School workers fight unemployment cut-off

July 18, 2012

Atlanta — An estimated 65,000 school workers in Georgia — from unionized bus drivers to food service workers employed by…

Detroit financial crisis continues

July 18, 2012

Detroit — If a legal challenge to the so-called “Financial Stability Agreement” is not dropped by Detroit’s Law Department, the…

Rhode Islanders fight to stop eviction

July 18, 2012

The Rhode Island Tenants and Homeowners Association and Rhode Island Peoples Assembly rallied at the home of Joann Manning in…

‘Occupy Solidarity’ heads through U.S. to Cuba

July 18, 2012

Following a struggle at the border crossing between British Colombia, Canada, and Washington state, the 23rd Pastors for Peace Friendshipment…

Georgia prisoners on strike:
Starving for change

July 18, 2012

Family members say that 10 prisoners at Jackson Diagnostic and Classification Prison are on a month-long hunger strike to protest…

Justice for Raheim Brown

July 18, 2012

Oakland, Calif. — Hundreds of anti-police brutality advocates marched in solidarity with the family of Raheim Brown Jr. on July…

Baltimore teen’s death by cop protested

July 18, 2012

By Steven Ceci and Shannon X Baltimore - On the warm evening of July 2, family, friends and supporters of…

Protesters demand ‘Free Mumia’

July 18, 2012

Despite the record heat, around 100 people gathered at Fifth and Market streets next to Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell for a…

Eyes on North Carolina: Slave rebellions & the legacy of resistance

July 17, 2012

This is the third in a series of historical articles leading up to the Sept. 2 March on Wall Street…

‘Southern Conflict’:
Mill workers’ struggles in North Carolina

July 17, 2012

Writers are always told: “Write what you know.” That’s what M. S. Cole did in her novel, “Southern Conflict: The…