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Signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act following years of struggle
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POP Announces Protest Against Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Attack

May 11, 2026 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress A civil rights group will protest a recent Supreme Court ruling in a major voting rights case next week in front of a federal district court house. “The Protest Against […]
1963 March on Washington
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POP Responds to Supreme Court Voting Rights Case

May 11, 2026 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress This U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Louisiana v. Callais voting rights case is the latest salvo in President Trump’s racist war on Black people in this country. It must […]
Supreme Court is already gutting labor right even without Project 2025
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Supreme Court already gutting labor rights before Project 2025

September 14, 2024 fwstaff
By Gerry Scoppettuolo The 2025 Project (issued by the Heritage Foundation) is a Hitler-like plan to crush civil and labor rights enacted in the U.S. A close reading of recent Supreme Court decisions more than […]
Labor uprisings led to the NLRA. Overturning it could lead to the opposite of what Amazon and the Supreme Court intend
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Corporate Giants Attack National Labor Relations Act

March 6, 2024 fwstaff
By Gerry Scoppuotello Recently Amazon, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s have filed legal challenges to the constitutionality of  the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which was enacted in 1935 and whose constitutionality was upheld in 1938 […]
The U.S. Supreme Court is continuing the January 6, 2021 insurrection
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Supreme Court Continues the Insurrection

July 13, 2023 fwstaff
By David Sole The failure of the rightwing coup d’etat of January 6, 2021 has not stopped other forms of attacks on the poor and working people of the United States. One arena for the […]
U.S. Supreme Court again ruled against workers in Glacier Northwest v Teamsters Local 174 case
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Supreme Court attacks labor’s right to strike

June 26, 2023 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On June 1, the Supreme Court made another decision eroding the rights of workers to struggle for better pay and working conditions. “Another” is the appropriate word because the Supreme Court, of […]
Detroit demonstration in response to overturn of Roe v. Wade, June 24, 2022
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Detroit Holds Emergency Demonstration After Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade

June 30, 2022 fwstaff
Photos: Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan African News Wire By Fighting Words staff Women and their allies rallied and marched in downtown Detroit on Friday afternoon, June 24, 2022, just hours after the Supreme Court in a […]
Dred Scott photographed around 1857
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Justice Taney and Justice Alito

May 7, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole The right-wing dominated United States Supreme Court is moving to overturn the historic 1973 Roe v Wade decision that recognized a woman’s right to choose abortion. On May 2 a copy of […]