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They Would Bomb at The Speed of Thought | When Unspeakability Takes the Floor | A Prodigal Poem

April 7, 2026 fwstaff
  THEY WOULD BOMB AT THE SPEED OF THOUGHT “Time is long” W.E.B. DuBois “Against the loveless world” Susan Abulhawa “But it’s not only the miles that make the Monarch butterfly’s journey so remarkable — […]
Domestic News

Hundreds Pack the Islamic Society of Milwaukee to Demand: ‘Free Palestinian Leader Salah Sarsour NOW!’

April 6, 2026 fwstaff
By WI Bail Out the People Movement Join Us in Standing with Salah Sarsour, the president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s largest mosque! https://www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/salah_sarsour_justice_fund Contribute to Salah’s Justice Fund & Help Us Defend […]
International News

ALEIDA GUEVARA’S TEARS ARE WATER TO THE FLOWERS OF OUR RESOLVE | How does it feel to be missing, Bibi ? | TO MOTHER EARTH ON WORLD WATER DAY | THEY WOULD GRIND OUR BOOKS TO MAKE THEIR BREAD

March 31, 2026 fwstaff
ALEIDA GUEVARA’S TEARS ARE WATER TO THE FLOWERS OF OUR RESOLVE to Aleida Guevara, daughter of Che Guevara, mother and pediatrician your tears unlock ours as rage makes the sleepless eye run dry your tears […]
Serbians protest murder of 168 school girls in school bombing by US
Domestic News

From Gaza to Minab | When the body becomes a voice | A War of Deletion | This Horror Humbles Me

March 24, 2026 fwstaff
  From Gaza to Minab – a poem for the one hundred and sixty-five children mass buried in Iran The U.S. used Anthropic’s Claude to support Operation Epic Fury against Iran yesterday, sources familiar with […]
Domestic News

Announcing the Second Printing of “For the baby ancestors in Gaza”

March 19, 2026 fwstaff
Join Julia Wright in person, YouTube or zoom at a reading and discussion of her poetry – March 20 at Sankofa Video & Books Watch this event on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c56n6VNuhjo&pp=iggCQAE%3D   To RSVP, visit https://www.sankofa.com/sankofaevents […]
Domestic News

We refuse to be ICED into silence | Salt melts ICE everywhere | Show the body of the book |Beware of tech oligarchs bearing jokes

March 12, 2026 fwstaff
  We refuse to be ICED into silence In memory of Malcolm X, Mehdi Ben Barka, Amilcar Cabral, Agostinho Neto, Kwame Nkrumah and Che Guevara and Refaat Alareer – on this 60th anniversary of the […]
Detroit demonstration against US imperialism in West Asia
Domestic News

Detroit Demonstration Against the US-Israeli War on Iran

March 11, 2026 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff On Saturday. February 28, 2026, people gathered at Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit to protest against the United States and Israeli bombing of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The protest was […]
Domestic News

DON’T MOVE ZIM: ‘Port Workers & Communities for Palestine’ Picket to Block Ammunition

March 11, 2026 fwstaff
By Port Workers and Communities for Palestine ELIZABETH, NJ, March 4, 2026 – ‘Port Workers and Communities for Palestine’ are picketing outside of the Maher Terminal at the Port of Elizabeth to protest the arrival […]
Five year old, Liam Ramos, detained by ICE
Domestic News

Refaat’s rest | Sifting for bones, not gold | No ICE for Greenland | For Alex Jeffrey Pretti | Bait 22

March 5, 2026 fwstaff
Refaat’s rest it is not enough they tracked you it is not enough they threatened you it is not enough they targeted you it is not enough they assassinated you it is not enough your […]
Protesters rallied on the City Hall steps before the City Council Committee to Combat Hate's hearing took place
Domestic News

75 New Yorkers Testify Against “Buffer Zone” Bills

March 4, 2026 fwstaff
PAL-Awda NY/NJ NEW YORK, NY, February 27, 2025 — On Wednesday morning, dozens of organizations rallied on the steps of City Hall to oppose two proposed anti-protest bills — Council Speaker Julie Menin’s buffer zone […]