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Sumud Cannot Be Disarmed | My Tsundoku – a poem in praise of unread books | The Poet’s Dome | Blood Chokes – from 9 minutes 29 seconds to 790 days

December 26, 2025 fwstaff
Sumud Cannot Be Disarmed the young amputees of Gaza deprived by the zionist siege of the materiality of medical prosthetics replace them with plastic pipes they fit on their stumps the people of Gaza, the […]
Memphis African American Tyre Nichols killed by cops
Domestic News

Jury Acquits Memphis Cops on Murder Charges in the Killing of Tyre Nichols

May 20, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Yet another group of violent police officers have been acquitted in the death of an African American, this time in the city of Memphis. Although the police officers involved in the brutal […]
Vickie Camille speaks at DCPTA press conference
Domestic News

Detroit Press Conference on Continuing Law-Enforcement Misconduct

July 28, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe St. Peter’s Episcopal Church was the scene of an extended press conference held by the Detroit Coalition for Police Transparency and Accountability (DCPTA) on July 24. The DCPTA was founded in July […]
Domestic News

SO YOUNG BACK IN ACCRA | BREAKING SILENCE | DEAD CHILD WALKING

March 25, 2024 fwstaff
SO YOUNG BACK IN ACCRA to the Free Mumia Youth movement in memory of my one and only meeting with W.E.B. DuBois i was so young back in Accra so young that learning journalism at […]
I STAND WITH PALESTINE
International News

I STAND WITH PALESTINE

November 14, 2023 fwstaff
By Sammie Lewis As a 27 year old, I have had to consider the various ways I may die. Will it be because of an unsurvivable climate? Will it be because of a mass shooting? […]
Atlanta Cop City banner at City Council meeting on June 5, 2023
Domestic News

Atlanta Struggle to Stop “Cop City” Continues After Council Approval

June 13, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe There is much at stake for the ruling class and its law-enforcement surrogates in the mass campaign taking place in Dekalb County, Georgia to prevent the construction and operation of a police […]
Kansas City protest against the shooting of Ralph Yarl
Domestic News

Black Lives Remain in Danger Throughout the United States

April 22, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Even after three years of mass demonstrations and urban rebellions in the United States, law-enforcement agencies and the entire legal system are still “justifying” the shooting deaths of African Americans and other […]
Justice for Tortuguita placard
Domestic News

Private Autopsy Reveals Activist Had Hands Up When Killed by Georgia Police

March 15, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe There has been additional information which contradicts the state and local authorities’ statements in Atlanta, Georgia where an environmental activist was gunned down by the police. An independent autopsy requested by the […]
Environmental, trade union and cultural associations denounce genocide by poisoning, the harassment of activists
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PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN AS AN ECO-DEFENDER

February 24, 2023 fwstaff
By Julia Wright For Keziah Nuissier, Madly Etile and Mumia Abu-Jamal, Three generations of anti environmental racism warriors who never met but who by breaking silence organically interconnect their struggle For our young ancestors, Tortuguita. […]
Domestic News

The Police Murder of Tyre Nichols: The Sad, Yet Foreseeable Result of a Policing System Based on the “Slave Patrols”

February 18, 2023 fwstaff
By National Conference of Black Lawyers The National Conference of Black Lawyers extends its deepest sympathy to the family of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old son and father who was viciously murdered by Memphis police officers. […]