NYC

On the picket line

Raise the federal minimum wage NOW! On July 24, during a national day of action in more than 30 cities,…

August 1, 2013

Fast-food workers demand ‘living wage’

July 29 — “We can’t survive on $7.25!” and “What’s outrageous? Poverty wages!” chanted hundreds of striking fast-food workers and their supporters outside…

July 30, 2013

NYC communities fight for transit and housing rights

Elders demand transit justice On July 24, a busload of mostly African-American elders from Co-op City in the Bronx attended…

July 30, 2013

The 9th annual NYC Trans Day of Action for Social & Economic Justice points of unity

The following excerpted points of unity were initiated by TransJustice of the Audre Lorde Project, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit,…

June 26, 2013

‘Left Forum’ in NYC to discuss economic/ecological transformation

Organizers of the Left Forum announced on May 9 that Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera will address the conference’s…

May 17, 2013

On the picket line

Retired miners fight for health, pension benefits It may have been April 1, but 10,000 United Mine Workers’ retirees and…

April 14, 2013

On the picket line

Guest workers strike McDonald’s Student “guest” workers from Latin America and Asia, who paid $3,000 to obtain J-1 visas to…

March 17, 2013

Brooklyn community demands justice for Kimani Gray, 16-year-old victim of NYC police killing

New York — The neighborhood of East Flatbush in Brooklyn has been rocked since the brutal slaying of 16-year-old African-American…

March 14, 2013

Honoring Harriet Tubman included in NYC women’s coalition month of events

By Dolores Cox and Sara Flounders New York -- The International Working Women’s Day Coalition, an alliance of community-based women's…

March 1, 2013

Lessons of the NYC school bus strike: Was it worth it?

The bourgeois media made a decision to portray the end of the New York City school bus union's four-week strike…

February 26, 2013