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Photos by WI BOPM from Charlotte 9-24-16 protest: http://bit.ly/2d9EBmx

http://portside.org/2016-09-22/afl-cio-constituency-groups-stand-native-americans-stop-dakota-access-pipeline We remain committed to fighting the corporate interests that back this project and name this pipeline “a pipeline of corporate greed.” We challenge the labor movement to strategize on how to better engage and include Native people and other marginalized populations into the labor movement as a whole. Labor Coalition for Community Action Asian […]

Show Up For Charlotte On Tuesday, our brother and neighbor Keith Lamont Scott was killed by Charlotte police. He was sitting in his car, reading a book, and waiting for his son to come home on the school bus. We believe he was profiled and killed by police, and that CMPD is not telling the […]

Read this analysis by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/ on the recent developments surrounding the national presidential elections in the United States. The report was published by News Ghana based in West Africa. Azikiwe writes on the role of the corporate media in shaping how people view the political distinctions between […]

http://bit.ly/1PyPDQw On June 3, 2016, after a courageous three-year battle against Thor Real Estate, Jennette Shannon and her sixteen-year-old son were coldly evicted by a small army of bailiff, police, and dumpster-demolition workers. They not only lost their Detroit home, longtime neighborhood, and most of their belongings. Thor cheated Jennette out of over $21,000 in […]

 www.blackworkersforjustice.com September 22, 2016 It is time for something different.  According to the Charlotte Observer,, the killing of Keith Lamont Scott makes the sixth in Charlotte and with Terence Crutcher, makes the 163rd killing of a Black person in the U.S. in 2016 by law enforcement or sanctioned extra-legal forces .   On the one […]

By Monica Moorehead and Lamont Lilly posted on September 22, 2016, http://www.workers.org/ Police and National Guard Out of Charlotte and Black & Brown communities! Full amnesty for all arrestees! Smash racist police terror and the capitalist system into the ground! Sept. 22 — The revolutionary socialist Workers World Party presidential campaign of Monica Moorehead and […]