Community demands change following Taser tragedy

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Local politicians, unionists back foreclosure moratorium
Following on the heels of a militant and successful march, rally and people’s hearing Sept. 17 in Lansing, Mich., as well as other ongoing protest actions, the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions continues building its statewide network demanding the state legislature enact Senate Bill 1306, a two-year foreclosure moratorium bill....

Cleveland: ‘Bail out workers, not bankers’
While the Senate was preparing to pass a $700-billion bailout of the richest banks in the world on Oct. 1, a group of workers and foreclosed homeowners protested in Cleveland’s financial district....

Solidarity school forges Southern workers’ unity
From Sept. 18 to 21 dozens of working-class fighters from unions, workers’ centers, anti-gentrification organizations and academia attended the Southern Solidarity School in St. Helena Island, S.C., to build unity among Southern workers fighting for democratic, rank-and-file, struggle-oriented organizations....

Critical Resistance fights to abolish prisons
At a massive, well-organized and politically radical conference called CR10, some 3,000 prison abolitionists from coast to coast gathered in Oakland, Calif., for three days of reflecting, strategizing, collaborating and organizing around abolishing the prison-industrial complex....
Community demands change following Taser tragedy
On a recent windy night in Brooklyn, the flickering glow of a dozen small candles illuminated a bouquet of flowers with a note, bearing the inscription “We Love You, We Miss You.” The makeshift memorial marks the spot on Tompkins Avenue, in the neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, where Iman Morales was killed on Sept. 24 by a member of the New York Police Department’s Emergency Service Unit....

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