2020-02-27: Social Media Postees

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SF Demands Free Julian Assange & Goes Into UK Consulate Building Lobby
BACFJA | indybay.org | 2020-02-27
As part of world day of action to Free Julian Assange activists rallied in San Francisco and then briefly occupied the UK building lobby.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/24/1883102…

Bernie Sanders Earns Support From Black Women Activists
Teen Vogue Staff | zcomm.org | 2020-02-27
Black women activists explain their support for Sanders's campaign…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/bernie-sanders-ear…

Blacktown Council declares climate emergency
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-27
Climate Susan PriceIssue 1255 Australia BlacktownFebruary 27, 2020After a community campaign, Blacktown City Council, in Sydney's west, has become the latest local council to declare a climate emergency. | Activists from Cool Down Western Sydney organised petitions and c…
greenleft.org.au/content/blacktown-council-declares-climate-emergency

Solidarity with Palestine: 'If They Suppress BDS, No Other Movement Is Safe'
Omar Barghouti | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-26
As alarming, anti-democratic measures are aimed at Palestine solidarity activists in the UK and beyond, Husna Rizvi speaks to Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement. | *** | 'We are armed only with our rights, and our dignity.' | …
globalresearch.ca/solidarity-with-palestine-if-they-suppress-bds-no-other-movement-is-safe/5704628

Podcast: Abby Martin Resists Anti-BDS Laws & The Israeli Lobby
Mnar Muhawesh | mintpressnews.com | 2020-02-26
Abby Martin discusses her lawsuit against the state of Georgia over it's anti-BDS law, the Israeli government's heavy hand in pushing anti-free speech laws, the pro-Israel Democratic candidates and…
mintpressnews.com/mintcast-abby-martin-a…

Celebrities, activists and women's groups respond to Weinstein guilty verdict
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2020-02-26
"While the fight to stop the pervasive effects of rape culture is far from over, today is a good day."
nationofchange.org/2020/02/26/celebritie…

Twin Cities demand release of Myon Burrell
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-02-26
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar (TCC4J). | TCC4J demands freedom for Myon Burrell, despite Mike Freeman's politically motivated endorsement of Klobuchar's prosecution. | On Monday, February 24, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman released a statement defending Amy Klobuchar for the wrongful conviction of Myon Burrell. Freeman claims the attacks on Klobuchar for her highly questionable handling of the case are 'politically motivated.' They are not. Activists and community members want Burrell's unfair conviction reviewed and over…
fightbacknews.org/2020/2/26/twin-cities-…

The Radical Jesus Confronts the Demonic American Empire
Edward Curtin | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-25
There are very few writers who have done more to try to open the public's mind to the evil nature of the American empire than David Ray Griffin. His series of books on the false flag attacks of September 11, 2001 will endure for a long time, and they will one day, when it is …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/the-radical-j…

Gilets Jaunes travel to London in force for Julian Assange extradition hearing
John McEvoy | thecanary.co | 2020-02-25
On 23 February, 143 French activists travelled from Paris to Woolwich Crown Court to support Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, and press freedom. The Canary joined them. | Not deterred: | It was a cold and miserable night in Paris, and the coaches were running late. But the group of French activists

"We want to show the DNC that the people have the power," says Milwaukee coalition
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-02-23
New York, NY – On February 22, a Wisconsin delegation invited a conference of nearly 60 organizations to join a major protest at the Democratic National Convention taking place in Milwaukee in July. | The members of the Coalition to March on the DNC made their announcement on the second day of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) national conference. The UNAC conference is a major gathering of international solidarity and anti-oppression activists from across North America, taking place at the People's Forum in New York City. | The coalition is calling on all progressive, left, democratic and socialist or…
fightbacknews.org/2020/2/23/we-want-show…

Cop-Hating Vandals or Pro-Democracy Activists? – Depends whose police are being protested
Alan MacLeod | fair.org | 2020-02-20
The "cop-hating vandals" poured glue on three turnstiles and "placed large stickers throughout the subway station" (New York Post, 2/5/20). | The New York Police Department (NYPD) can generally rely on corporate media as allies on controversial police issues. A case in point was the New York subway protests earlier this month, in which the activist group Decolonize This Place…
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Embassy Protection Collective: "We Are Not the Ones Who Violated the Law"
Venezuela Analysis | theantimedia.com | 2020-02-06
In this exclusive interview, VA talks to the activists who defended the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC ahead of their trial.

Embassy Protection Collective: "We Are Not the Ones Who Violated the Law"

Why aren't Americans rising up like the people of Chile and Lebanon?
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2020-02-02
The tinder for a revolutionary movement is everywhere…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/why-arent-americans-…