Honoring Harriet Tubman included in NYC women’s coalition month of events

March 1, 2013

By Dolores Cox and Sara Flounders New York -- The International Working Women’s Day Coalition, an alliance of community-based women's…

IWA calls for international actions on March 8th, International

March 1, 2013

The International Women’s Alliance (IWA) is a global alliance of grassroots-based women’s organizations, institutions, alliances, networks and individuals committed to…

Greek general strike battles austerity

March 1, 2013

Just days before an inspection team was due to check that Greece’s new austerity measures were in place, tens of…

Central Park 5 civil suit: Justice still denied

February 28, 2013

Another status conference pertaining to the Central Park 5 civil lawsuit against New York City and the New York Police…

Baltimore community groups sue to stop school closing

February 28, 2013

Community organizations in Baltimore have opened a struggle to keep a high school open in defiance of the city school…

Philadelphia protesters hit school privatization plans

February 28, 2013

Hundreds of students, parents, school workers and community activists protested at a meeting of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission against…

Country club workers win contract after 3-year lockout

February 28, 2013

Pleasanton, Calif. — In February 2009, 61 janitors, cooks, grounds workers and others were locked out of their jobs here by…

Trayvon Martin: One year later

February 27, 2013

Black History Month was an important concession won in 1926 by a persistent mass struggle against racist lynchings and semi-slavery…

Black History forum: Obama, Harriet Tubman & jobs

February 27, 2013

A dynamic Black History Month forum took place Feb. 23 in the new office of the New York City branch…

Palestinian filmmaker detained at LAX

February 27, 2013

Palestinian director Emad Burnat and his family were detained and threatened with deportation by U.S. immigration officials when they arrived…