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Niger Crisis: African workers reject military intervention, call for dialogue

The African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa) has advised the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to resort to dialogue in resolving the political impasse in Niger. It said it was imperative that the regional bloc reversed its earlier course of using the military to intervene in the crisis. Such […]

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“A Slave That Doesn’t Rebel Does Not Deserve Pity” – Ibrahim Traore

At the Russia-Africa Summit Traore stated: “The problem is seeing African heads of state who bring nothing to peoples who are struggling, but who sing the same thing as the imperialists, calling us ‘militia,’ and therefore referring to us as men who do not respect human rights. What human rights are we talking about? We […]

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Milwaukee, August 10, 2023: Get the Lead Out Coalition Community Meeting

AS-SALAAM ALAIKUM! (Peace Be Unto You)  Dear Brother/Sister, I pray that this message reaches you in the best of health and spirit. The Ministry of Health of Muhammad Mosque #3 has joined the ‘Get the Lead Out Coalition’. This coalition is committed to expediting and overseeing the removal of lead service lines in the city […]

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Honoring Harry Hay! Gay Rights and Labor Activist, Founder of the Mattachine Society

August 10, 1948 Gay rights activist  Harry Hay  organized what later  became the  Mattachine Society  (originally Foundation),  a groundbreaking  1950s  gay rights organization.  The group was named  after the Mattachines,  a medieval troupe  of men who went  village-to-village  advocating  social justice. Mattachine: Radical Roots of Gay LiberationHarry Hay on language and labels in the 1930’s […]

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Bounce Milwaukee Staff and Supporters Successfully Defend Trans Clothing Swap!

Our Second Annual Trans Clothing Swap was a huge success! Despite threats of bigotry and protests, the community showed up both to support and to “shop”! We want to thank the dozens of supporters, defenders and volunteers for making the event not only safe but joyful. The Nahzees never showed their cowardly faces, so our […]

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U.S./NATO Know Ukraine Can’t Win – Still Push Proxy War

By David Sole Ukrainian troops are being cynically sacrificed in the service of an unwinnable proxy war against the Russian Federation by the United States and its NATO allies. Reports show that the Pentagon was well aware that the June “offensive” by Ukraine would not be successful as the past 7 bloody but fruitless weeks […]

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Wednesday, August 9, 2023: National Day of Protest to Drop the Charges on the Tampa 5!

August 9, 2023 is a National Day of Protest, as declared by the Emergency Committee to Defend the Tampa 5! On the morning of July 12th, their second court appearance, the Tampa 5 learned that a trial date is likely to be set by the judge on August 9th. This will be their third court appearance. […]