On May 1, 2023, Jordan Neely was strangled to death in a New York City subway car. Yesterday, Dec. 9, his killer, Daniel Penny, was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide and had the more severe charge of manslaughter dismissed because of a hung — predominantly white — jury. . . .
Continue reading Penny verdict negates state messaging on mental health, encourages racist vigilante violence at Workers.org
The following is a lightly edited press release from Workers World Party published on Dec. 12, 2024. Today, New York City Mayor Eric Adams met with the incoming “border czar” Tom Homan to map out the city’s collaboration with President Trump’s mass deportation plans. Already Adams has cruelly cut housing, . . .
Continue reading Dec. 18 New York City Hall protest vs. DEPORTATIONS at Workers.org
On Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, a diverse crowd of Philadelphia activists marched from City Hall to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices to defend the city’s status as a Sanctuary City and to continue the fight against the detention and deportation of migrant workers and refugees. Asian Americans . . .
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CU#1126, SCI-Pine Grove I’ve been sitting in obscurity in solitary confinement now for over 280 days, in the inferno of the entrails of the Restricted Housing Unit (RHU) at Pennsylvania’s state correctional institution in Pine Grove, litigating my federal lawsuit Arroyo v. McGinley (No. 1:23-cv-01083), while trying to figure out . . .
Continue reading First Amendment: Anathema or weapon? at Workers.org
Terry Klug, who many participants in anti-war actions of the 1960s and 1970s know as an iconic active-duty anti-war GI and a leader of the 1969 Fort Dix Stockade rebellion, died Dec. 5 in New York at the age of 77. Terry Klug, seated left, with other GI resisters in . . .
Continue reading He battled the warmakers: Terry Klug, 1947-2024 at Workers.org
Protesters demand freedom for Mumia, Philadelphia, Dec. 9, 2024. WW Photo: Joe Piette Philadelphia Demonstrators in countries around the world this week marked the 43rd anniversary of the unjust and illegal imprisonment of Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was arrested and brutalized by Philadelphia police on Dec. 9, 1981. . . .
Continue reading Philadelphia events demand freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal at Workers.org
Houston A multinational crowd of activists gathered at the SHAPE Community Center on April 23 to celebrate Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 69th birthday. After a militant talk and a prayer by Nation of Islam Minister Abdul Haleem Muhammad, who condemned the rich, white elite for the ills of the vast majority in . . .
Continue reading Houston activists say: ‘Free Mumia Now!’ at Workers.org
Hezbollah: The ongoing crimes committed by the zionist enemy on Syrian territory — whether through the occupation (https://t.me/PalestineResist/71273) of additional lands in the Golan Heights (https://t.me/PalestineResist/71153?single) or by striking and destroying the defensive capabilities of the Syrian state (https://t.me/PalestineResist/71273) — constitute blatant aggression and a brazen violation of the sovereignty . . .
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