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Stop Nazis in Wisconsin

February 4, 2024 fwstaff
By People’s Unity Coalition The Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement and allies are mobilizing numerous individuals and organizations across Wisconsin to respond to a growing threat by Nazis and other fascists across that state […]
Part of the threat of fascism is the ultra-right Project 2025
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Anti-Fascist Organizing Committee Launched

January 27, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff The new year was marked by the formation of a new Anti-Fascist Organizing Committee that seeks to begin discussions among unions and community organizations on how to fight back against the […]
Viola Plummer - February 17, 1937 - January 15, 2024
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MXCC Remembers Fallen Freedom Fighter Viola Plummer

January 27, 2024 fwstaff
  By Malcolm X Commemoration Committee   “I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people,  and then penalize them for not being able to stand under its weight…” […]
Detroit MLK Day 2024 audience in sanctuary and balcony
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Detroit’s 21st Annual MLK Day Rally Focused on Labor, Community and Palestinian Struggles

January 24, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Shawn Fain, President of the UAW International, noted during his major policy address at the 21st Annual Detroit MLK Day Rally that the labor movement and the struggle for civil rights remains […]
Congressman Thaddeus Stevens helped draft the 14th Amendment
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Proposed campaign to disqualify Trump, force Biden to step down while forcing Israel into a cease fire

January 23, 2024 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On December 19 the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump was disqualified from that state’s 2024 ballot because he engaged in the January 6, 2021, insurrection, which, according to Section 3 […]
St. Augustine movement leaders King, Hayling and Abernathy during 1964
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Dr. King Linked the Struggles to End Racism, Poverty and War

January 13, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe January 15, 2024 marks the 95th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), a federally recognized holiday in the United States since 1986. Dr. King was the most well-known and respected […]
The late Ralph Poynter
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PEACE TO PIECES | RALPH POYNTER – OUR ANCESTRAL KING | CARCERAL NUTRIENTS

January 13, 2024 fwstaff
PEACE TO PIECES in police-staffed schools now called “soft targets” because mass shootings take place there our children are taught to stick to their guns and in their textbooks they learn that the Nobel Peace […]
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Newark, NJ MLK Day Rally Announced

January 5, 2024 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress THE PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS (POP) PO BOX 22505 NEWARK, NJ 07101 www.njpop.org CONTACT: LAWRENCE HAMM JANUARY 3, 2024 FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE MARTIN LUTHER KING MARCH & RALLY FOR […]
Palestine Solidarity in Detroit on New Year's Eve, Dec. 31, 2023
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New Year’s Eve Rally for Palestine – Detroit

January 4, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff All over the world billions of people have been rallying and demonstrating in solidarity with the Palestinian people over the siege of Gaza beginning on Oct. 7. In Detroit on New […]
UAW President Shawn Fain
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EVs, batteries, and union organizing: the class struggle heats up

December 31, 2023 fwstaff
By Chris Fry If 2023 was described as having the “summer of strikes” (which stretched into the fall and winter), then 2024 may become known as the “year of union organizing drives”. 2023 saw more […]