By JEFF MACKLER BERKELEY, Calif.-A March 6 "Race for Justice" Western Regional Conference for Mumia at the University of California here attracted over 1500 activists. The conference demonstrated the broadest unity yet achieved in the effort to take the emerging national mass movement to stop the execution and demand a new trial to a new … Continue reading Berkeley Conference Emphasizes Unity for Mumia
Category: Actions & Protest
Youth in Action: Student Activists on the Move!
By ADAM RITSCHER On Feb. 26, over 60 militant students staged a march at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill demanding that their school's chancellor come out firmly against hiring contractors that employ sweatshop labor. The march was organized by a student organization called Students for Economic Justice, and was one of a series … Continue reading Youth in Action: Student Activists on the Move!
New Yorkers Protest Cop Killing of Ahmed Diallo
By MARILYN VOGT-DOWNEY NEW YORK-When four cops gunned down Amadou Ahmed Diallo in the doorway to his home at 12:45 a.m. on Feb. 4, they made the institutionalized brutality and racism of the New York City Police Department into an international issue. The victim of this police murder was a 22-year-old African immigrant from Guinea … Continue reading New Yorkers Protest Cop Killing of Ahmed Diallo
Build April 24 Marches for MUMIA ABU-JAMAL!
By JEFF MACKLER The Feb. 12 issue of the popular supermarket magazine stand publication Entertainment Weekly carried a half-page article on January's Rage Against the Machine benefit concert for Mumia Abu-Jamal. The New Jersey event, despite numerous threats to cancel by local and state politicians, and the concerted efforts to discourage attendance orchestrated by the Fraternal Order … Continue reading Build April 24 Marches for MUMIA ABU-JAMAL!
Amtrak Workers Disrupt Birthday Bash
By ART LECLAIR BOSTON-It isn't every day you see the Lt. Governor of Massachusetts and the Mayor escorted from a state-sponsored public ceremony by a cordon of tactical police officers. That, however, is precisely what happened on Jan. 19 when a crowd of 150-200 angry Amtrak workers, threatened with the loss of their jobs, disrupted … Continue reading Amtrak Workers Disrupt Birthday Bash
Rage Leader Zack de la Rocha Speaks on Mumia
Following are excerpts from a statement to the media by Zack de la Rocha, of Rage Against the Machine. Working to ensure the legal rights that all of us presume to enjoy certainly has turned out to be controversial! Let me say straight up that tonight's benefit is not to support cop killers, or any … Continue reading Rage Leader Zack de la Rocha Speaks on Mumia
Capitalist Politicians in Indonesia Outflanked by Student Radicals
By GERRY FOLEY Political polarization is increasing rapidly as the social and political crisis in Indonesia deepens. In the confrontation in mid-November between government forces and protesters who had rejected the legitimacy of the government of "constitutional continuity" that took the reins after the resignation of veteran dictator Suharto, the procapitalist opposition leaders were clearly … Continue reading Capitalist Politicians in Indonesia Outflanked by Student Radicals
Minneapolis Police Assault Highway Protesters
By CYNTHIA BURKE MINNEAPOLIS-In the largest police action in Minnesota history, 600 Minneapolis police Minnesota state troopers and sheriff's deputies laid siege a few hours before dawn on Sunday, Dec. 20 to seven state-owned houses occupied by a few dozen protesters peacefully assembled to oppose the state's reroute of Highway 55 for construction of light … Continue reading Minneapolis Police Assault Highway Protesters
Revolt Spreads in Indonesia
By GERRY FOLEY Since the Indonesian dictatorship retreated on May 21, by changing the formal head of state, the wave of rebellion throughout the archipelago has continued to rise. But the military is still trying to keep the lid on. A huge military force was sent to the campus of the University of Indonesia in … Continue reading Revolt Spreads in Indonesia