Taxi Drivers Organize | On the Picket Line September 22, 2020
This week’s On the Picket Line teachers and taxi drivers organize in NYC and grad students end strike. NYC yellow cab drivers from theNew York Taxi Workers Alliance shut down Brooklyn bridge for COVID relief; University of Michigan grad students end strike after winning important demands; NYC mayor delays in-person school reopenings as UFT files […]
Whisteblowers Detail Forced Sterilizations in ICE Detention
Whistleblower complaints revealed horrendous conditions inside Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia. Testimony from a former employee and detainees detailed, most horrifically, a practice of forced hysterectomies as well as a total lack of adequate COVID-19 precautions. Breakthrough News spoke to attorney’s Isabel Garcia and Irvin McCullough about the revelations from Georgia and […]
Grad Students on Strike | On the Picket Line, 9/15
In our second installment of On the Line, Monica brings us the latest from the frontlines of workers’ struggles across the country! Graduate students at the University of Michigan vote to extend strike; NYC teachers organize ahead of in-person classes as Mayor announces 55 infections; daughter of meat plant worker who died from COVID calls […]
Joe Biden’s Policies: Truth? Or Malarkey?
Former Vice-President Joe Biden is making big promises in his presidential campaign. However many of his top advisors are suggesting he may take a different tack once in office. So is Biden really going to be transformative? Or his stump speech just a bunch of malarkey?
“A Powder Keg of Emotions” Rochester Rises Up for Daniel Prude and Police Chief Steps Down
In a “powder keg of emotions,” Rochester, New York has become the latest site of the national uprising against racist police killings. The city has seen over a week of protests demanding justice for Daniel Prude, a 41 year old Black man who died after being suffocated by RPD officers on March 30. […]
Not a ‘Natural’ Disaster — Wildfires Ravage West Coast
Climate change, corporate negligence and the profit motive are making for a catastrophic combination, as over 94 wildfires rage throughout Washington, Oregon, Montana, Colorado, and California. The images are incredible, the suffering is real.
Cops Launch Racist Coup in Virginia
The Portsmouth, Virginia Police Department has launched a de facto COUP against the city’s Black political leadership, using obscure Jim Crow laws to try and jail those who oppose them. It all stems from the fight over the Confederate statues and the notorious Fraternal Order of Police. BreakThrough explains.
Hunger Striking Black Mom Seeks Answers in Son’s Death
This is not a cold case.” We speak with Dannielle Brown, a Black woman who has been on hunger strike for two months demanding answers about her son Jaylen’s death. According to police, he jumped out of a dorm room in front of multiple officers and campus security at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh […]