Year: 2021

Amazon-Union Busting
Domestic News

Labor Board official calls for union revote at Bessemer

August 13, 2021 fwstaff
By Chris Fry The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), who challenged the union recognition vote at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse in April won a significant victory on August 2. A hearing officer from […]
Sali Piblic (Kreyol for public safety)
International News

Fanmi Lavalas Position Statement, July 31

August 13, 2021 fwstaff
By Executive Committee of Fanmi Lavalas POSITION STATEMENT OF FANMI LAVALAS POLITICAL ORGANIZATION (Unofficial translation from the Kreyol by Haiti Action Committee) July 31, 2021 Since the electoral coup d’etat that put in power the […]
Jonathan Jackson and his comrades on Aug. 7, 1970 in Marin County, California
Domestic News

Black August and the Legacy of Liberation Struggles

August 9, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since 1979 when prisoners at the San Quentin Correctional Facility in California declared the month of August as a period of commemoration honoring political detainees along with those who have sacrificed their […]
April 5, 2021 Rally Against Racism, Manitowic, Wisconsin
Domestic News

ALL OUT! – Tuesday, 8/10 STOP The HATE RALLY, MANITOWOC, WI

August 9, 2021 fwstaff
By Manitowoc Human Rights Coalition STOP THE HATE RALLY!  TUESDAY, AUGUST 10 at 6 pm  LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL 1433 S 8th St., MANITOWOC, WISCONSIN   The Manitowoc Human Rights Coalition is calling a rally immediately […]
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 […]