Why is Marissa Alexander serving 20 years in a Florida prison for firing a warning shot while Trayvon Martin’s killer walks free? No doubt it is because she is African… Read more »
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Native American feminist, anti-fascist and unionist reflects on why she became a radical
Chippewa (or Ojibwe) activist Ann Rogers is a co-founder of United Front Against Fascism, launched in 1988, which successfully organized a broad movement to oppose white supremacists in the Pacific Northwest.
Marissa Alexander out of jail, but not free; Defense committee mobilizes for retrial
Note: Marissa Alexander’s new trial has been postponed to July 28. After months of broad national pressure, a Florida appeals court on Sept. 26, 2013 reversed the conviction of Marissa… Read more »
The school-to-prison pipeline: Los Angeles youth push back, demanding “Education, not incarceration!”
Prisons are more important than schools in California; it spends the most on corrections and least on public education. In 30 years, despite a flat crime rate, it has built… Read more »
Freedom Socialist editorial — Eddie Conway freed!
Black Panther Party leader Marshall “Eddie” Conway is free at last! A political prisoner actively supported by the Freedom Socialist Party and many others, Conway was framed for killing a… Read more »
Out of Carolina: Moral Mondays rock the South
On Feb. 8, 80,000 marchers massed in Raleigh, N.C., in the largest civil rights demonstration since the historic march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. The protest… Read more »
Obama’s initiative for Black youth: what it is and isn’t — My Brother’s Keeper
When Barack Obama was elected in 2008 the streets were happy. Hopes lifted that maybe Americans weren’t all that racist, and that U.S. laws and policies would at long last… Read more »
Freedom Socialist editorial — Privatized sports breed bigotry
Some people find it hard to believe that racism is alive and well in the USA. But thanks to Los Angeles Clippers basketball team owner Donald Sterling, little doubt remains…. Read more »
Environmental racism in urban communities of color: an ecosocialist response
“A world to win, a planet to save!” That theme of the recent Freedom Socialist Party’s national convention punctuated the urgency of stopping environmental destruction before it makes the earth… Read more »
Freedom Socialist editorial: Say no to NYPD raids!
In a traumatizing, military-style dawn invasion called “Operation Crewcut,” New York police on June 4 invaded Harlem’s Manhattanville and Grant housing projects. Officials deliberately delayed the raid until many of… Read more »
