By LeiLani Dowell
NYC FIST
Youth and students are an important sector participating in the struggle against the illegal coup d’etat in Honduras. Video after video of the resistance actions that have taken place since the July 28 coup have shown youth in the streets and facing repression as well.
The U.S. Delegation of Labor, Community and Clergy [...]
By Easton Smith
NYC FIST
On Oct. 5 workers, faculty and students from both Hunter and Sarah Lawrence colleges were joined by union representatives and New York activists for a rally in front of Manhattan’s Hunter College against AVIFresh, an anti-union dining service corporation.
Demonstrators held UNITE HERE Local 100 flags, placards showing solidarity with the workers, [...]
By David Hoskins
NYC FIST
Fifty-four activists and health care workers were arrested Oct. 15 during sit-ins at health insurance company offices in New York, Washington, Phoenix, Palm Beach, Boston, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Reno and Portland, Ore. The protesters, chanting “Patients not Profits,” occupied the offices to demand “Medicare for All”—a public single-payer health plan that improves [...]
By David Hoskins
NYC FIST
Fifty students, faculty and community supporters protested at the Department of Education Oct. 15 to demand an immediate rollback of tuition hikes and budget cuts at the City University of New York.
The protest was called by the CUNY Campaign to Defend Education. Larry Hales of the youth and student organization Fight [...]
