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Atlanta Wendy's turned into memorial for Rayshard Brooks gunned down by white cop
Domestic News

Ballots, Bullets and the African American Struggle in Georgia

June 22, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe “This is why I say it’s the ballot or the bullet. It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody. America today finds herself in a unique situation. […]
More than half of Michigan juvenile lifers still wait for resentencing
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Juvenile Lifers Stricken With COVID-19 in Michigan Prisons

June 18, 2020 fwstaff
The following is an abridged version of the original article. By Efrén Paredes, Jr As Michigan leads the nation in the chilling number of COVID-19 deaths occurring inside its prison, 196 incarcerated people sentenced to […]
ILWU Local 10 marching against police terror on May Day 2015, Oakland, California.
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Labor Call to Down tools to Honor All Victims of Police Murder

June 13, 2020 fwstaff
By ILWU Local 10 The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Coast Longshore Division, representing locals at all 29 West Coast ports, will stop work and lay down their tools on Tuesday, June 9 at […]
Milwaukee WI demo-june-7-2020
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They Ain’t Peaceful: The Rich Violently Loot Wisconsin 24/7!

June 13, 2020 fwstaff
By Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement “Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” — Comandante Assata […]
Chicago demonstration calling for defunding the police
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Defunding and Dismantling the Police Being Fiercely Debated in the United States

June 13, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since the videotaped violent murder of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, there has been an upsurge in antiracist and anti-police brutality demonstrations and rebellions spanning across the United […]
Delmar demo
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Delmar NY demo: No justice, no peace!

June 10, 2020 fwstaff
By FW Staff 250 youth marched through the hamlet of Delmar, NY shouting “Black Lives Matter” and “No Justice, No Peace”. They then staged a rally in the main intersection of the town that blocked […]
Detroit cops attack anti-racist demonstrations
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13 Killed and 9,300 Arrested as United States Attempts to Halt National Unrest

June 4, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced in a press conference on June 3 that additional charges would be brought against the Minneapolis police officers involved in the brutal execution of 46-year-old George […]
Abayomi Azikiwe
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Trump Fueling Racial Animosity to Stay Another 4 Years in Office: US Analyst

June 2, 2020 fwstaff
 By FW Editorial Staff TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An American political analyst based in Detroit said US President Donald Trump is seeking to divide the country through fueling racial animosity between African Americans and whites in […]
Henry Reeve brigade
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Detroiters Demand: Allow Emergency Medical Aid from Cuba

June 2, 2020 fwstaff
By Jason Tschantre As quarantine-weary crowds flocked to beaches over Memorial Day weekend, scientists and health-conscious people in the United States had to face, once again, the well-founded fear that COVID-19 is far from over. […]
George Floyd killed by Minneapolis police
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Outrage Mounts Over Racist Police and Vigilante Killings

May 30, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Four Minneapolis police officers have been terminated from their jobs in the aftermath of the videotaped exposure of the blatant killing of George Floyd. This act of police violence which has no […]