By Gerry Scoppettuolo
In just one week a major political struggle has rocked the U.S. from coast to coast and even gone international. From Montreal to Puerto Rico and from California to Maine to Europe, literally hundreds of cities in the U.S. and elsewhere have mounted solidarity rallies and protest marches [...]
By Dante Strobino , Raleigh FIST
Greensboro, N.C.
Still pumped with energy from the election of the first Black president, several hundred oppressed youth marched through the streets here on Saturday, Nov. 8, in memory of the 1979 coldblooded murder of five activists by the Ku Klux Klan and to [...]
On Nov. 10, the world-renowned singer Miriam Makeba, also affectionately known as Mama Africa, passed away. Makeba’s talent, her powerful voice and her steadfast conviction as an outspoken critic of racist apartheid in her homeland of South Africa earned her great respect and admiration around the world.
Eventually the racist government [...]
By Judy Greenspan
San Francisco
Hundreds of progressive youth, predominantly Latin@, converged on the local offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to demand an end to the raids on the homes and workplaces of undocumented workers in this city. Young people from the East Bay risked arrest by jumping BART (Bay Area [...]
