U.S. and Canada

On the picket line

New England janitors make gains After voting to strike on Sept. 22 due to unfair labor practices, the 14,000 janitors…

October 12, 2012

Anti-Latino/a laws ignite the South

In its original format, Alabama’s Beason-Hammon Act, HB 56, granted school resource officers the right to badger fifth graders on…

October 12, 2012

Police brutality: An all-too-familiar story

A 22-year-old man looking toward the future has his life taken from him in a split second by a police…

October 11, 2012

No life sentence! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!

    Taken from an Oct. 5 press release issued by Rachel Wolkenstein, an attorney who legally represents political prisoner…

October 11, 2012

Baltimore community outraged as lying killer cops are exposed

An outraged community has called for the jailing of three Baltimore police officers who brutally killed Anthony Anderson Sr. in…

October 11, 2012

Police beat Puerto Rican woman in Philly

With only two days of organizing, close to 100 people rallied in front of the Philadelphia City Hall on Oct.…

October 11, 2012

‘Prosecution fears support for CeCe McDonald’

The following was written by Leslie Feinberg on Oct. 7. For more on the struggle to free CeCe McDonald, visit…

October 11, 2012

Community speaks out against Blueford killer

Oakland, Calif. — The Justice for Alan Blueford Coalition (J4AB) held a speakout Sept. 29 at the Oakland Police Department…

October 8, 2012

Police victim Mark McMullen

In an alarming epidemic of police killings of African-American men throughout the U.S., the case of Mark McMullen is another…

October 8, 2012

Music that impacted anti-apartheid struggle

The documentary “Searching for Sugar Man,” released this July, attests to the power of music, the kind of music that…

October 8, 2012