U.S. and Canada

Michigan ‘emergency manager’ law defeated

Proposal 1, a ballot initiative in Michigan to reinstate Public Act 4, popularly known as the “dictator law,” was defeated…

November 25, 2012

‘Save the Berkeley post office!’

Berkeley, Calif. — When the major banks and financial institutions in this country were facing economic failure, they were quickly given…

November 25, 2012

On the picket line

Kansas Machinists strike and win better contract After Machinists (IAM) Local Lodge 639 members in Wichita, Kansas, got a load…

November 25, 2012

Coney Island suffering two weeks post-Sandy

Public housing tenants in Coney Island are facing falling temperatures by the waterfront with hardly an open store to be…

November 25, 2012

Rosa Parks Day events planned for Rhode Island

Providence, R.I. — On Saturday, Dec. 1, the Rhode Island Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee will hold its seventh…

November 25, 2012

Homeowners fight evictions by pension board

Thirty homeowners and their supporters packed the meeting of the Detroit Police and Firefighters Pension Board on Nov. 15 to…

November 25, 2012

The myth of Columbus

Based on a talk entitled “On the 520th anniversary of the landing of Columbus: What his legacy means for Indigenous…

November 21, 2012

Climate change affects life in the Arctic

After superstorm Sandy we think “climate change.” It is back in the headlines. But people in the Arctic have been…

November 21, 2012

Bob Gustafson

Workers World Party mourns the loss of Bob Gustafson, a Warrior of the Mohawk Nation who was at the historic…

November 21, 2012

Cuban 5 case featured at Howard Law School

Washington, D.C. — At the Howard University Law School moot courtroom on Nov. 13, a case that is far from moot…

November 21, 2012