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Detroit rally says 'No Tech for Genocide'
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Reindustrialize conference in Detroit protested for complicity in Gaza genocide

August 4, 2025 fwstaff
By Fighting Words staff A spirited protest was held on July 16, 2025 at Hudson’s Detroit in  downtown Detroit where the 2nd Industrialize Conference was taking place. Conference participants included representatives from many of the […]
Philadelphia AFSCME DC 33 worker on the picket line
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Philadelphia Municipal Strike Highlights Worsening Plight of the Working Class

July 22, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe An eight-day strike by municipal employees in Philadelphia disrupted the operations of one of the largest cities in the United States amid systematic attacks on the interests and status of working people. […]
Arrest photo of Civil Rights icon, John Lewis, from 1961
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Good Trouble civil rights protest in the spirit of Congressman John Lewis

July 21, 2025 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress The Good Trouble Lives On March and Rally to protest the disastrous policies of the Trump administration and to commemorate civil rights icon John Lewis will take place Thursday, July […]
Right-wing forces in Europe organizing against immigrants face anti-fascists organizing against them
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Trumpworld seeks fascist regime change – of Europe!

July 16, 2025 fwstaff
By Russ Bellant This is an account of how the Trump regime is tied internationally to racialized immigration policies to build white political power on both sides of the Atlantic. The Euro-racist event described below […]
ICE raids New Jersey warehouse. Arrests 20 workers
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DHS Immigration Raid at Edison Warehouse Tears Workers Away from Families, Community Responds

July 15, 2025 fwstaff
By Movimiento Cosecha, NJ et al. Yesterday morning at approximately 10:00 am, volunteers across New Jersey responded to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) raid at Alba Wine and Spirits in Edison, a customs-bonded warehouse. […]
National Guard troops occupied Newark, NJ in the summer of 1967 to put down a mass rebellion against racism and poverty
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1967 Newark rebellion commemoration set for July 12th: can it happen again?

July 15, 2025 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for  Progress (POP) The People’s Organization For Progress (POP) will have a 1967 Newark Rebellion Commemoration March And Rally on the 58th anniversary of the uprising, Saturday, July 12, 2025, 12:00 noon […]
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How dare you, Palentir? | Letter of love to the Everglades crocodiles | The autoimmune sickness of Zionism | Innocence isn’t what it used to be | I sit here in full daylight, blind

July 15, 2025 fwstaff
HOW DARE YOU, PALENTIR? in a half dream i was holding high into the sky not the butterfly net i left somewhere in an attic but a word catcher out to collect species of nouns […]
Federal agents, aided by local police, raid home and are confronted by protesters June 30, 2025.
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Detroiter Demands Police Department Stop Aiding ICE

July 8, 2025 fwstaff
By Adam Barrett Appeal to Detroit City Council by Detroit resident Adam Barrett We’re at the point now where they’re going to have to clearly define what “assist” means when they say “DPD does not […]
Protesters conduct “die-in” to oppose Trump’s bill in Pennsylvania
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People’s Organization for Progress Urges Congress to Kill the Bill

July 8, 2025 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS (POP) PO BOX 22505 NEWARK, NJ 07101 973 801-0001 www.njpop.org CONTACT: LAWRENCE HAMM   FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE Today the People’s Organization For Progress (POP) announced […]
U.S. Reps. Jonathan Jackson (left) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (right) speak Tuesday, June 17, 2025, after being denied access to a South Loop ICE facility
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Immigrant Rights Advocates Release New Guide for Congressional Oversight of ICE Detention

July 8, 2025 fwstaff
By ACLU et al. press release The American Civil Liberties Union, Detention Watch Network, and the National Immigrant Justice Center today released a new guide for members of Congress to conduct vital in-person oversight visits […]