U.S. and Canada

NYC ‘stop and frisk’ gets court slapdown

Grassroots resistance needed to end it A federal court here declared on Aug. 12 that the New York Police Department’s…

August 13, 2013

Save the people’s post office

Without question, the big-business class — and their agents in the U.S. Postal Service headquarters, the executive branch and Congress…

August 12, 2013

Ramarley Graham denied justice

Based on an Aug. 8 press release put out by the Justice Committee.   Family members and supporters of Ramarley…

August 12, 2013

Who’s pushing post office privatization?

Postal and community activists struggling to save the U.S. Postal Service from privatization need to know who they are fighting…

August 11, 2013

Protesters at governors’ conference

Protesters from across Wisconsin and beyond confronted the National Governors Association conference held at the Frontier Airlines Center in downtown…

August 11, 2013

On the picket line

Palermo’s Pizza reinstates eight of 100 fired strikers The 13-month battle at Palermo’s Pizza for union representation — to end…

August 11, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 12

Same-sex marriage in prehistoric societies Although the truly nightmarish conditions for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people that existed…

August 11, 2013

Aug. 28 Trayvon Martin justice assemblies

Stop the racist war at home A national call for Justice for Trayvon Martin assemblies in U.S. cities on Aug.…

August 8, 2013

To protest verdict: We shut down LA freeway

By Jefferson On July 14, the day after a Florida court exonerated George Zimmerman, killer of Trayvon Martin, the Los…

August 8, 2013

San Diego for Trayvon Martin

The July 13 “not guilty” verdict for George Zimmerman in the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., generated…

August 8, 2013