By Joyner-Harris Forest Conservation WAKE FOREST, NC — A Change.org petition, spearheaded by long-time Wake Forest resident Angela DiPaolo, pleading with stakeholders to preserve the 68-acre forested parcel located on Harris Road directly across from…
By Hannah Chanatry In a sunlight-filled conference center at the Haw River State Park in Guilford County, North Carolina, Russell Chisholm stood and clicked through a PowerPoint presentation with photographs of broken streambeds and construction…
Supporting Durham City Workers’ Campaign for Fair Pay By Jen Douglas Durham city workers organizing with UE150—a member group of the UFE-coordinated Raising Wages NC coalition —are out in the streets and testifying at City…
Like Israel’s Genocide in Gaza By Feroze Sidhwa and Mark Perlmutter On March 25 the two of us, an orthopedic surgeon and a trauma surgeon, traveled to the Gaza Strip to work at Gaza European…
By Greg Childress Two years ago, Crystal Towers residents in Winston-Salem successfully fought to prevent the sale of their public housing building, which is home to more than 200 low-income, elderly tenants. In Raleigh, Grosvenor…
By Jack Ewing The United Automobile Workers reached an 11th-hour deal on Friday, April 26 with Daimler Truck in North Carolina that gave workers 25 percent raises over the next four years and averted a…
Solidarity in tapestry for Volkswagen workers Commentary by Tabitha Arnold Last weekend, I brought my new tapestry to the big community rally for Volkswagen workers ahead of their much-anticipated union vote. Just minutes before I…
Dangerous Waters Yet By Saliha Bayrak The voyage of the Free Gaza Movement began in 2008 when two small fishing boats carrying 44 passengers sailed toward the Gaza Strip. The boats brought in about 10…
Workers in the South? By FLOC Media At 7:30 a.m. workers begin filing into the large tin building, surrounded by heavy machinery and pallets stacked high. Tucked away amongst sweet potato farms in rural North…
By Meg O’Connor Over the past three years, tens of thousands of people in crisis have been met with behavioral health specialists and social workers instead of police officers. Interactions like these are taking place…