U.S. and Canada

The Movement for Black Lives calls for Black, Brown, Indigenous solidarity

The following statement was issued by The Movement for Black Lives at policy.m4bl.org. The Movement for Black Lives joins MiJente…

June 25, 2018

MOVE 9’s Debbie Africa, released after 40 years, speaks at news conference

East Lansdowne, Pa. — At a press conference in East Lansdowne, Pa., on June 19, MOVE 9 member Debbie Sims…

June 24, 2018

Chicago youth rally for missing and murdered Black women and girls

Chicago — As school let out for the summer on June 19, a small crowd gathered on King Drive on…

June 24, 2018

#NoDAPL water protectors continue the struggle

The historic Indigenous-led struggle of thousands against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock may not be news in the…

June 23, 2018

‘No justice, no rent!’

New York — Some 20 tenant groups brought at least 1,000 of their working-class members to rally on the steps…

June 23, 2018

Community/union power defends fired health care workers

Boston — Over 100 workers and protesters rallied outside the Whittier Street Health Center in Roxbury, Mass., on June 15…

June 23, 2018

On the picket line

Workers protest to save Kroger jobs A fight to stop possible job loss led hundreds of members of Food and…

June 23, 2018

Cheers for ‘Abolish death penalty’

The Juneteenth Parade, an annual event in Houston, memorializes the day in 1865 when the Emancipation Proclamation was put into…

June 23, 2018

Pensacola remembers lost LGBTQ lives

Pensacola, Fla. — June 12 marked the second anniversary of the deaths of a crowd of almost all LGBTQ people,…

June 21, 2018

Philadelphia Disability Pride parade rocks

By Mary Kaessinger and Edward Yudelovich Philadelphia’s Disability Pride Week came to a spirited end with a parade in Center…

June 21, 2018