Month: February 2023

African students continue experiencing racism after fleeing Ukraine war
International News

Statement on the situation of African Students who were studying in Ukraine

February 28, 2023 fwstaff
By Africans in Ukraine As the thousands of African students who fled Ukraine following the Russian invasion in February 2022, we are writing to you in a time of great need. We are calling on […]
W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois in China with Mao in 1959
International News

Building Unity Against Imperialism in the 21st Century

February 28, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 8 Note: These remarks were prepared for and delivered in part at a panel discussion sponsored by the Michigan Peace Council. The event was held at […]
African Americans in Fayette County Tennessee organized against segregation during the 1960s
Domestic News

Civil Rights and the Transformation from Tenant to Mechanized Agriculture

February 27, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 7 On Christmas night 1951 in Mims, Florida, sticks of planted dynamite exploded underneath the home of veteran organizers for the NAACP and the Progressive Voters […]
Openly nazi units operate for past 9 years in Ukraine after U.S. engineered 2014 coup
International News

On the 9th Anniversary of the Ukraine War

February 27, 2023 fwstaff
By David Sole The media here in the United States is awash in stories about the “First Anniversary” of the war in Ukraine. Even President Joe Biden made a secret trip to Kiev followed by […]
Detroit demonstration for housing rights on Fri. Feb. 17, 2023
Domestic News

Housing Demonstration Held in Defense of Free Speech

February 27, 2023 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff On Friday, February 17, 2023, a coalition of housing advocacy organizations gathered on the southwest side of Detroit to denounce the failure of the City administration to guarantee access and availability […]
ILWU Local 10 holds Stop Work action in Oakland and San Francisco to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Domestic News

Worldwide Solidarity to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

February 27, 2023 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff February 16, 2023 was a powerful International Day of Action demanding freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal. The day was led by labor activists from ILWU Local 10 in Oakland and San Francisco, […]
Environmental, trade union and cultural associations denounce genocide by poisoning, the harassment of activists
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PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN AS AN ECO-DEFENDER

February 24, 2023 fwstaff
By Julia Wright For Keziah Nuissier, Madly Etile and Mumia Abu-Jamal, Three generations of anti environmental racism warriors who never met but who by breaking silence organically interconnect their struggle For our young ancestors, Tortuguita. […]
Scottsboro case demonstration in Washington, D.C. during 1933
Domestic News

African American Resistance in the Rural South from the Sharecroppers Union to the New Farmers of America

February 22, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 6 Several years prior to the formation of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in 1934, a series of events in the state of Alabama would […]
Toxic cloud rises over East Palestine, Ohio after train derailment
Domestic News

Train wrecks, earthquakes and profits

February 22, 2023 fwstaff
By Stephen Milles What’s the connection between the earthquake in Syria and Turkey with the train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio? More than 41,000 people, including thousands of children, have been killed by the Feb. […]
Frederick Douglass
Domestic News

Frederick Douglass speaks on immigrant rights

February 22, 2023 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff In 1867, the most important figure in the anti-slavery movement in the U.S., Frederick Douglass, gave a speech in Boston about immigrant rights, specifically those people coming from China and Japan. […]