Detroit

McDonald's workers demand an end to sexual harassment at #FastFoodGlobal Day of Action strike in Detroit on Nov. 14
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Low-wage workers strike in Detroit

November 20, 2019 fwstaff
 By Detroit FW staff Almost 1000 low-wage workers, organized by Fight for $15, went on strike on Nov.12, 2019, and took the streets of Detroit, braving record cold temperatures and snow to demand unions for […]
Detroit delegation headed by Helen Moore to Cincinnati for the literacy case appeal on Oct. 24, 2019
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Moratorium NOW! Coalition Joins Delegation to Federal Appeals Court for Constitutional Right to Literacy Case

November 4, 2019 fwstaff
By FW Detroit staff These photographs were taken on Thurs. Oct. 24, 2019 surrounding the 6th Circuit United States Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio hearing on a landmark civil rights case involving whether the […]
Detroit Annual Labor Day Parade where trade unionists held a banner in solidarity wiith injured Colombian GM workers, Mon. Sept. 2, 2019
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GM robs both workers and communities

September 27, 2019 fwstaff
By Detroit FW Staff The community at large has a material interest in solidarity with the UAW-GM strike and its battle to reverse General Motors illegal plant closings and lay-offs. In 2009, GM received $68.1 […]
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Demonstrations surround Democratic debates in Detroit

August 11, 2019 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On July 30 and 31 the attention of the national media in the United States was focused on the Fox Theater in downtown Detroit where 20 Democratic Party candidates for the presidency […]
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Capitalist Development and Community Demolitions in Detroit

July 21, 2019 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A white corporate-imposed mayor of the City of Detroit has been projected by the mainstream media as a savior of the majority African American populated municipality. Although there have been enormous problems […]
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Highland Park deputy police chief involved in framing of Detroit youth

June 10, 2019 fwstaff
By Debra Simmons What should happen to a police officer, a detective and a prosecuting attorney that conspired to send a 14-year-old youth to prison for a quadruple murder he did not commit? Sadly, quite […]
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 […]
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Bill Wylie-Kellermann gives his closing argument in the Gilbert 7 case

February 2, 2019 fwstaff
By Elena Herrada Reverend Bill Wylie-Kellermann and co-defendants were at 36th District Court in Detroit for charges of shutting down the QLine, a pet project of the gentrifiers. In fact, the “Q” stands for “Quicken […]
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MLK commemorations take place amid government shutdown and worsening capitalist crisis

January 19, 2019 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, and grew into maturity in the Deep South city of Atlanta, Georgia, during the Great Depression of the 1930s and early […]
Hotel workers on strike in Detroit, October 21.
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Detroiters striking and fighting back!

October 25, 2018 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Detroit — Public discontent over evictions, foreclosures, water shutoffs and substandard wages can only be ameliorated through organized action. During the early morning hours of Sunday, October 7, members of UNITE HERE […]