U.S. and Canada

School workers fight unemployment cut-off

Atlanta — An estimated 65,000 school workers in Georgia — from unionized bus drivers to food service workers employed by…

July 18, 2012

Detroit financial crisis continues

Detroit — If a legal challenge to the so-called “Financial Stability Agreement” is not dropped by Detroit’s Law Department, the…

July 18, 2012

Rhode Islanders fight to stop eviction

The Rhode Island Tenants and Homeowners Association and Rhode Island Peoples Assembly rallied at the home of Joann Manning in…

July 18, 2012

‘Occupy Solidarity’ heads through U.S. to Cuba

Following a struggle at the border crossing between British Colombia, Canada, and Washington state, the 23rd Pastors for Peace Friendshipment…

July 18, 2012

Georgia prisoners on strike:<br />Starving for change

Family members say that 10 prisoners at Jackson Diagnostic and Classification Prison are on a month-long hunger strike to protest…

July 18, 2012

Justice for Raheim Brown

Oakland, Calif. — Hundreds of anti-police brutality advocates marched in solidarity with the family of Raheim Brown Jr. on July…

July 18, 2012

Baltimore teen’s death by cop protested

By Steven Ceci and Shannon X Baltimore - On the warm evening of July 2, family, friends and supporters of…

July 18, 2012

Protesters demand ‘Free Mumia’

Despite the record heat, around 100 people gathered at Fifth and Market streets next to Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell for a…

July 18, 2012

Eyes on North Carolina: Slave rebellions & the legacy of resistance

This is the third in a series of historical articles leading up to the Sept. 2 March on Wall Street…

July 17, 2012

‘Southern Conflict’:<br />Mill workers’ struggles in North Carolina

Writers are always told: “Write what you know.” That’s what M. S. Cole did in her novel, “Southern Conflict: The…

July 17, 2012