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Baltimore People's Assembly leaflet
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Facebook illegally shuts down support of “If Trump steals the election” November 4 protest

November 1, 2020 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff On the evening of 10/28/20, 15 organizers who were affiliated with the Baltimore March and Car Caravan for November 4, had their Facebook pages disabled; all were administrators or editors on […]
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Trump, Sessions and Miller, you can’t hide! The people charge you with genocide!

November 1, 2020 fwstaff
By Chris Fry From the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Article 6 Genocide For the purpose of this Statute, “genocide” means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole […]
Philadelphia rebellion after the police killing of Walter Wallace, Jr
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Police Brutality and Racist Violence Intensifies Leading Up to Contested Elections

November 1, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe As millions of people in the United States cast early ballots for the upcoming presidential and Congressional elections, tensions are escalating over the future of racial politics inside the country. On October […]
State Fairground Development Coalition sold out by corporate-controlled Detroit CIty Council
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Detroit Rally Demonstrates Against Unfair Amazon Deal

October 28, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff A corporate-controlled 5-4 majority on the Detroit City Council approved an egregious deal which will turn over land to Amazon corporation for the building of a distribution center in Detroit. […]
Georgia lines up in early voting during Oct. 2020 AJC photo
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Voter Suppression and Right-wing Threats Fail to Keep Millions Away from the Polls

October 27, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Efforts aimed at thwarting the fundamental bourgeois democratic rights of the majority of people in the United States are well underway. President Donald J. Trump has said repeatedly that mail-in voting and […]
The AFL-CIO labor federation, headed by Richard Trumka, is seeing the terms general strike and resistance against tyranny, bandied about.
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Community groups, Unions Taking Fascist Threats Seriously

October 26, 2020 fwstaff
By David Sole With less than two weeks left before the November 3 U.S. elections there are signs that some sectors of the population are taking Donald Trump’s threat seriously to refuse to recognize an […]
Detroit demonstration led by Detroit Will Breathe against police brutality on the southwest side on Oct. 10, 2020.
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Stop Police Brutality on the Southwest Side!

October 18, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff There were demonstrations for two consecutive nights beginning at St. Hedwig Park located in the area near Junction and Michigan Avenue in Detroit. Incidents of police brutality were reported to […]
Detroit anti-eviction demonstration featured militant speeches from housing activists on Oct. 9, 2020
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Stop Evictions and Honor the CDC Moratorium!

October 18, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff There was another midday picket line outside 36th District Court in downtown Detroit on Friday, October 9, 2020. The demonstration called for the halt to eviction proceedings due to the […]
Warren demonstration marches north on Van Dyke on October 3, 2020 Photo Abayomi Azikiwe
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Justice for Victims of Racist Attacks in Warren!

October 11, 2020 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Detroit Staff There was another rally and march in Warren, Michigan, a large suburb on the border with the city of Detroit, on Saturday October 3, where a series of racially-motivated attacks […]
Christopher Vialva and his mother Lisa Brown just days before his execution in Indiana
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Racism and the Death Penalty

October 11, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Christopher Vialva, 40, was executed by the United States government on September 24, 2020 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Vialva was the first Black person put to death by the federal criminal justice […]