Youth and Students

Worker and community power shuts down Oakland

Oakland, California Despite threats of retaliation from officials in the Oakland Unified School District and the Port of Oakland, teachers…

May 3, 2022

Justice for Vivien Barrett

April 23 was a pleasant spring afternoon on the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) campus. Parents of prospective students roamed…

April 29, 2022

Cops terrorize child, protect a bag of Doritos – a WW commentary

Syracuse, New York By now you’ve probably seen the video, if you can bear to watch yet another horrifying, racist…

April 27, 2022

‘Take This War and Shove It’ − The coming of age of a Vietnam War military resister

“Take This War and Shove It − A Most Unwilling Soldier 1967-1971,” by Greg Laxer, Unbearable Truth Publications, 2021, 327…

April 22, 2022

Oakland coalition plans one-day strike against privatization

Oakland, California At the first in-person school board meeting since August, Moses Omolade, one of the original hunger strikers protesting…

April 22, 2022

South Bronx coalition holds first antiwar action

Bronx, New York, March 26 Today Bronx residents rallied in the Mott Haven/Melrose neighborhood in the South Bronx. Their goal…

March 29, 2022

Oakland, California, march to stop school closures reaches thousands

Oakland, California, March 26 Students from three Oakland area schools, scheduled to be closed at the end of this school…

March 28, 2022

‘Save our children’ − from bigotry and hatred!

Right-wing forces are generating legalized hatred and bigotry in the U.S. under the banner of “Save Our Children!” In Texas,…

March 16, 2022

Student-community-labor coalition grows in New York City

New York City A growing student-community-labor coalition held a large rally March 6 on demands related to New York City…

March 11, 2022

Education workers fight for justice

Education workers are adding to a recent surge of worker organizing across the country and around the world, a surge…

February 18, 2022