U.S. and Canada

Free Palestinian prisoners!

Activists protested outside the Israeli Consulate in Philadelphia during rush hour on June 27, as an emergency response to the…

July 2, 2014

Rights activists protest ‘Human Rights Watch’

June 26 — Human rights activists marched from the New York Times offices to the Empire State Building — which…

July 2, 2014

San Francisco rally defends human rights in Honduras

On the fifth anniversary of the coup in Honduras, the Bay Area Latin America Solidarity Coalition and Hondurans in Resistance…

July 2, 2014

Money for jobs, not war on Iraq!

June 28 — Demonstrators gathered in Durham, N.C., to oppose U.S. intervention in Iraq, calling for "No troops! No drones!…

July 1, 2014

Bosses can deny birth control

Top Court attacks women The Supreme Court has done it again. It bestowed new rights on corporations. All a corporation…

July 1, 2014

Central Park 5 talk about settlement

On June 19, 2014, twelve years after the filing of a lawsuit by the Central Park 5 — five innocent…

June 30, 2014

Benton Harbor activist appeals for support in fight against frame-up

The Rev. Edward Pinkney of the Benton Harbor/Berrien County Black Autonomy Network Community Organization (BANCO) spoke in Detroit at the…

June 30, 2014

Moral Mondays goes statewide in N.C.

By Ben C. and Andy Katz Raleigh, N.C., June 29 — As the short North Carolina legislative session winds down…

June 30, 2014

Sgt. Bergdahl’s return home

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s return to U.S. soil on June 13, after nearly five years’ captivity, was a Kafkaesque media event.…

June 29, 2014

Demanding answers to East Harlem explosion

At a June 18 City Council public hearing, an ad hoc coalition of tenants and activists stepped up the fight…

June 29, 2014