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National Network fights to bail out people, not banks

Call for Oct. 24-27 actions

By LeiLani Dowell

NYC FIST
A national campaign against foreclosures, evictions and budget cuts is picking up steam. Under the umbrella of the Ad Hoc National Network to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions, community activists, trade unionists, students and youth, and anti-war activists have come together to prevent [...]

Situation dire for people in Colombia

By LeiLani Dowell

NYC FIST
While the people of Colombia continue to bravely resist overwhelming repression, government forces and U.S.-funded military and paramilitary groups have escalated the terror against them in recent weeks. Attacks, resulting in death and grave injuries, have been made on trade unionists and Indigenous peoples.
Sugar cane [...]

Supreme Court denies Troy Davis appeal

Published Oct 15, 2008 6:21 PM

Oct. 14—The Supreme Court has outraged death penalty opponents by refusing to allow a new hearing in the case of Troy Davis. Davis, an African American on death row in Georgia, was convicted in the 1989 killing of a police officer despite what Amnesty International [...]