Month: September 2021

Domestic News

Emergency Week of Actions for Haitian Refugees!

September 23, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Emergency Week of Actions for Haitian Refugees! Biden: Halt Your Racist Border Patrol and Stop the Whippings and Racist Deportations NOW! When: Friday September 24 – October 2nd Who/What: Progressive organizations […]
Sudan woman demonstrator protests against lack of democracy
International News

Sudan Interim Regime Says It Has Thwarted a Military Coup

September 22, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe People in the Republic of Sudan and across the world awoke on September 21 to an announcement by Interim Prime Minister Abdulla Hamdok that the security forces had prevented a coup by […]
September 18. 2021 satellite photo of the KNP wildfire in northern California
Domestic News

Unnatural Disasters: Hurricane Ida, Western Wildfires and Carnegie’s Johnstown Flood

September 22, 2021 fwstaff
By Chris Fry Part 1 described how rich capitalists like Andrew Carnegie successfully managed to deflect blame in the corrupt courts for the Johnstown flood of 1889, which they said was caused by an “act […]
Afghanistan withdrawal by the Pentagon portrayed in Global Times
International News

Post-occupation Afghanistan Seeks to Build International Relations

September 19, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe After twenty years of direct military engagement and over four decades of destabilization, the United States has left a trail of devastation in Afghanistan. The crises of food deficits, economic underdevelopment and […]
Johnstown, PA flood of 1889
Domestic News

Unnatural Disasters: Hurricane Ida, Western Wildfires and Carnegie’s Johnstown Flood

September 19, 2021 fwstaff
By Chris Fry 1889 was a long time ago, 132 years to be precise, spanning many generations. Yet the terrible Johnstown Pennsylvania flood of that year and the climate-change spawned firestorms in the West and […]
Guinea coup leader Col. Mamady Doumboya
International News

Guinea Coup Deepens Crisis of Governance in West Africa

September 15, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Members of the Special Forces in the West African state of Guinea-Conakry seized power from the government of President Alpha Conde, 83, on September 5. There were reports of heavy gunfire surrounding […]
One of the 53,000 homes destroyed by the earthquake
International News

Crisis in Haiti Continues

September 15, 2021 fwstaff
By Haiti Action Committee On August 14th, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked the Southern Peninsula of Haiti, killing over 2,200 people and wounding 12,000. More than 300 people are still unaccounted for. 53,000 homes were […]
Stop The Hate Rally in Manitowoc, WI August 10, 2021
Domestic News

Stop the Right Wing Hate Machine

September 15, 2021 fwstaff
By Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement September 16, 2021: Stop The Hate! Rally – Green Bay (STOP RACISM & UNION BUSTING!) They came for our unions, our educators, our public sector union jobs and […]
Detroit rally to release CERA funds, Sept.. 8, 2021
Domestic News

Implications of the Electoral Defeat of the Detroit People’s Charter

September 13, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A grassroots initiative to rewrite the municipal charter of the City of Detroit, Proposal P or the People’s Charter, was drowned out by a multi-million dollar propaganda and psychological warfare campaign aimed […]
Women will continue the decades long fight to protect their rights.
Domestic News

Afghanistan and the Texas Fanatics

September 9, 2021 fwstaff
By David Sole The United States government suffered a humiliating defeat as it finally withdrew from Afghanistan on August 31, 2021. For over 20 years, 1979 to 2001 the CIA and State Department financed and […]