Betsey Piette

As Mumia’s condition worsens, demand his release to a hospital!

Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal’s health crisis is grave, and people everywhere are being asked to take immediate action to demand…

April 28, 2015

Mumia Abu-Jamal: International pressure blocks ‘execution by neglect’

April 19 — Worldwide pressure on Pennsylvania officials on behalf of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has halted the state’s efforts…

April 22, 2015

Gov’t report reveals extent of police shootings

The ink had barely dried on a U.S. Department of Justice report made public on March 23 citing excessive police…

April 2, 2015

Textbooks sit in warehouses

Philadelphia -- Under the profit-driven capitalist system, billions of people struggle just for food and other basic necessities, yet corporations will…

March 26, 2015

Stop crude oil ‘bomb trains’

March 7 — In the past three days, two trains carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in North America, one…

March 12, 2015

Cops attack unity rally — against police brutality

Bridgeton, N.J. -- A peaceful protest against police brutality outside the Cumberland County courthouse here on Feb. 28 was disrupted…

March 3, 2015

Protesters ask, ‘Who killed Brandon Tate-Brown?’

Philadelphia -- Organizers of a “Philly after Ferguson” town hall meeting at the Catalyst for Change Church on Feb. 11…

February 16, 2015

Second near-disaster as shale oil train derails

Philadelphia -- For the second time in just over a year, a train carrying Bakken Shale crude oil derailed in…

February 4, 2015

Tribute held for MOVE 9 member Phil Africa

A standing-room-only crowd gathered at the Kingsessing Recreational Center in Philadelphia on Jan. 31 for a celebration of the life…

February 2, 2015

Phil Africa ¡Presente!

MOVE 9 member Phil Africa died in prison on Jan. 10 under what family members are calling “suspicious circumstances.” Six…

January 13, 2015