Fight racism
Justice for Jameek!
Jameek “Meek” Lowery went to the Paterson, N.J., police station before dawn on January 5 and asked for water and help. Cops at the Frank X. Graves Public Safety Complex refused to give him either. […]
Author: Stephen Millies
Political Prisoners
Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks to New York meeting
New York — More than a hundred people came to the People’s Forum in Midtown Manhattan on Jan. 12 to hear the latest developments in the struggle to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. On the meeting’s stage were boxes […]
Im/migrants and refugees
Trump is the real shithole. Hands Off TPS!
Brooklyn, N.Y. — Fifty people gathered in the icy cold outside Brooklyn’s federal court for a news conference on Jan. 7. They were fighting to save temporary protected status (TPS) for 59,000 Haitians and hundreds of thousands […]
Labor and strikes
Trump, big coal and black lung
Black lung disease is a terrible way to die. Coal miners’ lungs become crusty and useless, according to Dr. Robert Cohen, a pulmonologist at the University of Illinois. Towards the end, Dr. Cohen told National […]
Imperialism and global politics
Stop the U.S. Base in Okinawa!
Dec. 18 — Thirty people braved the cold wind in front of the Japanese Consulate on New York City’s swanky Park Avenue today to protest the building of a new U.S. military base on Okinawa. […]
Im/migrants and refugees
Hands off Patricia Okoumou!
Patricia Okoumou, the courageous woman who dramatically climbed the Statue of Liberty on July 4th to protest the jailing of 15,000 immigrant children by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was found “guilty” in Federal Court […]
Capitalism and Marxism
Bloodsucking capitalists: a U.S. specialty
Besides steel, another vital industry for developed societies is machine tools. These include lathes, drill presses, gear cutters and milling machines ― the machines that make or form machine parts. U.S. industry helped pioneer external […]
Labor and strikes
Spectrum strikers still fighting
Members of International Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 3 in the New York City area have been on strike against the Spectrum cable monopoly since March 28, 2017. The 1,800 strikers are fighting Charter Communications, which […]
China
Trump is our enemy ― not China
The lying bigot in the White House wants us to hate the People’s Republic of China. Trump claims that China is ripping us off. How so? China isn’t the only country that runs a trade […]
In the U.S.
Let the people vote on Amazon!
One hundred thousand schoolchildren in New York City are homeless. Lead paint contaminates thousands of apartments in the city’s housing projects. But both New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York State Gov. […]