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Two demonstrators stand against the National Action Group, a white supremacist group, at an event in February 1972.
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L. Brooks Patterson’s cancer announcement elicits zero sympathy

April 12, 2019 fwstaff
By Jerry Goldberg and David Sole Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson’s cancer announcement brings back a lot of memories, but no sympathy. Patterson made his name as the lawyer for the racist anti-busing organization, […]
Chelsea Manning
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Chelsea Manning: State torture and the red stripe

April 9, 2019 fwstaff
By Cassandra Devereaux The United States, an empire as vicious as it is venal, is torturing yet another political prisoner. On March 8, Chelsea Elizabeth Manning was apprehended, imprisoned and thrust into prolonged solitary confinement […]
Woman holding Palestine flag
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BDS activists turn their sights on Hewlett-Packard

April 4, 2019 fwstaff
By Tyler Vosgerchian On March 17 in Dearborn, Michigan, over 100 activists attended a town hall meeting at the Arab American National Museum hosted by New Generation for Palestine on the topic of the Boycott, […]
Climate-change-protest-by Garry Knight
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Socialism or extinction?

April 4, 2019 fwstaff
By Cassandra Devereaux The Coca-Cola corporation is worried that a lack of access to fresh water will impact its ability to produce soft drinks. Apple sees opportunity in the increase of natural disasters causing greater […]
Oakland teachers strike
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Oakland teachers strike is over but the fight continues

March 27, 2019 fwstaff
By Terri Kay Following the inspiration of teachers in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Los Angeles and more, Oakland teachers, organized by the Oakland Education Association (OEA), went out on strike on February 21 with four major […]
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Karl Marx and the case for reparations

March 21, 2019 fwstaff
By Chris Fry “Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s 250 years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the […]
Wright Museum Protest 03-12-2019
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Jefferson exhibit generates racial controversy in Detroit

March 13, 2019 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikywe An historical exhibit designed to examine various aspects of the life and people of the Monticello plantation in Virginia during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, which was owned by Thomas […]
Maria Stewart
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Further reflections on women’s suffrage and African emancipation

February 26, 2019 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A cursory re-examination of the early years of what became known as the women’s suffrage movement and abolitionism represented the embryonic phases of self-organization and mass struggle politics within United States society. […]