New Orleans: Campaigns launched to save public housing

By Larry Hales, Denver FIST

The Coalition to Stop the Demolitions is calling for National Days of Action on Jan. 25 and 26. The call is to rally activists around the country to show solidarity with public-housing residents in New Orleans and to save four public-housing developments from being demolished by [...]

Protest demands: Overturn Lucasville 5 convictions

By Caleb T. Maupin, Cleveland FIST
The Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) in Youngstown, Ohio, holds 539 people behind its brick walls, multiple barbed wire fences and iron bars. It is within this dungeon that four of the men known as the Lucasville Five are incarcerated: Bomani Shakur, Adbullah Hasan, Jason [...]

Activists meet to plan unified Jan. 21st contingent

WW photo: LeiLani Dowell

Forty people gathered on Jan. 7 at Brother Jeff’s Cultural Center and Cafe in the heart of the historic Black community of Five Points in Denver, CO on a cold snowy evening under the slogan:
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