‘Mic check’ solidarity with grocery workers

October 20, 2012

On Oct. 13, a 13-person multinational group from “99-Pickets” with Labor Occupy Wall Street and Brooklyn’s Kensington OWS took action…

Grain Handlers to lock out longshore workers

October 18, 2012

  This lightly edited article was written for the Port Workers United newsletter in Oakland, Calif. Thomas is a third-generation…

Victory for anti-stop & frisk activist

October 18, 2012

Joseph “Jazz” Hayden no longer faces fourteen years of imprisonment for bogus weapons charges in his arrest last December. Hayden…

A youth in the struggle

October 18, 2012

Summer is an activist with the Revolutionary Students Union in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she lives with her partner…

In NYC council meeting, heated debate on racist police abuse

October 18, 2012

Racist police practices were the focus of a struggle within the New York City Council on Oct. 10. A six-hour…

Low-wage workers take on Walmart

October 17, 2012

From Illinois to southern California, Walmart workers are fighting back against one of the most notorious union-busting corporations in the…

Support for Walmart union organizing in Philadelphia

October 17, 2012

Close to 50 Food and Commercial Workers union members, Occupy Philly and other labor activists assembled at the front doors…

What’s really behind the attack on Malala Yousafzai

October 17, 2012

The horrible, near-fatal shooting of a young Pakistani schoolgirl, reportedly by members of the Taliban, has focused world attention on…

NYC transit offers higher fares, more racism

October 17, 2012

On Oct. 15, New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority announced the fourth round of fare hikes in four years. During that…

Leyes contra latinos/as indignan al sur

October 17, 2012

En su formato original, la Ley Beason-Hammon Alabama HB 56 otorgaba a los oficiales de recursos escolares el derecho de…