Cameron Orr
LATEST ARTICLES BY Cameron Orr
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Politics
Palestinian flag raised over Jersey City; time to try again for a ceasefire resolution?
May 23, 2025Jersey City Councilperson Yousef Saleh leads much-delayed event.
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Politics
Charges against Baraka defeated, but now Trump’s targeting Rep. LaMonica McIver
May 21, 2025In attempt to silence dissent, Trump administration is targeting one Black elected official after another.
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Labor
Newark mayor Ras Baraka freed after being seized by Homeland Security
May 13, 2025The New Jersey mayor and gubernatorial candidate was arrested while attempting to inspect a for-profit prison being used by the Trump administration in its mass deportation operation.
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Politics
CP activists gather to build the peace movement
November 27, 2023Grassroots activists from across the nation met in New York City Nov. 11-12 for a Communist Party USA peace conference.
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U.S.
Andrew Washington’s murder highlights Jersey City’s inaction over racist policing
September 14, 2023Police received a call about an individual suffering from bipolar disorder and reacted on the scene by killing him.
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Politics
The struggle for affordable housing in New Jersey stretches back decades
May 25, 2023From pushing out Black renters in the ’60s to enriching private real estate developers today, elected officials have been sabotaging affordable housing for years.
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Politics
Right to Counsel: Jersey City tenants fight for free lawyers in eviction struggles
May 16, 2023On average, only 3% of tenants facing an eviction have a lawyer, compared to 81% of their landlords.
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News
‘Lawyers for me, but not for thee’: N.Y. tenants fight capitalist courts
November 28, 2022As far as tenants across the state of New York are concerned, “equality under the law” is only as good as the money it’s written on.
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