Betsey Piette

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

Philly Pride 2022: Smash racism, transphobia and police brutality!

Philadelphia Center City Philadelphia was awash with rainbow flags, as a sea of people turned out to celebrate the city’s…

June 10, 2022

Profit-hungry company lures youth to guns

Across the U.S., capitalist politicians, including President Joe Biden, spew endless verbiage about the need to control assault weapons, yet…

June 6, 2022

Feeding from the NRA trough

Time and time again, efforts to get both bourgeois parties in Congress to consider legislation to ban or restrict the…

June 2, 2022

Shakaboona – Free at last!

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall walked out of the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia May 11, after serving an unconditional sentence of…

June 1, 2022

Philadelphia: Youth walk out for abortion rights

Philadelphia Several hundred high school students demanding abortion rights walked out of their classrooms and marched to City Hall for…

May 27, 2022

From Shireen to Jenin, Justice for Palestine!

Philadelphia A “Philadelphia for Palestine” rally on the 74th anniversary of the Nakba drew hundreds of activists to Center City…

May 19, 2022

Squirrel Hill neighbors win against gentrification

Philadelphia Supporters of Protect Squirrel Hill, a neighborhood coalition in the Squirrel Hill section of West Philadelphia, celebrated a victory…

May 12, 2022

¿Se acaba la hegemonía del dólar estadounidense?

¿Existe un movimiento global para abandonar la dependencia del dólar estadounidense? ¿Está el mundo asistiendo al fin de la hegemonía…

May 5, 2022