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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 […]
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Cities Need Bailouts Not More Usurious Bond Deals

August 21, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On August 14, the final abandoned home was demolished with the more than $265 million in Hardest Hit Homeowners Funds initially designed to preserve neighborhoods as opposed to their destruction in the […]
Milwaukee WI demo-june-7-2020
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They Ain’t Peaceful: The Rich Violently Loot Wisconsin 24/7!

June 13, 2020 fwstaff
By Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement “Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” — Comandante Assata […]
Rosa Parks in May 1971
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Mrs. Rosa Parks Was A People’s Freedom Fighter That Would’ve Opposed the Right-Wing ‘Reopen’ Anti-Worker Racists Funded by the Bradley Foundation

April 24, 2020 fwstaff
By Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement The right-wing anti-worker racists attempting to organize white supremacist shock troop recruitment rallies in Wisconsin (and across the United States) are now trying to use the heroes of […]
Detroit healthcare workers protest health and safety dangers amid COVID-19
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COVID-19 Prompts Austerity Budget in Detroit

April 16, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Detroit is one of the epicenters for the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic where the city in southeast Michigan has the highest death rate from the infection in the United States. This […]
Oakland County in metropolitan Detroit where COVID-19 cases are speading
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Coronavirus: Detroit Impacted Severely by Pandemic

April 3, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On March 12, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency in Michigan ordering public buildings and educational institutions closed for three weeks. By Monday, March 16, restaurants were closed for […]
Detroit demonstration against water shutoff on July 18, 2014
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Moratorium on Water Shut-offs in Detroit Long Overdue

March 26, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced a halt to the ongoing water shut-offs in the state of Michigan in the midst of a global healthcare crisis spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic. In Detroit […]
money drain
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Coronavirus: Feed the people, starve the Pentagon!

March 20, 2020 fwstaff
By Chris Fry As millions of workers and poor are desperately facing a catastrophic loss of income from the Coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping the country and the world, now is the time to examine […]
Call'em out protest 02-28-2020
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Demand an Immediate Moratorium on Foreclosures and Evictions!

March 1, 2020 fwstaff
These photos were taken at a protest organized by Call’Em Out demanding a refund on illegally assessed property taxes paid by Detroit residents over the past 10 years in an amount exceeding $600 million dollars. […]
Detroit demolition by private contractors created environmental problems with debris left on sites
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Detroit Demolition Bond Proposal Defeated Amid Mass Discontent

December 10, 2019 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On November 19, the Detroit City Council voted down a bond proposal advanced by corporate-imposed Mayor Mike Duggan ostensibly designed to eliminate blighted residential properties in this overwhelmingly impoverished African American municipality. […]