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Press conference on police brutality featured Darryl Jordan of EMEAC
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40 Detroit Organizations Demand Resignation of Police Chief

September 15, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff Various community based organizations are demanding change and an end to state repression. They held a press conference on September 3 on Detroit’s eastside. Several speakers drew the connection between […]
Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum, murdered by a right-wing shooter in Kenosha, WI.
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The Left, the Right and the Capitalist State

September 8, 2020 fwstaff
By David Sole The state, when talking about political entities, might be defined as “the supreme public power within a sovereign political entity” (The Free Dictionary by Farlex).  V.I. Lenin, leader of the Russian Revolution […]
WI Bailout the People Movement placards
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Wisconsin organizer speaks to Fighting Words

September 6, 2020 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Questions directed to Dorothy Brown for the Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement from Fighting-Words.net. Before the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, what was the movement of Black […]
Defund the police, Oakland California
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Anti Police-Terror Project Launches Mental Health First Oakland

September 3, 2020 fwstaff
By Anti Police-Terror Project – Press Release Oakland, Calif. — Today, 8/28/20, the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) launched Mental Health First Oakland (MH First), a new model for non-police response to mental health crises. The […]
Bystander beaten and arrested by Detroit plice on Aug. 22, 2020
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What’s Behind the August 22 Police Riot in Detroit?

September 3, 2020 fwstaff
Above: Detroit police brutalized a bystander who lives on Woodward Avenue and opened his front door to provide respite to demonstrators as they dispersed. Multiple officers seized him, held him down, punched him in the […]
Detroit police attack demonstrators on Aug. 22, 2020
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Detroit Police brutally attack demonstrators without warning

September 2, 2020 fwstaff
The following is a guest contribution to Fighting Words from a Detroit activist. By Jessica Nadeau I am an independent photographer who has been following Detroit Will Breathe as the group holds marches and sit-ins […]
Hunger increasing in the U.S..
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Coronavirus: The K-shaped recovery and the rise of zombie capitalism

August 25, 2020 fwstaff
By Chris Fry From an August 19 CNBC report: Nearly 40% of Americans who lost a job or had a reduction in take-home pay due to Covid-19 can’t last more than a month on savings […]
Reinstate a Moratorium on Evictions picket line outside 36th District Court
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Detroiters Protest Looming Mass Evictions

August 25, 2020 fwstaff
The following is a programmatic leaflet issued by the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Evictions, Foreclosures & Utility Shutoffs in Detroit distributed at a demonstration outside 36th District Court on August 17, 2020. By Moratorium […]
Hands Off USPS union worker holds postal workers sign
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Trump: Hands Off the United States Postal Service!

August 24, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff Attacks by the Trump administration in Washington D.C. on the essential role of the USPS has drawn condemnation across the country. In Detroit on Thurs. Aug. 20, 2020 a demonstration […]
Reinstate a Moratorium on Evictions in Michigan
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Reinstate the Moratorium on Evictions!

August 23, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff A demonstration was held outside the 36th District Court in Detroit on Mon. August 17, 2020 protesting the lifting of the moratorium on evictions imposed by both Gov. Gretchen Whitmer […]