Spear staff

The colonized and oppressed people of Puerto Rico are deepening the crisis of imperialism by intensifying their resistance to U.S. colonialism.

Puerto Ricans shut down superstore, Walmart, on September 1, 2016 to protest the economic chokehold the corporation has on the island.

Five hundred Puerto Ricans protested in San Juan to demand independence on Jun 18, 2016. The demonstration was led by the Puerto Rican Independence Movement.

Puerto Ricans led by Se Acabaron Las Promesas (Promises Are Over) demonstrated at the Condado Plaza Hotel in San Juan, blocking the capitalist gangsters who were there to attend the first PROMESA Conference on August 31, 2016.

The PROMESA (Puerto Rico Oversight Management and Economic Stability Act) is a program which the U.S. imposed on the people of the island.

A Harris County grand jury no-billed the cop who murdered an African man, Ashtian Barnes on August 31, 2016.

Twenty-four-year-old Ashtian was shot and killed by cop who we only know as R. Felix. The shooting was captured on the pig’s dashcam. 

According to the pig, he pulled over because of toll violations on the rental car that he was driving on April 28, 2016.

Notorious white rapist Brock Turner was released from the Santa Clara County Jail on September 2nd, after serving three months for raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster. He was sentenced to six months, but was released early for “good behavior.”

The sentencing was so lenient because, according to the judge, prison would have "a severe impact on [Brock]." 

Protesters gathered at Baltimore's scenic downtown harbor to protest the execution of Korryn Gaines and the shooting of her young son, Kodi, by Baltimore pigs on August 27, 2016.

The demonstration was led by the People’s Power Assembly which is a mass organization of white leftist Worker’s World Party. Several speakers took to the microphone to demand justice for the murder of Korryn Gaines.

The African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) was at the event to expose the police terror faced by Africans in the U.S. and to deepen the question of Black Community Control of the Police.

The Indigenous people to this land are currently engaged in intense struggle against parasitic capitalist companies as well as the U.S. State to protect their land and water supply.

Indigenous people of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota are heavily resisting––and have been since the beginning of August––the illegitimate plans to construct the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The pipeline is an estimated $3.8 billion four-state oil pipeline that will span 1,172-mile and cross the Missouri River to carry crude oil from North Dakota, through South Dakota and Iowa, to southern Illinois.

About two weeks ago, African students were threatened by school administration at Gibbs High School as an attack was placed on African culture.

My friend Jelani was walking through the school halls at when a school administrator and a resource (police) officer stopped her and ordered that she removed her African headwrap.

Puzzled, Jelani asked why, to which they responded that her African headwrap was a violation of the school dress code.

The presence of the police officer intimidated Jelani, so she followed the order and went to bathroom to take her headwrap off. She then called the African National Women’s Organization (ANWO) to inform them of the incident, to which they told her to stay strong and put her headwrap back on.

It has been one week since the body of Ferguson, Mo. activist Darren Seals was found in a burning car with a bullet hole in his head. With everyday that goes by, we are hearing less and less  about his horrific murder.

Since the murder of Mike Brown on August 9, 2014, there has been a string of six murdered activists in the last two years: Darnell Robinson, Antonio Jones, Deandre Joshua, Terrell Beasley, Vinne Cascella, and Darren Seals.

Prisoners across the U.S. went on strike on September 9th, The 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising. The strike took place in 24 states and about 40-50 prisons were involved.