Betsey Piette

Philadelphia: Solidarity with Cuba

Philadelphia Around 100 people gathered outside Philadelphia City Hall July 26 to raise up international solidarity with the people of…

July 29, 2021

Billionaires in space

Centibillionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and multibillionaire Virgin Group founder Richard Branson used the profits they extracted from their companies’…

July 26, 2021

Unequal justice in Philadelphia

Philadelphia As protests over the police murder of George Floyd engulfed the U.S. in spring 2020, in Philadelphia two polar-opposite…

July 14, 2021

Philadelphia: March against Israeli apartheid

Hundreds of people carrying Palestinian flags, protest signs and banners gathered at City Hall for a March Against Israeli Apartheid…

July 13, 2021

‘Say her name: Sandra Bland’

July 10 marks the sixth anniversary of the day when Sandra Bland was pulled over while driving to a new…

July 9, 2021

High school valedictorian defies anti-LGBTQ+ censorship

Wearing a graduation cap with rainbow colors and a militant fist, Bryce Dershem, valedictorian at Eastern Regional High School in…

June 28, 2021

‘A fighter from beginning to the end’

Consuewella Africa, 67, a beloved sister in the MOVE Organization, passed away June 16 following hospitalization for breathing problems due…

June 21, 2021

Solitary confinement ‘torture chambers’

Philadelphia Calling for “solidarity, not solitary,” dozens of people — including organizers from prisoners’ rights groups, survivors of solitary confinement…

June 8, 2021

Workers need unions – Amazon offers ‘despair closets’

Just when it seemed impossible for Jeff Bezos and other Amazon bosses to be any more clueless and insensitive toward…

June 4, 2021

Black Lives Matter movement sparks electoral defeat for FOP

Philadelphia For decades, the endorsement of the powerful Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police was sought by almost every candidate running…

May 27, 2021