2020-09-23: News Headlines

Staff (2020-09-23). 50+ Progressive Writers and Activists Pen Open Letter Urging Vote for Biden. truthout.org More than 50 progressive writers and activists — including prominent left-wing voices such as Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Cornel West — unveiled an Citing…

Madi B (2020-09-23). Activists in Idaho say: Defund the Police. liberationnews.org Boise City Council voted to increase police spending by $1.1 million. Local organizers, activist groups, and community members have been demonstrating with a variety of tactics to oppose Boise's new budget ever since it was first proposed.

Fight Back (2020-09-23). Car caravan rally held in Arlington to protest UAE-Israel relations. fightbacknews.org Arlington, Texas – On September 20, over 50 people gathered at Masjid Dar El Eman, an Islamic center, for a car protest against the United Arab Emirates' and Bahrain's normalization of relations with Israel. The car caravan was organized by the Dallas Palestine Coalition; Palestinian Youth Movement-Dallas, Muslim Democratic Caucus-Texas; American Muslims for Palestine-Texas; Code Pink-Greater Dallas, and Veterans for Peace-Dallas. | After a short prayer, a car caravan drove around South Arlington. Many of the protesters attached Palestinian and American flags to their cars to call for an end to U.S. support…

55 Progressive Activists and Writers (2020-09-23). Open Letter: Dump Trump, Then Battle Biden. zcomm.org Protestations that Biden is beholden to elites are true but beside the point. The lesser evil is evil, but in this case, the greater evil is simply off the charts…

55 Progressive Activists and Writers (2020-09-23). Open Letter: Dump Trump, Then Battle Biden. indybay.org Priority is dumping Trump…

sputniknews (2020-09-23). 'A War Machine With a Country Attached': US Pandemic Relief Revealed as Diverted to Defense Firms. sputniknews.com A Tuesday Washington Post article revealed the US Congress gave the Pentagon $1 billion in March to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, that money has mostly been paid to defense contractors, further growing the US war machine, according to medical doctor Dr. Yolandra Hancock and investigative journalist Daniel Lazare.

Fight Back (2020-09-22). Tampa Bay activists rally for NAARPR national day of protest. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On September 19, the Tampa Bay Community Action Committee participated in the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression's (NAARPR) national day of protest with a rally of about 40 members of the community in downtown Tampa. NAARPR's call to action demanded an end to racist police terror, the withdrawal of federal troops in cities across the country and for community control of the police. | The rally also demanded justice for Jonas Joseph, a Black man shot and killed by Tampa police in April. After being pulled over by undercover police cars, Joseph was shot over 120 times by Tampa Pol…

MBNJSD (2020-09-22). Will Michele Flournoy be the angel of death for the American empire? nationofchange.org Picking Michelle Flournoy to lead the Pentagon would be a tragic indication that Biden is truly hell-bent on squandering America's future.

Fight Back (2020-09-22). Chicago: Hundreds protest police crimes, arrests of activists. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Over 100 people on foot, and an 80-car caravan with about 200 riders, gathered in downtown Chicago, September 19, to protest police crimes, state repression of activists, demand that federal troops and agents be sent home, and to call for community control of the police. The demonstration was part of a national day of action called by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and was organized by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. | "Our people are being arrested and charged for protesting all across the country. Some are being charged with felonies,"

San Jose Peace & Justice Center (2020-09-22). Monday 9/21: International Peace Day: "We Are Many" Virtual Film Premiere & Q&A w/ Director & Activists. indybay.org Online via streaming anytime for 24 hours…

Staff (2020-09-22). Activists Fight Florida Proposal to Impose Harsh Penalties on Protesters. truthout.org The American Civil Liberties Union joined Florida Democrats on Monday in condemning a Flanked by Republican lawmakers and law enforcement officials at an afternoon press conference in Winter Haven, DeSantis referred to Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, Oregon as…

commondreams (2020-09-22). May Boeve Joins Mayors of 12 Major Cities Committed to Divest From Fossil Fuel Companies and Invest in a Green and Just Recovery from COVID-19 Crisis. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2020-09-22). Mayors of 12 Major Global Cities Home to 36 Million People Make Unified Fossil Fuel Divestment Pledge. commondreams.org "We're in a make-or-break decade for the preservation of our planet and our livelihoods," said C40 chair and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

_____ (2020-09-21). Greenwashing The US military, Julian Assange, RIP Kevin Zeese. popularresistance.org The weather is getting more extreme by the year and conversations about climate change are growing along with it. So when Michael Moore made the movie 'Planet of the Humans', criticizing the corporate co-optation of the green movement, he came under attack from well-connected activists. Lee Camp reports on how Bill McKibben, one of the targets of Moore's movie, has adopted a role of helping some of the worst industries and institutions out there to greenwash their images. In an op-ed from a year ago, McKibben used his platform to rehabilitate the image of the US military.

James Goodman (2020-09-21). 'We Are Taking on Goliath': Activists in Rochester Demand Justice for Daniel Prude. progressive.org Despite a police crackdown, protesters continue to press for a new vision of public safety.

Adom Getachew (2020-09-21). Orlando Patterson and the Postcolonial Predicament. thenation.com Out of the ruins of colonialism and empire, the sociologist insisted we could fashion a more egalitarian and liberated future.

David Osorio (2020-09-20). Activists call jailing of Long Island homeless activists a political arrest. liberationnews.org Protests planned for Sept. 22 and Sept. 25…

Frank Fischer (2020-09-20). The Risk of Progressive Reversal. commondreams.org Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion attend a protest against the expansion of Stansted Airport on August 29, 2020 in Bishop's Stortford, United Kingdom. (Photo: Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…