The outcry continues: ‘Justice for Walter Wallace!’

Outrage over the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr., 27, a Black husband, father and son, erupted throughout his West Philadelphia neighborhood on Oct. 26. As news of the incident spread, protests flooded the community’s streets that night and the next day. The police shot Wallace multiple times on the . . .

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Boston school workers shut down bosses’ “reopening”

Steve Gillis is the Financial Secretary, USW Local 8751 Teachers, bus drivers, monitor attendants, nurses and community forces converged on the Boston School Department (BPS) on Oct. 21, intent on occupying School Committee chambers to demand an end to in-person school due to unsafe conditions in the surging pandemic. Boston . . .

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Self-defense is a right! California protest hits domestic violence 

Bakersfield, Calif. Oct. 23 – The chant of “Self-defense is not a crime! Free our sisters doing time!” rang out at the Kern County Superior Court Building today in support of two women who defended themselves and their families against abusive partners. The domestic violence survivors, formerly incarcerated people, prison . . .

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Support Pennsylvania prisoners on hunger strike for human rights

Incarcerated people in many U.S. states have been held in small prison cells for up to 23 hours a day since March 2020, ostensibly because of the threat of COVID-19. Imprisoned workers have filed many grievances over the increasingly unbearable conditions, which are nothing less than torture with no end . . .

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Momentum builds for general strike if Trump attempts coup

t A movement has been growing since the Rochester Labor Council’s Oct. 8 resolution supporting a general strike if Trump refuses to leave office. This bold initiative was followed by a similar resolution by the Central Wisconsin Labor Federation. Both groups called on the AFL-CIO to launch the general strike . . .

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