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Gaza resistance ongoing
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Shifting Rhetoric Cannot Conceal Genocidal Policy on Gaza

March 13, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe One of the critical historical conjunctures within the mass Civil Rights Movement took place in Selma, Alabama during the early months of 1965. Although local activists and members of the Student Nonviolent […]
Labor uprisings led to the NLRA. Overturning it could lead to the opposite of what Amazon and the Supreme Court intend
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Corporate Giants Attack National Labor Relations Act

March 6, 2024 fwstaff
By Gerry Scoppuotello Recently Amazon, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s have filed legal challenges to the constitutionality of  the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which was enacted in 1935 and whose constitutionality was upheld in 1938 […]
Commemoration for Aaron Bushnell
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Aaron Bushnell – A Love Supreme

March 6, 2024 fwstaff
By Julia Wright “She gave up as much of her life as she could before they took it from her” Richard Wright. Uncle Tom’s Children. Bright and Morning Star As abolitionists, we distinguish between corporate […]
Detroit Palestine solidarity march mobilized thousands on Oct. 28, 2024
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Pan-Africanism and Palestine Solidarity, Then and Now (Part II): African American History Month Series #10

March 5, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe When the Al-Aqsa Storm began on October 7, 2023, the corporate and government-controlled media in the United States and European countries utilized their resources to justify the Israeli genocidal assaults on the […]
Edward Wilmot Blyden on Africa and Palestine
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Pan-Africanism and Palestine Solidarity, Then and Now (Part I): African American History Month Series #10

March 5, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe 19th century theorist and educator Edward Wilmont Blyden (1832-1912) viewed the struggle for African redemption as being comparable to the Zionist movement, then in its infancy. As the founders of the World […]
Paul Robeson hands over We Charge Genocide petition to the UN in 1951
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Before and Beyond Vietnam: African American History Month Series #9

March 4, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Even though the United States government, in its propaganda during World War II, suggested that there would be greater freedoms for African Americans in the wake of the defeat of European fascism […]
Black Panther Party members for Pentagon pilots
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African American Liberation and the Vietnamese Revolution: African American History Month Series #8

March 4, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe “Up in French Indochina, those little peasants, rice-growers, took on the might of the French army and ran all the Frenchmen, you remember Dien Bien Phu! The same thing happened in Algeria, […]
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Warmonger Biden’s support for Gaza genocide fractures Democratic Party

March 4, 2024 fwstaff
By Chris Fry When the hastily organized and shoestring budgeted “Listen to Michigan” campaign was established, organizers told the press that if the “Uncommitted” vote tally reached 10,000 to 15,000 votes in the February 27 […]
Dearborn Manor rally Rev. Robert Smith
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Dearborn Rally Says “Stop Genocide in Palestine, Ceasefire Now!”

March 4, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff On Sunday, February 25, 2024, a rally was held at the Dearborn Manor, located in the suburb on the western border with Detroit, to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Speakers […]
Anti-nazi rally in Madison WI on Feb. 10, 2024
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Madison, Feb. 10, 2024: ‘Stop the Hate: Build People’s Unity’ Rally and March

March 1, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Wisconsin labor and community organizations hosted “Stop the Hate: Build People’s Unity” rally on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024 at 1 P.M. at Library Mall at UW Madison, which was followed by […]