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Domestic News

The Defund Oakland Police Coalition Celebrates Major Victory

March 22, 2021 fwstaff
By Defund Police Coalition – Press statement (Oakland, CA)—As a result of extensive organizing by the Defund Police Coalition (Defund OPD), an Anti Police-Terror Project [APTP] led coalition, Oakland’s Reimagining Public Safety Task Force last […]
Domestic News

Milwaukee Solidarity Picket For Alabama Amazon Workers

March 17, 2021 fwstaff
By wibailoutpeople.org A diverse group of Milwaukee area and statewide Wisconsin labor and community organizations will hold a solidarity picket to support Amazon workers Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 10 A.M. at 2305 N Prospect […]
Feb. 14, 2021 over 100,000 denounce Jovenel Moise dictatorship in Port-au-Prince.
International News

Stand With Haiti!

March 17, 2021 fwstaff
This statement has been endorsed by the Communist Workers League By Haiti Action Committee (HAC) Ten years ago on March 18, 2011, former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, his wife and colleague, Mildred Trouillot Aristide, and their […]
Elizabeth Jennings Graham
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Black Women and the Fight for Access to Public Transportation

March 15, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Many people in the United States are aware of the struggle for Civil Rights led by African Americans during the post-World War II period from the late 1940s right through the early […]
April 21, 2019 protest outside Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C.
International News

Stop the Attacks in the Philippines! Activism is Not Terrorism!

March 10, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Fighting Words is reprinting this statement on the massacre of now reportedly 9 community activists in the Philippines. Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & War (MECAWI) is a member organization of […]
Stop U.S. bombings of Syria and everywhere!
International News

No Bombs in Syria or Anywhere Else!

March 9, 2021 fwstaff
By Moratorium NOW! Coalition and Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) Two Detroit-based community organizations, the Moratorium NOW! Coalition and MECAWI, have been following the events inside the United States military in recent […]
Mass mobilizations along with legal action can stop the fascists.
Domestic News

Lawsuits filed against Trump and neo-Klan groups using Reconstruction’s anti-Klan Law

March 7, 2021 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On November 20, 2020, the Detroit NAACP filed a lawsuit in Washington District Court on behalf of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization against the Michigan Trump Campaign. Utilizing the 1871 Ku Klux […]
Domestic News

Marvin Gaye and “What’s Going On” Five Decades Later

March 7, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe 1970-71 were years of unrest and upheaval in the United States when racial turmoil, an unpopular imperialist war in southeast Asia and a declining environment were major concerns of socially conscious people. […]
Malcolm X greeted by Atty. Milton Henry during his final trip to Detroit on Feb. 14, 1965
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Three Speeches in Detroit (1963-1965): Malcolm X from the Grassroots to the African Revolution

March 4, 2021 fwstaff
African American History Month Series No. 4 Note: These remarks were delivered at an African American History Month virtual webinar hosted by the Moratorium NOW! Coalition on Monday February 22, 2021. The event was held […]
Malcolm X parents were UNIA members
Domestic News

Three Speeches in Detroit (1963-1965): Malcolm X from the Grassroots to the African Revolution

March 4, 2021 fwstaff
African American History Month Series No. 4 Note: These remarks were delivered at an African American History Month virtual webinar hosted by the Moratorium NOW! Coalition on Monday February 22, 2021. The event was held […]