Month: February 2018

Hosted by Workers World Party – Michigan 5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, 5-8 P.M.  African American History Month Annual Public Forum for 2018 Event: African American History Month Annual Forum Date: Sat. Feb. 24, 5:00-8:00pm Location: 5920 Second Avenue at Antoinette, Detroit Chair: Kelly Carmichael Speaker: Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor of the Pan-African News Wire URL: https://panafricannews.blogspot.com/ Speaker: Mond […]

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/panafricanjournal/2018/02/12/pan-african-journal-special-worldwide-radio-broadcast Listen to the Sun. Feb. 11, 2018 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the recent visit to the People’s Republic of China by the African Union Commission Chair; a review panel […]

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/01/fight-for-15-movement-plans-fast-food-workers-strike-across-south Fight for $15 Organization marks 50th anniversary of Memphis sanitation workers’ strike as it joins Poor People’s Campaign to honor Martin Luther King Terrence Wise, a McDonald’s worker in Kansas City who is one of the Fight for $15’s national leaders, supports Barber’s new effort. “For the Fight for $15 to join with the […]

http://www.dreamdefenders.org/freeahed On December 15th, 2017, 15-year-old Mohammad Tamimi was shot in the face by an Israeli soldier while participating in an unarmed protest of Trump’s Jerusalem declaration. Just minutes later, his 16-year-old cousin Ahed rose up to protect her family’s home after two armed soldiers invaded her yard. For over 50 years, the Israeli army has stationed itself on […]

https://portside.org/2018-02-11/justice-factory-how-black-lives-matter-breathed-new-life-unions After decades of decline unions have found a new champion in efforts to organize workers: the Black Lives Matter movement. Unions have suffered as manufacturing has moved south away from their old strongholds in the north of the US. Membership rates were 10.7% in 2016, down from 20.1% in 1983, according to the Bureau […]