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Food prices up, wages down
The real minimum wage has fallen 53% since 1968 Inflation always hurts the working class — both those employed and unemployed — the worst. The war on Iran has caused the cost of gasoline to […]
Author: Stephen Millies
Palestine
Brooklyn remembers the Nakba
Palestine will win! May 16 — A thousand people marched through the streets of the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, to mark 78 years since the Palestinian Nakba, the Arabic word for catastrophe. […]
In the U.S.
Always remember the MOVE bombing
Forty-one years ago, Philadelphia police bombed the MOVE organization’s house at 6221 Osage Avenue, killing 11 Black people — five children and six adults. The May 13, 1985, inferno destroyed an entire neighborhood of 61 […]
Palestine
Stop the sale of stolen Palestinian land!
May 11 — Hundreds of people took to the streets of Brooklyn, New York, tonight to protest the illegal sale of Palestinian land. The auction was held at the Young Israel of Midwood synagogue in […]
In the U.S.
Stop utility shutoffs — corporate terror kills
Electricity was cut off 13.4 million times to U.S. homes in 2024. Gas was shut-off to 1.7 million. That’s a national disaster. Since several folks usually live in a household, this means at least 40 […]
Palestine
Palestinian supporters attacked by cops at stolen land sale
May 5 — New York City police attacked people protesting illegal sales of stolen Palestinian land. Officers used pepper spray and kettled demonstrators. Some of these cops were trained by the Zionist state’s military, who’ve […]
In the U.S.
Black people and their allies were murdered for the right to vote
People died for the right to vote. Immediately after the U.S. Civil War there was a series of massacres of Black people, which were conducted, in part, to stop Black people from voting. For decades […]
Around the world
Brooklyn rally demands: Free Maduro and Flores
May 3 — People rallied outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, to demand freedom for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores. They were kidnapped in Caracas by Trump C […]
Political Prisoners
On his 72nd birthday, Philadelphia marches to free Mumia
April 25 — Cold rain didn’t stop people today from marching in Philadelphia to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. The day before was the revolutionary writer’s 72nd birthday, which, like his previous 44 birthdays, was spent in […]
In the U.S.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover wanted Dr. Martin Luther King dead
Fifty-eight years ago the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968. Exactly one year earlier the Black leader had denounced the U.S. government as the “greatest purveyor of […]