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Detroit Labor Day Palestine Solidarity on Michigan ave.
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Detroit Labor Day Parade a Focus for Palestine Solidarity

September 8, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff On Monday, September 2, 2024, the Moratorium NOW! Coalition and several Palestine solidarity organizations converged at the Labor Day Parade to appeal to organized labor to escalate their support for the […]
At the Turkish Mission to the UN asking for support to let the Freedom Flotilla sail to Gaza
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Demand Release of Freedom Flotilla Ship to Gaza

August 30, 2024 fwstaff
By PAL-Awda NY/NJ For Immediate Release: Protest Today, 8/28/24, 4pm at Turkish Mission, Demanding Release of Freedom Flotilla Ship to Gaza.  We demand Turkey let the ship sail and stop obstructing independent civil society efforts […]
Uncommitted delegates hold protest sit-in outside the Democratic National Convention on August 21
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Democratic Party Leadership: “The Answer is No.”

August 28, 2024 fwstaff
By Chris Fry The Democratic Party National Committee (DNC) called it the Chicago “Unity” Convention. But beneath the hoopla, the dancing in the aisles, the rousing speeches attacking Trump’s fascist “2025 Program”, the balloon drop […]
PAL-Awda boycott against Citibank launched at Citi's World HQ
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Global Week of Action for Palestine Against Citibank Kicks Off Summer of Heat

August 28, 2024 fwstaff
By Terri Kay On Monday, June 10th, PAL-Awda NY/NJ: Palestinian Assembly for Liberation announced a Global Week of Action against Citibank, from June 10th to June 14th, calling on people across the US and the […]
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AND THEN THERE CAME A DAYBREAK | THERE COMES A TIME WHEN TIME APPROACHES | WHERE DO UNSHED TEARS GO?

August 20, 2024 fwstaff
AND THEN THERE CAME A DAYBREAK To my departed sister, Rachel To Amilcar Cabral who taught us how to abolish the distance with our Dead To Thich Nhat Hanh who inspired both Martin Luther King […]
NetureiKarta Pro-Palestine anti-zionist orthodox Jews at protest against Stolen Land in Queens 071424
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PAL-Awda NY/NJ Protests Stolen Land Real Estate Sales

August 20, 2024 fwstaff
By Terri Kay PAL-Awda NY/NJ held a rally protesting the illegal sale of stolen Palestinian real estate and land in a synagogue in Queens, NY on July 14. It was the latest in a series […]
In Memoriam: Rachel Wright, sister of Julia Wright
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FOR MY BABY SISTER RACHEL, NOW MY ANCESTOR | IN THE ABSENCE OF FLOWERS | A SUNRISE ELEGY TO MY SISTER RACHEL

August 16, 2024 fwstaff
FOR MY BABY SISTER RACHEL, NOW MY ANCESTOR to Rachel, my little sister, who passed on July 19, 2024 you left the room of your life on tiptoes discreetly in the midst of a genocide […]
FBI conducts raid on home of anti-war critic, Scott Ritter
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Critics of U.S. proxy wars under government attack

August 16, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Former Marine, U.N. weapons inspector and outspoken critic of U.S. war policy Scott Ritter had his home in Delmar, NY, raided by the FBI on August 7. Ritter became famous by […]
Frame up trial of the Uhuru 3 is coming up on September 3
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Why is the New York Times Silent About the Case of the Uhuru 3?

August 14, 2024 fwstaff
By Hands Off Uhuru Coalition On Wednesday, August 14, the Hands Off Uhuru Coalition is taking action to defend the rights of the Uhuru 3 and expose corporate media’s complicity in refusing to cover this […]
Call for protests in Chicago at the Democratic Party Convention stirs memories of the 1968 demonstrations against the Vietnam War at that Democratic Convention
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Join the fight against the genocide in Gaza!

August 7, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Lost in the tumultuous events around the 2024 presidential election, with Biden’s incoherent debate performance in the face of Trump’s racist anti-migrant rant, followed by the Trump shooting, then Biden’s dropping […]