U.S. and Canada

International march for Gaza called

A coalition of organizations that support Palestinian rights have called for an “International March to the United Nations” meeting at…

August 2, 2014

Detroit water shutoffs prompt Canadian solidarity

Efforts by Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr to carry out the program of restructuring in favor of the banks and corporations…

August 1, 2014

On the picket line

Low-paid workers win big raises at Johns Hopkins Hospital Some 2,000 low-paid workers — janitors and service, maintenance and technical…

August 1, 2014

Support Boston union school bus drivers

The attempt by the city of Boston to impose a racist austerity regime on its schools involves Veolia Corporation’s attempt…

July 31, 2014

Disability rights in the age of austerity

In 2007, archaeologists Lorna Tilley and Marc Oxenham found the bones of a young man who lived 4,000 years ago…

July 31, 2014

U.S. protests decry Israel’s terror, support Gaza

Protests on and around Al-Quds Day, the last Friday of Ramadan on July 25, took place in a number of…

July 30, 2014

Eric Garner to occupied Palestine: A common enemy & struggle

Against the illuminating backdrop of the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, there exists disturbing parallels between the cowardly New York…

July 29, 2014

Staten Island, N.Y., protest demands ’Justice for Eric Garner!’

More than 100 people gathered July 26 to protest the brutal killing-on-video of Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y. They…

July 29, 2014

IFCO/Pastors for Peace: On the road to Cuba

Since 1992 the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization/Pastors for Peace Friendshipment caravan has challenged the U.S. blockade of Cuba, casting…

July 29, 2014

New Jersey health workers threaten to strike

Excerpted from a July 23 press release. For more information, go to 1199 SEIU website at tinyurl.com/neajdrw. A multinational, multigendered…

July 29, 2014