U.S. and Canada

U.S. Cuba Network extends solidarity to Charleston massacre victims

The following statement was issued on June 20, 2015. The National Network on Cuba extends our solidarity to the survivors…

June 25, 2015

Boston protest demands: ‘Reinstate our fired leaders!’

Boston school bus drivers held a militant picket line June 18 outside the headquarters of the notorious Veolia Corporation, which…

June 25, 2015

Supreme Court gives cops license to attack

On May 18, the U.S. Supreme Court awarded immunity from liability to two San Francisco police officers who, in 2008,…

June 25, 2015

On the picket line

Mothers strike detention camp Every year, hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants are rounded up and crowded into prisons while…

June 25, 2015

Time to arrest police who killed Tamir Rice

It has been over six months since 12-year-old African-American Tamir Rice was murdered by a white Cleveland police officer outside…

June 24, 2015

Black and Brown unity in Alabama

Columbiana and Gadsden, Ala. “Forward ever, backward never! Not one step back!” shouted over 100 people in Columbiana, Ala., on…

June 24, 2015

Wayne Jones, another Black victim of police

Martinsburg, W.Va. -- On June 12, roughly 80 community members and activists converged on downtown Martinsburg, W.Va., to protest the…

June 24, 2015

Tribute to an anti-racist fighter and thinker

The first known celebration of the end of slavery in the U.S. came on June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers…

June 24, 2015

Charleston

Printed from a June 22 audio commentary posted on prisonradio.org. A young white man, barely at the age of his…

June 24, 2015

The atrocity in Charleston: ‘Let this trauma drive the struggle for Black Liberation’

When nine defenseless people are killed in a church, it’s not a “shooting,” it’s a massacre. When a 21-year-old white…

June 24, 2015