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Militant Journalism
Breaking: David Wade prison guards violently retaliate against hunger strikers
Families report that brutal retaliation has escalated against hunger strikers
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Militant Journalism
Solidarity rally supports striking prisoners in Louisiana
Conditions inside David Wade Correctional Center are vile; inmates are regularly subjected to life-threatening levels of high heat and black…
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Analysis
The 1811 Louisiana slave rebellion and the struggle in Haiti
The absence of coverage of the tremendous people’s struggle in Haiti by U.S. media is nothing new. The self-declared dictator…
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Analysis
Andre Cailloux and the Siege of Port Hudson
Not widely known, and certainly not celebrated enough, Andre Cailloux was the first Black military hero functioning as an officer…
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Militant Journalism
Angola inmates on hunger strike against unlawful extension of solitary confinement
"The reason [for the strike is]...EVERYONE over here is between one month to six months past their initial disciplinary detention,"…
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Analysis
Gulf Coast faces high eviction rates, despite CDC moratorium
Eviction rates in the Southeast region are exceeding national levels.
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Features
Eyewitness Louisiana: Presidential candidate La Riva, PSL members on the ground with Lake Charles evacuees
Presidential candidate Gloria La Riva changed her national tour stops to return to the battered state of Louisiana to help…
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Features
Gloria La Riva on 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster made a thousand times worse by the criminal actions and inactions of the government…
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Militant Journalism
Ms. Wheelchair: People listen ‘when you wear a crown and sash’
Ms. Wheelchair winners fight big insurance to expand services for people with disabilities.
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Cleanup workers, others impacted by BP oil spill demand justice
37,000 cleanup workers, residents and military personnel wait to be heard in court 8 years later
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