Betsey Piette

Eviction resistance

Philadelphia A long anticipated confrontation between residents fighting for housing justice and the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Department, protecting gentrifiers’ interests, broke…

August 9, 2022

Manchin bill could worsen climate crisis

Politicians and media pundits are lauding the yet to be passed $369 billion Inflation Reduction Act as “the most ambitious…

August 1, 2022

Court evictions order won’t stop UC Townhome protests

Philadelphia  University City Townhomes residents resisting eviction responded to news that owner IBID Associates had secured a court order July…

July 25, 2022

Who really profits from ‘forced labor’?

First signed by President Joe Biden in December, the “Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act” took effect June 23. Under this…

July 12, 2022

Community outrage forces resignation of cop who killed Tamir Rice

Timothy Loehmann, the cop who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland in 2014, was sworn in as Tioga, Pennsylvania’s lone…

July 11, 2022

Mumia: Unjustly imprisoned for 40 years

Philadelphia July 3 — Today people in Philadelphia and dozens of other cities across the U.S. and around the globe…

July 4, 2022

Prison hunger strikers challenge solitary torture

Bulletin:  WW received notice of a new letter from Michael Rivera who wrote: “While active participants in the hunger strike…

June 30, 2022

Codicioso fabricante se enfoca en los jóvenes para obtener ganancias

En todo Estados Unidos, los políticos capitalistas, incluido el presidente Joe Biden, vomitan una verborrea interminable sobre la necesidad de…

June 28, 2022

Capitalism is killing our children

It is incomprehensible that Washington politicians could sit through the hours of gut-wrenching testimony from the loved ones of victims…

June 17, 2022

Hunger strikers protest solitary confinement conditions in Pennsylvania

June 11 — Eleven incarcerated workers at Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution-Greene started a hunger strike June 7. As of this…

June 14, 2022