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  • Data Centers

    28 Days of Black Liberation 2026 series: Week 2 The University of Michigan & Los Alamos National Lab (which develops nuclear weapons & resources for “national security”) are moving their data center from Ann Arbor to Ypsilanti Twp. They…

    January 26, 2026

    category:

    Black Liberation

    tags:

    28 Days of Black Liberation, Michigan
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  • The Cuban Revolution

    28 Days of Black Liberation 2026 series: Week 1 During the month of February GDC has historically honored the legacy of the Black Liberation Struggle. This year we’re expanding our program — 28 Days of Black Liberation —…

    January 19, 2026

    category:

    Black Liberation

    tags:

    28 Days of Black Liberation, Anti-imperialism
    READ MORE: The Cuban Revolution

  • Two Heads of the Same Snake

    Statement on “ceasefire” and continuing resistance We now witness Israel’s third “ceasefire” since 10.7.2023. There is no peace. Israel occupies 53% of Gaza, destroys her waterways, defiles her land, forces displacement on her people, bombards her from the sky,…

    November 4, 2025

    category:

    Statements

    tags:

    Anti-imperialism
    READ MORE: Two Heads of the Same Snake

  • John Zook Jr – In Commemoration

    A year ago on the afternoon of June 18th, 2024, John Zook Jr. was taken from his beloved family, fiancee, neighbors, and Wayne community members by the Wayne killer cop who murdered him – Jared Grembowski.  John Zook…

    July 25, 2025

    category:

    Statements

    tags:

    Abolition, Michigan
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  • The GDC on Migration and Imperialism

    The migrant today experiences all that the American Empire has cast across the globe. In his home country, he feels the pangs of hunger after his social services have been cut. The U.S. decrees that her nation is…

    May 20, 2025

    category:

    Fight to Win street paper

    tags:

    Anti-imperialism
    READ MORE: The GDC on Migration and Imperialism

  • Huron Valley Women’s Prison Bulletin

    AN ATTACK ON ONE IS AN ATTACK ON US ALL! FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, IT IS THE ONLY THING WORTH FIGHTING FOR! A group in the Michigan General Defense Committee has taken on a project to write to around…

    May 20, 2025

    category:

    Fight to Win street paper

    tags:

    Abolition, Michigan
    READ MORE: Huron Valley Women’s Prison Bulletin

  • How the People are Defending Southwest Detroit

    Interview with a member of GDC and of the coordinating group for the Migra Watch team of the People’s Assembly. Q: What is the People’s Assembly? A: People’s Assembly is a coalition of organizers and activists representing various…

    May 20, 2025

    category:

    Fight to Win street paper

    tags:

    Michigan
    READ MORE: How the People are Defending Southwest Detroit

  • Beal’s Arbor One “Renoviction” Is Straight Out Of The Slumlord Playbook

    Let’s get this straight: Arbor One Apartments consistently hasn’t had a certificate of compliance for over two years.  For two years conditions were so bad that the City of Ypsilanti wouldn’t issue the New Jersey-based owner, Valley Tree…

    May 20, 2025

    category:

    Fight to Win street paper

    tags:

    Housing, Michigan
    READ MORE: Beal’s Arbor One “Renoviction” Is Straight Out Of The Slumlord Playbook

  • Get Organized, And Dissent!

    “Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to…

    May 20, 2025

    category:

    Fight to Win street paper

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    READ MORE: Get Organized, And Dissent!

  • The Fight for Life in the “Valley of Death”

    Orisanmi Burton has said, “Prisoners are positioned behind enemy lines and have a unique political capacity. War studied from both sides shows us that incarcerated people are the tip of the counterinsurgency spear that is pointed towards us…

    May 20, 2025

    category:

    Fight to Win street paper

    tags:

    Abolition, Michigan
    READ MORE: The Fight for Life in the “Valley of Death”

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