U.S. and Canada

Food workers fight for their jobs

By a UFCW steward Landover, Md. Food and Commercial Workers Local 400, joined by other unions, community organizations and half…

May 19, 2016

On the picket line

Aerospace machinists strike against two-tier system Some 400 aerospace workers at Triumph Composite Systems in Spokane, Wash., walked off the…

May 19, 2016

¡Ramón Jiménez presente!

Ramón J. Jiménez never stopped fighting, even after being diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. The Puerto Rican lawyer, Bronx…

May 19, 2016

San Francisco student hunger strikers win ethnic studies agreement

Four hunger strikers — Hassani Bell, Ahkeel Andres Mestayer, Julia Retzlaff and Sachiel Fredric Rosen — together with the Third…

May 18, 2016

An immigrant detention nightmare

Lumpkin, Ga., May 12 — On April 17, Alaa Ismail Yasin, a 27-year-old Palestinian who has been held in Stewart Detention…

May 18, 2016

Flint crisis drags on

The struggle for justice continues in Flint. The crisis of lead contamination, caused by a failure to add anti-corrosive chemicals…

May 18, 2016

Activists support Rev. Pinkney at hearing

The Michigan State Appeals Court hearing for the Rev. Edward Pinkney, an African-American political prisoner, was held in Grand Rapids,…

May 18, 2016

Family, activists honor Joe Campos Torres

Almost 40 years after one of the most infamous and brutal Houston police killings, the family of Joe Campos Torres,…

May 18, 2016

Continuing the fight: Justice for Jovan!

After Valentia Fresco (aka Jovan Blake) was killed by Metro Enforcement security officers on April 16 in Rockford, Ill., his…

May 18, 2016

Stop harassment of gay, trans prisoners

Friends, Gay and trans prisoners at the G. Robert Cotton correctional facility in Jackson, Mich., have been suffering sexual harassment…

May 18, 2016