U.S. and Canada

March for jobs and justice from Baltimore to D.C. May 11-12

The following is a May 9 national press release.   Baltimore, Md. — On Saturday, May 11, 2013, community, civil…

May 9, 2013

Detroit mass meeting holds banks accountable for city’s financial ruin

Leading community organizers in the Detroit area addressed a standing- room-only audience at Central United Methodist Church on May 4…

May 9, 2013

Foreclosure defense movement stalls evictions

Coldwater, Mich., a town of 10,000 in the western half of the state, is no place one would expect to…

May 9, 2013

Postal workers’ struggle spreads across the world

U.S. Postal Service clerks, carriers, mail handlers and drivers have a lot in common with other postal workers in the…

May 9, 2013

First Jackie Robinson; now Jason Collins

When the great African-American baseball player, Jackie Robinson, broke the color barrier of the then all-white, segregated Major Baseball League…

May 9, 2013

The Lessons of Temple U.

Taken from a April 18, 2013, column at prisonradio.org. The incipient, yet growing protests at Philadelphia’s Temple University around the…

May 9, 2013

Poor People’s March highlights police terror

A recent report from the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement concludes that Black people in the U.S. face a crisis in…

May 8, 2013

‘Why we are marching’

Workers World Editor Deirdre Griswold spoke with women in three cities who will be participating in the Poor People’s March…

May 8, 2013

Poor People‘s March for jobs, justice

‘Ignite revolution Dr. King called for’ The following press statement was released by Witherspoon, president of the Baltimore chapter of…

May 7, 2013

‘Long Distance Revolutionary’: #1 documentary in Philadelphia

Philadelphia — In one of many milestones in the decades-long movement to free political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, the documentary film "Long…

May 7, 2013