Betsey Piette

Agua envenenada en cárceles de Pensilvania

"Tendría que estar loco para bañarse en esa agua", le dijo un guardia de la prisión SCI Mahanoy a Mumia…

October 25, 2016

Poisoned water plagues Pennsylvania prisons

“You’d have to be crazy to bathe in that water,” a SCI Mahanoy prison guard told Mumia Abu-Jamal after seeing…

October 17, 2016

‘DNC protests to go on with or without permits’

Representatives of over a dozen groups planning protests in Philadelphia during the Democratic National Convention joined forces at a press…

July 4, 2016

Philly officials act to limit DNC protests

June 13 - Politicians and police in Philadelphia — the so-called “Cradle of Democracy” — appear to be working overtime…

June 15, 2016

Black & Latina workers resist nonprofit racism

The Black and Brown Workers Collective and supporters took to the streets on June 1 to call out racist, classist,…

June 9, 2016

Workers in France battle anti-labor ‘reforms’ on May Day

Paris == Upwards of 100,000 workers and students took to the streets of Paris and other cities across France on International…

May 15, 2016

Saint-Denis celebrates 10th anniversary of Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal

Saint-Denis, France -- Back on April 30, 2006, the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis took a courageous and principled stand in naming…

May 7, 2016

‘Don’t vote for Hillary — she’s killing Black people’

Philadelphia -- Members of the Racial, Economic and Legal Justice Coalition and Black Lives Matter disrupted a Hillary Clinton campaign event…

May 1, 2016

Protests demand hep C cure for Mumia and Pa. prisoners

Family, friends and supporters of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal took to the streets of Philadelphia in actions on April 22…

April 27, 2016

EPA ignores fire threatening nuclear waste landfill

In 1973, thousands of tons of toxic radioactive waste from processed uranium for nuclear weapons were illegally dumped into the…

March 10, 2016