The militarization of the police in America has reached frightening proportions. We are practically living under an open, fascist police state, and more people...
The murder of Black, unarmed Michael Brown by white Police Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, created a massive national and international response. The...
We've been involved in this fight to maintain Highland Park's water as a public utility since 2001. Highland Park, MI, pays the highest water bills in the country. We are paying not ...
“My body is fatigued as I type this. At this point I have been out in the streets of North County for what feels like an eternity. I am confused and dazed by what has taken place in ...
Now that school is back in session, principals wait to the end of the first 20 days to calculate their enrollment. Schools that show a drop in enrollment below last year suffer ...
As fundamental economic changes unwind in Detroit, measures created to harm the poorest section of working families are offered that challenge the basic laws of humanity ...
How did you get involved? I was just a regular person before this happened. I’d go to Black things and try to think about conscious things that affect oppressed ...
Under Michigan’s Emergency Manager law, the city of Flint is run from Lansing, the state capital. Flint’s city council, mayor, and charter have no power. Residents have no voice. All local ...
Fast Food worker strikes are sweeping the nation. City after city documents the impact of minimum wage workers taking a stand. The fight for fifteen movement, funded ...
Ferguson, Missouri, like many other working-class communities across the country, has undergone many changes since the industrial boom era of post WWII. Once ...
Washington D.C. has seen a major boom over the past decade, becoming one of the hottest cities in America. It also has become one of the most unequal. A study in ...
Time.com published an opinion post by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar entitled “The Coming Race War Won’t Be About Race.” It says, “Unless we want the Ferguson atrocity to ...
For Marilola Ledesma and Graciela Blancas, their recent trip from California to a union conference in Sao Paolo, Brazil proved to be a voyage of discovery. What they ...
It starts in the pit of my stomach. Then I feel it fiercely grow. It starts pulsing and transforms into a powerful ache that moves like water through the rest of my body ...
Ernesto Garcia was beaten to death, by two men while he tried to sleep in an alley. Ernesto Garcia was homeless. That was the only reason he was beaten to death. ...
Actions are the Gospel and in my words I have always tried to back them up by actions. I do not buy the Spiritual immaturity argument as an excuse for not telling the ...
In the name of those washing others’ clothes
(and cleaning others’ filth from the whiteness)
In the name of those caring for others’ children
(and selling their labor power
The Green Party asked me. I ran in 2010 and received 60,000 votes. That was enough to get a ballot line, and that was our first goal. The second goal was to move the ...
Wall Street financiers are targeting young people with a warning: "The older generation is stealing your future!" They generate continuous "educational campaigns" ...
The USA proclaims itself the "land of freedom," but the reality is we live under the world's most corrupt legal system. It has rigged courts, bribed judges, phony trials, extortion ...
The corporate agenda that has captured both major political parties and deprived working people of their basic rights is most fully developed in the state of Michigan. ...
