Johnnie Lewis

DPRK women’s soccer team outshines U.S. team

Bulletin: On Sept. 22, the DPRK women’s team beat Japan 1-0 to win the tournament for a third time. They…

September 24, 2024

Middle school students in Grants Pass, Oregon, protest anti-transgender school staff

Portland, Ore. In Grants Pass, Ore., a North Middle School assistant principal and a seventh-grade teacher started a petition calling…

April 23, 2021

Oregon unions update organizing

Portland, Ore. March 17 marked the one-year anniversary of the historic sit-in of 27 fired Crush Bar Workers Collective members…

April 2, 2021

COVID and prisons: No walls, no borders in the workers’ struggle

Texas “It’s a nonviolent protest going on right now because the officers [in an unnamed Texas prison], in the middle…

December 22, 2020

Incarcerated rise up against COVID deaths, raging infections

On Dec. 9 an incarcerated person at Stafford Creek “men’s” prison, near Aberdeen, Wash., died of COVID-19. The same week,…

December 17, 2020

<span class="streamer">‘Red House on Mississippi Ave.’</span><br />Portland activists block eviction

Dec. 14 — The Kinney family — owners of the now internationally famous “Red House on Mississippi” — is the…

December 15, 2020

COVID-19 in Oregon: Prison laundry workers at greatest risk

Portland, Ore. In November, three Oregon prisons — Two Rivers, Salem, and Snake River — reported the state’s highest rate…

November 30, 2020

“We did not sign up to be raped”: Women veterans fight back against military sexual trauma

The writer is a U.S. Army veteran and was an organizer of the American Servicemen’s Union, 1968-69. This month two…

November 27, 2020

Montana issues COVID death sentence to prisoners

Montana State Prison reported Nov. 6 that Robert Gonzalez, 70, died Oct. 24 of COVID and that “underlying health conditions…

November 23, 2020

Oregon prisoners resist denial of Covid-19 protocol

Portland, Ore. On four successive days in late September, four prisoners in Oregon state prisons died of Covid-19. On Oct.…

October 19, 2020