U.S. and Canada

Fast-food workers: ‘Raise up Milwaukee!’

Workers from 65 low-wage, billion-dollar businesses in Milwaukee walked off the job on August 1 demanding a union and a…

August 8, 2013

Protest shows solidarity with prison hunger strike

In solidarity with the prison hunger strikers now in their fourth week of refusing food, hundreds gathered at the Downtown…

August 8, 2013

‘Drop’ in joblessness hides increase in misery

The government reported on Aug. 2 that the official unemployment rate dropped from 7.6 percent to 7.4 percent in July.…

August 7, 2013

Bay Area Rapid Transit workers, community join in solidarity

Oakland, Calif., Aug. 4 — Gov. Jerry Brown intervened at the 11th hour and called for an investigation into the…

August 7, 2013

Heroic youth hold sit-in for third week

Aug. 5 – “The World is Ours” reads the shirt of Phillip Agnew and his other Dream Defenders, who have…

August 7, 2013

Dream Defenders at Florida’s Capitol: ‘A life-changing experience’

WW reporters Imani Henry and Scott Williams on July 27 asked several Dream Defenders occupying the Florida state Capitol in…

August 7, 2013

Black bikers roar for justice

The powerful roar of 800 motorcycle engines pierced the air as a rally of Atlanta’s Black biker clubs took over…

August 7, 2013

A message from Lynne Stewart to all of us

The following letter was issued on Aug. 1 by political prisoner Lynne Stewart, who is suffering from breast cancer and…

August 6, 2013

Ambiguity, inaccuracy and the ‘mentally ill’

Some people in the community of people with disabilities — including this reporter — who have an emotional, psychiatric or…

August 6, 2013

Beyond Trayvon: When the personal ain’t political

Column written on July 21st. The Trayvon Martin case is rightly the straw that broke the camel’s back, for it…

August 4, 2013