Pennsylvania

State’s gag order vs Mumia Abu-Jamal silences all prisoners

Philadelphia -- At a time when more and more convictions are being reversed and prisoners released because of improper, racist…

October 21, 2014

False alarm

‘Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.’ – Graham Greene The “Great Pretenders” are at it again with their…

October 16, 2014

Pennsylvania legislature tries to stop Mumia Abu-Jamal from speaking

  More often than not college commencement speakers are corporate CEOs, bankers or politicians — the people who will exercise…

October 11, 2014

‘Drill, baby, drill’? Not so fast!

Michigan is not exactly a state that an oil and gas industry executive would call “unwelcoming.” In fact, there is…

September 7, 2014

Philadelphia protests denounce cutbacks in public education

Twice in one week, protests against severe underfunding of public schools took to the streets of Center City, Philadelphia.  On…

June 13, 2014

March demands union at charter schools

Philadelphia, June 4 — Today, teachers, parents and community members marched up and down North 5th Street, a largely Latino/a…

June 13, 2014

Drive for new legal review for Mumia

It seems almost too good to be true. On April 15, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams announced the creation of…

April 25, 2014

Class war in western Pennsylvania

Altoona, Pa. — For more than three months, 142 locked-out members of Utility Workers Union Local 102 have walked the…

March 3, 2014

Broad backing for minimum wage raise

Low-wage workers are carrying out a determined and heroic struggle to force giant corporations like McDonalds, Starbucks, Walmart and others…

February 28, 2014

The great railroad strike of 1922

Ninety-one years ago railroad workers employed in shops and roundhouses revolted against a 12 percent wage cut. Nearly 400,000 workers…

February 27, 2014