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Workers vote on UAW contract with GM

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. […]
Protestors demanding that GM pay state and federal taxes
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Make G.M. Pay Taxes – Support the UAW Strike

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 […]
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Trump and Erdogan
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Philly Trans March, Saturday, October 12, 2019
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When trans women die

  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 […]
A sign demanding PG&E to turn the power back on.
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PG&E’s shutoff: at the intersection of electric and ruling class power

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 […]
A contingent from UNITE HERE union joins the picket line outside the General Motors Tech Center in Warren
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Demand for a Short Work Week – 30 hours work for 40 hours pay

By Jerry Goldberg UAW Vice President and chief negotiator Terry Dittes, has correctly articulated that the critical issue in the current UAW/General Motors strike, in addition to ending the wage disparities among the members, is […]
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Invader or invaded

By Cassandra Devereaux Vicente Guerrero was the first descendant of African slaves to serve as a North American head of state. He was a general in the war for Mexico’s independence from the Spanish Empire, […]
Detroit Moratorium NOW! Coalition demonstration at Prudential in Farmington Hills MI
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“No Detention Centers in Michigan” Demonstration Held by Moratorium NOW! Coalition

By Detroit FW Staff Moratorium NOW! Coalition and the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) held a noon-time demonstration in Farmington Hills, Michigan, a suburb right outside Detroit at the Prudential Financial office […]
Detroit Climate Strike march on Fri. Sept. 20, 2019
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