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Mumia’s response to the Judge’s decision
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Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Response to the Judge’s Decision

April 9, 2023 fwstaff
By Noelle Hanrahan, Esq. P.I., Prison Radio Legal Director April 3, 2023: I saw Mumia yesterday and he was deeply affected by the blow, the gravity, the gut wrenching disappointment: that freedom will be delayed, […]
Detroit activists block entry by the Bailiffs
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Detroit Activists Battle Bailiffs in Defense of the Tiny Home of Taura Brown

April 6, 2023 fwstaff
    By Abayomi Azikiwe WXYZ news report on the home defense can be found at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9FIbRWO-ms Taura Brown, a dialysis patient fighting eviction from the Tiny Homes on the west side of […]
University of Michigan Graduate Employees strike picket line on Woodward in Midtown Detroit, April 3, 2023
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U-M GEO Workers on Strike for Living Wage

April 6, 2023 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Members of the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) at the University of Michigan have gone on strike for improved working conditions and better pay. On Monday, April 3, the GEO and its […]
Student organisers of the Diversity Assembly defended their invitation to Huwaida Arraf
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Oppose targeting of Palestinian-American human rights activist and lawyer Huwaida Arraf accused of antisemitism

April 6, 2023 fwstaff
By Jewish Voice for Peace – Detroit This is an URGENT REQUEST to support Huwaida Arraf, accused of anti-semitism in a Bloomfield Hills, Michigan school presentation on diversity. Please sign the petition. We are extremely concerned […]
Banner outside of U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Detroit in 2014
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Detroit Remains Mired in Poverty as City Council Approves $800 Million Tax Giveaway to the Rich

March 29, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe In an 8-1 vote, the Detroit City Council signed off on awarding two billionaires a tax incentive valued at $800 million despite broad independent opposition to the scheme. Known as “District Detroit”, […]
People’s Daily Cartoon - covid lab leak theory
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Bipartisan slander of China

March 29, 2023 fwstaff
By Scott Scheffer Last week, before the capitalist crisis of bank failures crowded it out of the headlines, news of a congressional hearing to further investigate the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 […]
Justice for Tortuguita placard
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Private Autopsy Reveals Activist Had Hands Up When Killed by Georgia Police

March 15, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe There has been additional information which contradicts the state and local authorities’ statements in Atlanta, Georgia where an environmental activist was gunned down by the police. An independent autopsy requested by the […]
Iranian and Saudi Arabian delegates at 4 days of peace talks in Beijing
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The China-brokered Mideast peace deal and the SVB bank failure

March 12, 2023 fwstaff
By Chris Fry The editorial board of the New York Times, the flagship mouthpiece of the U.S. ruling class or at least a substantial portion of it, published an editorial on March 11 titled “Who […]
1972 (c) - Detroit - 7000 turn out to protest Pres. Nixon
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“Left-Right Coalition” Politics Rooted in Defeatism

March 12, 2023 fwstaff
By David Sole Antiwar activists have always sought ways to get our message out to wider audiences hoping to develop a movement powerful enough to slow down or stop the imperialist war drive that is […]
French workers demonstrate against pension reforms
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1.2 Million French Workers Strike Again

March 12, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe For several months, unions and students in France have engaged in periodic general strikes and mass demonstrations in protest against a pension reform plan advanced by President Emmanuel Macron. The new scheme […]