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Footage of the death of Brieon Green shows gross neglect by Milwaukee County sheriff’s office

December 8, 2022 FightBack! News
Milwaukee, Dec. 6 — After over five months of struggle, the Waukesha Sheriff’s Department, which led the investigation into Brieon Green’s death at Milwaukee County Jail, concluded their investigation and handed the related materials to […]
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James Baldwin, corporate media and the red herring of ‘Black antisemitism’

November 22, 2022 Lev Koufax
In 1967, the great African American writer James Baldwin wrote an article that explored the relationship between the Jewish and Black communities, and in particular, the justified anger the Black community felt towards Jewish landlords […]
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Brooklyn, N.Y., rally: Resistance and reparations!

August 22, 2022 Stephen Millies
“When will we be paid for the work we’ve done?” That great song by the Staples Sisters roared out in Restoration Plaza in Brooklyn, New York’s Bedford-Stuyvesant community on Aug. 17. “Resistance and Reparations” were […]
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Baltimore protest demands justice for Jayland Walker

July 12, 2022 Struggle-La Lucha Baltimore bureau
Baltimore, July 9 – The Peoples Power Assembly held a protest demanding justice for Jayland Walker — gunned down in a hail of 60+ bullets by Akron, Ohio, cops —  at the Douglas Homes Projects […]
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Justice for Jayland Walker and Randy Cox!

July 4, 2022 Stephen Millies
UPDATE: Akron, Ohio, police threw tear gas canisters and stun grenades against people demanding justice for Jaylord Walker. Meanwhile the eight cops who killed Walker with dozens of bullets continue to get paid. The war […]
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“What to the slave is the 4th of July?” read by Danny Glover

July 4, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
Actor Danny Glover reads abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s “Fourth of July Speech, 1852” on October 5, 2005 in Los Angeles, California. Part of a reading from Voices of a People’s History of the United States (Howard […]
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From Buffalo to Uvalde: Racism, violence come from the top

May 27, 2022 John Parker
From Buffalo, New York, to Uvalde, Texas, it all comes from the top. It comes from the top and trickles down to us in bullets and death. That’s the reality in a capitalist country that […]
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Never forget the MOVE bombing

May 13, 2022 Stephen Millies
“Let the fire burn.” That was the order that Philadelphia police commissioner Gregore Sambor gave to firefighters as a residential home blazed on May 13, 1985. Philadelphia police, with assistance from the Pentagon and FBI, […]
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Stop the state police harassment and targeting of Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, Mich.

April 10, 2022 Moratorium NOW Coalition
Letter from Moratorium NOW Coalition Friends – Rev. Pinkney of Benton Harbor, Michigan, is under attack again. Please read the letter below and then write or phone the state officials to demand an end to […]
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Fund the movement for racial justice and equality, not the police!

March 19, 2022 Gloria Verdieu and John Parker
March 2, the day after President Joe Biden delivered the State of the Union speech, 12-year-old Thomas Siderio was shot and killed by Philadelphia police officers. Investigators say that a bullet was fired into an […]