Egyptian activist, Alaa Abd El-Fattah is a political prisoner, held by the Egyptian military regime of Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. Alaa has been an activist since 2006 when he and his wife founded an important Egyptian activist blog site. As part of the rebel generation of...
On October 26, political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal’s request for a new trial was rejected after a court hearing in Philadelphia. Abu-Jamal has been in prison for 40 years after being accused of killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981. ...
As of this writing, the election results are not clear, but once again billions of dollars have poured into campaigns across the country for this year’s election circus. A record $7 billion has been spent on state-level candidates and ballot measures. This election...
Last week, a Russian court rejected U.S. basketball superstar Brittney Griner’s appeal of her nine-year prison sentence for the so-called crime of possessing two vape cartridges of marijuana in her luggage. At her trial, Griner admitted to having the canisters — a...
On October 27, 1969, over 150,000 workers across the United States walked out of General Electric, taking on the fourth largest corporation in the world at that time, in the largest national strike in over two decades. The strike lasted for 102 days, through the cold...
