In Idaho, the Idaho Harm Reduction Project gave out specialized information on how to safely use drugs, along with the tools to use drugs safely. They handed out clean needles and clean pipes. The police raided its facilities in Boise and Caldwell in February, because they had “drug paraphernalia” on site, and because they...
Nearly 50,000 Wisconsin voters (8.3% of the total) chose “uninstructed” — the state’s version of “uncommitted” — in their April 2 Democratic primary as part of a growing campaign in the United States to use the ballot to protest U.S. support for [the neocolonial] massacre of people in Gaza....
For a medication under capitalism, the cost of methadone is less than for many other medications. Most of the costs stem from the clinic system: transportation to the clinic, weekly doctors’ appointments, weekly, group therapy, and other in-person therapies....
The very moving event, attended by about 50 people, was organized by Drexel Medical Students for Palestine....
The United Front for Palestinian Liberation, which represents a number of anti-war, pro-Palestine and students of color organizations, led the protest. The demonstration called out UW President Ana Marie Cauce with a lead banner reading, “Cauce Complicit.”...
Ghost Robotics, which designs and sells robot dogs to the [Imperialist] Occupation Force (IOF) for use in carrying out its genocide in Gaza, was the focus of an April 4 protest by 150 students and others on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. UPenn’s “Pennovation Works,” a technology incubator, houses the...
The vote “Uncommitted” movement began in Michigan with the Feb. 27 primary ballot, when over 100,000 voters selected “Uncommitted” rather than casting a vote for Biden, far exceeding the organizers’ goal of 10,000....
It is clear from the language of the inquiry, the subpoena, and public statements made by Chairwoman Foxx that the Committee’s core objection to the resolution is based on animus towards the political views expressed therein. It is also clear that the Committee disagrees with, and actively seeks to discourage, any expressed...
The Utah University team, scheduled to play a South Dakota State team in Spokane, Washington, on March 27, was assigned to stay in a Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, hotel 30 miles away from the tournament site, supposedly due to lack of hotel space in Spokane. As the team was leaving the hotel to eat dinner, white racists yelled from a...
The march and rally were emotionally charged. Two of the three legislators who spoke about fighting against Abbott’s SB4 are from immigrant families: Rep. Christina Morales, Vice Chair of the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, and Rep. Ana Hernandez, who was born in Mexico and was undocumented as a child....
Athena Palmer, a Shelf Life Books worker, stated: “Indie bookstores can be vulnerable, with the rise of Amazon and dropshipping and everything that takes business away from us. The more voice we have in the store, the more successful it is, and we’ve seen that time and time again. We want the store to be here in 10, 15, 20...
Facing this critical situation, the international community drafted a letter to the Egyptian government supporting the international grassroots initiative to send an aid convoy to Gaza through Rafah. The letter was initiated by the Arab International Centre for Communications and Solidarity and signed by more than 12,500 people...
The activists also denounced the MTA’s increased cop presence, which along with the Guard’s bag checks will lead to more racist profiling. After protesting on the sidewalk, they went inside the monthly board meeting of the bank-controlled MTA. They disrupted the session and some demonstrators stood up to say: “National...
This is a significant development, given that the UAW lost two previous plantwide elections at VW, in 2014 (workers.org/2014/02/13088/) and 2019. In 2014 anti-union organizations and politicians ran a massive scare campaign, falsely claiming that the company would close the plant if the union won the election. In 2019, the...
Around 75 people came out for a Palestine/Ireland solidarity gathering at the Irish famine memorial in Philadelphia on March 18, organized by the Philadelphia Palestine Coalition and Philadelphia Irish Against Oppression. The very moving event, which included Irish music performed by Kevin McClosky, drew on the strong solidarity...
The two-year struggle to stop the eviction of the residents, which drew international attention, ended when the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel, Altman Management and city officials agreed on a settlement that they promise will eventually create some affordable housing on part of the property....
Activists have pointed out that troop and cop presence is increasing in the subway while thousands of New Yorkers have been in the streets to oppose the U.S.-backed genocide in Palestine. The capitalist state is increasing repression in all areas where people are expressing outrage at the starving, killing and ethnic cleansing...
John Waller, founder of the Portland End the Blockade of Cuba Coalition, drew a connection between the hardships Cubans face from the 62-year-old U.S. economic blockade of Cuba and the deaths and starvation taking place in Palestine because of the U.S.-backed Israeli genocidal war and blockade of Gaza....
Delicious, who began performing burlesque in Philadelphia over a year ago, often used the stage to express Palestinian queerness. She planned to include a sign in her act that read: “Our generation will free Palestine!” Tabu told her that the bar did not want political commentary or performances about events in Gaza. They...
The action was an extended rally of 500 people held in front of the downtown Seattle Convention Center. The main organizers were from Filipino solidarity organizations — International League for Peoples Struggle, Gabriela Together and Resist U.S.-Led War Movement. Foundational organizing was done by Falastiniyat, a Palestinian...
Over the past five months, millions of workers across the world have marched for Palestine. The problem is that with some exceptions, workers taking over the streets for Gaza are not openly and consciously mobilized as workers. While this is understandable for many reasons, it tends to conceal that the struggle in solidarity...
When Arroyo is allowed to have a Zoom call, he’s locked in a room where the equipment for the virtual call is set up, but he’s kept in handcuffs attached to a leather belt around his waist. He told Workers World, “I’m locked in a room. But I’m still shackled even though they have a wicket where they can take the...
Regardless of the court outcomes, immigrant activists as well as civil rights organizations have vowed to continue the struggle both politically and legally against this racist and polarizing border law....
While the real estate companies made distinctions between properties in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa — cities in Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in 1948 — and three West Bank settlements — Efrat, Neve Daniel and Maale Adumim — pro-Palestinian demonstrators made no distinction between the West Bank and Israel....
