Betsey Piette

Family, friends pay respects to Wadiya Jamal

Wadiya Jamal has spent most of her adult life fighting for her husband’s release. The beloved wife of political prisoner…

January 4, 2023

Nurses’ strikes rock Britain’s National Health Service

Workers across Britain have been engaged in wave after wave of strikes. Since summer, workers in multiple industries have hit…

January 2, 2023

Water polluting energy company gets green light to resume fracking

Pennsylvania Nearly 14 years after a water well explosion on Jan. 1, 2009, made residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania, aware of…

December 21, 2022

‘From the Darkness Shines a Light’

Philadelphia is known as the “City of Murals,” with over 4,000 works of community-based public art adorning outer brick walls…

December 20, 2022

Critical hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal

Dec. 16 — Supporters and family of Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal filled the courtroom and demonstrated outside the Philadelphia…

December 16, 2022

‘The Mumia exception’

Philadelphia For 41 years, journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal has been unjustly imprisoned for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer. His…

December 15, 2022

U.N. steps in with amicus brief in Mumia Abu-Jamal’s case

The United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent filed an amicus brief Dec. 6 with Philadelphia…

December 13, 2022

All out for Mumia Abu-Jamal Dec. 9

Political prisoner and author Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested 41 years ago on Dec. 9, 1981. He has been held captive…

December 5, 2022

‘From West Philly to Chinatown, corporate greed is going down!’

Philadelphia Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Nov. 18 to demand billionaire David Adelman stop the predatory development of a new Philadelphia…

November 23, 2022

Campaign to impeach Philly DA Krasner masks capitalism’s role in violence

In a June recall election, a coalition of wealthy real estate developers, corporate lobbyists and San Francisco Democratic Party hacks…

November 22, 2022