Fight Back News
New Orleans, LA – On Tuesday, September 9, more than 200 people marched through downtown New Orleans to resist Trump’s threat last week to send the National Guard to the city. The New Orleans Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression led the protest, alongside a broad coalition of more than 15 other organizations. Protesters gathered at the Federal Building chanting “No troops, no Trump!” and “When killer cops are on patrol, what do we demand? Community control!” Felix Allen of the New Orleans Alliance stated, “People from New Orleans remember searching for food, water, and shelter at gunpoint during the… […]
San Jose, CA – On September 10, San Jose Students for a Democratic Society alongside various other SJSU students held a silent protest outside a career fair where Lockheed Martin, notorious weapons manufacturer and supporter of the Gaza genocide, had a table. San Jose State University held the “Business, Financial Services and Logistics Job and Internship Fair” at 11 a.m. in the Student Union Ballroom. The career fair on the school’s website claims to attract over 600 students. Lockheed Martin was present at the event, intent on recruiting students to participate in what they call “defense,” which is in fact… […]
Minneapolis, MN – Members of the Solidarity Committee on the Americas (SCOTA) , a committee of Women Against Military Madness along with their supporters, gathered September 10, on the Lake Street/Marshall Avenue bridge, which connects Minneapolis and Saint Paul, protesting Trump’s attacks against Venezuela and the Caribbean. On September 2, the U.S. military killed eleven people in an unlawful strike on a boat in the southern Caribbean, near Venezuela. Congress has not declared war on Venezuela, yet the Trump administration authorized and openly bragged about ordering the killing of unknown people without any due process. All along the bridge, people… […]
New York, NY – On September 10, NYU students joined a rally led by the NYU Students for a Democratic Society, with the endorsement of over a dozen university organizations, to demand that NYU end its compliance with the Trump administration’s attacks. The campaign demanded NYU declare itself a sanctuary campus, for the administration to actively work to stop student deportations, pledge to protect trans rights on campus, increase Black enrollment, and commit to protect cultural programs on campus. Students chanted “NYU don’t comply , don’t give in to Trump’s lies” and “No compliance! With Trump’s violence!” As students chanted,… […]
Atlanta, GA – In a devastating blow against Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr’s crusade of attempting to intimidate opponents of the construction of Cop City (a training facility intended to militarize the police and train them in urban warfare tactics), on September 9 a Georgia judge tossed out the case against the 61 people indicted with RICO charges, citing a lack of proper procedure. This is a continuation of positive developments surrounding the Cop City indictments after the dropping of charges of three activists wrongly indicted of money laundering in connection to the administration of the Atlanta Solidarity Bail funds… […]
Comisión Estudiantil de la OSCL Ya comenzaron las clases: para muchos, el semestre de otoño de 2025 ha comenzado. Los estudiantes están regresando a una situación cargada de tensiones. Trump ha hecho su mejor esfuerzo para degradar la educación pública. Su objetivo es eliminar a su competencia política, que obtiene mucho apoyo de las fuerzas en los campus universitarios. Lo que él presenta como una alternativa a la educación no es ningún tipo de alternativa: escuelas con fines de lucro que enseñan las mentiras de la plataforma “Haz América Grande Otra Vez” (MAGA, por sus siglas en inglés), que son… […]