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Pam Africa
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Pam Africa visits Detroit to headline public meeting on Mumia Abu-Jamal and the unjustly convicted

April 30, 2019 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe An historic conference entitled “Freedom for the Unjustly Incarcerated” was held on April 20 in the Midtown District of Detroit where MOVE organizer Pam Africa and the Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton […]
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New developments shatter defense’s claim to self-defense in Jovan Fresco case

April 22, 2019 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff – Rockford, IL An emotional court session held on April 11 explained, for the first time, a more detailed timeline of the killing of Valentia Jovan Fresco. It has been nearly […]
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Krasner ends appeal of Tucker ruling

April 18, 2019 fwstaff
The following is a press release by Mobilization4Mumia on April 17, 2019. Communist Workers League stands in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal and hopes that this brings him one step closer to freedom. Community activists and […]
Chicago dueling protests
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“16 shots and a cover-up”

April 17, 2019 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On April 1, hundreds of Chicago cops demonstrated outside the downtown Chicago offices of Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx, a Black woman who was elected to her position in November 2016. […]
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 […]