Month: June 2020

On June 22, 2020, the Free Chrystul Kizer Defense Committee, Chicago Community Bond Fund, Milwaukee Freedom Fund, and Survived and Punished paid Chrystul’s $400,000 bond so that she can continue fighting her case from outside of a cage and with the support of her community. When Chrystul’s case ends, the bond money will be used […]

Chicago Community Bond Fund Chrystul Kizer is a Black 19-year-old survivor of sexual violence currently facing criminal prosecution for actions taken in self-defense. For almost two years, Chrystul has been incarcerated in the Kenosha County Jail while awaiting trial and presumed innocent. In February 2020, Chrystul’s $1 million dollar bond was reduced to $400,000—still an unimaginable […]

At 11 AM, June 23, 2020 postal workers and broad coalition of organizations will deliver a petition to members of the US Senate. You too can participate on a livestream of the event, on this page or at our facebook page.

400 W State Street, Rockford, IL – 12 NOON Hosted by Rockford Youth Activism Rockford, IL May 30, 2020 / Photo: Communist Workers League

https://bit.ly/2Nl2Z5h Listen to the Sun. June 21, 2020 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 continuing demonstrations against racism and police brutality around the United States; the Cuban government participated vigorously in […]

https://bit.ly/3epdSyZ Abayomi Azikiwe US President Donald Trump’s handling of recent racial tensions across the US mirror’s Washington’s “horrendous human rights violations” that are being committed against blacks and other nations in the world, an African American journalist in Detroit says. A State Department official, one of the highest-ranking African Americans in Trump’s administration, submitted her resignation Thursday citing concern […]

https://bit.ly/2YYsP4r Post on: June 22, 2020 Rebecca Margolies Colinford Mattis, Urooj Rahman, and Samantha Shader are political prisoners. In late May, the three activists were arrested for alleged property destruction during the protests that broke out across the country. All three are still being held in jail without bail and are facing life in prison […]