(2020-01-26). UC Cops Clear People's Park Eastside Encampment. indybay.org The deal was last year that after the clearance and arrests of the Park's occupation that the regular homeless individuals could camp there again without intensified reprisals. It was a verbal agreement between activists and longtime homeless. On the night of January 17, UC police violated that agreement.
(2020-01-25). Southern Peace Activists Help Soldiers Become Conscientious Objectors. commondreams.org The "more I do this work," said Steve Woolford, "the more I would say the people who wind up serving the military aren't just pawns, but a lot of them are victims of warmaking themselves." (Photo: Friends for Peace/cc/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-01-25). 'Facial Recognition Is a Threat', UK Civil Rights Activists Say. telesurenglish.net Human rights defenders and civil rights activists severely criticized the decision of Scotland Yard to start the operational use of RELATED: | The Big Brother Watch (BBW) director Silkie Carlo considered that the introduction of such technology rep…
(2020-01-25). Activists Plan Boycott of US Companies Backing India's Anti-Muslim Policies. truthout.org Activists from South Asian caste and religious minority communities are coming together to organize against Indian American businesses that support India's move to strip its 200 million Muslims of their citizenship. | On January 19, around 50 protesters gathered in Jersey City, New Jersey, where they marched against India's polarizing Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which extends citizenship to non-Muslim refugees exclusively. New Jersey is home to many supporters of India's ruling party, the…
(2020-01-24). Video: Turkey's Military Industrial Complex. globalresearch.ca Turkey is working to develop its national industry and reequip its armed forces with modern military equipment. The worth of projects in this field is estimated to be around $77 billion. Ankara is paying special attention to the modernization and …
(2020-01-24). Turkish Intervention in Libya: Another Erdogan Reckless Attempt to Revive Neo-Ottoman Empire. globalresearch.ca With Turkey failing to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power in their drive to forge a regional hegemonic order under their rulership, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has set his eyes on other Eastern Mediterranean issues, primarily aggression against …
(2020-01-24). 'We Apologize' for Trump's Reckless Aggression, US Peace Advocates Say in Open Letter to Iranian People. commondreams.org The letter, from activist group CodePink, comes ahead of peace demonstrations scheduled Saturday in 200 cities around the world. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-01-24). 'We Have So Much More to Do,' Youth Climate Activists Declare as Global Elite Close Out Davos Forum. commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-01-23). Animated by Conspiracy Theories, Far-Right Extremists Seize Opportunity to Rally Around Guns in Virginia. splcenter.org Far-right extremists — from antigovernment activists and heavily armed militias to organized hate groups — came together Monday for a show of force in Richmond, Virginia, to oppose statewide gun safety proposals.
(2020-01-23). An Epic Act of Resistance and Trial of Our Times. "The Venezuela Embassy Protectors Collective" globalresearch.ca On February 11th, four American peace activists, known as the
(2020-01-23). 'Abolish the billionaires' say high school climate activists. greenleft.org.au 
(2020-01-22). Baltimore marchers brave sleet and snow to resist war and racism. fightbacknews.org Baltimore, MD – Several dozen Baltimore community activists and youth endured sleet, hail, snow and rain to stage a march January 18 from East to West Baltimore and to downtown to draw the connections to ongoing war and racism with food stamp cuts and workers' rights. | The group rallied at Penn North, the neighborhood of Freddie Gray, and ended at Lexington Market. Organizers reported that the response was deeply encouraging. The group then held a car caravan to a general assembly of the FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front) of the Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia region. | The march was initiate…
(2020-01-17). 4 Years Seeking Justice: Daughter of Slain Indigenous Environmental Leader Berta Cáceres Speaks Out. democracynow.org 
In Honduras, a new report by the Violence Observatory at the Honduran National Autonomous University says that at least 15 women have been murdered in the first 14 days of this year. Violence against women, LGBTQ people, indigenous leaders and environmental activists has skyrocketed in Honduras under the U.S.-backed government of President Juan Orlando Hernández. The report comes nearly four years after the Honduran indigenous environmental activist Berta Cáceres was shot dead inside her home in La Esperanza, Honduras, by hired hitmen. Last month in the capital of Tegucigalpa, seven men were sentenced to up to 50…
(2020-01-16). Conspiracy Theories, Threats of Violence Loom Over Coming Gun Rally in Richmond. splcenter.org Gun-rights activists and antigovernment extremists are planning a protest in Richmond, Virginia, on Monday fueled by antigovernment conspiracy theories and accompanied by online calls for violence.