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Black Voting Rights Pioneer Honored in North Carolina

by Nia Asante In August N.C. resident LaVone Hicks and her sister, Patricia Youmans of Virginia, along with Representative Rodney Pierce of the  N.C. House District 27, assembled to celebrate a milestone. The ladies' father, Attorney James R. Walker Jr., was honored in his birthplace with a roadside historical marker recognizing his civil rights contributions. Walker argued landmark cases concerning literacy that reached the US Supreme Court, which helped lay the groundwork [...]

By |2026-10-01T21:59:52-05:00October 1st, 2026|Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical|0 Comments
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Nichelle Nichols

by Mumia Abu-Jamal   A sideline about the late, great Nichelle Nichols, who played the original, the first, and the fantastic Lieutenant Uhura of the Starship Enterprise of the original Star Trek. I saw her being interviewed once, and she remarked that she wanted to leave the show; and try out what really moved her. Which is, her dancing. So she wanted to leave. And guess who communicated with her. And I [...]

By |2026-09-02T02:17:12-05:00September 2nd, 2026|Anti-Racism/Racism, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Mumia Abu-Jamal|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: Champagne Song, Prairieland Defendant Sentence to 100 Years

https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/never-forget-other-poems/ This is Champagne Song, one of the Prairie Land defendants currently in solitary confinement. These are some poems that I wrote after being sentenced to 100 years. This first one is called “Never Forget”   Never Forget the Threat of communism/ that was Hitler’s excuse for everything that he did. We must go to war because of communism, he said. We must get rid of the Jews because of communism. No [...]

By |2026-08-01T18:30:46-05:00August 1st, 2026|Activism, Champagne Song, Heroes and Whistleblowers, ICE, Immigration, Movements, News, Poetry Corner, Political Prisoners, Repression|0 Comments
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Rewriting the Chávez legacy

Male chauvinism & lack of union democracy led to abuses Radical Women statement by Yolanda Alaniz On March 18, 2026, the New York Times published an article documenting reports that in the 1970s United Farm Workers (UFW) leader César Chávez had sexually molested underage girls Ana Murguia and Debra Rojas and later raped Rojas. UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta also came forward to tell of being raped twice by Chávez in the 1960s, assaults that [...]

By |2026-05-14T19:26:39-05:00May 14th, 2026|#MeToo, Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, California, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Feminism, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Labor, Labor, Movements, News, Socialism, Solidarity, Unions, Women, Women's Liberation, Yolanda Alaniz|0 Comments
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Michael Parenti, Presente!

© by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/michael-parenti-presente/ Michael Parenti was a wonderful writer, for his work was peppered with wit, insight, and a deep well of learning. Years ago, I received one of his books, that I found particularly interesting, on the Roman Empire. His thinking was original, and ground-breaking. It made you think of Rome and its Empire in a brand-new way. I got a letter from Michael, and he remarked that he [...]

By |2026-04-30T16:59:22-05:00April 30th, 2026|Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, In Memoriam, Labor, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Obituary, Socialism|0 Comments
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In Memory of Dr. Rodolfo “Rudy” Acuña, 1932–2026

El Libro No Murió: In Memory of Dr. Rodolfo “Rudy” Acuña, 1932–2026 https://threesonorans.substack.com/p/dr-rudy-acuna-father-of-chicano-studies Somewhere in a Tucson storage facility in January 2012, a copy of Occupied America sat in a cardboard box — put there by bureaucrats afraid of what a history book might do to Brown children. Today, the man who wrote it is gone. But Dr. Jessica Bernal-Mejía — a girl who was once told by a school counselor she [...]

By |2026-04-02T22:01:37-05:00April 2nd, 2026|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Education, Ethnic studies, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, In Memoriam, Mexico, Movements, News, Obituary, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Dolores Huerta Speaks on Coerced Sex by Cesar Chavez

Dolores Huerta Speaks https://medium.com/@dolores_huerta/march-18-2026-e74c20430555      “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for.      I have encouraged people to always use their voice. Following the New York Times’ multi-year investigation into sexual misconduct by Cesar Chavez, I can no longer stay silent and must share my own [...]

By |2026-03-18T16:48:14-05:00March 18th, 2026|#MeToo, Activism, California, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Dolores Huerta, Feminism, Girls, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Labor, Labor, Movements, News, Unions, Women|0 Comments
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USC, Navy Program Appears Linked to Israeli Brigade that Massacred Paramedics

https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/02/18/usc-navy-program-appears-linked-to-specific-israeli-brigade-that-massacred-paramedics-photo-shows/ In the featured graphic: People wearing a modified version of the Israeli military's Golani Brigade logo were photographed near the Navy Trauma Training Center. By Reo, Sasha Ryu, and Jackson Mills People who appear to be part of the Israeli military’s Golani Brigade were seen walking through Los Angeles General Medical Center [AKA County/USC], amid ongoing reporting by Annenberg Media about a program where USC trains Israeli military medical personnel using [...]

By |2026-02-26T23:38:45-05:00February 26th, 2026|Activism, California, Education, Genocide, Health, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Palestinian, Peace, Peace and War, Students, War, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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Rio Police Chief & Brazilian Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Councilwoman Marielle Franco

By Mike Elk, PayDay report [Excerpts] The Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco. The court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were guilty on all counts, and responsible for ordering the killing of Franco and her [...]

By |2026-02-26T23:35:44-05:00February 26th, 2026|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Brazil, Crime, Fascism, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Latin America, Mike Elk, Movements, News, Police, Police Brutality, Politics, Repression, Socialism|0 Comments
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Free Nick Tilsen

by the NDN Collective Nick Tilsen, the founder and CEO of NDN Collective, has spent most of his life within Indigenous movements and activism building relationships and community across Turtle Island. He developed NDN Collective to holistically build the power of Indigenous Peoples through capacity building, funding, philanthropy, and storytelling, with the strong conviction  that our best days as Indigenous people are still ahead of us. Nick is often on the frontlines [...]

By |2026-02-01T02:56:39-05:00February 1st, 2026|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Decolonization, Ecology, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Movements, News, Police Brutality, Political Prisoners, Politics, Prisons, Repression|0 Comments
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Assata Returns to the Ancestors

© 10/10/25 by Mumia Abu Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/assata-returns-to-the-ancestors/ Her name, Assata Shakur, has become an iconic symbol of Black revolutionary resistance to the white nation and American Empire. Shot, beaten and threatened with death, Assata lived up to the meaning of her name: “She who struggles.” Born Joanne Deborah Byron on July 16, 1947, in Queens, N.Y., she came of age during the tumultuous 1960s, when young Black people joined movements and organizations [...]

By |2025-10-31T01:44:17-05:00October 31st, 2025|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Cuba, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, News, Obituary, Police Brutality, Politics, Prisons, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Italian Labor Solidarity with Palestine

https://sordsa.org/blog/jose-nivoi-flotilla-interview/ Interview by Fran of DSA NPC [Excerpts] Q: Tell us who you are and how you ended up on the Flotilla? A: I’m José Nivoi, I’m part of USB, which is the Grassroots Trade Union [Unione Sindacale di Base], and of CALP. I’m the spokesperson for CALP in Genoa, which is the Autonomous Dockworkers Collective [Collettivo Autonomo Lavoratori Portuali]. For several years, we’ve been carrying out blockades against arms trafficking directed [...]

By |2025-10-01T01:28:09-05:00September 30th, 2025|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Europe, Genocide, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Israel and Palestine, Italy, Labor, Movements, News, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace and War, Protests and Rallies, Socialism, Solidarity|0 Comments
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