Home » Global » Asia & the Pacific » Philly: Hundreds protest transit fare increases, service cuts Over 300 people rallied outside Philadelphia City Hall on Aug. 6 to demand no cuts in services or fare increases for South East Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) trains, buses and trolleys. Hundreds of people rally in Philadelphia to…
Home » Global » Latin America & the Caribbean » Eulogy for Carolina Saldaña Originally from the U.S., Caro/Carolina Saldaña, who for years was living in Mexico doing local solidarity work around Mumia Abu-Jamal’s imprisonment, died on Aug. 1, 2025, cause yet to be determined. The following is a tribute to her. By Mumia Abu-Jamal…
Amnesty International on Monday is urging the U.S.-led military coalition targeting the Islamic State in Syria to launch an independent investigation into the full scale of civilian carnage it may have caused in its brutal Raqqa offensive last year. The siege took place between June and October 2017—right after Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis announced the…
LONDON — Last year’s Washington-led coalition effort against the Islamic State (ISIS) group in the Syrian city of Raqqa included numerous “disproportionate or indiscriminate” attacks on the city, showing little regard for civilian lives and constituting potential war crimes, a new report by Amnesty International stated Tuesday. The campaign to seize Raqqa spanned June to…
News stories are full of quotes painting the situation as nearly unprecedented in its horror: “hell on earth,” “never seen anything like this,” “one of the worst attacks in Syrian history,” and “flagrant war crime” on an “epic scale.” A New York Times editorial, calling the battle “one of the most violent episodes of the seven-year war,” demands that Syrian President…
Home » Global » Asia & the Pacific » Philly: Hundreds protest transit fare increases, service cuts Over 300 people rallied outside Philadelphia City Hall on Aug. 6 to demand no cuts in services or fare increases for South East Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) trains, buses and trolleys. Hundreds of people rally in Philadelphia to…
Home » Global » Latin America & the Caribbean » Eulogy for Carolina Saldaña Originally from the U.S., Caro/Carolina Saldaña, who for years was living in Mexico doing local solidarity work around Mumia Abu-Jamal’s imprisonment, died on Aug. 1, 2025, cause yet to be determined. The following is a tribute to her. By Mumia Abu-Jamal…
El dicho «las cifras no mienten, pero los mentirosos sí» se ha atribuido a menudo al escritor Mark Twain. Algunos investigadores discrepan sobre la fuente. Pero sea cual sea su origen, el adagio podría aplicarse fácilmente al presidente Donald Trump, a quien no le interesan las cifras reales que se ajustan a la realidad. Trabajadores…
Home » Im/migrants and Refugees » Charges dropped on Alejandro Orellana! Committee to Stop FBI Repression Celebrates Big Win The Committee to Stop FBI Repression is pleased to announce that the charges on Alejandro Orellana have been dropped! This is a huge win for protesters and activists everywhere, as well as the immigrants’ rights movements…