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Student protesters at the University of Michigan demanded that the university divest from companies complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza
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Michigan 8 case is part of a broader pattern of repression

August 29, 2026 fwstaff
By Omar Zahzah A recent federal indictment against eight activists in Michigan could have critical implications for pro-Palestine activism across the US. On 10 June, the FBI undertook an aggressive raid of the homes of […]
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Inside the case against the ‘Michigan 8’: Palestine activism recast as antisemitic terror

July 30, 2026 fwstaff
By Yarden Katz and Stephen M. Ward Eight Palestine solidarity activists in Michigan face decades in prison over property damage. The Justice Department’s disproportionate charges reveal a broader effort to crack down on Palestine solidarity […]
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We Stand In Solidarity With People Targeted by ICE & the FBI!

June 17, 2026 fwstaff
Trump’s Department of Justice filed charges against 15 Minnesotans in an effort to punish the resistance we demonstrated while federal troops kidnapped people off the street and murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti. That same […]
Lawrence Hamm at the Lorraine Motel
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Hamm Journeys to MLK’s Assassination Site

April 19, 2026 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress People’s Organization For Progress chairman Lawrence Hamm visited the site where Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed on the anniversary of his assassination. Hamm flew to Memphis, Tennessee […]
Viola Luizzo poster at Detroit MLK Day 2026
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Viola Liuzzo Street Renaming Honors Civil Rights Martyr

April 19, 2026 fwstaff
  By Fighting Words Staff On Saturday, April 11, 2026, more than 100 people gathered at the corner of Pembroke and Mansfield on the northwest side of Detroit for a ceremony to rename a portion […]
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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 […]
Serbians protest murder of 168 school girls in school bombing by US
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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 […]
Amy Ashwood Garvey with Paul Robeson and Claudia Jones in England
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Pan-Africanism, Garveyism and Women’s Rights

March 5, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Resistance to the enslavement and colonial domination over African people can be traced back to the wars and rebellions which took place on the continent as early as the 15th century. Even […]
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson currently being brutalized in S. Carolina’s Perry Correctional facility
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My retaliation and abuse continue in South Carolina prisons under interstate compact

February 2, 2026 fwstaff
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson Since I was interstate transferred to South Carolina from the Virginia prison system on May 1, 2025, I have endured continued abuses and retaliation in response to and to deter my […]