By Jerry Goldberg The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is leading the way in the fight for a decent quality education in major cities. In addition to demands for a fair wage increase beyond the 3.2% […]
By Thomas Michalak For over a month United Auto Workers (UAW) members employed by General Motors have been on a countrywide strike after a breakdown at the negotiation table between the union and the company. […]
By FW Detroit Staff With the UAW strike against General Motors in its 30th day, community activists gathered on October 15 at the State of Michigan Building to show their support. The target of this […]
By Mumia Abu-Jamal (with permission) In recent weeks, we have seen naked violence unleashed against trans women directed against them by the state in the form of police beatings and by rightist forces in […]
By Cassandra Devereaux On Tuesday, October 9 Pacific Gas & Electric, the publicly traded monopoly that supplies most of Northern California’s power needs, announced that they would be shutting off power for much of their […]
By Jerry Goldberg UAW Vice President and chief negotiator Terry Dittes, has correctly articulated that the critical issue in the current UAW/General Motors strike, in addition to ending the wage disparities among the members, is […]
By Cassandra Devereaux Vicente Guerrero was the first descendant of African slaves to serve as a North American head of state. He was a general in the war for Mexico’s independence from the Spanish Empire, […]
By Detroit FW Staff Moratorium NOW! Coalition and the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) held a noon-time demonstration in Farmington Hills, Michigan, a suburb right outside Detroit at the Prudential Financial office […]
By Detroit FW Staff These photographs were taken at the Detroit Global Climate Strike rally and march on Fri. Sept. 20, 2019. The activities began at Grand Circus Park with a rally. The rally opened […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe “None of the Above: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed, and the Criminalization of Educators” by Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton, Beacon Press, Boston, 2019 This […]
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