Posts Tagged: north carolina
Teaching assistants’ strike stops rehabilitation of Confederate statue
Dec 19, 2018
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The war continues to rage at the Chapel Hill campus over the statue of a Confederate statue known as Silent Sam.
Anti-racists at UNC Chapel Hill face repression
Nov 03, 2018
The toppling of Silent Sam drew the ire of white supremacist groups.
Solidarity protects anti-racist activist Maya Little from legal, academic punishment
Oct 31, 2018
On April 30, Maya Little held a symbolic protest at the University of Chapel Hill’s Silent Sam Confederate monument using her own blood and red ink ...
Hurricane, corporate greed dump millions of gallons of pig manure on N. Carolina’s rural poor
Oct 13, 2018
A powerful combination of profit-driven factory pig farming and extreme weather have created a hellscape.
Grocery workers fight union busting in Asheville NC
Aug 15, 2018
An intense labor organizing drive has been underway for several months at the organic grocery store Earth Fare in Asheville, NC.
Activists triumph in court in Durham Confederate monument case
Feb 20, 2018
Eyewitness report from the trial of three defendants accused of pulling down a Confederate memorial.
Defend Durham’s anti-racist protesters, down with white-supremacy!
Dec 04, 2017
Call the Durham County DA at (919) 808-3010, and ask him to drop all charges against the Durham anti-racist activists.
The struggle at University of North Carolina
Nov 21, 2017
Silent Sam has been a controversial presence on UNC campus for many years having been erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy in 1913.
New Book
Women Fight Back: The Centuries-Long Struggle for Liberation
(Liberation Media, 2017)
Tracing the historical evolution of a movement that has thoroughly transformed society, and is in need of militant revival today.