By Fighting Words Staff In 1867, the most important figure in the anti-slavery movement in the U.S., Frederick Douglass, gave a speech in Boston about immigrant rights, specifically those people coming from China and Japan. […]
By Terri Kay December 10, 2022 – On International Human Rights Day, about 40 supporters of the Interfaith Campaign for Just Closures rallied at the Union County Courthouse in downtown Elizabeth, New Jersey, demanding the […]
By David Sole Police across Germany carried out raids against Nazis who reportedly were planning an armed overthrow of the government of that nation. Twenty-five ultra-rightists were arrested as 3,000 police officers searched 130 locations […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Stewart Rhodes, the national leader of the far-right Oath Keepers, along with his Florida chapter chief, Kelly Meggs, were both convicted of seditious conspiracy on November 29 in connection with the attempted […]
By David Sole Since April it has been reported that Texas Governor Greg Abbott and his administration have deported over 7,000 migrants from southern Texas to New York City. Buses have been filled with migrant […]
By Terri Kay On Wednesday, October 27, a coalition of groups, who have been fighting the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, policies of cruel, indefinite detention of immigrants/migrants, held a rally with over 30 […]
By Interfaith Campaign for Just Closures Background NJ currently has four ICE detention contracts. One is with the private, for-profit company CoreCivic to run the Elizabeth Detention Center. The other three are at the Bergen, […]
By Fighting Words Staff There were two public actions over the weekend of September 24-26 demanding an end to the racist and brutal treatment of migrant workers and their families from Haiti. On Friday, September […]
By Fighting Words Staff Emergency Week of Actions for Haitian Refugees! Biden: Halt Your Racist Border Patrol and Stop the Whippings and Racist Deportations NOW! When: Friday September 24 – October 2nd Who/What: Progressive organizations […]
By Elena Herrada Good afternoon I don’t normally express raw emotion to strangers like this, but the situation calls for a scream to the heavens. I cried myself to sleep last night, I am sure […]
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