Month: July 2021

Block the Boat NY-NJ action
International News

NYC/NJ activists picket Port of New York to block Israeli-operated cargo ship

July 30, 2021 fwstaff
By Terri Kay Elizabeth, New Jersey – Sunday, July 25 at 6am, about 100 pro-Palestine community activists in the New York metropolitan area picketed Israeli shipping giant ZIM in an attempt to block their cargo […]
Freeway banner drop on July 28th, 2021 in Oakland, California over highway
Domestic News

July 28th Protests Across the SF Bay Area Demand that Biden Stop Supporting Dictatorship in Haiti

July 30, 2021 fwstaff
By Haiti Action Committee The freeway banner drops were done in conjunction with protests on the east coast, along with those in Haiti, making the following demands on the Biden Administration: Cut off all US […]
Cambridge Movement leader Gloria Richardson pushes away National Guard bayonet in 1964
Domestic News

SNCC Veterans Gloria Richardson Dandridge and Bob Moses Made Monumental Contributions to Civil Rights

July 29, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe During the month of July, two heroic figures in the struggle against Jim Crow and race terror, Gloria Richardson Dandridge and Bob Moses passed away. Their lives intersected with the upsurge in […]
Black Autistic Lives Matter rally at Hazel Park Municipal Center, July 21, 2021
Domestic News

Drop the Charges Against Armani!

July 29, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff There was a rally held outside the Hazel Park Municipal Center on Wednesday, July 21, 2021 to demand that the authorities in Hazel Park and Ferndale, two suburbs right across the […]
Domestic News

Detroit Says “Hands Off Cuba”

July 28, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff A rally was held in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution outside Detroit’s Coleman A. Young Municipal Center on Monday, July 26, 2021. Scores of activists and organizers gathered and spoke on […]
Detroit Fight for $15 demonstration on July 20, 2021
Domestic News

Detroit Fight for $15 Holds Demonstration

July 28, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Another protest action took place on Tuesday,  July 20, 2021 demanding an increase in the minimum wage in the United States to $15 per hour and union representation. This was part […]
Billions in international aid to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake went to enrich Haiti’s oligarchs.
International News

Was Moise killed to stop China’s Belt and Silk Road in the Caribbean?

July 28, 2021 fwstaff
By Chris Fry Did the Biden Administration violate Executive Order 12333 and Article 4 of the UN Charter by arranging the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse on July 17? If so, President Biden could […]
U.S. control of Haiti began with U.S. Marines occupying in 1915
International News

The Assassination of Jovenel Moise: What Next for Haiti?

July 28, 2021 fwstaff
By Seth Donnelly Today, the people of Haiti are facing down the US-backed dictatorship of the ruling Haitian Tet Kale Party (PHTK) that came to power through the fraudulent election of Michel Martelly in 2010 […]
July 4 Veterans for Peace display on Michigan war dead from Afghanistan and Iraq at Grand Circus Park
Domestic News

Leaving Afghanistan: Why Not Iraq and Syria?

July 23, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe President Joe Biden announced several months ago that the United States would end its two decades-long occupation of the Central Asian state of Afghanistan. Since the attacks on the World Trade Center […]
Haiti’s people have never stopped fighting for an end to corrupt, U.S. backed regimes
International News

In the Wake of Jovenel Moise’s Assassination: Building Solidarity with Haiti’s Popular Movement

July 23, 2021 fwstaff
By Robert Roth,  Haiti Action Committee Today, in Haiti, the violent rule of Jovenel Moise has come to a violent end.  Moise himself had recently said he had “about a million enemies”, and that was […]