The Next 50 Years...Looking back while dreaming about the future
Whatever you do, life don’t stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.” - Grace Paley, Resist Co-founder On the eve of our semi-centennial, it is only natural...
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Low-wage Workers Chalk Up Another Victory as CTUL Members Win Union
For the past decade, workers in fast food, retail and other low-wage industries have been pushing back against the notion they are condemned to jobs with lousy pay, no benefits...
1 Million in Haiti Urgently Need Humanitarian Assistance After Hurricane's "Apocalyptic Destruction"
In Haiti, the death toll from Hurricane Matthew has topped 1,000. Haitian interim President Jocelerme Privert is warning the country faces a possible famine from what he described as the...
US Campaign Against Columbus Day Gaining Steam
Native peoples movement gets fresh boost as Phoenix city decides to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day. Winslow, Arizona - A growing movement to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous...
Not One More'; Dozens In Hartford Protest Police Violence
Aross from Mayor Luke Bronin's home Friday night, Bishop John Selders sat in a lawn chair tapping lightly on a drum, flanked by several dozen others who sang quietly. Their...
Activists Rally for Affordable Housing in Springfield
SPRINGFIELD -- A group of housing advocates held a rally outside Springfield City Hall Thursday evening, calling for expanded affordable housing and eviction reform. Members of the demonstration, organized by...
Civil Rights Suit Filed Against Denver Challenges Constitutionality of Homeless “Sweeps”
Homeless individuals and advocates in Denver have filed a lawsuit against the city after a dramatic increase in homeless “sweeps” that the suit claims violate constitutional rights. New reports from...
Black Liberation and the Abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex: An Interview with Rachel Herzing
Rachel Herzing lives and works in Oakland, CA, where she fights the violence of policing and imprisonment. She is a co-founder of Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization dedicated to...
Orange is the New Black Podcast: Q&A with Jean Casella from Solitary Watch
Welcome to Solitary Confinement 101. We chatted with Solitary Watch co-director Jean Casella about the depiction of solitary in ‘Orange is the New Black’, how solitary can alter the brain,...
Protesters call on Providence City Council to act on proposed racial profiling ordinance
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — More than a hundred demonstrators packed the City Council chambers on Thursday to protest what they said has been City Council inaction on a 2014 profiling/police oversight...