By Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee – Oakland (Press release) Prisoners inside Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, CA are staging a one day hunger strike and work stoppage to protest widespread institutional neglect and abuse, including […]
By Cassandra Devereaux A 2014 Washington Post piece has been making the rounds on the internet of late. It bears a title you might hear in a bad Hollywood film from a bloviating villain: “I’m […]
By Detroit FW Staff On October 24, 2019, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral argument on a remarkable court case. The case, Gary B, et. al. v. Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan […]
By Jerry Goldberg The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is leading the way in the fight for a decent quality education in major cities. In addition to demands for a fair wage increase beyond the 3.2% […]
By Thomas Michalak For over a month United Auto Workers (UAW) members employed by General Motors have been on a countrywide strike after a breakdown at the negotiation table between the union and the company. […]
By FW Detroit Staff With the UAW strike against General Motors in its 30th day, community activists gathered on October 15 at the State of Michigan Building to show their support. The target of this […]
By Jim Carey October 14, 2019 The situation surrounding Syria is proving to be as complicated as ever as day six of Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring in northeast Syria comes to a close. Despite the […]
By Jim Carey About two months ago now, it seemed as if NATO allies Turkey and the United States had finally reached some kind of agreement over the situation in northern Syria with a rough […]
By Mumia Abu-Jamal (with permission) In recent weeks, we have seen naked violence unleashed against trans women directed against them by the state in the form of police beatings and by rightist forces in […]
By Cassandra Devereaux On Tuesday, October 9 Pacific Gas & Electric, the publicly traded monopoly that supplies most of Northern California’s power needs, announced that they would be shutting off power for much of their […]
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