U.S. and Canada

Workers’ protest airs dirty laundry of greedy bosses

The Laundry Workers Center and the People’s Power Assemblies went to Flushing, Queens, N.Y., June 15 to demand the owners…

June 20, 2019

Portland trans and nonbinary community pours out for Pride

In response to the takeover of Portland Pride by corporations and the cops, over a thousand trans people and allies…

June 20, 2019

Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba challenges Trump’s travel restrictions

Members of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization/Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba received a warm and enthusiastic welcome…

June 18, 2019

Revolutionaries in action in Cleveland’s first Pride march

It might not be obvious today, but the post-Stonewall movement for LGBTQ2S+ liberation began as a very radical movement. Even…

June 18, 2019

Company intimidation behind “no union” vote at VW

For three days, June 12-14, workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., voted whether to allow the United Auto…

June 18, 2019

Revolutionary queer and trans people protest anti-Black national anthem at Pensacola Pride

At this year's Pensacola Pride festival, there was a defiant protest of the organizers’ decision to ignore nearly 200 petition…

June 18, 2019

Philadelphia library workers and allies demand more funding

About 50 members and allies of Friends of the Free Library rallied June 13 inside Philadelphia City Hall, demanding city…

June 18, 2019

Activists demand ‘U.S. Hands off Venezuela!’ in Portland, Ore.

Activists and organizers with the Hands Off Venezuela PDX coalition hosted an event June 15 at the Sunnyside Community Center…

June 18, 2019

The class war on migrant children

As years of the U.S. war on im/migrants stretch into decades, it becomes hard to imagine what additional horror could…

June 13, 2019

1969 Stonewall uprising against police repression: ‘All hell broke loose!’ in “Lavender & Red,” Part 67

Originally published June 26, 2006, this column was part of Leslie Feinberg’s series on the connections between LGBTQ2S and socialist…

June 13, 2019