland, Calif., on the evening of April 11 to celebrate the life of Guadalupe Manzo Ochoa. The...
View ArticleStruggle for justice for Eric Garner continues
It was one year ago on July 17 that 43-year-old Eric Garner, an African-American father of six children, died of a heart attack after a white police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, put him in a chokehold...
View ArticleAt Newark, N.J., protest: Police brutality, racism, inequality targeted
Newark, N.J. — Several thousand people braved a hot sun and no shade in over 90-degree heat to rally and march in Newark, N.J., on July 25. They were protesting police brutality, racial injustice and...
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