U.S. and Canada

Marissa Alexander released on bail, granted new trial

Marissa Alexander, the 34-year-old African-American woman who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for defending herself against her abusive…

December 3, 2013

Film review: “12 Years a Slave” illustrates horrors of U.S. slavery

Africans were enslaved by Britain and the United States in continental North America for nearly 250 years (1619-1865). The profits…

December 3, 2013

Solidarity with Rasmea Odeh

At a Nov. 13 rally called by the Philadelphia Boycott, Divest and Sanctions group and the Philadelphia International Action Center,…

December 3, 2013

All out Dec. 17 in Detroit to ‘stop the criminal banks’

Protesters will be gathering Dec. 3 outside the courthouse as Judge Stephen Rhodes issues his ruling on the Detroit municipal…

December 3, 2013

‘No detentions, deportations of migrants’

On Nov. 19, in a bold action directed at the detention and deportation practices of the Obama administration, 15 undocumented…

December 2, 2013

Saying no to low wages

Activists from the People’s Power Assembly, Occu-Evolve and the Labor Outreach committee of Occupy Wall Street organized a speakout and…

December 2, 2013

Only revolution can win our freedom

Talk given at WWP conference by Eva Panjwani. In preparing my remarks today on the revolutionary potential of my generation,…

December 2, 2013

Youth have ‘no future in this system’

Talk given at WWP conference by Tachae Davis. Youth today are suffering at the hands of imperialism. As a youth…

December 2, 2013

A message for the brown kids

This is for the brown kids. This is for the free and reduced breakfast club. This is for my loudmouth…

December 2, 2013

‘Lamothe, Sean Penn don’t speak for us’

The Haiti Action Committee held a demonstration against Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe and actor Sean Penn (named “Ambassador at…

December 2, 2013