Black Lives Matter

Press conference on police brutality featured Darryl Jordan of EMEAC
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40 Detroit Organizations Demand Resignation of Police Chief

September 15, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff Various community based organizations are demanding change and an end to state repression. They held a press conference on September 3 on Detroit’s eastside. Several speakers drew the connection between […]
Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum, murdered by a right-wing shooter in Kenosha, WI.
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The Left, the Right and the Capitalist State

September 8, 2020 fwstaff
By David Sole The state, when talking about political entities, might be defined as “the supreme public power within a sovereign political entity” (The Free Dictionary by Farlex).  V.I. Lenin, leader of the Russian Revolution […]
WI Bailout the People Movement placards
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Wisconsin organizer speaks to Fighting Words

September 6, 2020 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Questions directed to Dorothy Brown for the Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement from Fighting-Words.net. Before the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, what was the movement of Black […]
Defund the police, Oakland California
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Anti Police-Terror Project Launches Mental Health First Oakland

September 3, 2020 fwstaff
By Anti Police-Terror Project – Press Release Oakland, Calif. — Today, 8/28/20, the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) launched Mental Health First Oakland (MH First), a new model for non-police response to mental health crises. The […]
Bystander beaten and arrested by Detroit plice on Aug. 22, 2020
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What’s Behind the August 22 Police Riot in Detroit?

September 3, 2020 fwstaff
Above: Detroit police brutalized a bystander who lives on Woodward Avenue and opened his front door to provide respite to demonstrators as they dispersed. Multiple officers seized him, held him down, punched him in the […]
Detroit police attack demonstrators on Aug. 22, 2020
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Detroit Police brutally attack demonstrators without warning

September 2, 2020 fwstaff
The following is a guest contribution to Fighting Words from a Detroit activist. By Jessica Nadeau I am an independent photographer who has been following Detroit Will Breathe as the group holds marches and sit-ins […]
Demonstrators begin march in Dearborn, MI on Aug 8
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Palestinian and Black Lives Matter

August 21, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff Hundreds marched and rallied in Dearborn, Michigan on August 8 to show solidarity between the Black Lives Matter movement and the Palestinian struggle against U.S. financed Israeli occupation. The Palestinian […]
Hundreds protest Trump in Oshkosh, WI August 17, 2020
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Hundreds Protest Trump – the Anti-Worker Racist Bigot – in Oshkosh, WI

August 19, 2020 fwstaff
By Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN AUGUST 17, 2020 — A diverse crowd of people’s fighters from across Wisconsin rallied and marched here to protest the racist, anti-worker bigot and war criminal […]
NFAC militia members march with arms
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Black People Arming to Confront Racist Violence

August 16, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since the May 25 police execution of George Floyd in Minneapolis, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest racist violence. Cities across the United States were impacted […]
WI Bailout the People Movement demo 08-09-2020
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Waupaca Wisconsin demo demands equality and builds unity

August 16, 2020 fwstaff
By Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement Waupaca, Wisconsin August 9, 2020 — Dozens from across Wisconsin came to defend Black Lives Matter community activists while building a broad based People’s United Front to oppose […]